>My first two characters on the
>mud got tattoos. I had
>Shokai's tattoo and Twist's tattoo.
>They were in cabals, and
>I explored like a maniac.
>90% of my knowledge of
>Thera comes from those two
>original characters.

My experience was very similar. My first three characters were tattooed and cabaled. I never practiced any of my skills/spells/songs. I just never viewed it as being fun, and since none of my characters at that time or since have been "power rankers", I found my skill/supps/spell levels to be at competitve levels. I play(ed) the game for the roleplay and the immteraction.


> I never ONCE
>practiced skills to perfection with
>any character, save for my
>master and Twist made me
>do it! Trewyn had a
>role reason to perfect all
>of his weapons, but that
>was it.

The only character of mine that did any amount of practicing was Saerin. With Saerin, I had to. (Nepenthe made me do it!) Actually, Saerin was a carry over from the old invokers to the new invokers. I had to either practice or delete. There were a few times I had delete typed in once.

I find that I don't have the patience, the inclination and more importantly the time to practice.

>The rest I
>just got to a "reasonable
>level of reliability". I remember
>looking over my skill list
>of a storm giant axe
>spec and noticed that dodge
>was at 96 when I
>was rank 46. I still
>could kill people. I never
>once understood the practicing trap.

I played a storm warrior who never practiced a damn thing, and the skill levels never were a problem. They went up as a normal part of leveling/exploring.


>Sure there are certain skills
>that MUST be perfected. Those
>being skills like sing and
>the invoker spells. Shapeshift is
>HANDY if you get it
>perfected, but I wouldn't spam
>it for the life of
>me. I tend to do
>a lot of solo exploration
>when the competition's hot for
>me, so I get my
>practice in there. When my
>range looks sick, look for
>me in the most obscure
>places.

hmmmmmmmm. I'm very much the same way... and it makes me wonder.

>Trewyn