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[clc02]

My miner and weaponsmith gets a mood, I get REALLY happy because I have yet to get a weapon/armor mood, I follow him as he goes to the workshops.
He claims a mason workshop, hmm, that's odd.
He makes a kaolinite millstone?  Weird.
I check his stats, (This wasn't a possession he got experience) none of the skills changed, the only legendary he had was mining, which he had before hand.

Did he get his mining up again?  Or what happened, I didn't think legendaries would get moods for something they were already legendary in.  :/  I was hoping for a weaponsmith...

[Deon]

As far as I know, mining works as a masonry. Was he possessed? If yes, he gets no xp. In any case, if he was a legendary miner, he's got his mining up again... yup.

[Arrkhal]

Completion of a non-possessed mood only grants XP, not a given number of skill levels.  So if he wasn't legendary +5 (the numbers aren't displayed in game) before, he likely is now.  He probably also got some more stats.  That's about it, though.

And mining is a moodable skill.  What skill gets mooded is just whatever is highest.

[Deon]

Yeah, I didn't say about +5 because I am too used to it so I thought it's obvious .

[Grimlocke]

Note that its allways the highest moodable skill that gets a mood. A proficient weaponsmith that is also an adept miner will get a miner mood. Its why my metalsmiths and other craftsdwarves never do much mining or masonry.

Oh yeah, also note that tanning is a moodable skill. That one got me suprised once, because its a near-useless skill. All other moodable skills are skills that affect some sort of item quality, the exceptions being cooking and siege engineering.

[Anticipation]

On the plus side, this guy could kill an entire mountain with his +5 mining.

[clc02]

You strike the earth!
The rock flies off in a bloody arc!
The earth gives in to pain.

Well thanks for that, now I'll have to find some other skill I don't use a lot and put it on them when I start off.

[TheDJ17]

You strike the earth!
The rock flies off in a bloody arc!
The earth gives in to pain.

I'm gonna sig this, mmkay?

[Stormrage]

Actually, skills level up indefinitely. Take Captain Ironblood for example.

You can check your skill levels by using Dwarf Companion.

[Satarus]

But Legendary+5 is the last meaningful skill level.  Legendary+6 and above grant no additional benefits to his ability at that skill.  The only thing you get are extra stats and those have no soft cap.

[Stormrage]

I doubt it. I'm pretty sure a Legendary +63 Miner will do more work (dig more in a given time) than a Legendary +5 Miner. Same with all the other skills.

[Anticipation]

I doubt it. I'm pretty sure a Legendary +63 Miner will do more work (dig more in a given time) than a Legendary +5 Miner. Same with all the other skills.

http://dwarffortresswiki.net/index.php/Experience

At the bottem of the gaining skills heading.

Although skill is capped at Legendary+5, experience is not capped at any level; a dwarf can keep gaining attributes by using a skill that has long since topped out.

You strike the earth!
The rock flies off in a bloody arc!
The earth gives in to pain.

That's DEFINATLY how I'm going to imagine it from now on, I find woodcutting to be a quick skill (assuming that you have enough trees to make it to ledgandary...)

[Grimlocke]

I doubt it. I'm pretty sure a Legendary +63 Miner will do more work (dig more in a given time) than a Legendary +5 Miner. Same with all the other skills.

True this, though its not because of the mining being above legendary +5, but due to the agility stats they get from that. It makes them do stuff faster, including mining. It also makes them move faster, so they spend less time walking bewteen designations.