A Guide to Mages comment thread

[Skandranon]

Note that only the seventh one in each of the sequece is one that would count as a potentional hit to get the skill up off of.  It is just a lot less obvious that was where the skill ups are coming from now compared to how you could see them happening in the earlier closed beta.  As the difference in the effective level of the skill to the mobs level get too large these resists that allow skill ups will become very infrequent, but they will more likely give you a skill up when you get one.  Hence if you are at a point in effective skill that you are getting lots of hits-that-are-resisted as opposed to misses-that-show-as-resists, you will likely get strings of skill up happening.

Fascinating. I'll be sure to give this a test, but just thinking it through, this explanation does correspond well with my own experiences. I wasn't taking numbers, but skilling up on trolls in Zul'Farrak, I felt that my wand skillup rate was in fact improving slightly, and couldn't quite understand why. As soon as I can, I'll try to gather some numbers.

Are making sure that you reposistion your self during the fight so that when a social mob that will flee is going to run away from its other social associates?  I do this regualarly even in mob infested areas since there is usually an area I just cleared that I can herd them toward.  Just safer overall to do it this way in my opinion.

In general, such repositioning seems to me to imply placing myself between the mob I'm attacking and its social friends in order to drive it to an empty spot. Which is fine, except for the part where I have to get closer to the group of mobs that I desperately don't want to activate. Safety, for me, is finishing with Cone of Cold, Fireblast, and Scorch if necessary, since I can guarantee that they won't run far simply by not using wands.