Confused...

Don't learn all your skills, you *can* theoretically do them all with enough grinding but just focus on the important ones first. You neverstop getting quests, you just get less quests. From lvl 58 onwards you'll notice way less quests.

Learn inronheart bless, cylcone, plume quil and the 4 buffs. Later on you can learn thund wield and the party buffs and party heal.
Quests give lots of spirit, in fact you should ALWAYS be doing ALL your quests. The yellow cultivation quests gives lots of SP.

Different things (quests, mobs, one-use items, etc) give different ratios of exp to spirit. Most of them seem to be between 5:1 and 4:1, but I think a few rare ones give lower than 4:1 (i.e. proportionately more spirit).

However, there is one sure-fire way to "catch up" in the amount of spirit you have for a given level. It's not very pleasant though: Die. A lot. When you die, you lose exp but not spirit. So after a dozen deaths to wipe out your exp bar, grinding to get it back, and repeating the process a few more times, you will have plenty of spirit for your level.

Most would probably argue it's better just to level and upgrade your spells later. I hear that by your 60s and 70s you'll have plenty of leftover spirit. But if you absolutely want to get your best spells up to date for your level now, that's how you can do it. Level 30 actually may not be a bad time to do this. At that level, the mobs are dropping a lot of sought after items and crafting materials which you can sell for money. As you get higher in level, those mobs turn green and their drop rate dries up. There's actually a thread on the veno board which discusses this.

BTW, quests hit a dry spot in your 40s, but the early 50s have lots of quests again. Are you doing the crazy stone quest? That only takes 10-15 minutes and gives plenty of exp and spirit. If you're not going to be playing for a while, you could probably just do crazy stone each day before going to sleep. Then do the dying thing I mentioned to lose the exp but keep the spirit.

What's important is that you try to keep track of what skills you NEED vs the skills you WANT, vs the skills that are just there. The first thing for that is that you try to decide what your role will be.

Are you a cleric who manages best in groups, buffing your teammates and not really doing anything but throwing heals around? Then make sure you have your defence buffs, revive, chromatic healing beam and Ironheart Blessing at the max levels you can.

If you primarily go kill things on your own, make sure that you have Plume Shot, Cyclone, Plume Shell and Ironheart Blessing (for self-healing - can be replaced with Wellspring Surge, but I don't recommend it) as high as they can go.

Once you have the skills that are a bare minimum to keep yourself and/or others alive, you can look at others. For instance: Those that you get at high levels are usually neglible in their usefulness at first - you'll have skills that are far more powerful, even though you got them at a lower level. So, usually, I would recommend skipping them and saving them for later. But if your basic skills are up to par, you can invest in a higher level skill.

If your Cyclone is maxed as far as it can go at your level? Look at your Metal Mastery to do extra damage. Your Plume Shot can't be levelled more? Take a gander at Razor Feathers. Can't upgrade Ironheart Blessing more? Put a point or two into - you'll think I'm crazy - Blessing of the Purehearted. When a comrade is down just 100 or 150 points of life, you don't want to fire off the big shot Ironheart when you can just nudge their life up that little bit.

Of course, also look at the effectiveness of some spells when you consider levelling them. The various Seals, for instance, look excellent at a glance. But once you've gotten the initial level, their effectiveness only increases by 2% or so per level - and it costs a load of spirit. Purify just gets a lower cooldown when you level it, and, really, Flight Mastery is useless if you use your level 30 wings.

and dont forget other peoples FB tabs you can help them with. decent spirit gain there too.

when you get to lvl 70ish you should have spirit enough to start maxing everything (long as you can afford to do so with coin anyways)
as a support cleric the following spells were leveled as soon as a new level come up in this order:
Revive
Iron Heart
Pdef buff
Mdef Buff
Mattack buff
Plume shot
Cyclone
Hp/MP regain (this one costs a small fortune so i put it off to be able to level plume and cyclone)

the following spells i picked up just to lvl 1 in the heal line : Pureheart & Wellspring (have to to get rest), Purify, chromatic beam, stream of rejuvenation at lvl 59 so you can take Regeneration aura (aka BB)

Plume shell i had at lvl 2 or 3 and kept it there for the longest time

At lvl 82 i only have 5 skills not up to 10 yet, mainly cause i don't wanna spend the coins: Chromatic healing beam, Stream of rejuvenation, Silence seal, chromatic seal, and the flight mastery
Flight mastery is a waste of time as i use cash shop wings it only works on the white wings you start with, the others do good enough at their current levels i don't feel the need to up them more just yet

Ryocean - Lost City wrote: »

A really good source of Spirit is Dragon quests and crazy stone quests. This are two additional things u could do. And Dragon Quests are repeatable and crazy stone quest is once a day

starman17 wrote: »

and dont forget other peoples FB tabs you can help them with. decent spirit gain there too.

All of those in addition to grinding still leave the OP with the same problem. Because all of those give Experience as well. Again in the ratio of 20-25% spirit to experience ratio. So as the OP gets spirit, he/she gets experience & levels and gets access to more skill & still doesnt have enough spirit. There is NO way to catch up your spirit to your experience level until your 90s. The exception to that is the afore mentioned dying alot, but thats rediculous since it doesnt give you more spirit, it just removes experience, so you'd have acquired the same spirit/skills either way, but be higher level (and have better stats) without dying.

Just skill up only the most important skills and as a cleric it seems you have to choose whether your role will be attack cleric, or support cleric. You dont have the spirit to get skills to be effective at both.

when/if you hit 59(i have faith you will) you'll have so much spirit you might not even have enough coin to use it all. you'll be maxing a few skills with that 260k spirit from your cultivation, and hopefully have multiple skills maxed before it. when i hit 59 i already had my physical defense, magic defense, and recovery buffs maxed; including their aoe forms. i maxed my magic attack and aoe form with some of the spirit from my cultivation.

i already had ironheart, plume shot, and great cyclone maxed. wellspring surge was maybe level 9, and i maxed blessing of the purehearted when i was a very low level(because i thought it was cool to heal someones hp bar fully b:cool). my revive was level 9 now(level 9 is at 59) and i still had spirit left over to play with. i now have more skills maxed than most level 80s!

but, if you're truly desperate for the spirit, do races. wether you win or lose, gives you a badge of speed. save these until you get 10, turn them in for a sign of speed, and trade that sign of speed for a whopping 22k spirit. for some, that may not be a lot. but look at her level, 22k is a lot of spirit at that level. she could definitely catch up a good amount with it.

Solandri - Heavens Tear wrote: »

Anyway, some quests become unavailable if you level too high. So if the lack of skills is causing the character to be so gimped that s/he is unable to complete those quests, dying to stop your level progress and fix your skills may be the right thing to do. It would seem to be a preferable alternative to starting a new character.

A friend of mine was allowing mobs to kill her and when I asked why she said: "I'm leveling up too fast"

I guess it has something to do with what you are saying.