Skill up grains for 'support skills'

[Mirage]

You said "near cap in 24 hours" not "at cap in less than 24 hours".

You also say this was before caps were raised, which means you needed a lot fewer skillups to reach the cap. We're also lacking important information such as how far from the cap you were back then when you started skilling it up.

While it is clearly eyeballing, I needed to cast a lot more spells per skillup with barspells than I had to with my current method. I do however have statistics for my current method, as i kept track of the number of cast and amount of skillups, so I can start barspells for about 100 casts to get an indication of its skillup rates.

-edit- 100 is too low a sample size, I'll triple that, for now.

After 267 casts, i got 1.5 skill. That's 0.00561% skill per barspell cast. After 1104 Protect 1 casts on my Lv92 NPC, I had gained 39 skill (didn't note down decimals, sorry), which gives me an approximate average skillup rate of 0.035% per cast.

So far, it looks like casting on my NPC is about 7 times faster. I'll gather some more data later, if you don't think this is sufficient, but it already shows a clear difference between the two.