Best use for skill magazines?

[Its Almost Harvesting Season]

I'm wondering if skill magazines are best used to bump a lower merc up a little, or better used on someone already proficient in a skill?

For example, my custom merc is at 69 (nice) in Explosives, with my next best guy down at 39. Am I better off giving my custom guy the magazine to bump him up to 70 and make him closer to an explosive god? or is giving myself a slightly better secondary explosives guy the better choice? I suppose this question depends on skill thresholds too. I've seen some people suggest only using magazines on the custom merc to turn them into a super soldier.

[sandman25dcsss]

Training has a limit (91 or something), it is optimal to use skill magazine after that

[Wilhelm]

second this... what do you guys use your skill magazines for?

[Takichi]

Max Out Skills, so i can train other Mercs to an equal Level

[Keith 'Blood' Hanson]

Magazines are, indeed, better for folks who are at higher levels. This is why you see the 'old' characters can *only* increase their stats from skill books.

With the Train Merc operation, it caps at 91, so anything that gets you to 100 *needs* either doing the job, or using magazines.

Training low level skills with a higher skilled merc is also one of the better ways of gaining points as well, you have an explosives expert train your 69 char, they might get 2 or three points, but the guy at 39 gets 5 or 6.

[Bas da Graca]

Magazines are handy for the perk skill requirement they have thresholds
Lvl 1 70
Lvl 2 80
Lvl 3 90

For example lets say you have agility of 79, with the the right magazine you can get +1 agility making it 80. Then you will have access to lvl 2 perks of agility. Its great for topping off.

[Dies Horribly]

Originally posted by sandman25dcsss:

Training has a limit (91 or something), it is optimal to use skill magazine after that

I'm not sure if they have a training limit, but it becomes so slow that it's no longer viable at certain levels...

[suejak]

Surely they're good for low Wisdom mercs too? As they will level more slowly.

[Dre G Writer]

Originally posted by suejak:

Surely they're good for low Wisdom mercs too? As they will level more slowly.

This is the main reason I dropped katlyna. Girl is as dumb as a sack of rocks. She was getting marksman training at 1 point per session where as everyone else was getting like 2-3.

Dropped her for livewire and im so glad i did because not only is livewire wise at 90+, making training her easy, but I had no idea that her unique talent meant that we can see all enemies on the map, even through walls if we got intel for that area, which is a complete game changer since I do stealth.