Hi Logrus,
Should have prefaced my original question with at least mentioning that I've trained over 40 chars since '98, but then - if I'm missing something obvious I'd feel pretty dumb... Yea, Provo is arrow-up and my real skill total is like 650 so there's plenty of room to gain... I remember training probably my 4th Bard right after they introduced the Mastery's.. In fact, it was because of the ability to use the Bard Masteries to train that I even bothered making my Bard/Tamer. So I know you used to be able to train that way. But my new Bard on Siege has tried and tried Inspire and it just won't budge that way. I can gain every time by actually using Provo, but that's it...