It's been a while since I've trained any fighting skills. Are there any "shortcuts" available on siege?
Not that I'm opposed to hunting just wondering
The usual shortcuts like an advanced character token or a mystic token have been also usable on Siege now for a while.
In the matter of training it up: 0-70 hit something of appropriate skill (+/- 20 your current skill) if you have 3 scrolls of alacrity available for that phase you can be at 70 in 45 minutes if you know what you need to hunt.
From 70 on you enter ROT which means you get a guaranteed gain after a certain time (70-80 every 5 mins for example). Using a SOA here you should get hit by something or someone at apropriate level (you do not get the agro) in your house or an INN...that way you can log out right away after your gain and get gains for a loooong time.
I trained Macing using a huge supply of SOAs and SOTs from 0-120 in 8 hours