Fighting PKers
Steve
kind a long...
I have a swordfighter that is almost 80 swords, 80 tac, 45 parry, but
only 23 magic resist. I have been fighting monsters, bears, etc. to
bring
my skills up.
I was on the Sonoma shard this morning out hunting, and someone
came on screen and immediately cast 'An Ex Por' (paralyze). I
checked allnames and he was red. I boogied out of there on my
horse before the spell completed. If I am going to fight back,
do I need to have 'magic reflection' cast on myself while wandering
the woods? How much resist do I need to resist a paralyze spell?
Will a refresh potion break me out of it? My fighter is going
to have to take time out to raise magery so he can cast magic reflect...
I am assuming the guy was going to ebolt me after the paralyze...
The PKs are not going to drive me away from the game. I like the
edge it gives, like someone else said.
The other night, I was killed by a gazer, and looted by some goon
named Batman on Sonoma. After I ressed and ran back, my corpse
was mostly empty. Some nice folks, and a red or two went and
fetched me a nice suit of armor and a katana and I went back to
playing. They even tried to chase the guy down and get my stuff back.
So even with the goons and jerks, I still won't go back and play
Baldur's gate. With the people interaction, both good and bad,
this is the best RPG game I have played. Oh, the interaction
with players has been mostly on the good side.
But there was one goof the other night who stormed into the
tailor shop in britain, and accused me of looting his corpse.
I don't know if he was seriously impaired, or just trying to
see if I would be gullible enough to give him my stuff. After
cursing at me for 5 minutes or so, he just wandered off. He claimed
someone PKed him and then I looted his body. Not true, but
I guess people will believe what they want...
Steve
Damocles
>
>kind a long...
>
>I have a swordfighter that is almost 80 swords, 80 tac, 45 parry, but
>only 23 magic resist. I have been fighting monsters, bears, etc. to
>bring
>my skills up.
>
>I was on the Sonoma shard this morning out hunting, and someone
>came on screen and immediately cast 'An Ex Por' (paralyze). I
>checked allnames and he was red. I boogied out of there on my
>horse before the spell completed. If I am going to fight back,
>do I need to have 'magic reflection' cast on myself while wandering
>the woods? How much resist do I need to resist a paralyze spell?
>Will a refresh potion break me out of it? My fighter is going
>to have to take time out to raise magery so he can cast magic reflect...
Having reflection up generally is not enough, almost any competent pk
will bring it down with a weak offensive spell like magic arrow, then
cast paralysis. Currently, paralysis cannot be resisted and only the
highest resistance (90 +) seems to affect the length of time left
paralyzed. I can tell you that at 62 resistance I stay stuck in place
for quite some time.
A good strategy for countering this is to bring along 3 or 4 of the
little boxes you can buy and cast Magic Trap on each of them. When you
are paralyzed, double click one of those boxes. You will take a point
of damage, which is enough to break the paralysis.
>
>I am assuming the guy was going to ebolt me after the paralyze...
>
Possibly, but more likely he would hit you with an Explosion spell and
cast another spell while the delayed damage from explosion is going
through. GM mages will commonly do an explosion / flamestrike combo,
which if they have high eval int and you have only 23 resist will
easily do 60 to 70 points of damage.
Your best bet would be if you are paralyzed and you see "Vas Ort Flam"
appear over the pkiller's head, break the paralysis with a trapped box
and recall out immediately. Recall is your friend...work your magery
into the 60s so that you almost never fail (it becomes impossible to
fail at 72.1 magery). If you don't want to work magery to that point,
buy recall scrolls and a rune marked for a safe zone.
BTW, since you've reached 80 tactics / swords with 45 parrying, I'd
recommend either staying in the T2A lands to work up your skills or
going to the dungeon Shame to fight earth elementals (bring orange
potions, there's lots of little poisonous critters in both places).
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It scares you witless,
But in time you see things clear and stark.
- Elvis Costello, "I Want You"
Drake
Steve <yo...@Eng.Sun.COM> wrote in message
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|
| kind a long...
haha, around here? just a snipit!
| I have a swordfighter that is almost 80 swords, 80 tac, 45 parry, but
| only 23 magic resist. I have been fighting monsters, bears, etc. to
| bring
| my skills up.
Running in firefields lengthwise (scroll or spellbook) works good to get
your resist up to a more workable level, if not into magic, seek the magic
slinging creatures maybe a bit weaker than a gazer....shades? spectres?
