Swimming skill

[vorpal_raddish]

I got mine up to max in about an hour and a half a couple months ago by manually holding down forward+left in North Ro.

Didn't ever get a single skill up when I tried to num lock it.

[Lifebar]

I haven't seen this mentioned, but are you level 40+? Swimming skill caps out at something like (level * 5).

What I have always done on P99 is to autorun while swimming with the left ot ight arrow key held sown so I swim in tight circles. I think the key is to be doing something other than looking right at the screen--it is agonizingly slow.

[Feanol]

It's been mentioned already but I wanted to rephrase it as clearly as possible:

Swimming will not skill up by just pressing auto-run against a wall while in water.

The chances of a skill-up are dependent on the character changing position in the zone (/loc ). There are all sorts of clever ways to have your character jostle about while afk.

I think the Timorus Deep firepots are a good way to both help and encourage players to raise their swimming. It's never wasted time going there because of the obvious time-saving potential of the firepots, and the length of the swim will quickly get you to (200) after only a few trips.

Also, I've found my characters with higher intelligence seem to increase swim skill faster and more often.

[Sorn]

Did the auto-circle trick in Felwithe this morning to see how fast it went up, just out of curiosity. At 135 WIS and 126 swimming, it took a few hours but it wasn't as bad as the last time I attempted to skill up. Here are my timestamps:

