You have to understand that lowbie killing means squat really, so we're more talking about ranks 30+. At level 15 you can two round people with straight 75% across the boards, or you can die in two rounds with all 100's, for comparitive purposes you have to assume midrank or higher to really be able to judge things. At rank 30, if you're failing a dirt kicking on a necro, its probably because he's got 6 ranks on you or earthshield as opposed to you having dirt kick at 90 instead of 100. I think the immortal's main point isn't that having a 100% in something is better than having 90%, I think their point is that all in all considered your pk pattern isn't being controlled by your skill percentages but rather the massive amount of skill factor variables. I can have 100% in parry but if I wield an axe/whip/flail against a sanc'd paladin chances are they will kick my butt if not for the fact that I'll take more damage from their two hits a round then they will take from my 4 hits a round.

Its like this, if you knew swiftness would aid you dodge lets say 10% better, would you spend 5 hours getting swiftness potions or would you simply find other ways to reduce the amount of damage you're taking? Some of us take the five hours of practicing and instead pump it into 5 hours of figuring out better ways that will work with every character we have instead of just the one we're on at the moment.