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<b>Message ID:</b> 1279 <br/>
<b>Date:</b> Thu May 13 20:32:45 BST 1999 <br/>
<b>Author:</b> zdogg@xxx.xxx <br/>
<b>Subject:</b> Languages & Skills <br/>
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<div id="ygrps-yiv-565701026">I am posting this to both newsletters because I have seen this question pop up 
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on both.  The first issue I will discuss is Languages.
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As far as I have ever seen, I have never bot a skill raised from speaking the 
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native tounge to an NPC.  I have found that no matter what language I &#92;&#39;hail&#92;&#39; 
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them in they always respond in Common.  I think this because I understand 
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everything that they say, if it was a language that I am awful in wouldn&#92;&#39;t I<br/>
not 
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understand??  Also wouldn&#92;&#39;t this become an exploit?? Imaging all of us wizards 
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in the store by the bank in Felwithe, just saying &#92;&#39;Hail&#92;&#39; over and over again 
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in say Elder Elvish, to get the NPC to spam us.  Would drive everyone nuts, and 
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probably crash the zone.  So I am unsure as to if listening to an NPC would 
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really work.  Also has anyone actually seen the &#92;&#39;your language skill increase&#92;&#39;<br/>

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after spaming the NPC and the whole zone for that matter.  I am very good at 
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languages and have in my time learned Old Erudian, Elder Elvish, Elvish, Tier 
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Dal, Barbarian, Halfling, Dwarvish, and Gnoll.  Never once have I got a increase<br/>

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from a NPC.  Please clarify this issue for me please, would love to learn more 
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and faster of course.
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Now there seems to be some questions here on the skills of melee.  I don&#92;&#39;t 
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claim to know the calculations, but I know how to max them all.  I started with 
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the dagger of course, got it up to 22 or so, then got my hand to hand up to 
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about 18 for the heck of it.  I then got staffs, first a one handed that is up 
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to about 25 or so, this was my travel, backup weapon which was lost when a 
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skeleton took a dislike to me in lesserfaydarke (was bound to qeynos) Now my 
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main stay weapon is a 2h staff.  I have that skill up to about 38 right now.  I 
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got a giant snake fang the other day fighting in Paw.  Before that I had decided<br/>

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to increase my piercing and had a summonded dagger.  It took well over 45min and<br/>

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aobut 300 melee swings of the peircing weapon before I saw a single advancement,<br/>

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then it flew up to 31 or so.  For ahwile I though maybe it was never going to 
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raise but my perseverance paid off and it did, so I am going to try and max my 
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pierce, find a 1h blunt and max that.  Then go back to my favorite 2h staff.  So<br/>

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all it takes for you skills is patience.  Yes if you haven&#92;&#39;t used it in a great<br/>

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time it takes alot of use before you start to see skill in it again, kind of 
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like skiing or biking, hehe.
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May our Paths Cross
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Zakrul The Traveler
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Companion
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Wizard<br/>
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