PROFICIENCY-EXPERIENCE-LEVEL

Your Proficiency Experience Level, or PEL, with a proficiency is your current maximum level minus the level you learned the proficiency at.

For example, if you learned the Backstab proficiency at level 100, and you are currently level 120, your PEL with Backstab is 20 (120 - 100).

PELs are often capped to a certain level because it is assumed that after a few levels of working with a proficiency you have mastered it and are not getting much better at it. When a PEL is capped it is written as PEL(cap). For example, a PEL that is capped to 20 is written as PEL(20).

If you get a proficiency so late in the game that you will hit 150 before hitting the cap then the mud assumes that you learned the proficiency at level 150 - cap. For example, if you learned Heal Divine at 135 and the cap is 20, then the mud considers you to have learned Heal Divine at 130 so that by the time you hit 150 you will reach the cap.