Originally posted by Lucidess:

When did skills ever matter in the game though? If they wanted skills to actually matter, the dev's would give us something special every 25 points to keep up the incentive to level up a skill to a certain point. As it stands we're getting literally 1 more damage, or 1 more block on shields, per point.. can you say complete agony?

I'd say the bow skill matters quite a bit. The draw speed difference is pretty noticeable.

Though I suppose if mattering means "because I don't have it there's content I can't complete", then yeah, not so much.