Shinobi exp

[Mei]

What and when exactly gives exp for this skill?
At first I thought it just had to be in combat, but then I often don't get any exp while in combat and have randomly levelled it up outside combat.
Other than hitting enemies with a katana, whether or not I gain exp seems completely random.

[Draconifors]

Jumping, climbing, and sliding are how I sometimes get Shinobi exp. Emphasis on 'sometimes'.

Haven't figured out what exactly levels the skill, outside of blades and assault rifles. Something about parkouring, definitely.

[vile]

Every one of the skills is tied to an attribute. Shinobi is reflexes, so blades, assault rifles, SMGs will level it. It also covers stuff like dashing, vaulting, sliding, and air dashing. Basically, whatever is in the reflex tree will give you points to Shinobi.

[zpc]

Advances in skill progressions is never random, it is associated to certain actions typical for the archetype.

As a rule of thumb - the usage of an attribute will improve the underlying skill progression. Or in other words: almost all actions improved by an attribute. (almost because I don't think using e.g. body or tech in dialogues will improve the skill)

For Shinobi it is using the sword and e.g. doing leaps over objects as this archetype is about being nimble.

[Nope]

SMG, Assault Rifle and Blade weapons usages, as well as parkour around but that give little exp

[charly4711]

Rifles and blades certainly… though I don’t exactly know how the game divides the xp if you tackle a group using a range of things, like a little hacking, some rifling, a bit of shotgun up close … does only the kill count or is it how much damage you cause?

Outside of combat certainly running, jumping and dashing. When I don’t drive, I run, double-jump, and then air-dash. It feels like it give shinobi xp more consistently and faster than running around punching the air used to for athletics pre-2.0 … but it’s not exactly fast levelling.

[Mei]

Originally posted by charly4711:

Outside of combat certainly running, jumping and dashing

I keep hearing people say this. Yet after running around doing this for 5 minutes, I have gotten exactly 0 exp.

[Rhapsody]

Originally posted by Mei:

Originally posted by charly4711:

Outside of combat certainly running, jumping and dashing

I keep hearing people say this. Yet after running around doing this for 5 minutes, I have gotten exactly 0 exp.

Dashing should work at least. But it won't happen often enough to bother trying. It's probably capped somehow so players can't AFK farm it, like between combat states or duration in time.

[Tex ArCana]

I've lost count of how many levelling "chips" I've picked up from the corpses of dead enemies...
And how much xp I've received from Katana + SMG + Assault Rifle useage.
Oh, and sliding into cover like Ty Cobb every chance I get.