my swordsmanship skill hasnt gone up any since i first left new haven, i found a bracelet that raised the skill by 12 right before i left, will that keep it from going up on its own?

No, it will go up regradless, although it DOES affect what you can gain from.

Can you give a little more information? What are you killing? What is your skill at? WHere are you hunting at (not important, but let's us know where to point you to)?

skills are at..

Swordsmanship 66.1
Parrying 63.4
Tactics 63.8

killing ettins and earth elementals in Despise.

thats all as far as combat skills go. everything else is like healing etc. i dunno, maybe it has gone up and i just didnt notice.

Is your 66.1 with or without the jewel (click on show real on the skills window).
With 66.1, you are ready for solen infiltrators. There are a couple places to encounter them. By far the most popular (easiest to get to), is the Wind spawn. Find us in game for a gate a rune there, OR go to Luna Rune library (fizzie wizzie on the east side of the bank) and recall to dungeon Wind. You cannot go inside the dungeon itself, so head south to find the solens.
Make sure:
1) you get armor that puts you near 70 physical
2) grab all the jewels
3) grab all the fungus (purple mushrooms)


Also, would you take a moment to relate your experiences in new haven in this thread? It will be seen by Jeremy, the EA_Mythic Community Coordinator. You have had alot of great questions and problems. This is your chance to comment on them directly!
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They try and try to help all good info but.....

I think this the issue that will help you get it all fixed.
The char you start with if has 0 skill if you had 120 tactics and other stuff and all your stats done, but you cant go out fight dragon or somthing even though you can kill about anything. This is the issue you have to fight stuff that is more like your level as in this. If you start out work on your stats if lower and your under 50 skill then you need to fight lower monsters like skelys and other undead stuff. Then when you get to over 50 then start on lizzardmen and stuff like your doing now till around 80+ but you can get over gm if there long enough. I then goto like some other types of chars personaly I like the painted caves and or fighting deomons you then can get to over 100+ to 120.
I hope this is something that you can understand if not let me know.. try to make it easyer to understand heh

Thank you macdaddy. Since we seem to be underperforming, would you be able to do up a guide for training to legendary weapons without golem? I will make sure it gets stickied with you as credit for author. That seems to be waht is in the most demand.

do i need to do anything special with the gems and the mushrooms?

The gems you cn sell in town to jewelers and provisioners. Good money.
THe fungus is part of a quest that will turn the fungus into Powder of Transportation. This sells on avg for 1k per.
FOr quest steps (recommend you wait till you are a little more comfortable getting around the world) got to uo.stratics.com clickie click

What are your total skills? I know some newer ppl do a little of this and a little of that, so their total skill amount hits 700, with low amounts in a lot of different skills.

If your total skill amount is 700, then you need to set some skills to turn down before you can gain in anything else.