I have over 1470hrs played not including offline hrs at work that i play and i have never worried about the skills at all, even in death and the no death penalty if you die again right after that trying to get your tombstone back and i have died a lot. if your losing that much skill points you may want to get your tombstone a bit faster with the no skill lose in affect then level your skills back up before going back the death site again. Yagluth for me!!!! after 1400 hours i finally went to kill him my first time and never died once. COLD arrows took him down nicely.