Originally posted by Hatemachine:

But you can still jump in place, or run in place, or swim in circles

i'm supposed to spend hours and hours running in circles beating up greydwarves or something to get 5 pts of weapon skill back if i die?

No. Just play. Go exploring. Fight whatever you find. Don't worry about being at 50 or 51 skill, get out there and do fun stuff.

Originally posted by Hatemachine:

just saying this is another nerf they did instead of actually adding things

They added plenty of things, and I don't think hitting rocks to skill up combat skills is something that should have been possible anyway.