Enhancing Magic Skill-ups?

[Quetzacoatl]

Anyone agree that skill-ups on Enhancing Magic could use a fix with how often getting a skill-up can be? Nothing like Spamming buffs for over 5+ hours on end just to get a few levels, right?

I could also say the same for Summoning Magic too, honestly.

[Seriha]

If we had an offensive Enhancing spell, it wouldn't be so bad. Closest you can get now is casting buffs on Beseiged generals, but no idea how well that works post-85. Plus it relies on Beseiged happened and, for sake of speed and efficiency, nobody else casting a higher tier your target.

SMNs have it a little better because they offensively target things with BPs, but the old summon/release spam is indeed slow, much like buff spam.

[Raksha]

I finally capped my enhancing about a month ago, and I've been lvl 90 since the day of the last lvl cap raise.

I'm not looking forward to having to cap it again.

[Quetzacoatl]

If we had an offensive Enhancing spell, it wouldn't be so bad. Closest you can get now is casting buffs on Beseiged generals, but no idea how well that works post-85. Plus it relies on Beseiged happened and, for sake of speed and efficiency, nobody else casting a higher tier your target.

SMNs have it a little better because they offensively target things with BPs, but the old summon/release spam is indeed slow, much like buff spam.

Yeah if we had something offensive it would make it less of a pita. And forgive me if it sounds like I'm BSing (in fact, I'm taking a wild stab at this), I doubt buffing besieged generals would do much either. By the time you've reached a certain level of enhancing magic that matches that of the character's level, buffing them won't do much for skilling up.

I finally capped my enhancing about a month ago, and I've been lvl 90 since the day of the last lvl cap raise.

I'm not looking forward to having to cap it again.

I hear you on that one. I've only got Bar-Elemental Spells to fall back on, since you can cast/spam them so fast. Does Martial Master even work for Magic? On top of that, having buffed my LSmates for an AoE Burn during events got me one enhancing magic skill-up. After 3-4 hours, too. Something's got to give.

[cidbahamut]

/SCH, problem solved.
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Skilling up in general could use some major tweaking, it isn't specific to any one skill. That said, I wouldn't worry about capping Ehancing magic, it'll come naturally soon enough if you're like me and completely neurotic about keeping all your buffs up.

[Quetzacoatl]

That's the thing, though- I keep all my buffs up, but the rate at which skill-ups are obtained are beyond mind-numbing. Is there supposed to be a trick to getting better chances of skill-ups? A 4-hour buffing grind just to get a 0.1 is not very pleasant.

[cidbahamut]

The trick is to not care and just keep playing until they cap naturally. Otherwise you're just going to sit there staring at the not-blue number being miserable.

[Quetzacoatl]

I'm OCD like that though :<

[Seriha]

I once mathed out my Enhancing skill gains and came up with 0.002124 skill points per cast. So, if you figure we gain 30 Enhancing levels this update, expect to have to cast... a lot of spells.

[Quetzacoatl]

...that is f#%king ridiculous. D: