I don't think a max forage skill of 40 is any problem. I am 37 at the
moment, but once I reached 30 I was foraging more than I could eat. I'm
human, so foraging wasn't an innate skill either. As someone else
mentioned, I simply set it up as a hotkey and hit it whenever I could. If I
could just forage water a little more often, I would be completely
self-sufficient!

Elegor Mandreskal of The Soerbaird

>Subject: Skill caps?
>
>I recently noticed that despite getting the foraging skill at 12th level it
>has never increased. I was then informed that many of our skills have caps
>on them of 40 or so. What's the deal with this? I really don't like the
>idea of skill caps, especially on a simple self preservation skill like
>foraging. You already can't sell what you forage so why put a cap on it?
>Does anyone know any more on this and what the possible reasoning behind
>them could be? What are bards just too stupid to learn these things really
>well? Its not bad enough we all get the useless skill of brass instruments
>at 12th level, which cannot be used till 18th. Now Wood Elves get no new
>skill at 12th since forage is already maxed and hide is already at the
>supposed cap as well. Does that mean the xp penalty we take for being able
>to start with those skills will go away once we actually have them? I
>think
>not. I'm usually not big on ranting, but this has me really steamed. What
>good is it to get a skill at 25th level that caps at a point where it will
>only work on things 10+ levels below you?
>
>J.M. Any thoughts on this one? Please tell me this will change at some
>point.
>
>Kitasi the bewildered