Ease skilling upFollow

Wait til level 90 and then skill up while meriting like everyone else!

(I have determined that you can reliably hit worms in La Theine at 200+ with sushi and stalwart's and you can reliably hit puks in Vunkerl at ~250+ with the same, and the buffalo and dolls in ulegerand and the desert at 280+ with the accuracy boosts. This testing was done via dagger skill on DNC from 70 to 90, in which dagger was capped from THF previously. Reliably means about 90% accuracy or higher when not blinded or otherwise enfeebled, as worms and puks are wont to do.)

Skilling up is one of the most mindnumbing things you could do in this game. I have to abuse the skill up system and it feels to an extent like playing Final Fantasy II because of I really don't skill up the way it's supposed to. Why do I have to spam protect on generals in besieged to see any form for skill up at all for enhancing magic? Why do I have to nuke undead with cures to see my healing magic skill move at all? Why do I have to spam tier 1 spells to level up elemental magic really fast? Also I find it stupid that it takes so long to skill up something like a weapon. A dagger skills up much much faster than a scythe the way the system works. Because of warrior gets almost every skill in the game with a good rating with each of them, I find myself holding a lot of mobs and use retaliation and sit there for 8 hours making a skill go from 200 to 300. Holding mobs in this game is a bad thing because of it hinders other players to progress with something they need from a specific mob you're probably holding.

If they're going to keep the system the way it is, I think they should change the way you skill up on. Like parrying and guarding could level up without proccing. If you're using a strong spell or a weapon with a big delay on it, I think you should be able to see more skill ups like you'd get maybe 2.5 levels of a stone v instead of the regular 0.5 if you're lucky. I think enhancing and healing magic should level up as fast as they would if you were abusing the generals or nuking undead with cure 1s.

I realize this could be considered blasphemy, but how about changing to a higher level camp when you feel your skills are getting too far behind. You aren't forced to stay synced in the mines or CN. The xp might not be as fast, but you are trading off by getting SU.

I definately agree with the OP. Campaign skill ups yes please!

With all the changes to the game, less and less people are levelling in the traditional ways. It seems most people are happy to leech from 30+, and those who arent are forced to either solo, level sync in Qufim or the Dunes, join GOV groups or participate campaign battles and sacrifice there skill ups. It seems very few people are willing to accept an invite to an old fashioned 30+ party nowadays.

I've recently levelled to 55 solo as Blu/Bst, and then levelled to 75 in campaign battle. Taking time out every couple of levels to recap my skills was a PITA.



I wish this was less common!

Last night I was lucky enough to get an invite to a traditional 6 man none Aby party, we were doing imps in the Mire. I was pretty excited, having not had an old fasioned party for about 2 years. It was total fail!

In all my years of playing I have have never seen such a whiff fest! It didnt last long and I left the group with less XP than I joined with.

Yeah, but some people make skilling up sound like trying to claim Fafhogg on day 4+ back in 2004.

Honestly, with a little bit of accuracy gear, atmas, and maybe food (can't remember if I used sushi or saltena) I got from 70 polearm to 200+ in a worm party. You really don't have to for skill up on little mobs anymore. Just go in and hope for some haste and equip some acc/DA or TA atmas. I've been skilling up a lot of weapons in worm parties. I use Horned Beast for acc, Apoc, and VV for TP regain and then spam any multi-hit weapon skills I have. Many skillups to be had. Don't forget to use champion's/stalwarts tonics whenever they pop.