SK spell skillups

[Artemus]

I'm in the process of PLing a shadowknight and while the melee skills are doing fine, raising those spell skills sucks. Can someone recommend which spells to use along with the skillup macro to raise them?

 

[Rooster95]

just pick the lowest ones you have of the given spell type. Those are the lowest mana cost and usually have the fastest refresh time.

 

[Bronx]

What I normally do is cast the spells (for whatever specialization) on me that I can using this:

#turbo
Sub Main
   :Loop
      [B]/cast 1[/B] (or whatever slot you choose to put the spell in)
     [B] /delay 60[/B] (I change the delay depending on refresh rate of the spell)
   /goto :Loop
/return

For the one's that particular specialization that have spells I can't cast on myself I just cast duel and cast them on someone else that can take them using the same macro.

Pretty basic and you'll level up the skills pretty quick.

 

[Artemus]

Perhaps I failed to make my point. Let me be more clear.

SK spells are all detrimental. I can target myself for some but for others, that really would not be preferable. So I need recommended spells to use in the training.

 

[Vilelae]

Use Bronx's macro he posted and adjust the delay timer for the particualr spell and cast these...
Sense the Dead - Divination - 5 mana
Endure Cold - Abjuration - 20 mana
Grim Aura or Shadowstep - Alteration - 25 mana or 10 mana
Spike of Disease (on self) or lvl 7 pet Leering corpse - Conjuration - 9 mana or 40 mana
Ward Undead (on your pet) - Evocation - 5 mana
So you can raise all the spell skills, minus Evocation, without casting a detrimental spell.

 

[Coffee]

Use MQ2Twist.

Divination: http://lucy.allakhazam.com/spell.html?id=221&source=Live
5 mana

Alteration: http://lucy.allakhazam.com/spell.html?id=354&source=Live
10 mana

Abjuration: http://lucy.allakhazam.com/spell.html?id=225&source=Live
20 mana

Conjuration: http://lucy.allakhazam.com/spell.html?id=1285&source=Live
50mana - have a pet up, no bone chips or self dmg needed


GL on evocation, only thing I can think of is use an AoN or one of your illusion skeleton spells and try to twist:

http://lucy.allakhazam.com/spell.html?id=218&source=Live

....but no idea if that works or not. high level pet should be able to take the abuse as vilelae is suggesting.

 

[ou8122]

Like someone said above... if you have your SK pet targeted, it will count as undead and you can nuke it with your undead only nukes. So that will work fine for evocation.

A good place to go to do this btw is Shadowhaven. As you cannot cast detrimental spells in the bazaar, PoK, or other "safe" zones. Shadowhaven has no KoS mobs (unless you screwed up your faction), so you can cast all day long and not worry about AFK aggro, etc.