Enhancing Magic Skill Gain Rate

[Alhanelem]

I agree about enhancing magic.

Geomancy hasn't been slow for me at all though. Just about the time when Indi spam slowed down, I could then enter Abyssea and cast geocolure on worms. I'm sure the rate will decrease even on those, but at least up to job level 70, I've capped each level within a few minutes with frequent .4-.5's.

Has anyone trying to skill with geocolure on mobs noticed an enhancing-terrible skill up rate for geomancy post 70?

Wonder what your secret is, I just passed level 200 and it's god-awful slow even with food (which makes a difference but it only upgrades from "god-awfol" to "atrocious.') and I only get .2s and .3s.

[Merton9999]

Wonder what your secret is, I just passed level 200 and it's god-awful slow even with food (which makes a difference but it only upgrades from "god-awfol" to "atrocious.') and I only get .2s and .3s.

Probably a silly question but you're using worms in uleguerand range? I used them from level 30-70. There definitely was some slow down maybe around 60, but it's possible I didn't notice because from then on I was also using them for solo xp. I'd get bored spamming nukes and switch to skill up to have some variety. I took a break for a bit. I'll check it out and see if it gets bad. I know before I was killing them .4-.5 was common and at least every other cast on average resulted in a skill gain. That was just under 200.

This was nice to have though at least. Far superior to indi spam for those levels. The fact that even geo on Aby mobs sounds like it will suck after 300 is just... boo. I doubt the mob type makes any difference for the rate but I've read people are also using the higher level versions of those sea goldfish that only aggro damage. Might be something to try.

[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.