at low levels disease cloud is pretty effective, mainly because it prevents
normal healing for the course of the disease. it is worthless to care if a
darkweed snake regens 10 pts of damage when you are L8, but if you are L2
and fighting a spiderling, it could mean the difference between killing or
being killed.
Belphenor
>From: "Chris Nixon" <cnixon@...>
>I'm 4th lvl right now.. I've used the disease cloud, but it seems a little
>ineffectual in regards to the time it takes something to wallop you.
>Perhaps that is because it is such a low spell though.
>
>Asmoden
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Juan Custer <JuanC@...>
> To: 'EQ_Necromancer@onelist.com' <EQ_Necromancer@onelist.com>
> Date: Tuesday, May 11, 1999 3:11 PM
> Subject: Re: [EQ_Necromancer] PVP
>
>
>
> As a Necro you should know this. Its stands for Damage Over Time.
>Spells like all your Darkness spells, Heat Blood, Blood Boil, Poison Bolt,
>pretty much everything in our offensive category except LifeDrain spells
>can be classified under DoT. LifeDrain is a DD spell, which stands for
>Direct Damage.
>
> Malark on Karana
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Chris Nixon [mailto:cnixon@...]
> Sent: Tuesday, May 11, 1999 3:08 PM
> To: EQ_Necromancer@onelist.com
> Subject: Re: [EQ_Necromancer] PVP
>
>
> What is this DoT spell?
>
> Asmoden
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Juan Custer <JuanC@...>
> To: 'EQ_Necromancer@onelist.com' <EQ_Necromancer@onelist.com>
> Date: Tuesday, May 11, 1999 2:03 PM
> Subject: Re: [EQ_Necromancer] PVP
>
>
>
> 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)
_______________________________________________________________
Get Free Email and Do More On The Web. Visit
http://www.msn.com