In the past it has been told to me that never carry your burden into combat it will get you killed. I decided to try a little something. Laeorna, the love of my life, was haveing a hard time training her leather skill in bloodwolves. It was moving rather slow. So I gave her my bundle of snow goblin hides. It was a full bundle and her burden was crazy, but within minutes it locked. Now I would say normaly maybe its my imagination, but she danced with the wolves for 20 minutes with only a slight change. After 3 minutes of heavy burden training, it locked nicely. Maybe this is no secret but I thought I would share my discovery. It was facinating to me.

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Mark Twain

<<Probably because you guys were getting hit (Harmless, grazing). Train shield, and you'll not need to endanger yourself that way.>>

There are two efficient ways to train an armor: get hit while wearing it, or use a shield. The first one is obviously dangerous. As to the second...

When you block an attack with a shield, you get experience both in shield usage and in whatever armors you happen to be wearing. I can sit for three minutes with a shield out against a creature at-level and lock both shield and leather, even though I was not being hit at all.

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Marksman Ahmir Nam'al

"Is glas iad na cnoic i bhfad uainn."
-Distant hills look green.

>>When you block an attack with a shield, you get experience both in shield usage and in whatever armors you happen to be wearing.

This also applies to parrying. Blocking and parrying both teach armor way better than evading, which is why I hardly ever use SOP any more.

Illauron

>If I'm not mistaken, the order of armor learning is evade, parry, block, and get whacked.

Depending on effective stance, parry and shield can swap I believe.

-Vision et al

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