I have noticed that a lot of people sit in the mists spamming their skills. Most often this os a duergar, occasionally a fire giant and rarely something else. Usually the duergar/fire giant is the same guy.

I don't get this though. I can master or near master my defenses by the time I am 15 to 20 with nearly any race. Same goes for weapons. By the time I am 30th rank I have mastered or nearly mastered my weapons.

By the time I am 40th I have mastered or nearly mastered the minor skills associated with weapons and all or nearly all of my specs.

I do this with low int races and I do this in groups of 3.

There is litterally no reason for me to waste time skill grinding with anything other than an Invoker. Perhaps here and there I pause for like 15 minutes to boost Wilderness Familiarity to 100 percent as soon as I get it, or if sub 15 I will spam parry, dodge, shield block to 80%. But that is it.

I have taught a few people in the game how to do this but it still seems rampant.

Do you do it because you don't know how or because you just like the grind. (Some folks do).