New skill gain system, but has it changed much?

[Shoko]

I'm sorry Protey, but you have it very wrong on skilling up. While 207 is indeed low for Abyssea, if you know what you are doing, you can skill up guard relatively fast in Abyssea. This however requires a WHM friend, or a WHM mule and a decent amount of stones.

I was 103 Guard before the skill up update, and now I'm 197 Guard. I usually get 5~15 levels per skill up session, usually more when the mandies are DC~EM, rather than T~IT. This is all in Abyssea - Attohwa. This also happened in a little under a week, while doing LS events, RL, etc. Futhermore my skill up sessions are usually 30~70 mins.

When servers are back up, I will probably cap both Guard for MNK, and Parrying for NIN with my excess stones, it's an amazing way to cap skills that not many are aware of yet.