[Sat Oct 17 08:57:42 2015] You have become better at Swimming! (127)
[Sat Oct 17 08:59:25 2015] You have become better at Swimming! (128)
[Sat Oct 17 09:01:06 2015] You have become better at Swimming! (129)
[Sat Oct 17 09:01:37 2015] You have become better at Swimming! (130)
[Sat Oct 17 09:02:13 2015] You have become better at Swimming! (131)
[Sat Oct 17 09:06:09 2015] You have become better at Swimming! (132)
[Sat Oct 17 09:11:26 2015] You have become better at Swimming! (133)
[Sat Oct 17 09:11:35 2015] You have become better at Swimming! (134)
[Sat Oct 17 09:12:06 2015] You have become better at Swimming! (135)
[Sat Oct 17 09:15:46 2015] You have become better at Swimming! (136)
[Sat Oct 17 09:17:04 2015] You have become better at Swimming! (137)
[Sat Oct 17 09:19:30 2015] You have become better at Swimming! (138)
[Sat Oct 17 09:19:37 2015] You have become better at Swimming! (139)
[Sat Oct 17 09:19:41 2015] You have become better at Swimming! (140)
[Sat Oct 17 09:20:05 2015] You have become better at Swimming! (141)
[Sat Oct 17 09:21:27 2015] You have become better at Swimming! (142)
[Sat Oct 17 09:22:14 2015] You have become better at Swimming! (143)
[Sat Oct 17 09:24:29 2015] You have become better at Swimming! (144)
[Sat Oct 17 09:25:26 2015] You have become better at Swimming! (145)
[Sat Oct 17 09:25:52 2015] You have become better at Swimming! (146)
[Sat Oct 17 09:27:28 2015] You have become better at Swimming! (147)
[Sat Oct 17 09:28:44 2015] You have become better at Swimming! (148)
[Sat Oct 17 09:31:14 2015] You have become better at Swimming! (149)
[Sat Oct 17 09:31:17 2015] You have become better at Swimming! (150)
[Sat Oct 17 09:33:20 2015] You have become better at Swimming! (151)
[Sat Oct 17 09:34:22 2015] You have become better at Swimming! (152)
[Sat Oct 17 09:35:51 2015] You have become better at Swimming! (153)
[Sat Oct 17 09:39:01 2015] You have become better at Swimming! (154)
[Sat Oct 17 09:40:22 2015] You have become better at Swimming! (155)
[Sat Oct 17 09:41:38 2015] You have become better at Swimming! (156)
[Sat Oct 17 09:44:54 2015] You have become better at Swimming! (157)
[Sat Oct 17 09:48:37 2015] You have become better at Swimming! (158)
[Sat Oct 17 09:48:49 2015] You have become better at Swimming! (159)
[Sat Oct 17 09:52:09 2015] You have become better at Swimming! (160)
[Sat Oct 17 09:52:29 2015] You have become better at Swimming! (161)
[Sat Oct 17 09:55:21 2015] You have become better at Swimming! (162)
[Sat Oct 17 09:58:28 2015] You have become better at Swimming! (163)
[Sat Oct 17 09:58:43 2015] You have become better at Swimming! (164)
[Sat Oct 17 10:03:23 2015] You have become better at Swimming! (165)
[Sat Oct 17 10:03:35 2015] You have become better at Swimming! (166)
[Sat Oct 17 10:06:15 2015] You have become better at Swimming! (167)
[Sat Oct 17 10:07:48 2015] You have become better at Swimming! (168)
[Sat Oct 17 10:09:21 2015] You have become better at Swimming! (169)
[Sat Oct 17 10:13:07 2015] You have become better at Swimming! (170)
[Sat Oct 17 10:14:11 2015] You have become better at Swimming! (171)
[Sat Oct 17 10:14:49 2015] You have become better at Swimming! (172)
[Sat Oct 17 10:15:39 2015] You have become better at Swimming! (173)
[Sat Oct 17 10:16:31 2015] You have become better at Swimming! (174)
[Sat Oct 17 10:16:38 2015] You have become better at Swimming! (175)
[Sat Oct 17 10:17:51 2015] You have become better at Swimming! (176)
[Sat Oct 17 10:19:28 2015] You have become better at Swimming! (177)
[Sat Oct 17 10:21:13 2015] You have become better at Swimming! (178)
[Sat Oct 17 10:24:10 2015] You have become better at Swimming! (179)
[Sat Oct 17 10:26:02 2015] You have become better at Swimming! (180)
[Sat Oct 17 10:26:08 2015] You have become better at Swimming! (181)
[Sat Oct 17 10:26:42 2015] You have become better at Swimming! (182)
[Sat Oct 17 10:29:40 2015] You have become better at Swimming! (183)
[Sat Oct 17 10:36:52 2015] You have become better at Swimming! (184)
[Sat Oct 17 10:39:27 2015] You have become better at Swimming! (185)
[Sat Oct 17 10:45:21 2015] You have become better at Swimming! (186)
[Sat Oct 17 10:45:52 2015] You have become better at Swimming! (187)
[Sat Oct 17 10:46:06 2015] You have become better at Swimming! (188)
[Sat Oct 17 10:47:22 2015] You have become better at Swimming! (189)
[Sat Oct 17 10:49:26 2015] You have become better at Swimming! (190)
[Sat Oct 17 10:50:47 2015] You have become better at Swimming! (191)
[Sat Oct 17 10:53:22 2015] You have become better at Swimming! (192)
[Sat Oct 17 10:58:44 2015] You have become better at Swimming! (193)
[Sat Oct 17 11:02:57 2015] You have become better at Swimming! (194)
[Sat Oct 17 11:03:09 2015] You have become better at Swimming! (195)
[Sat Oct 17 11:05:54 2015] You have become better at Swimming! (196)
[Sat Oct 17 11:09:54 2015] You have become better at Swimming! (197)
[Sat Oct 17 11:10:36 2015] You have become better at Swimming! (198)
[Sat Oct 17 11:14:11 2015] You have become better at Swimming! (199)
[Sat Oct 17 11:14:24 2015] You have become better at Swimming! (200)

I tried using levitate first, but it was hard to keep my feet in the water and with Scale of Wolf I went ridiculously fast for no reason since I wasn't going anywhere.

[Verath]

Can confirm that swimming skill is time consuming to skillup. Usually 5-6 hours for 1-200.

On live 1-400 took 18!!!! Hours.

[Trajor]

Another place to skill up swimming is in Innothule Swamp. Try the northeast corner. Just run in a circle in the shallow part for a few hours.

[Gumbo]

Go classic and swim in a circle in East Freeport, down by the docks...

[KylonOrina]

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

Run around in circles in innothule swamp shallow waters.

Yes, "run". Not swim.

Oh god this works like gangbusters.
Skill is going up like there's no tomorrow.

[Crawdad]

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

It's been mentioned already but I wanted to rephrase it as clearly as possible:

Swimming will not skill up by just pressing auto-run against a wall while in water.

The chances of a skill-up are dependent on the character changing position in the zone (/loc ). There are all sorts of clever ways to have your character jostle about while afk.

http://imgur.com/a/JBF6h

Forgive the crappy screenshots. Just wanted to give some proof that swimming, at least against some walls, still works. If it is based off of your /loc changing, it doesn't need to change very much.