My piercing skill isn't going up.

[Cusashorn]

<DIV>I bought a Pristine Imbued Strengthed Leather Spiked Cestus yesterday.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>My piercing skill is about 60 points behind my crushing since thats what I"ve been using for most of my levels lately.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>It doesn't seem to raise up though.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Think I just need to give it more time or something?</DIV>

[Gaige]

It does piercing damage but checks the crushing skill now, all monk weapons do.

[Arrowheart]

I have heard some dropped weapons such as feysteel cestii and such are still raising and would assume using slash skill since it raises it still. But it was in patch notes that all fist weapons would now, or better said are suppose to now use crush skill even if it does damage of another type. I know t5 rare augmented fistwraps and cestii both raise only crush skill now. I assume its a bug that some of the dropped ones wasnt fixed yet and will probably be corrected in the future so its probably nothing to worry about since we cant use any other slash or piercers than fist based ones.

[Cusashorn]

<DIV>Well that sucks. Does the Piercing and Slashing skills serve any purpose anylonger?</DIV>

[Uth]

<DIV>Nope they useless now, had the same prob, debatted in another post here.</DIV> <DIV>Stick to Crush weapons now, cause some of the slashing/piercing weapons are still bugged and wont raise crushing skill, as they should now.</DIV>

[Cusashorn]

<DIV>Well the only reason I'm using piercing weapons is that I've noticed a select few mobs who are immune to crushing. nothing big.</DIV>