Herding-Intelligence question

[Edie Brickell]

Did they neuter the intelligence skill gain with herding or something? I've been herding for like 12 hours and only gained 11 intelligence point. This method worked beautifully on all my other characters, but that's been nearly 2 years ago that I tried it. Did they patch this and if so what's the best way to gain intelligence? While Im at it, will I continue to gain intelligence with herding if Im a skill cap and herding is at 100?

[Ripplinger]

From other posts here I also tried herding for int recently (like within last month or 2 at most) and had no luck with it either. I finally went by the chart on this page alternating between skills that were primary int. There's some errors apparently, they have herding listed as primary int instead of strength (or that's a change from how herding used to be), but I think most others are still correct.

On one character I had just 38 points to play with, so when I hit 38, I switched to another skill that was primary int, and it raised pretty quick finally for me. I alternated between Anatomy, Animal Lore, Arms Lore, Eval Int, Item ID, all of those worked well for me.

[fox_phyre]

Get like 20k fishsteaks and macro cooking, very good gains and you can do it in any house.

[SighelmofWyrmgard]

Get like 20k fishsteaks and macro cooking, very good gains and you can do it in any house.

This does work, particularly once Intelligence is already fairly high.

Personally, the only skill I've ever used to train (all) stats is Camping: the gains for Int & Str are ridiculously good, and you'll earn a fair amount of Dex; all my characters raised camping into the 80s, then switched to training adventuring skills ... bingo! 225 stat points, exactly where they're wanted.

SS