I don't understand this war you have with people who want to practice. You keep stating it makes no difference. Fine, then stop making such a big deal out of it.

Uh. I'm not the one starting these threads. But if someone posts what I consider to be misinformation or only one side of an issue, it's part of the staff's responsibility to answer. Also:

1) I helped design a system that lets you have much better skills without stopping to practice.
2) I came up with affinity so a hero invoker isn't a 200 hour ordeal.
3) I helped push for free points after most rankings, lowered prerequisites for things like shapeshift/warriorspecs/etc, and other things that make a zero-practice character a lot easier.
4) I've put a number of items in the game which boost either learning rates or current skill.

No one "wants to practice". No one logs on and says "Wow! I can't wait to mash a skill repeatedly by myself for 2 hours today!" I think my record shows that I'm more than willing to try to spare people those days.

If you log on and feel like spamming, you're welcome to. No one comes down from the heavens and smites you. We're fine with that, but we don't want it to be the only way to efficiently increase skills, and we don't want it to be so effective that you're at a big disadvantage if you don't do it. I think the current system accomplishes these goals.

valguarnera@carrionfields.com