This is correct. If you have a skill locked it will not increase your stats. However you CAN gain stats when a skill is capped (ie you mining is 100 but you still have it set to raise and use it to gain str).I believe you also need to have your skills set to raise - but might remember wrong. In case you have your skills locked that will give you int gains, try and set these to rise and see if that helps.
And as S_S mentions, 125 is the limit, in case you are trying to surpass that.
What he said. That's what I do. I do mining for str, play an instrument (musicianship) for dex, meditation for int.Depending on what stat you're trying to gain, I find best method is to stone off a skill, then just artificially work another junk skill when it's at zero so you get lots of gains and more chances of stat gain. Lumberjack works great for strength. Focus/Med work great for Intel, etc.
Thank you!! I was wondering WHY stoning off skill(s) was necessary! I buy up random skills until I hit the 720 cap. Then I lock all skills EXCEPT the easiest one to use (that's not a secondary) for gains (music, mining...whatever). People don't realize you do NOT have to physically gain in a skill for a stat gain as long as you are at max 720 skills. I can take a new char and have stats completed within about 1.5-2 hours.Why you stoning off a skill?
It’s not 1999
If you’ve reached your skill cap of 720, can just have every skill set up, and performing any action will make your stats change.
Like spamming weaken on yourself checks against focus/med/resist/Margery/eval
Merlin I think is playing a free shard or something as his advice is something pre-AOS even.
But the lower you skills are the more times that skill will get a hit, it is just like raising skills. Stone off all skills and train the skill you want to stat raise and watch how fast it goes. I do this all the time when I want to mass change stats for a char.Thank you!! I was wondering WHY stoning off skill(s) was necessary! I buy up random skills until I hit the 720 cap. Then I lock all skills EXCEPT the easiest one to use (that's not a secondary) for gains (music, mining...whatever). People don't realize you do NOT have to physically gain in a skill for a stat gain as long as you are at max 720 skills. I can take a new char and have stats completed within about 1.5-2 hours.
I have done it both ways and found the 720 max skill fastest for me. The other way requires having to gain skill points to gain a stat point. Like if using mining to gain STR, after about 35 mining, both skill and stat gains slow down considerably unless you stone off that 35 mining and restart it. Time consuming.But the lower you skills are the more times that skill will get a hit, it is just like raising skills. Stone off all skills and train the skill you want to stat raise and watch how fast it goes. I do this all the time when I want to mass change stats for a char.
Training dummy in your house or mage skills depending on what stats you want to change. Once you hit 30-40 skill stone off again.I have done it both ways and found the 720 max skill fastest for me. The other way requires having to gain skill points to gain a stat point. Like if using mining to gain STR, after about 35 mining, both skill and stat gains slow down considerably unless you stone off that 35 mining and restart it. Time consuming.