Critters in the city

byn runners when u first start out
troopers when ur getting decent

If you have decent scan, rats are the shit. You have like a blanket 20% chance to miss hidden entities when attacking regardless of their defenses, and you can get a few swings in before the rat will react and break out of hiding. Also, once in a while a rat gets bugged or something, or else one of them is different, and it won't fight back so you can just swing to your heart's content as the rat doesn't really enter combat properly.

You can literally max weapon skills this way, though it'd take some time eventually because you have to do some serious scouting to find those rats. It's better inside the rinth because it's smaller and people won't look at you funny for fighting invisible rats. If you can't find a bugged rat, you can just corral a few rats into the same general area and go through them one by one until they're all hurt and need to regenerate. I liked to round up four rats and place them near the body shop in the 'rinth because there's a dark room nearby where you can hide in virtually perfect safety while you're AFK or whatever.

If you do find a bugged rat that doesn't fight back, you can subdue it and take it to some enclosed place like those unoccupied houses on Stonecarver near the furniture shop. The doors are usually unlocked. Go in, put the rat in the bedroom, close the door, spar. You'll get a few misses even at high skill because of the guaranteed chance to miss hidden things. Try to disengage before the rat dies. When you've hit it a few times, disengage and just wait around for it to regenerate or leave and close the door to keep it there. It'll look pretty suspicious but I eventually came to the conclusion that nobody pays any attention to anything that goes on in this game as long as what you're doing doesn't require staff to do any work.

You do need reasonably high scan to spot rats reliably, though. I don't think those subguilds with journeyman scan are enough. From what I recall, I couldn't spot them properly until advanced. Even at 80 scan, I only had like 75% chance to spot them. Also, I think they flee from you on sight after you've beat them up once, so you have to either stealth or relog if you're going back to your rat camp.

This all assumes nothing has changed in the last seven months or however long it has been since I last played.

I maxed backstab on roof sneks. You lure them out, then quickly go down and hide or walk out of their line of sight (hiding is best). Then you wait until a soldier comes by and attacks the snake, or it stands up and begins to wander around. Usually it'll see some NPC beggar in the vicinity and go attack them, at which point you can backstab it with the huge penalty to backstabbing in-combat targets, making it trivial to max the skill. They're not worth much for actual combat training as they have shit defense and die quickly because like three soldiers patrol that way.

Yeah, I recently read about the rooftop snakes on a thread in that other place, but in all my few characters I've never actually encountered any serpent on any rooftop. Should I assume people hunt them relentlessly like rats, or is there some trick to it? Also, just because, are they poisonous?

just like theyre prob changing snake and rat 'bugs' due to this thread

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