Why are skill up rates so atrocious?

[Juri_Licious]

Skilling up is very easy. With just spending a few hours you can get melee skills from 1 to 250.

[Greatguardian]

Those skills are a joke to skillup when all you need to do is AFK and let mobs beat your ass. lol

Yeah. I was just commenting on the speed of the skillups. Weapons can use AoE WS and Fortalices too.

[Mirage]

Elshenas, 276 skill (shield) to 382, Parry 240 to 262.

Well, i was using that other, cheaper food because I had no actual data on the potency of it, and didn't feel like being a guinea pig. I got something like 50 shield skill over 3 hours, along with 2-3 parry on PLD92 getting smacked on by 3-4 DC mandies. Started at around 230 shield.

[WarWolf]

From the Test Server update performed on 10/28/2011, it will be possible to skill up in Walk of Echoes battles.

This was implemented in order to test skill increases in various other battle content. Please understand that this is not a guarantee that Walk of Echoes will receive this change in the future.

Well, this is a step in the right direction if they implement it as it makes no sense to let us XP with 0 chance of skill gain.

[Tsukino_Kaji]

Buy skillup food. That stuff is ridiculous.

Well when teh A+ cap was 361, you could cap it on the birds in misareaux. I was out there last week skilling 300+ staff on war with food. I went through 4 of them only getting 1.1 levels. You're right, that is ridiculous.