Free Skill Ups.

[ronin sparthos]

Are there safe fortilaces in Keep (S)? I ran to Throne Room on the 2nd day of the patch but I only noticed one near the telepads but people were killing mobs and im sure if as I passed mobs were down or something.

[Saikou]

Yeah I need a safe fortalice so I can cap my staff skill lol. Well at least one far from aggro.

[Spira]

the ones listed on the front page are all safe.
all 4 spots..

for those using staff, u have the convenience of the treat staff but any other weapon may not have that advantage...
You'd best hope to have already obtained an event item of that type (which really only means polearm/club/gkt really) and ply on some STR gear till you hit for 1.
You cannot skill up if you hit for 0.

Otherwise, go get the dynamis base weapon and use that instead... provided your job can use it.

Shouldnt really bother as H2H.. cos you'll mow thru fortalices really fast...

also.. you can start as early as 100skill if you wear enough acc gear and eat sushi.. you will go really far with a 1dmg weapon... and it skills fairly quickly when skill ups do occur.. 0.5s are easy to get.

Slows down at 200+ and really slows down at 220++ at which point you could be wielding a lv1 weapon (but no 1dmg) and get 0 skillup from a fortalice... but its still possible.

[rahskala]

Still getting skillups after the maintenance today.

[Khiinroye]

In addition to event items, there are the trainee weapons for GAxe, dagger, katana, and sword. There's a trainee club, the crafted bell, and kitty rod (from windy wotg questline) for club. Throwing has mamool/troll/lamiabane. These all have 1 dmg.
H2h, GS, axe, scythe, archery, and marksmanship are out of luck.

[Maurauc]

In addition to event items, there are the trainee weapons for GAxe, dagger, katana, and sword. There's a trainee club, the crafted bell, and kitty rod (from windy wotg questline) for club. Throwing has mamool/troll/lamiabane. These all have 1 dmg.
H2h, GS, axe, scythe, archery, and marksmanship are out of luck.

Trainee Scissors for H2H. Or Fruit Punches?
I dunno how well either would work, just know they're low damage. Not sure if they'd be reliable because of MNKs damage rating in the first place.

[Strifey]

For Great Sword you could use Chaosbringer on WAR or DRK if you never completed the Blade of Death quest. Note this is not the DRK job quest, it's the one after. Chaosbringer has 3 DMG so you'll be doing a little more damage, but it works if you really want to skill up GS on these.


You could also just use Relic Blade if you're just going to afk several hours anyway, same goes for Scythe and Axe, assuming of course you have a job that can use these. As far as All Jobs weapons though, these weapons are screwed as previously stated.

H2H will do too much damage to be worth it no matter what job you're trying to skill up on.

[Spira]

Trainee Scissors for H2H. Or Fruit Punches?
I dunno how well either would work, just know they're low damage. Not sure if they'd be reliable because of MNKs damage rating in the first place.

definitely wont work due to the way h2h dmg is calculated.

the best way to lower dmg in the weapon slot for h2h is thru not wearing any weapon at all.
and thats not going to work.
no point piling on -atk/str gear either because thats a lot of dmg to compensate. if you start at 100 skill, its already a 14dmg weapon and the higher you skill the more dmg you'll be putting out.

you can still do it, but you won't be able to really make use of the spots afk potential since you'd need to keep changing camps to have enough to skill.. and u'd want to be the only person there. And even if you're solo and run the circuit of 4 fortalices, you might actually still have to wait for them to repop.

[Khiinroye]

The fortilaces do go unclaimed relatively fast, however. Chaosbringer is slow, but shouldn't be slow enough to make it go yellow. While weakened with rusty GS (after a campaign battle that started as I arrived), it would go yellow after every 2 or 3 swings, and that's still faster than a relic weapon.

A lv 1 weapon takes about 30 minutes to kill a fortilace, which leaves about 5 minutes or so to wait if you have two fortilaces to yourself.

[levish]

/war for defender might help those needing H2H skill?
obviously /ranger if you need some "free" acc

[ronin sparthos]

GSword gets Dull Claymore as an option if you happen to have one.

[dannyl]

I'm going to try this tonight. First time seeing this thread @.@ Hope it still works ^^
I like that the added bonus to defeating this thing is Allied Notes ^_^

[dannyl]

@ 4.1 it kept saying I was out of range. @ 4.0 is when I hit. I hope that fraction doesn't get me killed >_<

[miokomioko]

Trainee weapons work wonders... and I was attacking at 4.1 just fine~

[ronin sparthos]

On WAR with 100ish Gaxe skill I was hitting for goose eggs and the fortilaces eva was unreal lol.

[Teryu]

On WAR with 100ish Gaxe skill I was hitting for goose eggs and the fortilaces eva was unreal lol.

"hitting for goose eggs"? >.>

[Tricen]

0's

[Teryu]

Oh, ok, cause goose eggs are pretty big. ;x

[dannyl]

100 may be too low? I started my staff @ 129 and I was swinging for at least 5-10 minutes before I hit anything. After 150, it picked up. It truly is an afk or internet browse activity though. You may also want to activate the Campaign Op so you can get at a minimum 1,800 Allied Notes at the end... GL

[miokomioko]

It's a bit slower of a skill-up than I expected it to be... do you think the Fortalices are Lv.75? For archery/marksmanship/throwing, I think I would rather kill crabs for the exp/seals since you can't afk-ranged-attack without ze cheatz. And it does get a bit mind-numbingly boring ctrl+Ding that thing over and over.