Enhancing Magic Skill-ups?

[saevel]

Perhaps semi-recent skill up rate adjustments and food can be a factor, but I'm not at all inclined to believe gaining 150+ levels in 5 hours would be the norm. Hell, recently capping off H2H and GKT with 30+ levels on each took about that long per weapon with double march, haste, haste samba, capped gear haste, and hasso on SAM while wielding Soboro against birds in Mis with Martial Master up. Pretty much constant fighting.

Either way, we'll all be reminded in a few weeks. x.x

He's BSing. He capped a different skill that way and figured enhancing worked the same way, then posted. I've seen people make this mistake before and they say the exact same things, basically going off the typical skill up rates for melee / enf / ele skills and applying them to enh / healing / summoning (pre update). Now he's committed and this being an internet forum the "Nobody's ever wrong" gets used.

I've skilled Enhancing on RDM ever since I started playing RDM in Spring 2003. It takes hours upon hours to cap. Going from capped skill @85 to capped skill @90 was three days of about 8~10 hours per day running the exact same barspell macro's that we all use while watching movies. This isn't an exaggeration, I've got this method down to a science because I used it from 50~60, 60~70, 70~75 (leveled faster then skill could keep up), 75~80, 80~85, 85~90, and I'll most likely use it again at 90~95. Parsed out it was a few hundred casts per skill level on average. There is no way someone is doing 100+ skill levels in 5hrs. Not unless there is some hidden lv 90NPC that doesn't move and is up 24/7 that we can cast spells on.