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It is a complete waste of time advancing your Tier I (and even II) combart arts to Adept III. Go for Apprentice IV or Adept I. You will soon get skills to replace the ones you have that, even at Apprentice I, will be better than an Adept III version. But, to each his own.
While this is true for almost all Tier I, I would beg to differ for many tier IIs. Maybe this is different now, that supposedly you level faster (just came back after a 10 month retirement), but before, an Adept III Tier II skill can GREATLY speed up the leveling from 11 to 20, and beyond. I got Adept III Soothing Sermon as soon as I got the skill on my first character (which was last November. This may not be as effective due to the new update, which nerfs some buff stacking), and I could cast Soothing Ad3, and not have to TOUCH a single heal while it was on, since even a heavy teaming would not hurt the group. This eliminated down time, and freed me up to do direct damage skills, which dropped the mobs even faster. It was infinetly useful, and it stayed useful well into the early to mid-20s.
With the swelling cost of tier III+ Adept III rares, upgrading a spell in a lower tier may be of more worth (ie. It may be more valueble to upgrade 3 tier 2 skills for 30g total, rather than 1 tier 3 for 40g). Just my opinion!
Edited, Sat Oct 8 19:29:29 2005 by dacypher