I've made my first warrior since the practicing system was changed, and I noticed how much harder practicing in general had become.
Yes, I understand in theory that this is supposed to eliminate spamming and make people practice while ranking, but I've solo ranked/practiced from 11~18.

It took me 15 hours of pure ranking/practicing time, my defenses just hit the 90s, and my weapons are slightly less than half done. I knew the system had changed so I picked the optimal practicing combo I could think of, a high int warrior with great defenses. Under the old system I could have mastered defenses, every weapon and lag skill up to 15 in about 10. Even with a fire giant I did it in about 15+.

I've tried practicing on things that conned razor to things that conned easy kills, running all over the map to fight this mob and that. I've been to about 10~20 places but at least so far I haven't found a place where I could rank/practice more efficiently then I could before the changes. And I know it'll only get worse more I rank.

I did have good moments here and there, learning 6% off of 2 mistakes fighting the same razor mob, also seeing 2 weapon/1 defense improvement, but those moments were far and few in between, and I had my share of those kind of 'moments' practicing on easy kill 15xp mobs back before the changes too.

Of course... yes.. I can just forget about practicing and rank, but with a warrior the difference between a 90% sword/parry and a 100% is quite significant(berserk), and I've already died twice because dirt didn't work due to it being at 73% as opposed to a %100. I'm just one of those people who like having their stuff work for them when it matters.

And I'd rather not frustrate groupmates by tripping/bashing or trying to use axes while I'm tanking to practice. (And from what I saw practicing on razors, even hooded mobs, you still don't learn fast enough to justify doing that. I practiced for about 200 rounds on a hooded mob spending most of my time sleeping, learned weapons once in that time. Mastering axes/maces is important, but no one is going to have the patience to watch you try to master it if you need to be the one tanking. (Me, I'd just kill whatever groupmate trying to do that and find someone else.)

I wanted to ask people who've played fighting classes since the changes, does it get better? Does "no spamming, practice while you rank" work as well in action as it does in theory? Has anyone not practiced at all and just did it while ranking and still managed to end up with near perfect mastery on weapons/defenses within a reasonable timeframe? (lets say 35~40.)

Or is there just 'that one certain' mob in 'a certain' area you have to go to at 'a certain rank' to make it work? The same way you did before?



Any help at all would be greatly appreciated.