Shattered Kingdoms

Why are there NPCs that have the full swash and full barb skill lists?

Barbucklers™

Actually I think they are merbarbucklers. And stuff.

...That doesn't make it better.

I buckle bars everywhere I go! They just can't keep up with my alcohol consumption. Or maybe its because I am so fat I literally make the bar buckle with my immense weight.

You go to hell. You go to hell and you die.

Also, you still owe me a pizza.

I do not forget.

Actually its not a bug. There is an explanation. I imagine Dulrik would share the explanation if he meant for it to be public knowledge. This isn't all bad, but it certainly may be a challenge and challenges can be cool!

With the addition of kip and the fact that NPCs instantly and always succeed at using it, it's not a challenge, it's broken.

The long and short is that NPCs get to cheat. Whatever, PvE was pretty easy anyways, it could have used a buff.

Certain elite NPCs (certainly not all NPCs) belong to NPC-only classes that have skills picked from multiple PC-classes. It's been like this for quite awhile, but you must never have noticed until kip-up was added. Not a bug.