Has Begging skillup changed?
 

I've been begging from mobs now for a week with not a single success or skill up. I have a macro that turns off auto attack, begs then turns attack back on, and used to train begging with it.

Not that begging matters but why haven't I had a single success or skillup since I started playing again?

I've never had much success raising beg on mobs. Also, what is your beg skill at? I'm at 114, and often it seems to take 60-100 begs for the skill to raise.

It's at 36, but I gained that 36 in the early levels. I've gained six levels now without any begging successes or skillups.

I searched through multiple pages of results and found this in a thread about training begging:

but search results for "begging" in the News & Announcements forum show nothing about begging being changed.

I'm just wondering if I'm wasting my time spamming this Beg+Attack macro. It used to work.

Begging works when you have aggro, it's how I got my begging maxed out back in the day. I had a bard friend keep aggro with slow/snare spell and I'd just sit there and beg. It may be aggro towards you BUT I would spend hours clicking beg every time it popped and for all of you who have begged a lot know that you get aggro from it soon enough.

There is truth in that you can only beg from humanoids. Some mobs are weird though and counted as humanoids. I remember being able to pick pocket from snakes but not lions/wolfs/constructs. Some undead could as well, was hit and miss if the undead let you or not. I don't have a complete list by any means although I did have it written down once upon a time.

Basically if you couldn't pickpocket form it then you couldn't beg from it. Pretty sure they follow the same rules.

It's always been wonky on this server compared to Live. I used NFP guards on Live with great success. Took way longer on P99 to skill-up.

I spent an hour today begging from my wolf pet without a single skill up. No wonder. Haha. Overseer of air is beggable... if any were curious.

Efreeti is as well. When your begging skill is <100 you can use sneak + begging to single pull efreeti out of his room, it takes a few tries but works. Used to love that trick on my druid, lol.

Ive only gotten to 37 myself. I dunno, Id rather level up languages than this skill.

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