Provoke gains: Painfully slow!

[Fleezie]

Quick question.. Just started working on Provocation. I have the skills as follows

100 magery
100 med
100 Musicianship
100 Eval
13 provoke

my provoke is going up SOOOOO slow its ridiculous

Usually at these low skill points it flies up!
Does anyone know of an NPC you can buy provoke to 30 with.

I don't think i have ever seen one.
Thanks for you time in advance fellow Second Agers.

[Caliban]

Matilda the Bard Guildmistress in Britain (Lord British's Conservatory of Music)

[WiseOne]

This should be flying, maybe you gave your macro set up wrong?
The best thing to do is to lure any 2 animals into your home (I have a spare you can use if you don't have one) and just record the macro there. Make sure that the animals are partitioned from you and each other. Should be GM in 2 days tops.

[Pirul]

Also, be sure to include an "if" in case you fail so that you only pause 5 secs instead of 10. At lower levels, that helps a lot!!

[Fleezie]

Thanks guys!
I love the group effort from everyone on this shard. Response time is magnificent. =-0 So i really suck at using the "Razor" macro system, when it comes to ifs and conditions and so on, but my macro reads like this. Mind you i copied most of it from the stratics page and made some minor tweaks. One major tweak is the herding i needed 5 str to be 100.

Dble click tambourine
pause .50 sec
exec. provacation
pause .50 sec
wait for target
absolute target
wait for target
absolute target
pause .50 sec
If ( sysmessage "succeeds")
pause 10.10sec
else
pause 5.10
end if

Like i said it is working great now i had added this line of code, for herding/str, just under the "end if" clause.

dble click "shepards crook"
wait for target
absolute target
wait for target
absolute target

This worked great for anyone trying to provoke.

[WiseOne]

I would just get strength to 100 first and then GM provocation or vice versa, it'll probably be faster to do them separately unless you use herding to kill time instead of pausing for 10 seconds, in which case, do 10 attempts to herd the animal so that macro would go under "if (message) succeeds" instead of pausing for 10. You can also do 5 attempts in case it fails to substitute for the 5 second pause.

[Dallaswolf]

Does it matter if you provoke it on to your self rather then another animal..Im at 98 and I notice the gains are super slow..

[WiseOne]

I don't think the target matters. It is the skill use that makes it increase. I am building a new character now and 0-70 went by in 1 day then 70-80 in the next and 80-90 in the third day. These are about 6-10 hours of macroing per day. I am at 92.2 now and it is day 5 so it slowed down considerably for me after I hit 90.

[Dallaswolf]

Glad to know IM not the only one.

[WiseOne]

I am up to 98 now so hang in there, it is slower than before but still alright. Better than doing it without razor

[Dallaswolf]

Wait tell you get to 99 its slow...

[Hallytosis]

i gmed off a horse vs. myself locked away in a house.