I got 50 points in 20 minutes at EE. You don't get swimming skillups if your /loc doesn't change. Swim in a circle not into a wall.

No AFK swimming was on live iirc. If not at launch, soon after.

To quote that Rolling Stones song, you gotta move

Why don't you just start all skills at 100? Doesn't sound like most people here want to actually play the game.

My experience is that swimming has always been slow, but like Sense Heading, it speeds up once you reach a certain level, like around 40. Those first few points are tough, but they are tough also with Sense Heading. It's just that Sense Heading is a skill that requires a key, while swimming requires interaction with the environment. AKA, playing the game. My swimming is level 50 or so. Just from swimming in and out of Halas.

You want a skill that is killer to level up? How about Alcohol tolerance. Where is the cool AFK/Hot Key/ uber-macro for that?

You can swim into a corner as long as it has you occasionally jumping out of the water. Not sure why that seems to matter, but it seems to have an effect.

Don't be a bitch.

Exploiting swim in a corner is classic.


I suspect the change/fix was that no movement means no skillups, so if you're hopping up it can still happen, but wedging right into a corner with an EB item going or something won't work.

I was swimming back and forth across West Karana. My loc was changing like 30,000 units per lap.

Hmm, makes me think there is another thing at play. I'm an ogre Shaman with corresponding stats and swam in Lower guk.

Possible different bodies of water (zone) or stats impact results? Maybe even weight?

Didn't swim originally use up Endurance? I seem to remember something like that.

you couldnt auto run level swimming in classic you would run out of endurance and drown after a few minutes at best

complete's swimming is maxed