<p>From the introductory Tibia news: https://www.tibia.com/news/?subtopic=newsarchive&id=4577</p><blockquote><p>"In terms of skill levelling speed, the skill training progress is comparable to a mage's magic level training with an ultimate mana potion cask: Knights who train their axe fighting skill with an exercise axe and paladins who train their distance fighting skill with an exercise bow will have the same skill levelling progress as mages who train their magic level via spells and mana potions or with the new exercise wand/rod."</p></blockquote><p></p><p>This apparently means, that advancing with training weapons from skill 100 to 101 will take the same time for melee and distance skill. While, from the skill points perspective (https://tibia.fandom.com/wiki/Formulae?so=search#Skills), paladins require half of them in comparison to knights.</p><p></p><p>Moreover, Skill Points are awarded differently for melee and distance weapons.<br>You can read in detail about the differences in this great series of articles on GuildStats:</p><ul><li>https://guildstats.eu/articles?id=13446</li><li>https://guildstats.eu/articles?id=13484</li><li>https://guildstats.eu/articles?id=13511</li></ul><p>TL;DR the conclusions are summarized in Table 3 of the last link. The <strong>Edit</strong>: I've translated the table below:</p><table border="1" cellpadding="1" style="width:800px; border-spacing: 1px; margin: auto;"><caption>Translated summary table</caption><thead><tr><th scope="row">Form of training</th><th scope="col">Skill Points per hour</th><th scope="col">Cost in GP per hour</th><th scope="col">Relative speed of training</th><th scope="col">GP per Skill Point</th><th scope="col">Stamina</th><th scope="col">AFK</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><th scope="row">Modified Gnarlhounds with<br>arrows & imbuement</th><td style="text-align:center">3488</td><td style="text-align:center">6255</td><td style="text-align:center">100%</td><td style="text-align:center">1.78</td><td style="text-align:center">neutral</td><td style="text-align:center">shortly</td></tr><tr><th scope="row">Golem Servant with burst arrows</th><td style="text-align:center">3571</td><td style="text-align:center">18000</td><td style="text-align:center">102%</td><td style="text-align:center">5.04</td><td style="text-align:center">neutral</td><td style="text-align:center">14 min</td></tr><tr><th scope="row">Offline training</th><td style="text-align:center">720</td><td style="text-align:center">0</td><td style="text-align:center">21%</td><td style="text-align:center">0</td><td style="text-align:center">regenerates</td><td style="text-align:center">offline (24h)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row">Exercise Weapons (dummy from the Store)</th><td style="text-align:center">8429</td><td style="text-align:center">945000</td><td style="text-align:center">242%</td><td style="text-align:center">2.42</td><td style="text-align:center">regenerates</td><td style="text-align:center">up to 8h</td></tr></tbody></table><p><br>The source table was not in English, but it's fairy easy to decipher – the words are similar to English counterparts :). The first two options are: hitting Modified Gnarlhounds with arrows and the Golem Servant with burst arrows.</p><p><a arrows.</p><p> </p><p><a rel="nofollow" href="https://guildstats.eu/articles?id=13511"><img alt="" src="https://i.imgur.com/yQ7wZ44.png" style="height:191px; width:803px"></a></p><p></p>