I just started a Dark Elven Necro on Rallos this weekend, for the very same
reasons, and got him up to 6. A few things of note:
Dark Elves do not tolerate same-race killers. Ex. one certain level 5 Wizard
(Nuitari is the name, how original) constantly kills newbies (for money he
says). I have made it a point to kill him on sight, and so have about 8
other people I saw last night.
The first time I encountered him, I sent my pet and cast Poison Bolt, which
is DoT as we all know. He ran like a little girl, trying to cast gate all
the way...As far as I could tell, my pet never got a hit in before he went
invis or gated. The next time I saw him was just inside the city, and he was
at half health. It would seem to me this is because of my DoT spell (?) I've
never heard of these types of spells not working, and I've even heard of
stories from beta, so I'd assume they worked then... I'll cast it on myself
tonight to be sure.
It is rumored that this "racial unity" is unique to the evil races. I have
heard this in-game and also on message boards. Humans tend to slaughter each
other, and when parties of Trolls or whatnot attack Freeport, not many unite
to defend it. On the flip side, last night a level 4 Human Enchanter dared
enter our sacred forest (oops, sorry it's catching, heh). He had invis, so
it was a scramble for everyone in-zone to switch languages to Dark Speech,
gather the people who could detect invis near the bottlenecks like the
bridge or the zone entrance, and find him. I've never witnessed this kind of
organization/cooperation on other servers (Fennin, Solusek).
I have yet to travel out of Nektulos, so I can't help there. I'm waiting for
level 8, for the invis of course. I also can't say I've witnessed this
racial untiy type thing as a wood elf either. I started a ranger for the
heck of it, and while I was in the orc camp I was murdered. Beware taking on
tough mobs and getting low on health, cause that is a temptation some cannot
resist. I was killed in two shots by an 8th level erudite wizard, while two
other wood elves watched. I'm sure there are some instances of it with other
races, I've just never seen it or been a part of it. In fact, I've seen more
instances of people helping and healing others than I have of mindless
slaughter. I was scared at first, but it is very exciting, and a little fear
is healthy on Rallos. =)
<snip>
I've been toying with the possibility as well, but I'm waiting on a couple
things first.
A) DoT spells are illegal. Actually anywhere where you can kill your
opponent indirectly (like ROOTing someone underwater) is illegal because
they don't classify that damage or something. What does this mean? A
necromancer is virtually castrated. NO DoT means no Darkness Spells, No
Blood, Bo Heart Flutter, etc. Its sucks really bad.
B) Faction on inter-racial PKing. Basically this is player enforced. You
get a bad mark on your through players only but often this doesn't mean
anything.
Some things I've noticed or heard about. Essentially the only place you are
mostly safe is your own newbie area outside home, even then not much. But
in most open areas there's mostly an unspoken peace. It is NOT the
nightmare ambush world a lot of people are afraid of where you can't rest
anywhere or anything. Its bad sometimes, but for the most part you'll just
see people giving each other a WIDE berth, with some groups of vigilantes
running around. Things are definitely more exciting, and advancing in the
higher teens is often more difficult simply because your access to other
areas is somewhat more difficult. This is mostly on Antonica though. If
you start in Faydwer there's this nasty stuff going on between the Gnomes
and Elves, but for the most part you are as safe as in nonPvP. Erud is
still as crappy as it ever is. Most of the cool PvP stuff happens on
Antonica. It gnaws at me more and more to try out Rallos Zek, but I don't
want to do it till they fix DoT spells and other assorted screwups.
Malark on Karana
-----Original Message-----
From: Stuart Christian [mailto:
stuartc@...]
Sent: Tuesday, May 11, 1999 1:51 PM
To:
EQ_Necromancer@onelist.com
Subject: [EQ_Necromancer] PVP
Does anyone play on Rallos Zek? I was thinking of starting a character
there, but I have heard both positive and negative things about the server.
Does it differ a lot from the regular servers, besides anyone can kill you
within 4 levels? Do you still have the evil races grouping with the good
races or do they tend to group among their own race? How is the rampant Pk
situation, human killing other humans etc..?? Sorry for all the questions
but I'm getting bored with fighting NPCs on E'ci and I think being able to
fight the goodie goodies would spice it up a lot.
I was also thinking of joining a guild and participating in guildwars but I
haven't heard of any guilds doing that and what I see, all the guilds are
letting every race/class in. Which, IMHO isn't RP at all. Even if the
"evil" character claims that he has turned good.
-Kilven (E'ci)
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