executor of valour vs forsaken.
yes, my hit and damage is not 50/50 like mkatos because I have no ability to get eq. Mkatos logs on for 5 minutes 50 times a day to look for people. I literally had time today to request 1 mediocre item. grab 4 purples, a clear potion, a gyvel, and speak very very briefly with an applicant before mkatos logged on. This happens every time I log on. As far as gaining eq goes, it is scarce to see equipment worth getting and even more scarce to have a group to get most of it with anyway. Some would say 'just go gamble all of your eq.' I call them idiots, gambling takes a lot of time, as I pointed out earlier, mkatos is always on. Calculate in the cost of fighting a shaman too, and I have little gold left anyway. Flight potions are a must, that is 6k-10k for ONE. recall potions. Defenders. Detects. I am sure I am forgetting something else that costs money here. So now I have a choice of spending the little amount of gold I have left on the CHANCE of getting something decent to fight with, and not even a full suit, probably 4-5 pieces if I get really lucky and have time to sell a LOT of things back.
Before I died last time, I had rather decent eq, sitting at 30ish/30ish i think, with saves refer to a previous log for how that went. Sure I hit him a couple times more, but that didn't change anything. When a shaman fights a good align warrior they should NEVER lose a fight. Ever. Period.
Let me give the reasons. Fly, warriors have to be flying to for murder lags. if the shaman is flying and you aren't you have a significantly higher murder lag. so you HAVE to fly. You have to wear saves, all of them. Afflictive is least important, flay health is still a threat though. Mental is super important as a warrior, insomnia so you can't catch ticks, hysteria to completely ruin flee murder AND potion quaffing. Maledictive is obvious enough I hope.... When you actually do get some decent gear and have decent hit/dam with saves on you still can't win. Let me give you scenarios. Good align warrior first has to go through sanc and protection, super gimping the warriors damage output. Lets say you actually get the shaman to a few wounds/big nasty. You murder once, they flee instantly, run to a harder to find room, like ones in timaran, or repeat rooms, like moss-covered path. By the time you catch up to the shaman, they should be back in full health. So, you are still at half health and they are at full. Now, lets say fly falls for the shaman, cool, you are still flying, murder lag increases. You go for a trip, unless it is a giant shaman which is rare, the trip will last one whole round. trip lag on self is two rounds. shaman flees, recasts fly, runs, heals, comes back. Lets say ward falls... what do you do? some say disarm or shielddisarm, murder is actually still the best option. Ward in and of itself protects from EVERYTHING. increases parry ability, super protects shields too, this includes the axe bonus, pretty sure it is just a message without the benefit when ward is up. So, ward falls and all you have is murder still. Lets say protective shield falls... what are you going to do then? bash? if you were a storm giant maybe. and even then they can actually not be lagged enough to chain them. flee, run, recast, cure, come back. These are assuming the spells fall and you aren't already lagged from murdering and they don't flee in time for you to actually capitalize on it. That is a lot of ifs. so a flying, warded, protshield, and some really nice healing a shaman is super hard to kill in and of itself. As a good-align warrior, it is impossible, due to protection. Sure, I had mkatos in awful ONCE, with a VERY lucky murder/round run together. he fled, ran away from riverwood, worded, cured to full by the time I hit darkhaven, and proceeded to beat me down.
1. Szat the Master of Stealth - 51 hours 56 minutes
2. [LEGION] Kaglemar the Stronghold of Fury - 47 hours 53 minutes
3. [LEGION] Mkatos the Wrath of Darkhan, Forsaken of Legion - 41 hours 50 minutes
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5. [LEGION] Lucidique the Unholy Lady - 32 hours 58 minutes
6. Wumslorg the Master Surrealist - 31 hours 33 minutes
7. Mograd the Dark Knight - 24 hours 30 minutes
8. Adrieradune the Master of Metamorphosis - 23 hours 47 minutes
9. Cindrelin the Caller of Inferno - 21 hours 53 minutes
10. Lurayel the Unholy Lady - 20 hours 20 minutes
A scenario like this is one of the few instances Everyone And Their Mother will agree gangbanging is fine to use.
I think Xenyar's right that they should remove the "weapon disadvantage" thing. Keep exploit attacks and wild attacks from happening, but reinstate the poorer parrying from not knowing enemy weapons or something.
You guys are lucky Shamans had enhanced damage removed. They only get two attacks per round. Spam the dual wield axe damroll.
If you guys want to gamble better, grind some expensive rings from bandits or unlit city. They pop pretty fast for a 50 and you can sack them and spam sell 3-4 at at a time until you're out, move between that and magical weapons in grimforge grinds.
Also, you guys need to get MAGICAL weapons vs him too. Magic AC is a hard to get thing. That's why WRATH weapons seem to do so good even though you don't hit a vuln. It kind of annoys me that Darkhaven sells easy to get Turmoil weapons that is off limits to neutral or lawful characters. Dunno why they force players to "throw too the ground too risky". That screws up getting lots of weapons for anyone not chaotic, like Xavier scythe. Why they couldn't just keep it as you can wield the weapon but not benefit from wild attacks I don't know.
Constitution protects from flay health. They made a mistake putting fly lag on there.
Disarm is a fine skill if ward drops.
Learn how to gamble better. a giant or high strength can go pick up padded leather in ofcol, ethereal plate from the plains knight, and make regular sell runs. It beats doing tasks in a big way.
Have one person get guild reward and go in force grimforge and rake in lots of gold.
Don't get frustrated and stop logging in just because the gauntlet is hard for you. If getting to 50 was easy it'd be called 'the cakewalk', not 'the gauntlet'.
I got uninducted when 3 ranke 50 knights appeared and I was rank 45 so I said Fuck this shit because I have to go to work and I had been on for 45 minutes disconnected from the game by closing the mud client because I still had adrenaline. They recorded themselves trying to gangbang by tripping temple, and then complained that I didn't come defend because I was still logged in even though I had quit, and the imms have timestamps of when people disconnect so they should see that I wasn't connected at the time of invasion, but they still used their evidence of 3 50s trying to gangbang a rank 45 to complain and that got me booted from legion.
So fuck anyone who gets ganked. I approve of it and I do it now to people underranked. It's obviously okay.
Ganking, well that's your call. I do not believe in it but can be effective. Looking at how legion has more hours logged it might start something that the knights aren't ready for.
I would definitely use purples and vials against Mkatos. Defenders are a waste for me because he will simply run around in circles.
Foobat - I do not know how many shrooms that your eating but you might want to cut it back buddy. Lucidique does not toss me every time I log on, you might try asking him if you don't believe me.
malcious beast is so good on dark knights it's retarded. too bad drow have such shitty weight bearing.