I have to disagree with you I'm afraid novacadian. Leveling weapon skills generally takes a lot less attention than leveling magic skills from my experience. For magic you have to be constantly pressing your shortcuts and paying attention, whereas if you pick your enemies well you need far fewer clicks for weapon training and don't need to worry about keeping up mp and so on. I guess a lot depends on how you approach your training though. There are plenty of people who have leveled combat high and ignored magic, so I don't think you can say magic is always easier to level.
Anyway, I for one am really glad PS doesn't favour the high damage but frail magic user. As it stands, weapon damage has much much higher potential then spells (some people are able to deal hits higher than 1000 for example, even to people with reasonably high armour q and armour level, but spells all cap well below this figure).
