Astral Burn

[Lunaryn]

Re: Astral Burn

Gimp Skill? SMN? Uh, what?

SMN has one meaningful skill, and they don't gain much of it naturally in parties. They gain it solo by constantly summoning and dismissing their avatars. Level sync is not going to have much impact beyond making such skill-grinding sessions less spread out.

Unless you actually mean melee combat skills, in which case you're advocating against leveling SMN in parties altogether, not just in astral burns.

edit: Okay, come to think of it, I vaguely remember some update making summoning skill slightly easier to get. Still doubt it makes that much difference here...

[Aksannyi]

Re: Astral Burn

Yeah everyone I know just bots summoning skill, sadly. Takes longer to skill up SMN skill than it does to skill up a craft, and that includes the farming time involved so that you have the gil to spend on crafting.

I was getting skill ups on Odin the few times I was asked to come SMN for it, which was pretty rare because we never had the WHMs for it.

[Malacite]

Re: Astral Burn

Yeah everyone I know just bots summoning skill, sadly. Takes longer to skill up SMN skill than it does to skill up a craft, and that includes the farming time involved so that you have the gil to spend on crafting.

Summoning still doesn't have shit on Guard skill.


/orz

[Aksannyi]

Re: Astral Burn

True that, and you can't bot guard skill while you're asleep for six hours.

[Zoltar]

Re: Astral Burn

Summoning magic is SOOOOO easy to skill up, why does everyone make it sound like it's a chore or has to be botted?

Get a party in The Boyhada Tree, /pet "Poison Nails" <t>, repeat

cmon ppl....

[Romyro]

Re: Astral Burn

If you’re a 70+ smn, you can go solo imps in CM (or team up with other smn/bst).

I didn’t do astral burns but my skill was drastically low when I hit 70. Using the 70 BPs (predator claws or spinning dive typically) on imps skyrocketed my skill to the cap. MUCH faster then summoning avatars

[Malacite]

Re: Astral Burn

Hi2u Besieged.

Has there ever been any confirmation on whether multi-hit pacts can grant more than 1 skill up? Or would the tier 2/4 nukes just be a safer bet all around since they can't miss and don't have to deal damage?

[Romyro]

Re: Astral Burn

pretty sure they cant. You get seem to only get skill ups from calling avatars or using blootdpacts. dont think hits or # of hits has any relevance.

[Zoltar]

Re: Astral Burn

I've never had a double or more skill-up from a multi-hit BP.

Not sure if true or not, but I found that you got more skill-ups when you were closer to the actual level of the mob when performing a BP to acheive a skill-up. (no matter what your summoning skill is) Summoning and releasing avatars doesn't seem as fast as using BPs on EM/DC mobs.