<<I'm curious on some of the higher ranks per circle numbers. Is everyone circling as soon as they can, or do some people hold off circling at all until you've aquired extra ranks?
I'm the latter case, but not directly for the sake of getting a high average rank/circle. With my bard, I'm ever so slowly working towards the Death Dealer/Weaponmaster titles so I tend to not train primary weapon since I spend so much time in backtraining areas. Primary Weapon is all I need to circle for about 40 circles or so, so in effect it does equate to holding back circling despite not being my actual goal. My average ranks/circle is high because of all the extra weapon ranks I have.
<<Are there benefits to holding off circling? I remember a previous discussion sometime in the past regarding the philosophy of circling slowly to raise skills vs. circling fast to raise stats. I would be interested if anyone wanted to revisit this discussion in the right folder. Probably over in the experience topic.
Not really any benefits excpet perhaps higher stats/circle. My bard had 30 in all stats except 35 in CHA/DIS at circle 50 for example. But those stats would have been reached much faster if I'd focused on circling instead of title achievement.
Probably the ideal way to train is to power train the essential skills (reqs, guild skills, combat essentials, etc.) until you reach your circle goal, and then head back and backtrain all the extra skills you don't really need. You'll get TDPs and circles at the fastest rate this way, and those skills you go back to train later will learn much faster than if you'd tried to learn all of them at the same time.
-Evran
Crackling with unspent rage since 386A.V.
