Game Mechanics: Intimidate skill up

[Pyrocat]

I haven't been getting intimidate skill ups at all. On live you could target a corpse or a mob or a PC and just spam intimidate as you ran across the zone, and the skill would go up. I remember being very happy when I finally got my skill to 200 on live by doing this. I'm not having any such luck on this server. The only time I even get a message is when I'm within melee range of a NPC while using the skill.

If within melee range is the only time the skill goes up, no one will ever use this skill, as it procs fear when it finishes. Randomly fearing a mob is a quick way to get your party wiped or kicked out of a group. Please make sure you can skill up in Intimidate without being in melee range.