Is it true that skills decay over time?

I didn't want to play in 2d mode during the first stages of beta, and I've lost a bunch of points in all of my skills during my absence.

Lost 12 whole points in Magery, 10 or 12 points in Animal Taming, etc.

I'm playing on Siege, and I don't want to have to try to recover those points...

I didn't think it was still in game.

Never heard of it...

When was the last time you played?

Although I will admit, I'm not on Siege much, but I do stop by frequently for a quick fight and/or skill gain so I haven't had a large enough lapse in gametime to notice IF there is skill decay.

Skills used to decay if you did not use them. That was taken out of the game sometime in late 2003 with the introduction of skill locks and arrows. Not sure if Siege kept skill decay? If you have skill locks on Siege, then I'm going to say they got rid of it there too.

Here's the old list of skills in order of decay rates (fastest to slowest).

http://www.uocraft.com/skill_decay.php

Many will disagree, but personally I find that if I'm at the skill cap and set a skill to decrease, it will decrease FASTER if the skill it is taking from is alchemy (the fastest decaying skill). I'm convinced that the skill decay rates never got taken out of the game (maybe mistakenly), even though the automatic decay was turned off. I've verified it for myself many times, as recently as last month.

Roughly two months ago.

I just hcecked my Siege char that has been around for at least 2 years and he still as the skills he started with and the few .1s that he gained...

If you have the arrows set to up, or locked, you skills cannot decay. If you set them down tho, I have no idea. I don't think so.

n/m got it fixed.

Thanks for the hlep anyways.

what was the problem? i am curious

I am going to guess he didn't have "Show Modified" chosen in his skill list and he was wearing items that increased his skills by the amount he was missing?