UO Second Age

Just started converting my bard/fencer to bard/mage and my intelligence gains are super-slow.

I've tried eval int, item ident, and spirit speak. My skills are capped at 700 and I'm still not seeing as rapid returns as I was on dexterity or strength.

Should I just keep at it the way I am?

You have to seesaw because stats do not gain if the corresponding skill is at its cap, the best to seesaw for intelligence is eval int and spirit speak.

Thank you.