Seems like all the skills take longer to level up now, which is a really bad decision from the dev's considering the skill points barely affect your character, and it's easy to lose skill points by dying. It's Early Access and they made skills harder to level up.. do they want us to experiment with the system? or just suffer? Seriously, i've been in a session for like 2+ weeks, game day 120-ish, doing constant stuff to level up.. all my skills are still floating under 25 with a few exceptions. I have only died once from messing with the new content but that's it.
Parrying an attack no matter how strong gives the EXACT, SAME, EXP as a weak attack.
Jumping from higher heights does absolutely nothing different.
Using stronger tiered weapons does nothing different.
Picking higher tier metals does nothing different.
and as you mentioned, Two handed attacks are even worse across the board.
etc etc etc.