Hi there, I have a level 21 monk on Brell Serillis.. and I am sure that this question has been asked a million times.. BUT I am gonna ask again.. Is it just me or is FD a VERY VERY slow skill to build? I have FD a million times and only am at 33 in FD is there a cap on it?

Any info would be helpful..

Thanks,
Sakuura
21 Monk
Brell

You are both correct...FD is a slow skill to increase (kinda like Rogue backstab) and setting up a FD and SIT/STAND hotkeys -- and pressing them as often as you can remember (like your MEND hotkey until Mend reaches 100) is a good way to build up your FD skill, while running or waiting or watching TV or whatever.

Also Coorsman, remember the basic formula for MOST monk skills is 5 x level + 5 (only difference that I am aware is Dual Wield). So, at level 21, you should have a skill level of 110 in most everything except Dual Wield (which has a formula of 7 x level + 5, I believe; yeah, that's kinda ugly but whatcha gonna do).

Note also that that 110 will be as high as you can get a skill (other than Dual Wield) at level 21, until you ding level 22, when the level-based "skill cap" will go up another 5 points to 115.

Hope this helps and I haven't told you something you already know. Hunt well, be safe.

It is slow. Put it to you this way, as soon as I put my initial training point in FD, I wenttoa nice quietplace, FD'd, and kept hitting FD until its skill value matched my level cap--from 18 to 90 or 95 fi I remember rightly--it took a little over 8 hours.

8 hours of laying in the same spot FDing.

However! This paid huge dividends. The next I logged on and went to Unrest--I solo'd the 1st floor w/no problems that FD couldn't solve. Got in a group as puller and was very successful.

I've since kept the skill up to level and can say that level 21, 24 are the two big sticking points where it seems like you can't FD enough to move the skill. Persistance persistance persistance.

:)