Skill ups reduced?Follow

has anyone noticed a slow down in skill ups? I started my character as an herb/skin guy, and changed to Alch when I hit about 45 so I could make Major Healing pots. Didn't work out like I had hoped, and my pots didn't sell well. Switching back to skinning and I rarely skill up each time I skin an orange mob. It usually takes 2-4 mobs for a skill up now, at least once I got past 75. I didn't see it in the patch notes and was wondering if anyone else noticed that.

Even before the 1.9 patch I noticed a difference. orange skills are supposed to skillup every time. For skinning and mining I didn't find that to be the case.


I've heard a strange rumor that you need to have nothing targetted in order to still guarantee your skillup, but that seems very strange if it's true. It would be possible to do for all skills except skinning I think, since I think you autotarget when you try to skin.

For enchanting you'd have to unselect the person who's trading with you before doing the combine but it should be possible to untarget.

I've heard of stranger things that turned out to be true though so who knows :-)