drunkendwarf
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Post by drunkendwarf on Nov 24, 2014 15:05:19 GMT -5
And this was against a super dwarf twink, who became quite infamous later on. Guy spent months fisting skeet with bags of rocksthan one or two more points. Was that dwarf named Abuzer? That's the problem with the advanced weapon skills. By the time you branch them, it's virtually impossible to get good with them because your base offense is so high, you have to work VERY hard at missing things with any regularity. I've only had one warrior branch them and I tried my best to work tridents but eventually I just game up and went back to axes as I just couldn't find any way to get the skill level to go up.
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Post by sirra on Nov 24, 2014 16:48:14 GMT -5
And this was against a super dwarf twink, who became quite infamous later on. Guy spent months fisting skeet with bags of rocksthan one or two more points. Was that dwarf named Abuzer? That's the problem with the advanced weapon skills. By the time you branch them, it's virtually impossible to get good with them because your base offense is so high, you have to work VERY hard at missing things with any regularity. I've only had one warrior branch them and I tried my best to work tridents but eventually I just game up and went back to axes as I just couldn't find any way to get the skill level to go up. It was. I think he might've come the closest to maxing an advanced weapon skill (outside receiving a raise from staff...There's been a few of those among the templarate or nobility, and I don't even remotely count them) than anyone else has ever come, through purely coded means. Excepting perhaps, one other person as a potential candidate. I admired his ability to create such a beast, and thought him a perfect example of a player who was never thrown a bone, but managed to make himself relevant to the politics of the city states by putting an intense amount of exertion into becoming obscenely dangerous. I don't remember all the details of how his story played out. I vaguely recall he had a dwarven goal of developing his own hand to hand martial art. I'm talking about pure warriors. There's been at least one dwarf that started as a warrior and became something else, that was far more dangerous.
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Post by Jeshin on Nov 24, 2014 18:52:16 GMT -5
In my experience on Elrum (near max ranger) the only way to raise advanced weapon skills is to have high agility ranger buddies double team you. I was watching combat scroll and such for Beldyn of Winrothol when I was figuring this out. He trained razors on Elrum and Elrum's protege Aon who were both high agility rangers.
1 - High Agility + Parry + Jman or better in weaponskill opponent 2 - Debuff from multiple opponent fighting 3 - Try and fail a bash (it's actually beneficial if you do not practice bash until you have adv weapon skills so you can then fail it during this period) 4 - Allow the rangers to use real weapons which is also a debuff to your hit (for some reason)
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drunkendwarf
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Post by drunkendwarf on Nov 25, 2014 11:52:10 GMT -5
Abuzer was ridiculous. Twinking to the extreme. His name said it all. I'd come across him in the grasslands fighting stilt lizards and he'd actually be AFK...for minutes on end...while fighting them. It was quite stupid to watch him twink his way up the skill levels.
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Post by topkekm8s on Nov 25, 2014 13:19:52 GMT -5
haha his name was actually abuzer
what a badass. more abuzer stories
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Post by lurklord on Nov 25, 2014 14:06:42 GMT -5
Sadly, what Abuzer did wouldn't be possible these days. Staff would spawn a silt worm to eat you.
