Harthina wrote:
Any non-triggered combat skill can only be raised on blue cons or better...not sure about the triggered ones like disarm, because they go up so slowly anyway, and greens die so quick.
As far as skill cap levels...In general it's your characters level times 5, + 5. So...if you're level 18, then skill cap is 18*5=90, + 5, = 95. There are some skills that cap off at character level 50, at something lower than what could be gotten with that formula....kick I think is one of them, at something like 192 or something weird like that. If I can find the link for hard caps I'll post it.
As a ranger, I think one could make a hotbutton to do all the combat abilities which generally reset together: kick, disarm, and any others (I don't recall if rangers get taunt or anything else). Instead of pressing "kick" every 5 seconds (or however long it is) you push your hotbutton and it tries them all. Disarm will only go up if the mob has a weapon. You used to be able to *give* a mob a weapon, but I think they nerfed it.
I think there are weapons which you cannot actually remove from the mob because they are no-drop. The spiders in the Dreadlands have some kind of fang or stinger like this. I think you can still get skillups off them though. Thus one could work it like this:
Find such a mob, lower level the better. Get its attention, you're a ranger poke it with an arrow. Now turn your back on it (otherwise it will eventually die via riposte) and mash the "disarm" key every time it pops.
The key would be finding a really low level mob with a no-drop weapon, and I just can't think of any. Any advice here?
Lastly, I have not tried this, but I used something similar to get pickpockets up.
But now, newbie zones are flooded with Mobs - just find ones with weapons (perhaps you could try Everfrost) and run around disarming them. Sure it'll **** them off and you'll have to kill 'em, so don't annoy the low level people who need to kill them for actual experience points.
For pre- and post-level 50 skill caps, I think there is a page for that over at castersrealm, which you can find via google or something.