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  • #16
    Re: Raising skill

    Personally I was never able to keep enhancing capped in exp parties alone. Every few levels I'd have to take time out for a soloing session to bring it back up. Keeping Phalanx, Haste, Spikes, En- and Stoneskin up on yourself constantly for a couple hours caps enhancing before you know it, and in the meantime you can keep yourself entertained and productive farming or leveling your NPC. That was my solution for combat skills also.

    If you want to grind out enhancing skillups specifically, just alternate between a couple bar-element spells outside your moghouse. I wouldn't worry about it though. Enhancing magic skill has absolutely no effect on Refresh, Haste, Protect, Shell or Regen, which are the enhancing spells most commonly used in a party. Unless you're responsible for bar-element spells to curb AoE damage, the only time the skill really benefits you is when soloing.

    The tips others offered for capping your other skills are good. Besieged is really the ultimate for skillups. I've been standing on the walls spamming Cure and Banishga on undead on the ground, and even when they're unclaimed they almost never come after me. When you do see one that's obviously coming for you, just run away and make sure you go up and down some stairs in the process. They lose you in the chaos pretty quickly. I've been spamming -gas for weeks and haven't died once.
    lagolakshmi on Guildwork :: Lago Aletheia on Lodestone

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    • #17
      Re: Raising skill

      For enhancing magic, if I don't feel like going AFK for the ride, I'll spend some time on the Airships casting all my spells until I run out of MP, then resting the remainder of the ride.
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      • #18
        Re: Raising skill

        I don't have much to add to this, except to note that Dia was (to the best of my knowledge) changed from Divine to Enfeebling back during the JP beta, which is why even Jei doesn't remember this (and he's been playing longer than just about anyone on this forum).


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        • #19
          Re: Raising skill

          Originally posted by Taskmage View Post
          Personally I was never able to keep enhancing capped in exp parties alone.
          I haven't capped it in EXP parties but going /whm and doing hasting duties for some burn parties got me close.

          Originally posted by Taskmage View Post
          I've been spamming -gas for weeks and haven't died once.
          ewwww
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          • #20
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            LOL -GAS not gas! With a dash curse you!
            lagolakshmi on Guildwork :: Lago Aletheia on Lodestone

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            • #21
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              Wow, how pathetically so entwined in this game that the actual word "gas" never even crept into my mind until you said that, Taskmage. Even after Mhurron's post I didn't get it. Damn, methinks I need to spend less time in Hades.
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              • #22
                Re: Raising skill

                Originally posted by Itazura
                Don't do this before you have Dia II, though, since Bio I overrides Dia I.
                You can do it even in the early levels if you simply wait until the mob is almost dead to cast Bio. By then, it really doesn't matter much. Hell, you may even kill it with it ;3

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                • #23
                  Re: Raising skill

                  skillups in besieged ftw, 'nuff said

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                  • #24
                    Re: Raising skill

                    Thanks fror the responses!!

                    Ok, so it seems i am not in as deep trouble as I thought I was.

                    What is beseiged? I have heard a lot about beseiged, limbus, dynamis....what are all these things?

                    I had a great idea last night as well. Seeming as I always seems to never use chainspell, just before i logged off i used 2hr and then spammed bio til i ran out of MP...got a fair few lvls that way. If I do this everynight....

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