Enhancing Magic Skill Gain Rate

[Horadrim]

Does Martial Master affect Enhancing skillups as well, or just combat skills? I haven't been able to eyeball a difference while skilling up weapons on WHM.

I believe it does, but it may deal only in combat skill.

The best skill up practice I've found is to cap Fields Magic/Combat skill up bonus against lv. 100+ mobs. Problem is, to cap it quickly (Because its so random) you need a lot of people or folks who are very well geared and that can hinder the skill up effort after you're capped unless you're doing something passive like healing or buffing.

For combat skills its disgustingly easy by comparison, I literally went from 93 to 220 skill in Marksmanship in maybe 4 hours of work -- only stopped because I ran out of bullets.

[Tsuneo]

The fastest way to skill up Enhancing is to find someone with a high level Adventuring Fellow. You'll skill up so much faster spamming protect on it than you will casting on yourself.

[RAIST]

Does Martial Master affect Enhancing skillups as well, or just combat skills? I haven't been able to eyeball a difference while skilling up weapons on WHM.

Yes, if you are triggering the latent effect properly.

[SMD111]

Please fix it. It is ridiculous that I wear skill-up gear, eat skill-up food, and cast enhancing magic spells non-stop for 30 minutes and get 4 levels. In 6 hours of Aby worms, I cast enhancing spells every chance I could and went up 2 levels. An MMORPG game pretty much sucks when you spend days of sitting alone casting spells in the hope of capping one of your primary magic skills. This isn't like guard which is a nicety to have. But, not a deal buster.

I hear game 'balance' all the time from the developers. How about some balance between tedium and actually being able to play a job and get reasonable skill ups?

if you want to skill up your enhancing skill just cast your bar spells over and over
this works because thay cast fast and use minimal mp so you can cast 50+ times before you need to rest for mp

i did this and capped my enhancing skill on my whm in less then 4 hours(that was about 100+ lvls)

if you realy want fun skill up summoning skill

[Randwolf]

if you want to skill up your enhancing skill just cast your bar spells over and over
this works because thay cast fast and use minimal mp so you can cast 50+ times before you need to rest for mp

i did this and capped my enhancing skill on my whm in less then 4 hours(that was about 100+ lvls)

if you realy want fun skill up summoning skill

We had the reverse experience. I actually was using your method but used RDM/WHM. Maybe WHM gets a bonus to leveling Enhancing Skill. While SMN wasn't fast, constantly using Offensive BP's on high level stuff really helps.

For Diving, Healing, and Enfeebling Skill Ups, go RDM/WHM and kill dead heads in Tahrongi using healing magic. Repose them, Flash them, Cure them, Silence them, Paralyze, Bind, etc. Still takes a while but I was getting great skill ups.

[FrankReynolds]

My mule is used on 99 whm 99% of the time. He constantly buffs himself and my main. I have capped enfeebling, dark and elemental magic on him. He has capped evasion skill just from death warping and the occasional duo-box fight gone wrong.

His enhancing magic was around 200 last I checked. That is some serious BS.

EDIT: To be clear, this is a character that I have duo boxed three empyrians and half a relic on among other things. I've been playing on him full time for more than a year. That is a long ass time to play and still be only half way to cap on a skill that you use constantly.

[Randwolf]

I tried the High Level Fellow suggestion. It helped slightly. But, still horrible. With most of the new content for individual group play (e.g. - Reives) absolutely sucking, I usually log on, try to skill Enhancing and fall asleep within the hour. But, I'd say falling asleep is a pretty good analogy of where this game seems to be heading, at the moment.

[SMD111]

We had the reverse experience. I actually was using your method but used RDM/WHM. Maybe WHM gets a bonus to leveling Enhancing Skill.

i did have on my skill up earring(Liminus Earring) and no skill+ gear when i did it

[Naraku_Diabolos]

What I do for enhancing magic is go to Kazham near the Nomad Moogle. There I go as my RDM and just spam the Bar-elemental spells on myself. When I run out of magic, I quickly change my job and switch back to RDM to get full MP. I have had good luck doing that. But, I can agree with the summoning, geomancy, automaton and the like. I've also been trying to raise my divine magic skill, and it's slow, too.

[Alhanelem]

Checking in and I see no official response form S/E. Though, not surprising either. Adjustments that do not favor players seem to happen a lot faster, and more often, than ones that do.

You're not going to get an official response on every issue, no matter how big it is to you. The reps have to check with and see if they get a response, then translate it, before they can post something for you.

Anyway, boink.

What I do for enhancing magic is go to Kazham near the Nomad Moogle. There I go as my RDM and just spam the Bar-elemental spells on myself. When I run out of magic, I quickly change my job and switch back to RDM to get full MP. I have had good luck doing that. But, I can agree with the summoning, geomancy, automaton and the like. I've also been trying to raise my divine magic skill, and it's slow, too.

A much better option (lv30 or higher) is to just go into abyssea and get minikin monstrosity, then you can skillup nonstop for 2 hours.

(you could also use a macro keyboard to press the buttons for you so you can do something worthwhile with your time but that's a bit shady in regard to the rules. Don't do it if you're going to leave the house or something- just stay nearby and you're fine, as you're not absent)