first time on AR

[reiyami]

I found AR through TMC and read some reviews. It sounded good. So I decided to play. I've played many other muds, most of them Diku. So I'm not having a terrible time adapting to AR. It has many interesting things I havn't seen before though and I'm enjoying it.

I'm playing a necro. I keep hearing this is a terrible class for new players. Why is that? It sounds like that can do a lot of damage. They also have many spells like identify, summon, detect invis that should make playing them easy.

[Sethronu]

Welcome to our MUD. Necros are not that difficult once you grasp their playing style. Its that they are so unique versus other classes, especially to the majority of people who like to stick with warriors, that they are rarely making headlines (until someone comes along once in a while and stirs up some dust with them). Don't know how the recent changes affected the numbers but a year or so back, I would have put my money down that necros were the strongest class in AR when played right.

Some reasons necros are hard to play:
1. weak before rank 30
2. derided as trash if you mass pk at 30 (where they are very strong)
3. hard to rank from 40 to 50
4. hard to get really good pets at 50, need to rely on your spells and use your head in fights since you have the lowest hp

Reason they are very strong:
1. versatile, they have arguably the best afflictive spell, they have arguably the best maledictive spell, they have arguably the best mental spells, and they have a form to heal themselves, plus if you get good zombies then you have some of the most damage melee output (more than a warrior).

I'd expect a few things to change but so far that's my analysis.

[reiyami]

I see what you mean. I just got PKed for the first time. Level 12. It was fast. Can't say I'm too happy about it.

[reiyami]

Is that common by the way? To be killed so quickly for no reason like that?

[reiyami]

Been killed by this same person twice now..

[Jamus]

That has never happened to me... most of the pk happens around your 35th rank and up. That's odd that they killed you TWICE at level 12, I mean... they probably figured it out that you were new to AR by the first kill, and left you alone. Killing at low ranks like that is kind of frowned upon, I think. Especially multikilling.

If you were talking smack to them, attacked their friend, or insulted them in anyway, you may have deserved it . "Help pk rules"

For me, the fights vary. If you're new, of course you're going to get owned the first few times before you start to know your way around. Fights range from me totally owning the other, long lasting fights with lots of recalls to hometown, lots of tracking/healing/fighting, and other fights where I am caught off-guard and get totally rocked. You have to be prepared in order to last in a fight.

"Edit" is a very useful function in the forum.

[Mendek]

There are controls in place to curb low level Pking. Being killed twice by the same person at that level isn't usually taken lightly unless you ran your mouth, attacked back, etc. Obvious new players often get tagged by the Immortals also. When these players get PK'd it's looked at more closely than others. No experienced player (hopefully) bothers to try PKing below level 20 anymore.

[Groq]

I would guess it just wasn't caught, either next time it happens or next time your on write a complaint to Immortal and explain what happened. Multi killing is frowned upon and a system is in place to try to stop it at the lower ranks. Next time it happens just bring it to the Immortals attention and it should be dealt with.

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[reiyami]

I tried to get back at her by PKing her back. I was trying to cast blindness. I didn't realize my blindness was at 1%.

I have a lot to learn.

[Groq]

I believe they are talking about Acid Blast formalism.

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[theobserver]

[Stephen2_Aust]

[crazyhorse]

Wrath only really works on evils, and has a 1.5 round lag time.

Hellstream also has a 1.5 round lag, and costs much more to cast.

My side would be that hellstream and acid blast are equal. But acid blast is hella nice.

[Vhrael]

And while it's cool as hell imagining someone's face getting melted off by an acid blast, there aren't many things funnier than hellstreaming someone and destroying their Big Ol'Pack Sack.

Still cracks me up every time I think about that...

[Phostan]

Yeah, necros are really difficult, and people might attack you just because of all the trouble they've had with necromancers when they were using other chars, which isnt right, its just some people really really hate necros. You would have been better off starting with a warrior class. Or if you were intent on a mage class, a healer, and if an evil mage class, a shaman. It's really hard to find groups for illusionists and necromancers, and even invokers to an extent. Just keep up your invisibility spell when you're not leveling, keep a high wimpy, and watch out for people of the opposite alignment in your pk.(They'll show up when you type who pk, but not when you type who group) In case you didn't know what wimpy is, it'll try to make you flee from combat when you reach a certain level of health. The most it can be is half your health, minus one sometimes. And your guild has a guardian that'll only let other necromancers in, so don't hesitate to sit in your guild while looking for a group. All I can think off to suggest.

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[Amdorin]

[Davairus]

Hello, I'm the Immortal that was around talking to you this morning.. good to see you found the forums.