I asked this question in a couple of chats, and nobody could work out why, so I thought I'd bring it to the boards.

I have a necromancer, running a very simple and rather small loop of weapons - But I've noticed over the last few days, weapons drain through around 50% less than armors, even though they are both tert skills for a necromancer.

Are necromancers broken in some way? Or has these been an intentional adjustment to slow down necromancer weapon ability and balance it against having pets?

Below is a look at my tracking for today - You'll see that even though light armor has more ranks, it's gained a lot more than the weapons.
(All these skills have been moving from pretty much the off, without been given a chance to drain out to zero)

Arcana: 308 06% nearly locked (33/34) +5.43
Attune: 380 53% mind lock (34/34) +4.27
Augment: 347 06% mind lock (34/34) +4.94
Brawl: 109 38% very riveted (29/34) +7.74
HT: 109 51% mind lock (34/34) +7.75
Lt Armor: 157 81% mind lock (34/34) +11.36
LT: 109 04% enthralled (32/34) +7.75
Melee: 177 43% nearly locked (33/34) +5.40
Missile: 109 65% mind lock (34/34) +7.80
Polearm: 108 34% very rapt (31/34) +7.67
Magic: 375 95% mind lock (34/34) +4.56
Sorcery: 98 04% mind lock (34/34) +13.55
Staves: 109 39% nearly locked (33/34) +7.77
Utility: 307 09% mind lock (34/34) +5.52
Warding: 292 91% enthralled (32/34) +5.69
Mindstate: clear
TDPs: 165 Gained: 60
Last updated: 11:11:13 PM
Tracking for: 11:31:50

So I wanted to get a clean run, no off line drain, no chance of anything draining out.

I trained until everything was 30/34 or higher, then quit out, closed genie, and stared up again. Clean picture below:

Start:
Arcana: 312 15% mind lock (34/34) +0.00
Attune: 383 86% mind lock (34/34) +0.00
Augment: 350 68% mind lock (34/34) +0.00
Brawl: 114 98% rapt (30/34) +0.00
HT: 115 17% enthralled (32/34) +0.00
Lt Armor: 165 99% mind lock (34/34) +0.00
LT: 114 57% nearly locked (33/34) +0.00
Melee: 181 45% mind lock (34/34) +0.00
Missile: 115 24% nearly locked (33/34) +0.00
Polearm: 113 84% mind lock (34/34) +0.00
Magic: 379 38% mind lock (34/34) +0.00
Sorcery: 107 50% nearly locked (33/34) +0.00
Staves: 115 04% enthralled (32/34) +0.00
Utility: 311 13% nearly locked (33/34) +0.00
Warding: 297 08% mind lock (34/34) +0.00
Mindstate: clear
TDPs: 238
Last updated: 03:53:41 PM
Tracking for: 0:00:15



Then did some training for an hour, to see what drained through. I'm still seeing the same results:

Arcana: 312 86% nearly locked (33/34) +0.71
Attune: 384 43% nearly locked (33/34) +0.57
Augment: 351 28% nearly locked (33/34) +0.60
Brawl: 115 79% rapt (30/34) +0.81
HT: 115 97% mind lock (34/34) +0.80
Lt Armor: 167 38% mind lock (34/34) +1.39
LT: 115 44% rapt (30/34) +0.87
Melee: 182 03% nearly locked (33/34) +0.58
Missile: 116 05% mind lock (34/34) +0.81
Polearm: 114 77% enthralled (32/34) +0.93
Magic: 379 90% mind lock (34/34) +0.52
Sorcery: 109 03% nearly locked (33/34) +1.53
Staves: 115 84% nearly locked (33/34) +0.80
Utility: 311 75% nearly locked (33/34) +0.62
Warding: 297 73% enthralled (32/34) +0.65
Mindstate: clear
TDPs: 238
Last updated: 05:12:34 PM
Tracking for: 1:19:08

You are right! Turns out I do! It's an old character and I never even thought to check the bonus exp

Your Armor pool could fill one empty skill to 184 ranks.
Your Survival pool could fill 1 empty skill to 200 ranks and one empty skill to 149 ranks.
Your Lore pool could fill one empty skill to 128 ranks.

Doesn't look like I have much in there, but that must be what's making the difference

Thanks, I thought I was going mad!