Free Skill Ups.

[Gwynplaine]

I got bored the other day and tried to solo a crab in Walk of Echos. Gave pretty awesome skillups, but of course it's a little difficult to do just for that. No exp loss though so I couldn't really care.

[Bokey]

I find that its quicker Skill ups in WoE then it just just finding an EM or T1 VNM but idk maybe its just my luck w/ getting skill ups XD

[Alkar]

whats their damage like?

Damage is quite high even without attachments considering puppets do not have weapons to equip. The trick is to cycle through all 6 Fortalices inside the castle area (the other 2 at entrance are way too far to be worthwhile and not even needed anyway).
By the time you kill the sixth the first one will be up anyway.
My magic was capped from the Afflictor/Soulsoother trick and I strongly recommend that one for it because these take way too much damage from magic.
PUP is the only job that can safely engage the 4 Fortalice in the lower part for skill ups so it's really a good way to cap your skills at 75. Just Invisible> Deploy puppet> run to a safe place and wait.
Melee was the hardest to cap and took a couple days. But I'm sure it's done on purpose as it's used by all frames and a lot easier to trigger.

[Sorin Markov]

I got bored the other day and tried to solo a crab in Walk of Echos. Gave pretty awesome skillups, but of course it's a little difficult to do just for that. No exp loss though so I couldn't really care.

In my server I see many JP ls in walk of echoes, check when and "leech" skill in the battlefield, i'm sure they no raise you or get the MVP but skill yes

[mrrhypon]

thnx for these tips. was looking for a way to cap club

[cdgreg]

Year old necro I know, blah blah. Anyone done this recently? I just came to one of the fortalices at F-7 and got agrod by a demon after like 2 minutes.

[Atoreis]

Year old necro I know, blah blah. Anyone done this recently? I just came to one of the fortalices at F-7 and got agrod by a demon after like 2 minutes.

Update 9 April 2009

"Attacking Fortifications and other enemies specific to Campaign no longer increases combat and magic skills, regardless of whether or not you have received the effect of an Allied Tag."

[cdgreg]

Update 9 April 2009

"Attacking Fortifications and other enemies specific to Campaign no longer increases combat and magic skills, regardless of whether or not you have received the effect of an Allied Tag."

Must not apply to fortalices. I went to map #2 inside the castle and found one away from agro. I'm getting delicious GA skill ups, can SS if anyone really wants to POIDH me. Maybe it doesn't apply because they're used for campaign ops, not just campaign?

[Rionel]

Fortifications, not Fortilaces.

There's a difference apparently as I skilled up on a Zvahl Fortilace weeks ago on my MNK so yes, Fortilaces still work.

Happy auto-attacking!

[Phoenyx]

Edit: Nevermind, Rionel got it.

[cdgreg]

Fortifications, not Fortilaces.

There's a difference apparently as I skilled up on a Zvahl Fortilace weeks ago on my MNK so yes, Fortilaces still work.

Happy auto-attacking!

This is pretty sweet, gonna go enjoy lunch and some errands while skilling GA lol. Haven't gotten agro on the ones inside on second map.

[Jb1210a]

Rough idea on how high of a skill level these go?

[Atoreis]

Rough idea on how high of a skill level these go?

It used to be lvl 50 but now when you can skill up on DC it's probably around lvl 55?

[Francisco]

Fortalices cap at level 75.

Mobs don't have a universal cap you can reach on them - it's all based on your job and the enemy level.

A MNK can get H2H skill to 276 (A+ skill cap at 75) on a Fortalice, whereas a WAR could only get it to 210 (D skill cap at 75).

As for aggroing demons, you can avoid this by standing at max melee distance on the staircase... never aggroed a demon once in 12+ hours.

[dannyl]

Lvl 82 actually.

[urat]

This goes to show no warrior in the game has an excuse to not have their red procs >:/

[cdgreg]

This goes to show no warrior in the game has an excuse to not have their red procs >:/

Took about an hour each in Zitah getting weapons from 0-100, now Ill just dump mule at these fortalices for a few days taking them from 100 weapon skill to 75skillcap. Delicious red procs!

[TheDirtyHobo]

Fortalices cap at level 75.

Mobs don't have a universal cap you can reach on them - it's all based on your job and the enemy level.

A MNK can get H2H skill to 276 (A+ skill cap at 75) on a Fortalice, whereas a WAR could only get it to 210 (D skill cap at 75).

As for aggroing demons, you can avoid this by standing at max melee distance on the staircase... never aggroed a demon once in 12+ hours.

Fortalices are level 75, which is why their skill cap used to be whatever the 75 cap was for that job/skill. With the skillup changes a few months ago, it goes to whatever a level 75 mob can bring you up to.

[Michelob]

It used to be lvl 50 but now when you can skill up on DC it's probably around lvl 55?

50 cap was Fortifications not Fortilaces. Fortilaces have always been 75 cap.

[Kaisha]

Would an 8dmg axe be too high for these? Only lower damage option I can find is relic axe, which I never bothered lotting in the past.


If I had the patience to afk there all day I'd probably use it to cap subjob combat skills, but I don't think I have the patience to do so, nor wait as I whiff 1/20 hits at 45 due to lack of acc gear.