>I know that sneak is capped at 113, does anyone know what the
>highest levels we can take our other skills too?
>
>I think I remember reading that the natual cap for skills is 200,
>but Dual Wield is at 250.

Well, although I cannot speak definitively or authoritatively, I can
say that the only skill I can recall capping at 200 was Sense
Heading. Most of the other abilities that I can think of off-hand
seem to have progressed beyond that except at an extremely slow rate
of progress. Speaking as a recent achiever of level 46, I can say
the following with some confidence:

- After the last 30 hours of play, my Defense has gone up a single
point (to 211) - and I've spent almost the entire time being the
exclusive tank to a nearly endless parade of blues.
- I don't remember the last time I saw Flying Kick go up.
- Offense seems to keep going up at its normal rate of speed (now in the 220s).
- The last number I saw out of Dual Wield was 252 - and that was some
time ago. It's possible that it went higher (perhaps all the way to
255) and I just didn't notice it, however.
- Mend seems to still be progressing, but again is an extremely slow
progress so I may have capped that as well - not that it matters
becuase it's been over 20 levels since it's failed.
- Progress on Feign Death continues, although I haven't been working
on it as much as I perhaps should lately so it still is languishing
in the 190's.
- Disarm is still moving into the 170s as well, but don't ask me why
I bother - a disarmed opponent doesn't seem to be a whole lot less
dangerous than an armed one.
- Instill Doubt is the singularly most useless and dangerous (to us,
that is) skill in our arsenal and I haven't bothered to skill it up a
single point since acquiring it at level 29 (which is where I was
when the patch went in which supports it), so I can't really speak on
that one.

While my current rate of progress is annoying, it doesn't
really bother me. However, I'm becoming rather concerned about my
Defense and Flying Kick. I don't think I've capped them, but the
rate of progress is disturbingly slow. I really don't want to
out-level my skills and thereby be rendered useless in a group of
like-leveled people (as so many power-levelers have found). Does
anybody else have anything to say about this situation?

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Aaron Braunstein
Pacific Data Management, Inc.

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