On Rizlona, my bind wound is 255/275. The character sheet says I should be able to get 20 more skillups. The achievement window under General > Utility Proficiency shows my class has not yet attained the level 50 skill cap. It's been 100 bandages at 255 skill and no skillup. Is this a bug?
I don't believe so. I find that once you get within 15-20 points of maxing out a skill. It takes forever. I must have cast Sense the Dead 700 times just to go from 240-250.
Those are actually the normal old rates of skilling up. They added a new perk recently that if a skill is more than 5 levels below current it will level up on almost every use, so you can catch up to close to max very quickly but the last 5 levels' worth are still the normal slow rate.
This goes along with the change they made right around when Selo launched... Everything is trivially fast and then it goes "old normal" for the final X%... maybe 5% or something close.
Up to cap -21 you have almost 100% chance to obtain a skillup on any skill (besides tradeskills and languages) At 20 to cap, its the old % chance (Based on int/wis/dex/agi depending on skill) Yeah, it was that bad.
Just wait until you get to the 400s and beyond . . . it can take a few hundred bandages for one skill-up point
So in retrospect I think there is a more fundamental question. Why are you trying to max bind wound? I don't think there is any situation in the game ever any more where it is an actually useful skill to have.
Begging, I need 15 skillups and after 255 attempts, got 0. I read there were some recent changes; can someone make extra sure these skill chances were set too low? 255 fails in a row with 0 skillups is a pretty low rate for a skill within 15 points of it's cap.
I found it moderately useful when dungeon soloing as a wizard in early TLP expansions. Less downtime!
If it's a 1% chance of skill up (I'm guessing at 1%, but I definitely don't think it's higher than 2%) then you have a 7.7% chance of failing to skill up after 255 attempts. Somewhat bad luck but not unheard of. It's also a possibility the % chance of skillup is less than 1%, making your result more probable. Those final skill up points on barely relevant skills like Begging, Swimming, Alcohol Tolerance etc. are really elusive in my experience.
Very low numbers for doing skillups. You want to find some gear pieces that boost those stats, even if you don't use them at any time other than when you're doing your skillups. You should be able to get both those stats to at least 120 in Classic, if you rolled with a base of 75.
A little too fast now I think. Though I have taken advantage. I have an audio trigger to tell me when I get a skill up and it is crazy fast.
I just did a long stretch of begging. 1,200 more attempts and my skill went from 226 to 227. Less than 1 skillup per 1,000 can't be right. I posted in the bugs section, please like.
I've used it the same way on TLP servers were there are no cleric mercs. Where it actually does shine is when you use it for leveling alts. I think a level 50ish character can heal ~1/4 of a level 14 characters health with a single bandage. It really shines when you can get the AAs to heal to 100%.
