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    Combat Skill up effects discussion: Martial Master, Prouesse Ring, Saltena, Poultry Pitaru

    With the release of information about the food items' effects, has anyone tried to quantify the rate of skill ups received from martial master, food effects, and the ring?

    The biggest question I see is, do the various effects stack, and in what way? This obviously opens up a bunch of new questions to answer which I consider to be threadworthy.

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    I don't think there's enough information on skill ups, in general, to talk about the boost from these (mechanically). That said, you could start by talking about general skill ups.

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    Saw this ss on ffxiah.com: They used the skill up food. Not really concrete from just eyeballing and no time stamp, but seems to have helped lol.

    http://static.ffxiah.com/images/ss/m...yUC5o3j4Zh.png

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    I just skilled up shield from 50 to capped before this was known. FML.

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    Yeah, I took shield from 75 cap to 90 cap the other day. Got ~70 levels of Shield, and ~20 levels of Parrying at the same time! Then I went back out to get Dagger up to Aeolian Edge for some PLD fun and got another 10-15 in Parrying (like 265ish now). You gotta love Mandragoras.

    I think when servers come back up, I'm gonna grab some of this food and finish Parrying once and for all assuming that skillup rate wasn't another glitch that they're currently fixing, lol. Maybe I'll buy a Quint Spear and take my Ferrara with me and do all my weapons while I'm at it.

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    What about Elshena? Does it show higher skill up rate?

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    what is this skill up food you speak of

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    I did guard 254 to 305 with ring in 7 hours, then 305 to 354 with ring + saltena in under 3 hours.
    After that did parry from 263 to 327 with ring and saltena in 4 hours.

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    I'd say elshena gets you less skillups ~

    easier synth, perhaps

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    elshena is the harder synth, saltina is the easy one. Elshena needs rare ass mushrooms you have to grow.

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    Eyeballed evidence with Saltena compared to without, it didn't seem to increase the frequency of skillups, but rather the frequency of .4s and .5s, even in mobs that were close to capping the skill (150ish gkt on level 60 mobs that cap at about 190). This is with no ring or martial master.

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    could be, I was still getting .4 and .5 near guarding cap too.

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    combat skill rateing seems to play big role with this food

    was able to cap my war axe skill from 295 to 354 in less then one hour, wasnt able to cap 310 club skill... Same goes for parry 298 parry, cap is 305, i ended up with 301 parry skill after 4 hours of skilling up. Food was constant on

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    Quote Originally Posted by Damane View Post
    combat skill rateing seems to play big role with this food

    was able to cap my war axe skill from 295 to 354 in less then one hour, wasnt able to cap 310 club skill... Same goes for parry 298 parry, cap is 305, i ended up with 301 parry skill after 4 hours of skilling up. Food was constant on
    Which exact food? They added two types for each....

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    Has there been any solid data taken for skill ups? I'm thinking of logging all my skill ups with my brother's character's enhancing magic skill ups.

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    Willing to bet that one increases frequency of skillups and the other increases the potency of skillups(0.4 and 0.5 become more common opposed to 0.1-0.3). Other theory is that the cheaper food is for 0-200 and expensive food is for 200+.

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    Combat skill rating has always seemed to effect skillup rates. In the time I took club and staff from 200->270 on Steelshells, my WHM mule took club from 100-200 and my BRD mule took club from 220-224.

    Also, screw that pic. I was all motivated after seeing that, went out to do guard, and realized it has filters on. I got the same as/less than what I normally get doing guard

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    Quote Originally Posted by kenshyn View Post
    Which exact food? They added two types for each....
    saltena, the cheaper food

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    Quote Originally Posted by Damane View Post
    saltena, the cheaper food
    Cool cool thanks well hopefully we can get some real quantitative answers on which foods do what and my by how much gain would you see same with the ring that has some peeps locked away like zombies lol.

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