Learning and practicing skills has always been a boring and expensive part of most MMORPG's. In game balance terms, "practicing" was always a way of balancing out the number of people in a given skill by making it unenjoyable to learn the skill.

Dark Age of Camelot has taken a fresh new approach to how you learn and improve your existing skills. Skill points are gained every level and to improve a skill you go to a training hall for your class and select which specific skills you would like to improve. No more having to waste your hard earned cash making 100 million worthless pieces of junk just to advance your skill, you get to advance for having fun playing the game and gaining levels.

One thing to remember, is if you use your skill points solely for things like trade skills, your primary skills for your class may suffer. You need to properly balance how many points you put into trades and how many you put into your characters primary skills.