You people and your selective reading:

3) After 200 skill there are no short cuts, other then getting burts. The increased # of WS will increase your skill up chances. At 75 I had it capped at 68ish. Then i just went 75 to 90 and still only had lvl 75 skill. Got burts and its gone up to 85ish now.
Thats what I said, and you interpert that to mean:
If you get them, great, but they're not completely necessary for VE/SS as Dfoley is making them out to be.

I never said they were completely necessary (although they are if you want to rock out like a true hardcore pup), just that they are amazingly helpful at speeding up the skill up process 200+ because like you said "extra swings = extra chances to skill up" which is what they add.

And lets be honest, a pup is 99% more likely to get burts then Verethragna, and while both are good burts is probably the single best dd weapon for a pup, so eventually yes it will become necessary.