Game Mechanics: Swimming wasn't level capped in the classic era.

[Uradamus]

Just as the title says. Swimming was treated just like all the other general skills (sense heading, alcohol tolerance, fishing and begging) back during the classic through Velious era at the minimum. It wasn't until a later expansion that swimming was changed to be level capped to 5 * level + 5.

I can't remember exactly when the change was made, but I think it might of been around PoP, LoY or even later. There is a allakazam thread about swimming that dates back to early 2002 for the earliest comments. Here is at least one example of someone talking about their level 32 Iksar being at level 200 swimming during the SoL era: http://everquest.allakhazam.com/db/s...02461951276332

I distinctly remember shortly after Velious came out I made an Iksar SK who started out with the racial 100 swimming and I spent as much time as possible in the canals any time I had to travel through Cabilis and had 200 swimming by the time he was 10-15. I also made a Barbarian Warrior around the same time, maybe earlier actually, and leveled up my swimming all the way to 200 over several sessions in the entrance pond to Halas by the time he was around 16-20.