Records of Eminence: Skill up items... no puppetmaster?

[Stompa]

I think, perhaps wrongly, that this is a "logic" issue. The skill-up pages only apply to improving the player-character's skills, so for example SMN while being a pet job do get skill-up pages this is only because the summoning skill is player based. Automatons are remote entities, they are not the same person as the player character, and so their skill-up is not related to your personal skill.

If its any consolation I got PUP75 in 2007 and had to solo/duo all the levels because of the "we hate all pups" culture at the time. And we didn't have "Percolators" back then either so skill-up was extremely slow. I am told it is much faster now because of the percolator. But we used to skill-up while we xp'ed and because it was so slow xping on Pup-only solo/duo, we usually had skills capped or near-capped by the time we levelled. So spare a thought for the dinosaur days lol. Good luck with your skill-up, I recommend Bluffalo's for level 300-420, my friend said she capped automaton melee and magic on those mobs in around a week or so, and ranged in another week.