Help, I can't play my job!

[geekgirl101]

Yeah mine is really crappy at the moment. Dunno what skill up food is. Tried getting skillups in merit parties and the problem is some mage or warrior rushes in on my target and completely steals hate. Getting those skills are not easy and then I get yelled at for expecting to get skillups in an xp party where they want to kill fast, but if I get lucky in fighting my own target then those points are already flowing in at 0.4 and 0.5 every few seconds. Currently eva is 299, dagger 257, parry 232.

[Lokithor]

There are foods that increase the skill up rate for combat skills. There is also a family of foods that does the same for magic skills. For combat skills (including evasion and parry), the progression is Saltena, Elshena, Montagna, Meringa. Saltena is used at the lowest skill levels and meringa at the highest. They are, though, very expensive.

[Mirage]

Yeah mine is really crappy at the moment. Dunno what skill up food is. Tried getting skillups in merit parties and the problem is some mage or warrior rushes in on my target and completely steals hate. Getting those skills are not easy and then I get yelled at for expecting to get skillups in an xp party where they want to kill fast, but if I get lucky in fighting my own target then those points are already flowing in at 0.4 and 0.5 every few seconds. Currently eva is 299, dagger 257, parry 232.

Just focus on the dagger skill for now. When your dagger skill gets high enough, you'll gain TP fast enough to keep healing yourself while you get evasion/parry skillups outside of an exp alliance. While you are in the alliance, it doesn't matter too much that you're not able to evade anyway, because mobs will either be attacking other people, or you'll be healed anyway.

Until recently (a few months ago), parry was also incredibly slow to level and many players who have had max level jobs for years would still not have anywhere near capped parrying. So yeah, don't worry too much about that.

To give you a feeling of exactly how much that low dagger skill of yours affected your damage and accuracy though:

If you just got to the level where you could use evisceration, that means your dagger skill was over 150 points below cap. This means you were having something like 70%+ less accuracy than other dancers at your level. Even if you put on the same gear as them, where they would hit the enemy 90% of the time, you would be hitting 20% of the time. And that's not even touching the attack you're missing out on from the skill level.