Tactics Gains slower than OSI

[Faust]

I GM'ed many combat skills at the bk room, and it definitely didn't take one day. If you played non-stop in one full day you could possibly pull two days minimum. On a realistic time frame it was at least a few days minimum if not longer.

[Featheon]

I concur that the weapons skills seem to be gaining too quickly; gaining 0.2 for a single strike about 50% is not something I recall from OSI.

[Flash Hardstar]

I GM'ed many combat skills at the bk room, and it definitely didn't take one day. If you played non-stop in one full day you could possibly pull two days minimum. On a realistic time frame it was at least a few days minimum if not longer.

Sorry Faust, this one I can argue yo uon. Took less than a day to gm both tactics and swords.. Can't tell you how many I did it on. I remember getting up in the morning, skipping school, going to the bk's with "the wall" and gm'ing by night. I did this to make accounts I sold worth more =/

[Faust]

I will get a character to 100 dex and test this on the demo with something with a relatively same skill level as a bone or skeletal knight. I'll see how fast the skill level goes up on there in regard to this. Grant it that skill will raise much quicker based on the pre-t2a "watch and learn" game mechanic, but I'm pretty confident that it will not GM in one day even with this feature. We shall see though. I have other testing to do on there anyways when I get home.

[Flash Hardstar]

Yeah I called my cousin who was a champ at doing the bone knight wall, he said yes he used to finish in less than a day cause I wanted to make sure myself... Make sure you're continuously attacking a bone knight for the entire time.. Anyhow I'm 110% positive on this, just did it way too often.

[Bean]

This is the first report I've heard of people not GMing Tactics first. You have a chance to gain tactics every time you do damage, and it's not difficulty based like the weapons skills are.

Has anyone else experienced this?

I have. Swords is at ~96 and tactics was 72 until I started building wrestling with a friend; got wrestling from ~25 to 50 and tactics is now ~91

I distinctly remember getting GM tactics WAY before GM swords on T2A.

[Bean]

Slade has got it right

No he doesn't, I'm afraid. I haven't macroed swords for even a second; its all from monster-killing. I had ~96 swords and ~72 tactics until I started building wrestling

The problem is that Weapon gains come too easily, not that tactics is too slow. It definitely took me more than 2 days to have gm weapon skill on OSI!!!

Bingo. It took me well over a week of steady play (~4 hours per day) to get even 95 swords.

[Slade]

Slade has got it right

No he doesn't, I'm afraid. I haven't macroed swords for even a second; its all from monster-killing. I had ~96 swords and ~72 tactics until I started building wrestling

Did you read the post? If you want tactics to go up quickly, you need to take your 96 swordsmanship and beat on someone with 0.

[Bean]

Slade has got it right

No he doesn't, I'm afraid. I haven't macroed swords for even a second; its all from monster-killing. I had ~96 swords and ~72 tactics until I started building wrestling

Did you read the post? If you want tactics to go up quickly, you need to take your 96 swordsmanship and beat on someone with 0.

I read it.... I mis-read it, but I read it