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<b>Message ID:</b> 1644 <br/>
<b>Date:</b> Fri May 21 23:58:21 BST 1999 <br/>
<b>Author:</b> Iggie/Alyssandra/Jane Pierson <br/>
<b>Subject:</b> Improving Weapon Skills <br/>
<br/><br/>
<div id="ygrps-yiv-896887274">On May 21 Rich Mulawa wrote:<br/>
<br/>
<blockquote><span title="ireply"> &gt;&gt; I<br/>
 </span></blockquote>did this with one group of 3 crits for over an hour and got absolutely 0<br/>
increase in bare hand skill (still at 10 or 11)!  <br/>
<br/>
What is going on am I to start on /con blue creatures at level 9.  If so<br/>
and had I known (ie if the manual had any value at all) I would have been<br/>
training 1H skills much early when the creatures could not kill me in 2 or<br/>
3 blows!<br/>
<br/>
Can anyone confirm this and/or give suggestions on how at this point (9th)<br/>
I can improve my 1H fighting skills?&lt;&lt;<br/>
<br/>
I had been doing the same thing until recently.  After reading the <br/>
recommendations on this list, I picked up a cracked staff and got a Snake <br/>
Fang out of mothballs...err...the bank where it had been gathering dust.  I went <br/>
to the Goblin Warrior camp in butcherblock with my level 9 hunting partner (I <br/>
was level 10 at the time) who, luckily for me, is a cleric.  I was able to bring 1h <br/>
blunt form 0 to max of 33 in 2 days of playing, then I did the same for my <br/>
piercing skill.. tho that was at 17 when I started so didn&#39;t take as long.  It&#39;s <br/>
definitely doable.<br/>
<br/>
Good luck. :)<br/>
<br/>
Iggie<br/>
Level 11 Gnome wizard<br/>
Cazic Thule</div>