What is the secret to training assassin kicks? I've had skill learn wheel kick turned on since level 1 and I've only gotten one skill improvement from level gain. And I've been doing nothing but basically spamming wheel kick constantly in fights, but still at level 10, I don't have wheel kick up to 91%.

Something I've noticed, having played a couple mid rank assassins recently-

The relative strength of the mob you are fighting is the single most important factor for kicks improving. (all combat skills for that matter)

Your INT is a distant second.

Just my personal observations playing an assassin now, compared to several years ago (or whenever it was mob strength didn't matter).

G.

'SKILL IMPROVEMENT'
A number of factors go into determining the rate at which one of your
character's skills improves. The main factors are:

- Your intelligence (INT).
- The natural difficulty of learning the skill.
- Your level.
- Your age. Older characters learn more quickly.
- Your current skill. It becomes harder to improve as you get closer to
mastery (100%).
- 'Hostile' skills (weapons, defenses, things that cause combat, etc.) take
into account the relative power of your opponent. Fighting challenging
battles sharply increases your chance of improvement.
- Invokers only: Your affinity for the element you are manipulating.

Generally, the skill improvement system favors real use of a skill over cheesy
methods. For example, you can't learn anything (even while not in combat)
while wielding a weapon you don't know how to use or while fighting an
opponent immune to your attacks.

See also: 'SKILL FOCUS', SKILLS, 'APT LEARNER'

So, I'm generally aware of how skill gains work. I guess a better question would be: what are people's strategies for training assassin kicks? Or is it normal to have to wait this long to master them?

edit: I've played CF on and off for almost 10 years now, but it's been a few years since I played. Thought I would come back with an assassin, since I've never played one much. I generally understand how things work in CF at this point, I've just always been bad at playing. :P

Well, new player forum and all heh. I don't know kick strategies specifically, sorry.

No problem! I figured it was better here than Gameplay since it's a pretty n00b question.

There are some good suggestions for mule kick if you search QHCF.

Otherwise if you aren't getting improves while ranking, forget about ranking and find a strong mob that you can defend against, wear a shield and practice it. Don't worry if you can't easily kill it just make sure you can stay in combat for an extended period of time and preferably use one that doesn't track, like monks, or one that can't see hidden.

Your fighting/resting ratio is much better which leads to a much better rate of skill gains/time elapsed, even if skill gains/time fighting isn't as good.

Use certain boots from galadon dojo. Not sure if they really help but they seem to, by dropping your skill in the kicks.

Fight tough mobs, or more specifically high level ones relative to your level.

Don't worry too much about having the latest kick. Go spam when there's little else to do.

Remember rng. Sometimes a skill will barely budge in 2 hrs of spam, then fly up.

I swear those boots make the difference. Thanks for the tip and to everybody else who replied.