Your swords and tacs look in good shape from here.
| I was on the Sonoma shard this morning out hunting, and someone
| came on screen and immediately cast 'An Ex Por' (paralyze). I
| checked allnames and he was red. I boogied out of there on my
If you can cast magic trap on a pouch, then get ready to dbl-click this
pouch when paralyzed, you'll break the paralysis. Also, setting off a good
old plain purple potion in your pack should break the paralysis, giving you
a chance to run a bit and equip or flee.
| horse before the spell completed. If I am going to fight back,
| do I need to have 'magic reflection' cast on myself while wandering
| the woods? How much resist do I need to resist a paralyze spell?
| Will a refresh potion break me out of it? My fighter is going
| to have to take time out to raise magery so he can cast magic reflect...
|
| I am assuming the guy was going to ebolt me after the paralyze...
Great assumption! Ebolt, flamestrike, who knows! I had a confused mage once
cast strength on me right after he magic arrowed me then paralyzed me. The
paralyze is a good sign they mean business.
Refresh potions wont affect paralyze and the resist you need to absorb a
paralyze is....I dunno =-)
| The PKs are not going to drive me away from the game. I like the
| edge it gives, like someone else said.
Right on then! There's PLENTY of things to do in UO without ever having to
run into PK's - if you're smart - regardless of what you see posted here.
And I am not talking about staying in town forever either. Glad to see
you're a fighter, theres a lot around here. Me, closing in on year 2 this
october 2 =)
| The other night, I was killed by a gazer, and looted by some goon
| named Batman on Sonoma. After I ressed and ran back, my corpse
| was mostly empty. Some nice folks, and a red or two went and
| fetched me a nice suit of armor and a katana and I went back to
| playing. They even tried to chase the guy down and get my stuff back.
Welcome to UO! Remember something about reds, sometimes those players have
gotten that way helping people just as yourself against the Batman's of the
game.
| So even with the goons and jerks, I still won't go back and play
| Baldur's gate. With the people interaction, both good and bad,
| this is the best RPG game I have played. Oh, the interaction
| with players has been mostly on the good side.
Raph! Look above! BIG smile =) (me too btw)
| But there was one goof the other night who stormed into the
| tailor shop in britain, and accused me of looting his corpse.
| I don't know if he was seriously impaired, or just trying to
| see if I would be gullible enough to give him my stuff. After
| cursing at me for 5 minutes or so, he just wandered off. He claimed
| someone PKed him and then I looted his body. Not true, but
| I guess people will believe what they want...
That they will Steve and what can you do. UO is unique that way in that
some total stranger will come up to you, acccuse you of something far
fetched and challenge you to step outside of town to settle it. This is
where UO is a little beyond other games IMHO. You either a.) go outside of
town with this guy to teach him a lesson b.) Simply ignore him and move
about your business, unless he/she is harrassing you which then gets turned
over to GM's c.) Talk through it with your people skills!
So many choices not enough hours in the day.
Best of luck.
The Glorious Lord Drake/The Notorious Vmax - Wakoku (and coming soon the
Adept Blacksmith MC Hammer - Wakoku!)
| Steve
Jason Baim
magic reflection cast on yourself when out hunting is a good idea.
> I am assuming the guy was going to ebolt me after the paralyze...
Actually, he was probably going to do a paralyze-explosion-flamestrike
combo. The explosion has a slight delay, and it hits about the same
time that the flamestrike goes off. Really nasty. Fun to cast, yes,
but nasty. :)
<<re: the goof who accused you of looting>>
Sounds like someone who is full of crap. I'd tell you to ignore him and
he'll go away, but it seems that you figured that one out already...
Pravda, Atlantic Mine-Works (M*W)
Manta
(so close...)100 resist... I still only totally resist para 25% of the
time.... cant rely on that.. trapped magic pouches (lots I carry 6) is the
way to go.. oh and when you see them casting para IMMEDIATELY cast In Vas
Mani and wait for the mana dump and then WAIT to heal simultaneously.
Timing is critical here. If your stength is high enough you should be able
to survive a para/exp/fs combo .. just. Heal quick (In Vas Mani and chug a
gheal)... their mana will be low after that (that combo needs 80 mana) and
hit them close with melee weapons they will be in trouble then if you can
stick to them (like something on a blanket). Btw you can drink gheals etc
when your paralysed.. you do carry them dont you? The other trick is to
throw a gexp potion at them while they are frozen casting.. that upsets
mages a bit too :)
Steve <yo...@Eng.Sun.COM> wrote in message
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>
> kind a long...
>
> I have a swordfighter that is almost 80 swords, 80 tac, 45 parry, but
> only 23 magic resist. I have been fighting monsters, bears, etc. to
> bring
> my skills up.
>
> I was on the Sonoma shard this morning out hunting, and someone
> came on screen and immediately cast 'An Ex Por' (paralyze). I
> checked allnames and he was red. I boogied out of there on my
> horse before the spell completed. If I am going to fight back,
> do I need to have 'magic reflection' cast on myself while wandering
> the woods? How much resist do I need to resist a paralyze spell?
