Melee vs Priest/Caster skillups?

[Striph]

Play 2 chars, a 65 cleric, and a 65 rogue, my cleric is a dwarf, and with self buffs + kei he has 180str, 180dex, 300wis, I've gotten all his tradeskills to about 185-190, nothing was extremely hard except for tailoring, was about 10-20 combines per skill up. Now I tried working on some tradeskills lastnight with my rogue, has 305str/305dex/100wis/int, and tried my hand at baking, from 1 to 100 skill took me over 2200 combines (doing fillet method, meat + knife), I went back through my logs and my cleric only took about 1500 combines of patty melts to get from 1 to 191 skill. Also on Jewelcrafting it took me 1900pp with max cha/selling back to get 192 JC on my cleric, now my rogue I spent well over 3000pp and just barely got to 100 JC.

What I'm wondering is if melee has a disadvantage to skilling up, if i recall it was wis/int or str whichever was higher would be the skillup stat? Or am I incorrect? I saw the faq that listed smithing as str/wis/int, one using dex, and the rest using int/wis? Gonna test it tonight on my 60 warrior, try to get him max wis, bring him up to 250 with gear and test out some combines, maybe put my mind to ease.

Was just curious if anyone had already experimented with this and came to the same conclusion.


Striph

Wis/Int is all that matters for everything except Smithing.

In smithing it is wis/int/str whichever is higher.

If I read that correctly you didn't mention your Rogues wis/int.

Anyhow, with under 100 int/wis my Monk doesn't skill up... hehe, not without a whole heck of a lot of combines.

My Wizard, who is at 255 mainly when skilling up, does so very very quickly in comparison.

Edit: Completely missed that you said your rogue has 100 int/wis... you're looking at a whole heck of a lot of combines to get anywhere except in smithing.

[Lilosh]

Re: Melee vs Priest/Caster skillups?

Now I tried working on some tradeskills lastnight with my rogue, has 305str/305dex/100wis/int

I have highlighted your problem.


Merry christmas.

-Lilosh

[Striph]

Ya smithing was cake up to 200, far less combines than it took to get my cleric up, bought a set of wis gear, took my rogue up to 250wis, got kei, and my skillups are back on par with my cleric.