Game Mechanics: Swim Skill

[Grevan]

I am also having issues with swim skill not increasing. I'm lvl 29 and my skill is stuck at 80. I have tried swimming in circles, strafing, walking on ice, as well as swimming along the top and bottom of multiple bodies of water.

[baalzy]

swimming in circles is not working. Is it something that could only be affecting certain characters? It's very annoying being stuck at 31 swim skill on a lvl 30 character (im a gnome necro).

[Uthgaard]

Yes, it is possible that something broke it. We'll check it out.

[Goryani]

Originally Posted by Uthgaard [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

You don't get skillups while swimming in a straight line. If you're just out for skillups, swim in circles.

Couple of questions:
1. Is the quoted passage the intended P1999 behavior or a statement of current behavior?

2. Is this a recent change? I remember swimming the length of West Karana river at low levels to gain skillups on P1999. The West Karana swimming worked a couple of weeks ago but did not appear to work as of last Thursday/Friday. The methodology was the same in both cases: Aim yourself in a direction that will keep you in the river a long while and hit autorun. Caveat: Swimming against a zone line, not parallel to it, could produce behavior that looks like strafe swimming to the server, and could be the cause of the skillups.

3. Swimming against a corner (example: butcherblock docks) also produced skillups on P1999 as recently as a few weeks ago. Does this behavior count as swimming in a straight line?

[Uthgaard]

What I stated is how swimming skill has worked here for the past 9 months or so.

[NZV]

It does seem broken since recently. I quickly maxed out my druid's swim skill by taping down my 'turn left' key while autorunning under the freeport caster guild a few weeks ago, causing me to swim in circles. Tried doing that with my rogue for half an hour today and it didn't raise at all. Skill is still at level 2, which is what I trained it to on a trainer awhile back. I also spent about 2 character levels fighting crocs at oasis while swimming around in random strafing/turning patterns between pulls and it didn't increase one bit.

That is a lot of swimming for it to not go from 2->3. Something definitely seems wrong.

[bvzpaco]

Just to add my experience.
Lvl 50 - actual swim skill 71 (about 50 gained by swimming).

Just spent 40 mins in Dagnors Cauldron, swimming in any way and any direction while waiting for friends.
Zoned in KK. gone to phinny, came back, checked a couple of rooms, about 25 more mins.

Zero points gain.

[Kvappe]

Yes this is broken, have 3 chars with 200 skill, and cant gain a single point on my wizard now after the resent patches.

[etplante]

Same experience, it seems broken recently. I've been swimming around OOT lately. I'm lvl 39 with about 70 skill in swimming. Haven't gotten a skill up in more than a week. Prior to that it was going up pretty regularly.

[guineapig]

Originally Posted by Uthgaard [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Yes, it is possible that something broke it. We'll check it out.

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