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(2021) "Mag Drills" Skill might as well be removed from the game, it's nearly pointless. Levels far too slow, rewards negligible

This thread was added on February 09, 2021, with posts from trainfender.

Original Post

This skill is one of the slowest leveling, minimally rewarding skills in the game. I would even go as far to say including the skills that aren't even integrated yet.

I am level 46, 662 raids under my belt, and get into a lot of gunfights ~1500 kills atm. I bring tons of extra ammo and mags to load and unload throughout the raid. As we speak, my "mag drills" skill is currently a mere level 2, with 26.6/30 skill points needed to get to level 3. With this level, I receive a 1.2% buff to mag load/unload speeds, along with a measly 0.2% buff to capacity check accuracy. Pretty comically abysmal rewards.

As I said, I perform the activities that level this skill quite frequently: loading mags, unloading mags, checking mag capacity etc (all during raid).

Out of curiosity I went into a raid packing a bunch of empty PP19 magazines that load fast with some stacks of PST-GZH. I sat there loading about 180 rounds one by one, just to notice my mag drills went up between about 0.1-0.3 skill points. The worst part is that I literally still had the blue up arrow indicating that skill's growth still has the initial bonus. I hadn't even reached diminishing returns yet.

I proceeded to take 5 minute breaks after hitting diminishing returns and repeating the whole process. I only saw about 1 single skill point received after a solid 1000+ rounds loaded, unloaded, checked etc.

There is no way this is how the skill was intended to function. If it is.... then I don't know what to even say. Take it out of the game or fix it

its planned to boost up leveling on this skill