New skill gain system, but has it changed much?

[Mojo]

Phalanx II (or Phalanx I with Accession) + 50% PDT = 0 damage taken from mandies.

[Shoko]

Phalanx II (or Phalanx I with Accession) + 50% PDT = 0 damage taken from mandies.

Haha, I didn't even consider that honestly. Gonna have to level up my mule's RDM now.

[Anathiel]

So I have a question for skilling up guard. I'm lvl 20 atm (just lvl'ing another job) and my guard skill is at 6. Is there some better way to get it skilled up? Or is there a certain lvl I should be worrying about this?

[Greatguardian]

So I have a question for skilling up guard. I'm lvl 20 atm (just lvl'ing another job) and my guard skill is at 6. Is there some better way to get it skilled up? Or is there a certain lvl I should be worrying about this?

Don't worry about Guard at all. It's a fairly useless skill, even at Cap, and people only level it after they're 90 for the blue number.

[Haytienne]

One idea : 1 merit to gain 1 lvl skill

[Bulrogg]

If gear is all about the blue box shouldn't skill be all about the blue numbers? maybe it's just my ACDDDO


(that's ADD + OCD with the letters in the order they should be) <.<

Yeah, I've been trying to get Guard and Parry up there to the blue numbers even though they don't proc much when capped.

[SedoSan]

so my guarding with full merits is 203 only right now, i was 170 yesterday.
read some of the comments and even though they say i'm too low for abyssea, i went anyways,
equipped my guard + equip and gave me 51 extra skills to 221, got me regen + def + vit atmas
at least 50 hp/tick regen, 50 vit and 40 def + other normal stuff, dual boxed with my friend's rdm
subbed war for defender and agrressor (reduce evasion), got Phalanx II, Protect V and Regen II on me
and finally ate def food Taco to reach to 750 DEF.
went to altepa, pulled 15 mandy at the same time, and found a nice curvature where i could land them all front of me.
5 skill ups every 30 minutes. it takes almost 30 minutes to kill 10 out of 15 of the mandies front of you from all the counter hits then its just not worth it skilling up with only 5 mandies.. So kill them all.., recast protect V and get another Taco, and redo. 3 Hours later, I have 203 skill now..
i'd say 10 skills per hour is pretty good. without the kupower as well, however I'm not sure if kupowers work in abyssea or not, anyone?

although, i did notice a loooooot of guard animations, though very little skill ups *compared to how much i guarded* is this normal or does it relate to my low guard skill level?
anyways i just wanted to share

[Camate]

In regards to the difficulty in earning Guard/Parry skill ups, the dev. team mentioned that they are considering adjustments for those in a Q&A posted in February.

[Glamdring]

In regards to the difficulty in earning Guard/Parry skill ups, the dev. team mentioned that they are considering adjustments for those in a Q&A posted in February.

could you perchance ask them to consider this one a bit faster? the skill-up system for these defensive skills has been broken since the very 1st copy of the game was sold.

[Randwolf]

In regards to the difficulty in earning Guard/Parry skill ups, the dev. team mentioned that they are considering adjustments for those in a Q&A posted in February.

Actually, that "considering adjustments" part is my concern. I'd rather see "We know it is broken and are considering what we will do to adjust it." Just so we know a future announcement doesn't say "We decided there was no problem."