Is raising skill really neccesary?Follow

I usually play tanks, but resently I've been playing some mage characters and I've noticed that at certain points there skills (ministration, subjugation, etc.) start to fall behind and aren;t raising easily. I spent quite some time with my conjuror summoning pet after pet to max of his subjugation along with other skills.

I'm now trying out a coercer and I'm at the same crossroad.

Is it even worth the effort to raise ordination or ministration with a coercer or conjuror? I recall in EQ1 that certain spells required a certain skill level to use and I'm wondering if that is the case in EQ2 at higher lvls. Since most ordination spells last until you die or cancel them there is no way to raise the skill unless you make an intentional effort.

The ordination and ministration spells I have aren't the kind that have a range(i.e. 10-15 dmg), but are simply such-and-such will heal pet for this amount or will cure this ailment, etc. etc.

Also, is there a site that has information on macro commands? If I'm gonna raise these skills I might as well make a loop that keeps casting if that's possible. I'm not looking forward to sitting around mashing a hotkey all day.

What does an increased swim skill do? Do you gradually swim faster? Seems to me that the more power you have the longer you can hold your breath.

Whatever changes they made kinda made safefall impossible to raise. Kinda seems like you either take no dmg or outright die now.

On a similar note, there are some faydark bugs. My fae died of 912 falling dmg because an orc hit me in mid air. Problem: 1.) The orc was too far down(I was on a high cliff) to have hit me at the start of my descent. 2.) I didn't get hit til I was like a meter from the ground yet I took full dmg as if falling from the top of the cliff.

Beware of fae gliding in hostile areas.

Our water breathing and swimming buff doesn't hurt either. I keep it up at all times.

Yeah, i know subjugation and disruption are important. That's why I mentioned only ministration and objuration. My question was, for a coercer or conjuror, is healing and buffing skill worth bothering with. I've deleted the coercer as I'd rather have a stable reliable pet, but I like conjuror.

The root spell line is the reason I'd want to raise subjugation.
The damage spells are why i'd want to raise the disruption.

But healing and buffing? My pet heal spells heals for the specific set amount as opposed the the ranges that healer class spell have. Rather I have 500 ministration or 1 skill point it will heal for the stated amount. Buffs are in the same boat so what really is the point in rasing objuration?

Later down the line will there be pet heals with a heal range or critical debuffs?


I used to raise safefall that way. The road up to the forest on the Isle of Refuge jumping over to the tents was a great spot for example, but it doesn't work anymore. Now it just seem that you rather fall from a height that won't kill you or you fall to your death. There doesn't even appear to be an inbetween height. Now maybe at higher lvls I'd be able to withstand those falls, but not at the moment.

i thought that even though the only thing that would raise the amount of the heal was spell level, but whichever skill affects healing decided how high in that range you go. of course i could be totally wrong, i usually play tanks or scouts :)