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Practicing "non-combat-beneficial" skills seems slightly more annoying now. E.g. tiger claw. If I'm fighting a tough mob I'm going to do any number of things before tiger clawing. If I'm ranking on that mob with a group, most likely it will die before I get through the list of "combat-beneficial" things to do.

Now, I realize this could be the desired scenario, and that I need to suck it up and just "deal" with slower ranking in order to get my {insert non-combat-beneficial skill} perfected, but that's sometimes a hard pill for groupmates to swallow.