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  • SaevaSaeva
    Why would dragons stay out of grukai when there are elder dragon talisman pieces from glubbers and polyps? That's kind of a big fat invitations for dragons.


  • AhmetAhmet Wherever I wanna be
    Saeva said:
    Why would dragons stay out of grukai when there are elder dragon talisman pieces from glubbers and polyps? That's kind of a big fat invitations for dragons.
    Then kill the glubbers and polyps and leave. Don't wipe out the whole bloody swamp just cause.
    Huh. Neat.
  • AhmetAhmet Wherever I wanna be
    Saeva said:
    Ahmet said:
    Saeva said:
    Why would dragons stay out of grukai when there are elder dragon talisman pieces from glubbers and polyps? That's kind of a big fat invitations for dragons.
    Then kill the glubbers and polyps and leave. Don't wipe out the whole bloody swamp just cause.
    That's actually how I and most dragons do it, but if someone wants to clear it all its not wrong. At all. Nobody has rights to claim on anywhere in specific.
    I mean, sure. Nobody has rights to claim anything. That doesn't mean I wouldn't be an ass for going and clearing Manara whenever I could :P 

    Tl;dr: Grukai (minus glubbers/polyps) is shitty gold and shitty experience compared to other dragon bashing areas, you're doing yourself a disservice if you're hunting all of grukai.

    If someone wants to bash out Grukai as dragon, it's totally up to them, just doesn't make much sense to me. Idk.
    Huh. Neat.
  • CynlaelCynlael
    Why would you only clear half of an area, that yields pretty nice gold overall?
    "Oh these don't give talisman pieces, guess I should just leave them and go somewhere else, and let someone else come along to an area that is only partially spawned."

  • AhmetAhmet Wherever I wanna be
    Cynlael said:
    Why would you only clear half of an area, that yields pretty nice gold overall?
    "Oh these don't give talisman pieces, guess I should just leave them and go somewhere else, and let someone else come along to an area that is only partially spawned."
    Glubbers and polyps are a very small portion of the overall area (maybe 10%? I'd say probably less), and the rest of the area doesn't yield nice gold. You get like 80g avg per drop.
    Huh. Neat.
  • KafzielKafziel
    Tydas said:
    To be fair, the AREAS command is a bit off. At level 85 with a little over 4k health, it recommends the LHG for huntings, so...
    The outside part of LHG is actually not bad, you can start that around level 65-70 if you're careful with werewolves, and before the prismatic barrier nerf I used to duo clear the entire thing minus penelope and werepanther cave with two level 80s.
  • AhmetAhmet Wherever I wanna be
    Kafziel said:
    Tydas said:
    To be fair, the AREAS command is a bit off. At level 85 with a little over 4k health, it recommends the LHG for huntings, so...
    The outside part of LHG is actually not bad, you can start that around level 65-70 if you're careful with werewolves, and before the prismatic barrier nerf I used to duo clear the entire thing minus penelope and werepanther cave with two level 80s.
    I used to clear outer LHG around 80 all the time and get nearly 1% per kill. As long as I was careful, it was great, and the deaths were way outpaced by the stupid amount of experience.
    Huh. Neat.
  • TydasTydas
    Kafziel said:
    Tydas said:
    To be fair, the AREAS command is a bit off. At level 85 with a little over 4k health, it recommends the LHG for huntings, so...
    The outside part of LHG is actually not bad, you can start that around level 65-70 if you're careful with werewolves, and before the prismatic barrier nerf I used to duo clear the entire thing minus penelope and werepanther cave with two level 80s.
    Huh. Good to know - I'll check it out next chance I get.
  • KlendathuKlendathu Eye of the Storm
    Tydas said:
    Kafziel said:
    Tydas said:
    To be fair, the AREAS command is a bit off. At level 85 with a little over 4k health, it recommends the LHG for huntings, so...
    The outside part of LHG is actually not bad, you can start that around level 65-70 if you're careful with werewolves, and before the prismatic barrier nerf I used to duo clear the entire thing minus penelope and werepanther cave with two level 80s.
    Huh. Good to know - I'll check it out next chance I get.
    Squint is your friend... if there's something two rooms away, chances are it'll turn up when you're hitting something else.

    BRB, clearing Grukai :D

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  • YaeYae
    I really love all the art on the Artisanals this round! @Mairl, @Adan, @Amik, @Dirg

     :o  <3


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  • AhmetAhmet Wherever I wanna be
    Yae said:
    I really love all the art on the Artisanals this round! @Mairl, @Adan, @Amik, @Dirg

     :o  <3


    Super disappointed that I didn't even hit merit, but then I did some digging and realized @Nicola was a super-amazing person.

    And <3 all of the artisanals
    Huh. Neat.
  • SzanthaxSzanthax San Diego
    Elsam said:
    I kind of wanted to rave about @Kasa . My character doesn't know him too well, but he has a hell of way of firing people up in the Hashan boards.
    @kasa gets my love because reasons



  • RyzethRyzeth
    Elsam said:
    I kind of wanted to rave about @Kasa . My character doesn't know him too well, but he has a hell of way of firing people up in the Hashan boards.
    Like half of his post was song lyrics. According to him I was the only one to have noticed :s
  • MelodieMelodie Port Saint Lucie, Florida
    I hope you're intending to keep that one!
    And I love too                                                                          Be still, my indelible friend
    That love soon might end                                                         You are unbreaking
    And be known in its aching                                                      Though quaking
    Shown in this shaking                                                             Though crazy
    Lately of my wasteland, baby                                                 That's just wasteland, baby
  • LucianusLucianus
    Melodie said:
    I hope you're intending to keep that one!
    My first Dragon sword... after a mountain of other swords. :|

