Hey Spider,
First off, as posted 100 times here by others, add me to the list of people thanking you for making this mod. Definitely makes me laugh at vanilla and I've spent WAY too much time with your mod in past alphas and this one.
I noticed a weird quirk with the blunt weapon leveling, it might happen to other weapon skills but I haven't gotten them up high enough. Once you get to 91 you seem to lose the attack speed bonus. The XML file seems right from my limited modding knowledge (I just viewed it, didn't edit anything), but I noticed the slowdown through 2 played characters. The attack speed goes away and is also removed from the description. I get that the description could just be text and not the actual calculation but figured I'd mention it. The attacks per minute number on the character sheet also drops, so it's not just my perception. No buffs/debuffs either.
Also, now that I'm posting I have 2 more minor items I've noticed. The new hot-pipe to remove a gash doesn't seem to be working. You take the damage, but the gash sticks around. This might have been a patch ago so it might be fixed by now but I figured I'd bring it up.
I also noticed that harvesting wild goldenrod gives farming XP. I'm assuming this was unintended since nothing else wild gives it?