A Couple of Newbie Questions

[Kaniyre]

I stopped playing Abandoned Realms for a long time and I'm back. I have a couple of questions that I hope someone can answer them. Thank you very much.

1) Can you still train defenses/skills in Abandoned Realms or is it not worthwhile anymore?
2) How do I dismount from the Wheel of Death?

[geadin]

You can practice your skills/defenses at a guild master up to 75%, After that you'll have to practice them by killing mobs for combat skills, or for skills like hide you'll have to use over and over again until you master them at 100%. The Wheel of Death is true to it's name, Getting someone to heal you should make it easier. I don't think you can dismount it once you're on it.

[Tiqa]

That whole circus area scares me. I loaded myself into the cannon and was blasted off to some far off place. I have not had the guts to try the Wheel of Death. If you train during a surge, your learning is that much the better.

[_Clifton_]

[Olyn]

[Erlwith]

Something also to note is that I believe Dav changed it so regardless of the npc lvl vs yours you'll still gain at the same rate. of course getting hit a lot more still raises your chances of gaining skill prof.

[Davairus]

^something like that, it was made a lot more forgiving.

yeah not sure if i approve of players treating surges as training sessions ..been wanting to nerf that one for a long time. Its like we have all these training restrictions and along comes a surge and you just bruteforce them. So thats why it was originally lame training for a while, which I finally decided to revert on.. If we could find some way to make that surge bonus only count for grouped players that are trying to rank I think I'd be in approval otherwise. Anyway, use it, its been around a long time.

[Kaniyre]

So does wielding the training sword and wearing those demon-faced talismans/green and yellow ring method still work? Or is ranking normally like Clifton mentioned a better idea?

[_Clifton_]

toy swords + demon faced talismans have been out of the picture for about four years now.

the thing that changed is that they re-ordered the system so misses aren't even blockable, and so you can't learn anything by tanking a bunch of stuff that misses.

[Kaniyre]

I see. Thanks for the update. Anyway, if I have mud client questions to ask (script/aliases/macro and etc.), can I do that here? This is because invokation.net scripts section don't look really active (no offense).