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Post by jkarr on Nov 25, 2014 15:32:43 GMT -5
haha reminds me of the guys that would log into the rinth to stir up the 5-6 deep elf gang on the eastside, get them fighting each other, and then take turns fighting them and resting in the same room rinse wash repeat
what a fucking circus lol
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Post by Kronibas 2.0 on Nov 25, 2014 20:41:14 GMT -5
haha his name was actually abuzer what a badass. more abuzer stories This
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Post by sirra on Nov 27, 2014 0:21:58 GMT -5
In my experience on Elrum (near max ranger) the only way to raise advanced weapon skills is to have high agility ranger buddies double team you. I was watching combat scroll and such for Beldyn of Winrothol when I was figuring this out. He trained razors on Elrum and Elrum's protege Aon who were both high agility rangers. 1 - High Agility + Parry + Jman or better in weaponskill opponent 2 - Debuff from multiple opponent fighting 3 - Try and fail a bash (it's actually beneficial if you do not practice bash until you have adv weapon skills so you can then fail it during this period) 4 - Allow the rangers to use real weapons which is also a debuff to your hit (for some reason) This is in my experience as well. Nadhir was well past AI agility, thanks to an agility ring, and a high agility to start with. I also dimly remember there being some jihaen or noble warrior in Tuluk that the imms specifically made sparring razors for...and those razors passed through a lot of hands down the years. You could not get them from Salarr. Although, to be honest, what you COULD get from Salarr depended on the Imm fulfilling the order. If you were canny, and you knew the exact sdesc of certain items, and the imm handling it didn't know any better, you could get some cool things. Later on, they tried to codify it with an excel sheet of just crap gear Salarr could supply. This reminds me of an especially hilarious episode when the Salarri staffer at the time (I believe it was Olgaris) got upset about Salarri's wearing Kuraci camouflage instead of the Salarr gear he had picked out for them. Well, it's cause the gear you picked out sucked, and was heavy and gave no stamina bonus, you stupid asshole. I'd love to hear how Abuzer's story finally ended. I think he managed to get exiled from both city-states owing to something going wrong with whatever noble house he was working for. (The fate of all max warriors). You'd think so, but the reality is, there is a vanishingly small subset of players that the imms actually watch with any regularity. There's virtually always someone more interesting for them to be observing, such as a templar, or someone mudsexing (which they like the best). Preferably a mudsexing jihaen templar. If you're a female character, then you'll be watched a bit more, but mostly the powerbrokers are who get the attention. Some have a rep, or are just fascinating to watch - like X-D. But the vast majority of anyone else is only going to be noticed incidentally. I wonder how many Bynners have diligently solo-posed their way through chores with no one ever the wiser. I guarantee there's been a shit-ton of RP that people put huge effort into, thinking they were being seen, which never was. Of course, if you're playing at 3 AM, with maybe 5 people on, and there's a night owl imm around, you might be glanced in on. And as far as I know, that's the only time that two people I know have ever been caught doing something bad. They were sparring in the Byn training hall on a weekend evening. Horror of horrors that two mercenaries would use their off time to work on their skills, when they couldn't leave the compound. But nonetheless, it was treated by the NPC CAPTAIN as if they were caught jerking each other off into the mess hall stew. They were imprisoned until the lieutenant PC or sergeant came around, were LASHED and kicked out. For sparring/training on an OFF DAY at night. And it was good RP too, like any two professional soldiers with nothing better to do. Actually, every single one of my account notes, which come from an imm observing me, have come from being in scenes with one of X-D's characters. And one of them, which still pisses me off, was my dwarven merc (Drake) spent like 3 weeks being terrified of his fire mage, and after 3 weeks, finally managed to sack up and handle it okay, and the imm marked me down as not being scared enough of X-D's fire mage character. Well, fuck you imm dude, I just spent 3 weeks shitting myself around him in RP and half the convo I was seen in. But by all means, leap to a conclusion you ebola-infested asshole. That was almost ten years ago and it still annoys me a little.
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Post by grumble on Nov 27, 2014 9:01:14 GMT -5
i think i liek u sirra.
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Post by Kronibas 2.0 on Nov 27, 2014 18:38:31 GMT -5
I like sirra too
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Post by Deleted on Dec 6, 2014 22:20:03 GMT -5
Back on topic: Piercing branches tridents Slashing branches knives and razors Chopping branches polearms (Is this right?) Bludgeoning branches pikes (Is this right?) Does anyone know the echo's these branched weapons give off when they hit?
Pikes are pokes. Razors are lacerates.
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Post by topkekm8s on Dec 7, 2014 10:25:53 GMT -5
lmao
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Post by Kronibas 2.0 on Dec 7, 2014 11:45:47 GMT -5
Oh, Abuzer! You so silly boi!
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Post by grumble on Dec 7, 2014 12:30:42 GMT -5
itz sed taht abuzer 8 hiz wai out f teh womb.
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