I am a lvl 12 monk and recently got a Wind Blade as a drop.

Since I hadn't used a sword yet my skills were 1 for both 2-H slashing and Martial Sword.

As I was building skill with it, I noticed something strange about the rate at which they increased.

By the time I had maxed my Martial Sword skill at 60 my 2-H slashing had only increased to 43 of 120 possible.

This along with the rate at which my HtH seems to increase (slow as hell) I'm wondering if the skill up rates are reversed.  If not it should be looked into anyway since what good is a 10% damage bonus when you can't hit stuff. 

Anyone else have info or thoughts on this?

I understand what the different skills do for us.

I am trying to understand the reasoning behind how fast the skills increase.

It doesn't make much sense to me that the skill that can increase 10/lvl increases slower than the one that only increases 5/lvl.

I can kinda understand the HtH since we have several weapon types that depend on it. (Knuckles, Claws, Wraps)

However, with 2H slashing we only have martial swords.

As far as I've been able to tell, the specific weapon types (Martial sword, claws & Ulak, etc) have importance to your dps only when you reach the specialization cap for that particular weapon, wherein you increase the damage output by 10(?)% (I don't have VG on this comp, so can't check tooltips).  I leeched points from my martial staff and shuriken to get sword, blade staff, claw/ulak & knuckles up to max.