Originally posted by dragonraider1000:

Ya I took a monstrous hit to my wood cutting and bow skill on my last death! Lost 13 levels of woodcutting and my bow skill dropped by 20! They were 62 and 60 respectively before death and afterwards they were 49 and 40 which on each one is roughly a 30% drain!

Annnnd... you used to chop down a tree in 5 chops... whereas now you chop down a tree in..... 5 chops.

Like, boys, it's literally ALL entirely placebo. It's NEGLIGABLE differences in all skills between 10 to 20 to 30 to 40 etc...