[Razlath]

What is your pull hotkey?

I have found that because of the global cooldowns hotkeys don't quite work like I would expect them to. Often times things don't cast and if you have enough stuff on your hotkey you won't even notice.

Not saying that is what is happening here, but it is possible. I personally have noticed that my conjuration is ramping up quite nicely. It was abysmal up until we hit the infinium mines area in Qualia.

I thought I was casting dark ward every chance I got, and snaring at least once a pull, but most likely I was not. Since we got to this area and just about every mob tries to run I *have* to snare on every pull (I play primarily in a duo and the cleric can't snare). That combined with the change to getting skillups on resists has really helped.

I think there is a formula for level involved somehow I will say though, and I think that level extends to yourself on defensive casts. It seems like if I target a mob that is at the level that my current skill would normally be max for I get much more skillups (even if that mob is grey to me). I don't have extensive data, only a gut feeling on that one, but it certainly seems that way. I can get 3 or 4 skillups off a single bar of mana just snaring the mob, fearing the mob, snaring the mob, fearing the mob, etc. It seems like an equivalent number of dark ward casts does not yeild but maybe 1 skill up.