Weapon Experience on 12/21/2012 01:17 PM CST
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I have two weapons at the same rank. I'm fighting fire sprites in Skeleton's Crook in plat. Twohanded Edged is teaching, Light Thrown is not.

Twohanded Edged: 103 53% dabbling (1/34) Melee Mastery: 127 03% dabbling (1/34)
Light Thrown: 103 41% clear (0/34) Missile Mastery: 94 10% clear (0/34)

This is only attacking the fire sprites, not the maidens or firecats. No misses with either weapon, all hits. Should melee and ranged stop teaching at different ranks?
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Re: Weapon Experience on 12/21/2012 01:52 PM CST
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>>Should melee and ranged stop teaching at different ranks?

Yes, melee contests all defenses where ranged does not.
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Re: Weapon Experience on 12/21/2012 03:39 PM CST
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That's weird. I've never noticed a difference between the ranges of teaching for ranged vs melee weapons, or heard of that rationale. If that were the case, DFA spells, and backstab, should cap lower too. That would be lame.
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Re: Weapon Experience on 12/21/2012 04:10 PM CST
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Hmm.

I noticed earlier that I wasn't able to train ranged weapons with the same ranks, on the same critters.

In Prime, I train ranged (all ranged weapons) in brocket deer. I can lock fairly consistently on the mid-tier deer, with an average of 120 ranks. I can also train reasonably well (albeit with many more whiffs) in upper-tier deer.
In Test, I wasn't able to move any of my ranged weapons off clear, in either the mid-tier and upper-tier deer.

I thought maybe it had to do with deer not having a weapon to parry with, a shield to block with, ranged only contesting evasion... but I really hope that isn't the case. I will test with melee weapons soon.

GENT
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Re: Weapon Experience on 01/03/2013 12:03 AM CST
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Deer are pretty badly broken in Test. Known issue, been meaning to fix it for a while, but deer defenses are busted.

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