its not an amount of monsters. it is a matter of your dexterity and how much you use the peircing/
slicing
or stricking/smashing or ranged weapon. if your dexterity is high and you use the P/S weapon type all the time, your skill lvl will raise quickly. your dex needs to be around 2/3 of your level to lvl your weapon appropriately according to your level. keep your DEX there and just fight like normal your skil will raise, you can watch how quickly it raises by looking at your info page and seeing what percent it is at -- it says "P/S weapon skill lvl X(
Z
%) -- if the variable Z is 99% then you are quite close to leveling your weapon skil level. when the variable Z is over 100 it means your DEX is too low or there is some other reason for your weapon skill level not being able to LVL until you lvl up , change DEX or make some other change..
-jb