Skill upsFollow

So I have been doing the skill up thing here as of late..i was away from game for 3 years almost and was under skilled to some degree then. I came back couldn't get in a party as RDM, so I :( .....FC to 99...now i am under leveld in all areas of skills...I have been fighting goblin meatcleavers in Abyasea to skill up...They are getting me sword,parry evasion dark, enhancing, and enfeeb. all nice and all I am basically asking for any pointers or tweeks to make this god awful slow process go by faster or maybe even more profit from the mobs. Sword skill is at 302, still 100 below what it should be, main one i am working on while others are a nice bonus....mobs areas ideas input solutions. magical way to make this not the most tiring event aside from stareing at screen waiting for NM pops...Thank you in advance....

yeah i use food, though I did just figure out a new food, to me, that targets 300-350 which was nice to learn right as I enterd that sword level...I figuered Ep at 99 would be good for a while though i guess at a level 85job sword skill level 85 mobs would be better as the are even thus in my level range...I do know i need a mob that drops something better then at best 1k items...cause making gil while doing boring task does at least make those task seem a little more worth while IMO...i just stopped on the goblins as I found them skillupable on so many stats..and they didn't cast magic like the 4-5 other mobs i came across 1st....

I've come to the conclusion that you gain more skillups when you're doing anything but trying to skill up. I got more Axe skill soloing Ironclad Smiter than actually trying to skill Axe on dolls.

If you build some amber light (elemental WS kills) you can get some decent NPCable items from gold chests; Highlands is particularly good for that. Or, as Wint said, go to Scars areas and get AF3 feet from chests.

You can also build a cruor chain by killing enemies of different types back-to-back (i.e. not the same mob name twice in a row). While cruor can't be used to generate gil effectively with the last update, as a returning player, you may be needing a decent amount for items and upgrades at this point as it is. If you're killing solo anyway, it doesn't hurt too much to set yourself up for alternating mob types, for example, the two types of crabs in Mis. Coast.

On the up end as rdm, you can pretty effectively generate all relevant lights (pearl, azure, amber) while you do this.

FC WAR to 99, pop defender+retaliation in Abyssea (Aggro some Mandies or Chigoes) with some regen atmas and a lv 1 __ (insert weapon to skill on). Go afk for 3 minutes. Repeat.

Trust me, it IS much faster to just level WAR.

I've been skilling up a lot of stuff lately.

Basically, I've been doing Pachypodium from 300ish to 350ish, then Bluffalo to cap. I'm using my default VV+MC+MM and only really need to worry about healing when the Bluffalo hit EM/T. I'm mostly watching TV and hitting a ws/quick spell every minute or so, and doing paralyna/viruna as needed. Capped sword, club, staff on PLD and got Divine to 350, now I'm on DRK for scythe and GS and Dark is at 330 so far.