TybaltKaine wrote: »Wife just clarified further her experience:
"I slotted it and it leveled immediately without use. I couldn't use it as I wasn't wearing a shield. I wasn't in a dungeon or delve, and it did happen after a fight. I wasn't in a group, I was by myself. Just occurred to me that I wanted to level it and I slotted it, and it shot up."
Level 37 character. Scroll was active.
As for my experience with Time Stop, I cast it a single time on a group of 3 bandits, with no scroll active and it immediately leveled to 4. I was at CP as it was my main.
The necromancer Weakness to Elements was an outlier.
I've been playing long enough to know how skills level, this isn't normal at all.
Grizzbeorn wrote: »The higher your level when you start a new skill line, the faster those early skill levels will come.
But hitting level 4 on a skill even with a new character takes minutes if you've been consistently engaged in combat since slotting it.
*IF* this is broken (I do not think it is), then it has been so for at least 5 years, for as long as I've been playing.
TybaltKaine wrote: »As for my experience with Time Stop, I cast it a single time on a group of 3 bandits, with no scroll active and it immediately leveled to 4. I was at CP as it was my main.
The necromancer Weakness to Elements was an outlier.
I've been playing long enough to know how skills level, this isn't normal at all.
TybaltKaine wrote: »I just had it happen with a level 21 Necro and Weakness to Elements. Slotted the skill, killed a couple of mudcrabs, boom level 4.
No scroll active, not in a group, no exp boosting gear, not in a dungeon, just walking on a beach in Auridon.
I'm just gonna hold off using new stuff for now as I suspect this is something wonky and will be over corrected.
You don't need to use any skills to level them. In fact you can level as many skill lines, weapon lines, guild skills and whatnot and the slotted skills itself at the same time if you're able to squeeze one of each on your active bar. You can even put your Werewolf abilities there and level them while in human form.
TybaltKaine wrote: »For the love of cheese.
I appreciate everyone telling me how leveling works, even though I've been playing the game for 4 years and have leveled to champion across two accounts on two systems.
I ask you to test it for yourself.
Take a relatively new character, with no bonuses beyond the event active, slot a mid tier skill (Weakness to Elements) and get in a single fight. If this does not happen to you, great. If it does, please post that it does.
I don't need 10 posts telling me how leveling works, I promise. I literally help people level in one of my guilds.
TybaltKaine wrote: »Anyone else seeing this behavior at all? Feel free to chime in.
TybaltKaine wrote: ».
I attempted to highlight an aberrant behavior in skill leveling, but it appears that people are intent to explain to me, despite my asking them not do so, how skill leveling works.