>This might suck for some skills. Disarm, etc. One would
>never know when to stop practicing a particular skill, even in
>the context of ranking. Suppose all my practicable skills are
>in the top category and I have to decide whether to trip or
>bash.

I think the Imms want to remove 'practicing' from the game, for the most part. You use the skills that best fit the fight at hand and your particular character's fighting style, and don't worry about the %. If your character tends to disarm when ranking and fighting, then, with time, his disarm skill will be better than someone that doesn't. You're not doing it to become better at it, you're doing it because that's what you do and it defines your character. If when fighting people you bash a lot, then your bash will be higher than someone just like you that doesn't bash a lot. Think of it as increased individuality. Only people that regularly use all their skills and spells over a long period of time will become better at all of them. True veterans.

The few places where you need to practice for a specific % before you gain a new skill (assassins, invokers, paladins) we already have echoes when you reach it, so you know you don't need to practice anymore. At least I think paladins do. Been too long since I've played one.

I'd lean against an echo for warriors. Rather than only wielding that polearm because you want to specialize, whip out your polearm sometimes because that's how your character likes to fight. If you can't specialize, tough luck you polearm-pretender.

If a cabal ever comes around like old Masters, these members could be given a way of telling what is at 100%. Perhaps their inner cabal guy could have a way of informing them. Other cabals can forget about how many 100% a character has and focus more on RP and actual skill (if that is something that interests them). In the meantime, wouldn't it be cool (read: exciting and risky) if more mages didn't have 100% word of recall?


Hutto, the Sleepy Nitpicker