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<b>Message ID:</b> 6093 <br/>
<b>Date:</b> Sun Sep  5 23:57:58 BST 1999 <br/>
<b>Author:</b> Mike McGovern <br/>
<b>Subject:</b> A little more H2H <br/>
<br/><br/>
<div id="ygrps-yiv-1406935546">Christopher Mills wrote:<br/>
<br/>
<blockquote><span title="ireply"> &gt; From: Christopher Mills &lt;<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="mailto:xopher@...">xopher@...</a>&gt;<br/>
&gt;<br/>
&gt; &gt; It may be one of those skills that doesn&#39;t go up<br/>
&gt; &gt; except upon success.  I spent a half hour running around with<br/>
&gt; &gt; a level 1 monk wondering why he was rarely hitting for more<br/>
&gt; &gt; than 1 point of damage when I finally got the &quot;You have become<br/>
&gt; &gt; better and hand to hand (1)&quot; message, after which it went up<br/>
&gt; &gt; pretty quickly.  (Doh - remember to train at least one point<br/>
&gt; &gt; in each weapon skill.  :-)<br/>
&gt;<br/>
&gt; I could believe this.  What I was suprised by was not so much that my HtH<br/>
&gt; skill wasn&#39;t increasing, but that none of the other combat skills were<br/>
&gt; either...  I suppose I could understand Dual Wield not going, since I had<br/>
&gt; my second hand occupied, but Offense?  I&#39;ll have to try it more.<br/>
<br/>
 </span></blockquote>Nope, you can &quot;dual wield&quot; fists, even with instruments equipped, I do it all the<br/>
time.  You were probably just suffering from EQs fine &quot;random&quot; number<br/>
generator, which seems to be anything but. :)  I also smithed for a long time, and<br/>
would get *long* successions of failures, (which I expected, this is smithing,<br/>
after all) followed by several successes in a row.  Very annoying...<br/>
<br/>
-Lohengrin</div>