> Will a refresh potion break me out of it? My fighter is going
> to have to take time out to raise magery so he can cast magic reflect...
>
> I am assuming the guy was going to ebolt me after the paralyze...
>
> The PKs are not going to drive me away from the game. I like the
> edge it gives, like someone else said.
>
> The other night, I was killed by a gazer, and looted by some goon
> named Batman on Sonoma. After I ressed and ran back, my corpse
> was mostly empty. Some nice folks, and a red or two went and
> fetched me a nice suit of armor and a katana and I went back to
> playing. They even tried to chase the guy down and get my stuff back.
>
> So even with the goons and jerks, I still won't go back and play
> Baldur's gate. With the people interaction, both good and bad,
> this is the best RPG game I have played. Oh, the interaction
> with players has been mostly on the good side.
>
> But there was one goof the other night who stormed into the
> tailor shop in britain, and accused me of looting his corpse.
> I don't know if he was seriously impaired, or just trying to
> see if I would be gullible enough to give him my stuff. After
> cursing at me for 5 minutes or so, he just wandered off. He claimed
> someone PKed him and then I looted his body. Not true, but
> I guess people will believe what they want...
>
> Steve
sme...@icubed.com
> >came on screen and immediately cast 'An Ex Por' (paralyze). I
> >checked allnames and he was red. I boogied out of there on my
> >horse before the spell completed. If I am going to fight back,
> >do I need to have 'magic reflection' cast on myself while wandering
> >the woods? How much resist do I need to resist a paralyze spell?
> >Will a refresh potion break me out of it? My fighter is going
> >to have to take time out to raise magery so he can cast magic reflect...
>
> will bring it down with a weak offensive spell like magic arrow, then
> cast paralysis. Currently, paralysis cannot be resisted and only the
> highest resistance (90 +) seems to affect the length of time left
> paralyzed. I can tell you that at 62 resistance I stay stuck in place
> for quite some time.
Actually, with 71 resist I resisted a paralyze cast by a Murderer Fredo
(14k on the Sonoma bounty board) in Shame level 1. Probably just a
freak occurrence though.
> A good strategy for countering this is to bring along 3 or 4 of the
> little boxes you can buy and cast Magic Trap on each of them. When you
> are paralyzed, double click one of those boxes. You will take a point
> of damage, which is enough to break the paralysis.
Other common tactics include poison potions (not very reliable as far as
I know), pre-cast weak spells (similar to what's used to drop magic
reflect), and purple potions (3 second timer).
> >
> >I am assuming the guy was going to ebolt me after the paralyze...
> >
>
> Possibly, but more likely he would hit you with an Explosion spell and
> cast another spell while the delayed damage from explosion is going
> through. GM mages will commonly do an explosion / flamestrike combo,
> which if they have high eval int and you have only 23 resist will
> easily do 60 to 70 points of damage.
I've been told there's a potential for up to 110 damage from an
explosion / flame strike (assuming 100 magery, 100 Eval Int, 0 Resist).
Damage from a spell is modified by a comparison between your resist and
your opponent's eval int, so any resist at all will help.
> BTW, since you've reached 80 tactics / swords with 45 parrying, I'd
> recommend either staying in the T2A lands to work up your skills or
> going to the dungeon Shame to fight earth elementals (bring orange
> potions, there's lots of little poisonous critters in both places).
If you head into Shame on Sonoma, be careful of [408] guild titles. The
guild's name is "Sonoma's Most Wanted, 408", and they specialize in
cheap pkill tactics. There are other pks which frequent the area, but
[408] are the ones I see the most....
-Smedley, Daemon Summoner
Grant Farrington
wrote:
>cast paralysis. Currently, paralysis cannot be resisted and only the
>highest resistance (90 +) seems to affect the length of time left
>paralyzed. I can tell you that at 62 resistance I stay stuck in place
>for quite some time.
Umm....I resist para at least %40 of the time (resist 88)
Cheers,
-
Fazza - Jolly Swagman [BA]
Guildmaster of the Blue Heelers,
Sonoma Shard (Ultima Online)
Grant Farrington
<war...@never.give.it.to.you> wrote:
>I can add just one thing to the other helpful comments... my mage has nearly
>(so close...)100 resist... I still only totally resist para 25% of the
You gotta be getting better than that manta, unless i've had an
unusual run of good luck at resisting them.
Are you talking about monsters para's or players ?
Is it just me or do monsters ebolts and flamestrikes just suck eggs
now ? I've yet to see a monster fs me for massive damage.
Tim Lisk
- Tim
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