Enhancing Magic Skill-ups?

[saevel]

I wanted to cap my melee skills the other day (this Wednesday), so I thought it would be nice to have a Phalanx II mule. So I leeched my mule's RDM from 30 to 89 in two days and was casting barspells while I was leeching. It was at 170 when I started (from her WHM), now it's capped at 335. About 5 hours each day (was all day long, but with frequent breaks, I assume it amounted to about 5 hours of actual skillup time).

Pushing the BS button right now on this. Enhancing magic goes up glacially when cast on yourself or other party members. The only times you can get it to go faster is if your casting on a high level NPC, then it use's the "target other" formula which is what weapon skills and all offensive magic use. Healing and Enhancing both cast upon self go up at one skill level for a few hundred casts, this has been gone over time and time again for the last 8+ years.

[Arcon]

Pushing the BS button right now on this. Enhancing magic goes up glacially when cast on yourself or other party members. The only times you can get it to go faster is if your casting on a high level NPC, then it use's the "target other" formula which is what weapon skills and all offensive magic use. Healing and Enhancing both cast upon self go up at one skill level for a few hundred casts, this has been gone over time and time again for the last 8+ years.

I know that eyeballing isn't the most efficient statistical analysis tool, but I can say with almost absolute certainty that this is wrong. I get plenty of skillups even for completely random warps and teleports or self-buffs without regard for skillups. Push whatever button you want to, I can not comprehend what was going on there. I can't prove what skill I had back then but I can show you screenshots of capped skills right now and I was 30 RDM just this Wednesday. Whether you believe it or not is up to you, I find your story equally unbelievable. Either you can't judge the flow of time correctly or you just did something very wrong.

I also capped enhancing magic easily on my main character btw, that's two characters with capped skill. Summoning, on the other hand, took me weeks, and I actually gave up at one point because it kept me from playing other things. In the end I resumed it and finally managed to cap it. So again, are you talking about something else?