For several years now, I've been working towards a goal of having a peace tamer and crafters on every shard. I'm nowhere near done yet, but this is what I've trained now and they are spread across seven accounts:
Six tamers up to 120 taming, six tamers that are currently between 110 and 120, six tamers that are between 100 and 110, and 21 that are between 50 and 100.
Six tailor/smith characters that have 120 tailoring and smithing and 22 that have varying levels of both skills somewhere between 50 and 120 and many of whom have GM armslore. Three of those crafters also have 120 imbuing and several are in the GM to 120 range, and 15 or so are somewhere between 50 and 100. (So yes, someday if I stick around, I'll have 27 characters with 120 imbuing, 120 tailoring, 120 smithing, and GM armslore.)
Twenty-eight carpenter/tinker/fletchers, seven of which have GM carpentry, seven have GM tinkering, and four have GM fletching. Many have GM armslore.
Twenty-seven miner/lumberjack/fisher/bard characters, of whom so far 12 have GM mining and 12 have GM lumberjacking.
I've also trained lockpicking to GM five times and have two characters that are over 98, one that is at 93, and one that's at 86. I've trained remove trap to GM six times, tracking and detect hidden to GM nine times, and hiding to GM eight times and to near-GM on around 10 other characters. I've trained magery to 120 four times, five times to 110-115, and to 100-110 about 25 times; and evaluate intelligence to anywhere between 100 and 120 about fifteen times. I've trained inscription to GM four times, alchemy to GM five times, cooking to GM five times. I've only trained poisoning to GM one time so far.
I don't play dexxers or archers much anymore. I just can't afford the gear or the power and stat scrolls for them. However, I have trained 120 swords twice and GM to 110 four times. Archery to 120 twice and up to 110 or 115 three times. Macing to 120 twice and to between 100 and 110 three times. Fencing to 120 once and to 105 once. I've trained parrying to over GM (and up to 120 in a couple of cases) twelve times. Bushido to 120 once. Peacemaking to 120 about 10 times and over GM but less than 120 about another 15 times. Musicianship to 120 about a dozen times and over GM but less than 120 about another dozen times. Discordance and provocation...up 90 so far twice and lower on a few other characters.
No one has helped me with the training. None of it's been done using scripts or by standing and whacking a golem. And the only character I have that really relies on a collection of soulstones is my crafter on Siege, who has seven soulstones to her name. (I have five trained characters on Siege: A crafter; a miner/lj/bard; a peace tamer; a stealth tamer; and a stealth mage with tracking, detect, and a little bit of forensic evaluation.) I used soulstones to move skills around on some of my older crafters when arms lore and then imbuing came on the scene to shift some stuff around, but other than I really don't rely on them to regularly swap skills around on any one character. They're too expensive to keep buying them and as a player who didn't start playing until late 2004, I just don't have that many vet rewards to claim. Most of the vet rewards I've earned so far have been used up acquiring dye tubs, commodity deed boxes, crystal portals, and a few ethereal mounts. I started playing too late to get the full soulstone pre-order item for SE and I only had characters on two shards the year we got the soulstone fragment tokens, so I never had many of those.
I enjoy training skills, otherwise I wouldn't do it. No matter which character I'm working on, I always challenge myself to find new ways to do the training that either help me acquire resources one of my characters on that shard can use to finish training or to go a different part of the game to see what's there.
Very sadly, I had already mastered Mining but it was on a different account! 
With no other recourse, I settled into a long night of Mining. That's right: I once more, and hopefully for the last time, I decided to work on and master Mining. :whip: This time my treasure hunter and the Mining skill were entwined--but it was sadly a bittersweet reunion because, as I saw my Soulstone flickering gently, reminding me of the 'other' Mining mastery that would never again see play, I knew, I knew in my heart that everything was not alright in the land of Sosaria.
