Could the amount of experience granted to Weapon skills be reviewed?

My character is armor tert weapon second and despite alternating between shield and parry all defenses are over 40 ranks above my top 2 weapons, and a month ago they were only 30 ranks above.

I can only think of 2 possible issues to this:

1) The way exp scales with damage leave store-bought/looted equipment highly undesirable.

2) Weapon exp need a boost in multi situations in someway, invent justifications as needed.

The relatively poor weapon exp may or may not be a contributing factor to the severely horrid exp awarded to BACKSTAB such that I recently rolled up a new circle 1 thief with 5 ranks in teaching and 2 ranks in backstab and end up teaching my 80+ thief better than in combat who's still mindlocking hiding/stalking that are 110+ ranks above backstab.

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