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Out of curiosity, I wrote a little script that counted how many people have spec'ed each skill as a primary, secondary or tradeskill. Only characters who have at least one stat maxed out were counted (the reasoning being that new characters probably wouldn't know what skills they want yet.) Interpret this information however you want to...

Total characters: 1324
Total characters counted in this study: 878
<table border=1><tr><td>Skill</td><td>Primary</td><td>Secondary</td><td>Tradeskill</td></tr><tr><td>Alchemy</td><td>92</td><td>14</td><td>0</td></tr><tr><td>Anatomy</td><td>44</td><td>161</td><td>0</td></tr><tr><td>Animal Lore</td><td>83</td><td>35</td><td>0</td></tr><tr><td>Parry</td><td>148</td><td>234</td><td>0</td></tr><tr><td>Blacksmithy</td><td>45</td><td>4</td><td>109</td></tr><tr><td>Peacemake</td><td>5</td><td>5</td><td>0</td></tr><tr><td>Camping</td><td>5</td><td>51</td><td>0</td></tr><tr><td>Woodworking</td><td>14</td><td>18</td><td>56</td></tr><tr><td>Cartography</td><td>3</td><td>12</td><td>56</td></tr><tr><td>Cooking</td><td>16</td><td>7</td><td>64</td></tr><tr><td>Detect Hidden</td><td>2</td><td>15</td><td>0</td></tr><tr><td>Leadership</td><td>135</td><td>32</td><td>0</td></tr><tr><td>Invocation</td><td>151</td><td>157</td><td>0</td></tr><tr><td>Healing</td><td>33</td><td>337</td><td>0</td></tr><tr><td>Fishing</td><td>4</td><td>6</td><td>118</td></tr><tr><td>Hiding</td><td>16</td><td>30</td><td>0</td></tr><tr><td>Provocation</td><td>46</td><td>13</td><td>0</td></tr><tr><td>Inscription</td><td>23</td><td>11</td><td>125</td></tr><tr><td>Lockpicking</td><td>92</td><td>44</td><td>0</td></tr><tr><td>Magery</td><td>379</td><td>200</td><td>0</td></tr><tr><td>Magic Resist</td><td>104</td><td>513</td><td>0</td></tr>
<tr><td>Tactics</td><td>337</td><td>146</td><td>0</td></tr><tr><td>Musicianship</td><td>22</td><td>27</td><td>0</td></tr><tr><td>Poisoning</td><td>38</td><td>8</td><td>0</td></tr><tr><td>Archery</td><td>50</td><td>33</td><td>0</td></tr><tr><td>Necromancy</td><td>36</td><td>44</td><td>1</td></tr><tr><td>Stealing</td><td>6</td><td>2</td><td>0</td></tr><tr><td>Tailoring</td><td>13</td><td>8</td><td>103</td></tr><tr><td>Taming</td><td>111</td><td>22</td><td>0</td></tr><tr><td>Tinkering</td><td>30</td><td>8</td><td>112</td></tr><tr><td>Tracking</td><td>0</td><td>8</td><td>0</td></tr><tr><td>Swordsmanship</td><td>239</td><td>54</td><td>0</td></tr><tr><td>Macefighting</td><td>73</td><td>73</td><td>0</td></tr><tr><td>Fencing</td><td>85</td><td>32</td><td>0</td></tr><tr><td>Wrestling</td><td>2</td><td>3</td><td>0</td></tr><tr><td>Lumberjacking</td><td>29</td><td>20</td><td>46</td></tr><tr><td>Mining</td><td>47</td><td>11</td><td>86</td></tr><tr><td>Meditation</td><td>50</td><td>223</td><td>0</td></tr><tr><td>Stealth</td><td>29</td><td>14</td><td>0</td></tr></table>




P.S. I'm going to look into that person who somehow has necromancy as a tradeskill...

*edited to make it a bit easier to read

How funny, there are two people that have wrestling as a prime, but no one with tracking as a prime. Somehow that just boggles my mind. Wrestling is a more powerful skill than tracking.

Someone has necromancy as a trade skill?

Wow there are tons more wrestlers and theifs then I thought! Oh and looking at the trade skills one, Is necromancy really a trade skill?

Tel'Imoen wrote:Someone has necromancy as a trade skill?

When you think about it, that's actually kinda gross. hehe

Coronoer, student cadaver programs, donor program collectors...ect...ect... modern day necromancers without the spells

this is neat Drocket, thanks. Gives a pretty good idea of which skills work or suck.

I'm surprised there are so many more sword wielders than fencers and mace fighters combined.

Magery and Tactics as most primed is no surprise at all though.

Lets look at the least primed skills:
Tracking 0, wrestling 2, detect hidden 2, peacemaking 5, camping 5, stealing 6.
Seems these skills are pretty unimportant to have as prime. Some of these that are barely used as secondaries either probably need some improvement.