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Post by jcarter on Oct 22, 2013 18:19:08 GMT -5
Delerak were you the dude who did nothing but PK people so Dyrinis made you play only gith to make the world more dangerous and alive?
That was a genius way of handling things.
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Post by delerak on Oct 22, 2013 18:24:50 GMT -5
Delerak were you the dude who did nothing but PK people so Dyrinis made you play only gith to make the world more dangerous and alive? That was a genius way of handling things. Yep. Dyrinis was probably one of the best staff they ever had. Even Sanvean gave me props for that role though. I'll talk about the full story someday but basically I was told not to roleplay with people but I broke that and roleplayed the gith out and did a very good with it for a while. I ended up retiring the character because when I went to the APM (Dragoncon '01) I got a lot of shit over the role from players/staff. Bhagharva told me to my face that I was just a pkiller and that he loved killing me to show he was better. That's kind of what drove me to roleplay better though and stop pkilling (I haven't pkilled anybody since Argyle 2002-2003). |
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Post by metamasher on Dec 2, 2013 21:46:10 GMT -5
Yep. Dyrinis was probably one of the best staff they ever had. Even Sanvean gave me props for that role though. I'll talk about the full story someday but basically I was told not to roleplay with people but I broke that and roleplayed the gith out and did a very good with it for a while. I ended up retiring the character because when I went to the APM (Dragoncon '01) I got a lot of shit over the role from players/staff. Bhagharva told me to my face that I was just a pkiller and that he loved killing me to show he was better. That's kind of what drove me to roleplay better though and stop pkilling (I haven't pkilled anybody since Argyle 2002-2003). Sorry for bringing to life an old topic, but I'm loving this forum and specifically this thread. I have a question for delerak; in some thread, somewhere, I recall you talking about the short lifespan of your characters in past years. I think you said 5 days played IG was pretty damn good for you. I've had a warrior that survived slightly longer than that and was able to grind 24/7, and they got alright skills. But nothing impressive, I think their best skill was advanced parry. So what I would like to ask is, how did you gain a reputation as a notorious pker when you often had to reroll and play with shit stats with every single char? Did you just know the code and were able to out perform the average player? Are noob warriors really that powerful? I'm really curious, to be honest. Anyway, cheers. |
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Post by delerak on Dec 3, 2013 8:53:04 GMT -5
When I first started playing around 98-99 I was really bad. I was your typical 14 year old American boy. Wanted to kill everything in sight, beat you and laugh while doing it. I had some long lived characters back then. My militia Argyle was 20+ days played, my d-elf Indra was 30+ days played. The reason I got a bad rep for pkilling is I did a lot of it. At any given time there is probably only 20% of the player base that is playing actual skilled, extremely powerful PCs, the rest are either new characters so not powerful. Or they are not combat focused which is fine.
One of my worst things I ever did was kill a long lived maxxed warrior Kadian Jak in the Kurac tavern in Luirs. Me and my RL buddy Chronicle got banned from the game for a month for that little stunt. We were also banned for life from clan Kurac.
It's not about knowing the code. I'm really good at PVP, PKilling, etc. No matter what game it is. In Arm it's a bit different but in the end it's two players duking it out with random rolls of dices so anything can happen. For me the dice just normally roll in my favor. I haven't pkilled someone since one of my uber dwarves that had AI strength on him and that was about 8 years ago.
No. In fact warriors are the worst class to pick if you want to be a good pkiller on Arm. They have their place but really in the grand scheme of player vs player combat they are very weak.
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Post by metamasher on Dec 3, 2013 19:04:18 GMT -5
No. In fact warriors are the worst class to pick if you want to be a good pkiller on Arm. They have their place but really in the grand scheme of player vs player combat they are very weak. Thanks for the response man. Any tips you want to throw out there for good guild/subguild combos for PKing and general tips when not wanting to roll a gicker? |
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Post by delerak on Dec 3, 2013 20:38:26 GMT -5
Nothing that hasn't already been said here. It all depends on where you're playing. What kind of character you want to have, etc. There are so many things that go into it. For instance I don't know your play style or anything.
Also I'm not here to give out advice on how to PK people on Arm, that's kind of cheesy actually, hah.
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Post by magickermarco on Dec 4, 2013 0:52:34 GMT -5
Red Fangs 101 - Hit hard, hit fast, use poisons and then run like hell after.
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Post by lulz on Dec 4, 2013 3:03:57 GMT -5
okay
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Post by delerak on Dec 4, 2013 7:32:12 GMT -5
RF didn't even start that. Most tribeless d-elves back in 2000-2001 were doing it. My d-elf Indra could take down entire squads of Byn if he wanted to. Remember back then the d-elves could get to around 240mv and they only lost 1 mv on roads and 2-3 mv in other places, all of that while RUNNING. They were unstoppable outside of cities.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 4, 2013 15:18:35 GMT -5
There was nothing special about desert elves in 2003 that made them able to "get to around 240mv." It know it was possible for a d-elf to get to 254MV in 2011, wearing a suede bush hat, reinforced sandcloth sleeves, desert-camo jacket and cloak, +10 mv boots, and no other +mv gear, and no spice.
Getting to 240 isn't really brag-worthy. Spiced up and decked in all +mv gear, a desert elf -should- be able to get to closer to 300, currently. Add magicks, and it should get over 300.
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Post by jcarter on Dec 4, 2013 16:51:35 GMT -5
There was nothing special about desert elves in 2003 that made them able to "get to around 240mv." It know it was possible for a d-elf to get to 254MV in 2011, wearing a suede bush hat, reinforced sandcloth sleeves, desert-camo jacket and cloak, +10 mv boots, and no other +mv gear, and no spice. Getting to 240 isn't really brag-worthy. Spiced up and decked in all +mv gear, a desert elf -should- be able to get to closer to 300, currently. Add magicks, and it should get over 300. There was a bug in the code back then that gave them a way higher base MV and a lower MV cost then intended, they were receiving something like twice the benefit of what they should have been getting. |
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Post by delerak on Dec 4, 2013 17:52:19 GMT -5
Er I'm getting my timelines confused. 240 is now. No fucking way are you getting 300 without magick/spice though.
Back in the day you could get to around 400 actually. You could naturally roll 280-300 movement.
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Post by drunkendwarf on Mar 5, 2014 11:24:48 GMT -5
I was part of Plainsman's group with a rukkian. We did this CRAZY ass quest involving the big stone slab that's east of the thornlands, east of Tuluk. I don't really know what he did or why he was doing it, as Plainsman kept most of his underlings in the dark with a lot of this, but somehow the slab opened up to the various elemental planes. As it opened to each plane, an icky creature came out and attacked us. We'd kill them, wander into the plane for a bit for him to do God Knows What, and then leave. I'm kicking myself because I can't for the life of my track down the logs of this.
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