Elemental Blockade not leveling at all, and I use it every fight. (PS4)

RasstCorgan · October 2016

Morphed into Elemental Blockade a few hours ago, and I am using it every single fight. The progress bar has stopped on the third "E" in the word 'Elemental" above it (used as a measure for me). I have switched various staff-types, logged in and out, closed the application, and restarted, etc. Nothing will allow this skill to grow at all. Any advice would be greatly appreciated. All my other skills (destro staff, light armor, etc) are leveling just fine.

Please advise.

RasstCorgan

ryanborror · October 2016

Are you killing things on that bar? Are you turning in quests on that bar?

TruthSeeker · August 2017

RasstCorgan wrote: »

Morphed into Elemental Blockade a few hours ago, and I am using it every single fight. The progress bar has stopped on the third "E" in the word 'Elemental" above it (used as a measure for me). I have switched various staff-types, logged in and out, closed the application, and restarted, etc. Nothing will allow this skill to grow at all. Any advice would be greatly appreciated. All my other skills (destro staff, light armor, etc) are leveling just fine.

Please advise.

RasstCorgan

Hi RasstCorgan,

The same thing is happening to me. Did you manage to solve the problem?

Thanks

Jhalin · August 2017

You only get exp toward skills on the active bar when you gain exp. If you have Blockade on your backbar you won't be leveling the skill.

TruthSeeker · August 2017

Jhalin wrote: »

You only get exp toward skills on the active bar when you gain exp. If you have Blockade on your backbar you won't be leveling the skill.

Does this apply if I am using my backbar weapon? I have never noticed this with other skills.

My character has killed many enemies using just the Elemental Blockade 1 skill, which has registered XP but the skill itself remains fixed, with no progress.

Thanks

Damican1982 · August 2017

Some skills level faster than others. I have Ele Drain and Bound Armor on the same bar. When I unlocked Bound, my ele drain was at rank 2. My Bound Armor is now rank 4 and Ele drain is 3.

bebynnag · August 2017

TruthSeeker wrote: »

Jhalin wrote: »

You only get exp toward skills on the active bar when you gain exp. If you have Blockade on your backbar you won't be leveling the skill.

Does this apply if I am using my backbar weapon? I have never noticed this with other skills.

My character has killed many enemies using just the Elemental Blockade 1 skill, which has registered XP but the skill itself remains fixed, with no progress.

Thanks

if you use elemental blockade & then swap bar before your blockade has a chance to kill things, then your blockade will not gain the XP even if it is the only skill used to kill things

if you are leveling by killing things - put any skill you want to level on your main/front bar this is the bar you are most likley to be on when something dies/you gain XP.

if you are questing to level up, fill your backbar with skills you want to level and make sure you are on your back bar when you hand in quests

you can put weapon skills on your bar that you are unable to use and level the skill & skill line - for example when leveling my argonian warden i didnt know whether i would be making them into a tank or a healer.
so i needed to level, one hand and shield, destruction staff & resoration staff, so i equipped a shield & mace, put a restoration skill & a destruction staff skill on my back bar (filled the other slots with class based skills) and when i was handing in quests all three weapon skill lines would improve.
i could not use the destruction or restoration skill because i had a one hand and shild equipped - but i still leveld the weapon skill lines

hope this helps