Skilling up and Ceremonial Dagger

[Intense]

A long time ago I skilled up my dagger with my old char vs Steelshells using ceremonial dagger and sleep 2. My dagger skill is 236 and I have been here for like 20-30 min and havent seen a single skill up yet. I was wondering if my skill was too high for them but they still con T/High def and also enfeebling skill which is 259 is skilling up when I Sleep2.

Im sure its something obvious that I totally forgot to take into account bc this is my first day playing after a long hiatus. Was there a change to skilling up weapons to where you must do at least 1+ dmg? Halp.

[Suiram]

Must have been a very long hiatus lol

From the October 11, 2005 version update:

When engaging a monster with auto-attack, melee weapon skills will no longer improve unless at least one point of damage is inflicted.

[Intense]

Ah great... Thanks for lookin that up. No I just havent played since around January, I prob either never really commited that to memory bc at the time I had skilled up everything I needed to.

[Suiram]

Incidentally, while it's not completely clear from those notes but you can still skillup ranged skills this way. I capped throwing on BLM using lamiabane against Hpemdes long after that patch.

[Shuemue]

Incidentally, while it's not completely clear from those notes but you can still skillup ranged skills this way. I capped throwing on BLM using lamiabane against Hpemdes long after that patch.

Oh wow, I never bothered to try, I assumed it'd be the same as regular melee weapons. Thanks!

[ReddwarfX]

Incidentally, while it's not completely clear from those notes but you can still skillup ranged skills this way. I capped throwing on BLM using lamiabane against Hpemdes long after that patch.

can u confirm that this still works? i tried on BLM in sea not too long ago, all ranged attacks hitting for 0's, i didnt get ANY skillups.

[Rocl]

Incidentally, while it's not completely clear from those notes but you can still skillup ranged skills this way. I capped throwing on BLM using lamiabane against Hpemdes long after that patch.

I'm fairly certain they fixed that too, but a confirmation one way or another would be nice.

[Suiram]

The screenshot I have of hitting a hpemde for 0 and skilling up to 210 is from June 26, 2006, so it is very possible they also removed that at some point since. I think we might have actually had this come up in another thread now that I think of it.

Edit: Yeah it totally did come up in another topic, and I even posted basically the same information, to have the same responses. It completely slipped my mind, sorry. viewtopic.php?f=31&t=27167&p=841306

[Plight]

The screenshot I have of hitting a hpemde for 0 and skilling up to 210 is from June 26, 2006, so it is very possible they also removed that at some point since. I think we might have actually had this come up in another thread now that I think of it.

There's a good chance that was nerfed at the same time that they made it impossible to skill up healing magic on non-undead mobs. That was a ninja-fix, though, so there aren't any relevant update details.