    Definitely a keeper.
    That is not an ordinary star, my son. That star is the tear of a warrior. A lost soul who has finished his battles somewhere on this planet. A pitiful soul who could not find his way to the lofty realm where the great spirit awaits us all.
  • KeorinKeorin
    I've spent years struggling to feel like I have any idea what's going on myself, and have only recently begun to feel like I could maybe fight myself out of that bag. Combat is hard, but I'm sure you'll get the hang of it! Just starting to get used to how it goes seems like one of the most important things, so it's good to find something that you can grasp (Monk was the same thing for me).
  • LucianusLucianus
    Nataliia said:
    Awesome sword @Lucianus ! I still have my Sleeping Wave. RIP blademaster (3) days. I know it'd take a crap ton of practice, but I kind of wish I were more comfortable with some of the more challenging fighting styles. I love knight classes (2H specifically because I feel like it's something I can grasp as a new combatant), but there would be so many other options available if I felt like I could actually pick up on the fighting styles.

    Those of you who have fighting down to an art really impress me. A lot of you guys make it look so easy, and I'm over here just trying to fight my way out of a paper bag. I got pretty ticked about combatants getting easier recognition over the years in cities and guilds/houses and all that, but I can say that now that I've even started genuinely trying to learn how to fight, I can see why. (Doesn't mean I don't think non-comms deserve more notice but I do get why the notice is there for combatants.)
    You can actually be a really good and active combatant and get very little recognition. It only helps a little bit.

    Having a very good personality, a good set of social skills, and a bit of assertiveness mixed with roleplaying skills is what will get people and Gods to notice you in the long run.

    Or at least that is how it is in Targ... and other cities I've experienced in other Muds. Even the evil orgs required their leaders to be very charismatic on top of having a decent level of combat knowledge.

    Sure good combatants have the potential to climb up really fast in their orgs, but I guarantee you that it's not what really gets them to where they are (have definitely seen a lot of good rising combatants come and go in the past). It's who they know and the connections they've acquired through their social skills that does most of the work.

    So you definitely need to be balanced in order to make it to the top. Strictly leaning towards one end of the spectrum of a mud player can only get you so far.

    That is not an ordinary star, my son. That star is the tear of a warrior. A lost soul who has finished his battles somewhere on this planet. A pitiful soul who could not find his way to the lofty realm where the great spirit awaits us all.
  • ShirszaeShirszae Santo Domingo
    RIP Social skills.

    And you won't understand the cause of your grief...


    ...But you'll always follow the voices beneath.

  • RohaiRohai
    edited July 2016
    PKers and RPers each think the other gets easier recognition. Grass is always greener, etc.

    Note: this is obviously an oversimplification based on a false binary, but the point stands.
  • AntidasAntidas
    Rohai said:
    PKers and RPers each think the other gets easier recognition. Grass is always greener, etc.

    Note: this is obviously an oversimplification based on a false binary, but the point stands.
    It largely depends on who's in charge, imo. I've found that combatants tend to value other combatants more than heavily-focused RPers, and vice versa. Again, obvious oversimplification, but still.

  • AodfionnAodfionn Seattle, WA
    In Targ, you have a hell of a lot more leeway for mistakes before you get disciplined if you are a pk-er. the pro-pk bias is real. It's also somewhat beneficial, imo, because a city without fighters has a harder time than a city without rp-focused players. 
    Aurora says, "Are you drunk, Aodfionn?"
  • RohaiRohai
    I think that though that used to been the case, it really isn't anymore. Just looking through the disciplinary records, there's a lot of PKers in there and lot of em got hit pretty hard.

    Not that that's inherently a good thing. IC disciplinary action is kind of difficult, because on one hand you have city policies to enforce, but on the other hand, it's still a game, so you don't really want to be actively making things unpleasant for other players. Mhaldor has a neat thing going where they make their beheadings into a whole RP thing that are entertaining, in a way. Without that aesthetic, you're kind of left to just... publicly shaming people, or knocking them down a hard-earned city rank. It becomes no fun for anyone involved. Maybe we just need to get more creative here, too.

    Went off on a tangent there, but I don't think PKers get a free pass anymore these days.
  • AodfionnAodfionn Seattle, WA
    edited July 2016
    Considering how the Council handled some of the more recent cases, I would strongly disagree. . 

     we had one person threat to quit city over a beheading because it would be public.   Council moved back and back and back from the original punishment, because we weren't willing to risk losing someone who was going to quit iver being disciplined. Eventually, it wound up being a total non-punishment with a private execution. If that person had not been an active pk-er, there would have been zero problem with simply handling it. 

    That's bias. It's not a bad thing, necessarily, but it is definitely there. 
    Aurora says, "Are you drunk, Aodfionn?"
  • KietKiet
    I think Targ of all places hasn't exactly historically favored PKers, that's why so many left in the past. I do believe it's less of PK vs non-PK, though, and more how visibly you contribute to the city. PK is just an easy way to be visible, but standout administrators, leaders, religious leaders, etc. will be visible too.
  • AodfionnAodfionn Seattle, WA
    Pretty much, Kiet.

    By 680-ish, we were getting consistently and thproughly whooped on a constant basis. There was a conscious effort on the part of the council (which makes Rohai's post somewhat puzzling) to go out and try to compensate by doing the same thing Silas was saying in the beginning; you have to give a little more lee way to pkers, and you have to be willing to turn a blind eye to some shenanigans in order to help cultivate a scene that doesn't make people want to ragequit through over-management or through lack of recognition. 
    Aurora says, "Are you drunk, Aodfionn?"
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