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Message ID: 971
Date: Mon Jul 5 03:24:55 BST 1999
Author: Synzzz
Subject: Re: Clarification on Stealing
----- Original Message -----
From: LKW <leekw13@...>
To: <sg-everquest@onelist.com>
Sent: Monday, July 05, 1999 9:55 AM
Subject: [sg-everquest] Clarification on Stealing
> From: LKW <leekw13@...>
>
> I'm now based at HH, soloing. Downtime is long but get all the xp.
> Actually if wiz wanna play punk we can rise lvl pretty fast, by stealing
> (huh? Leshrec is rising lvl fast? well...errr..hehehehe). So far what I
> did is to attack the moment when the mob spawn, which normally draw the
mob
> to me and turn to a melee + casting battle. This way is quite ok, but
some
> pple at Ro still call me a stealer. They forget that my down time is so
> long (normally used up at least 80% of my mana and 1-2 bubb of my HP).
For
> this kinda pple I normally scold back or use the ignore command on them.
> Those wizs in HH really "aim' nicely and start nuking when the mob hp
drop
> by 30-40% (At one time I just sit next to them and observe how they hunt).
> Btw the time mob turn to them, the mob only left 10-20% HP. If I were to
> follow their style, I think I will lvl much faster, coz this method means
> they just nuke 2 times (hurt more than 50%) and let others finish their
> kill, and they got less down time and more loot. H/w, this method also
> spoil a wiz reputation and not very nice to do, so I choose the harder
way.
> So for all the new comers out there, pls do not make noise if a wiz is
> using his body to tank and got a kill just becoz he kill faster then u.
> Make him frustrated he may change his mind and start "stealing" from u,
> hehe. If u wish to take turns to kill, pls ask when u enter a camp. Me
> personally quite bo chap if those high lvl players just step in and start
> hunting. My opinion is - if they just step in and hunt, they are trying
to
> compete for kills, so no need to give way. I ever come across a necro
from
> Higher Order of Arcane at lvl 16 (name is Malten), and he spam me for
> stealing his kill, simply becoz I nuke and his pet attack same time. Of
> coz, my nuking is far more damaging than his little pet, draw the mob to
me
> and he spam all the way. So irritating that I use the ignore command on
> him, heheh. Btw, one of the big stealers at HH now is Senear, the lvl 17
> wiz, also from Higher Order of Arcane. He and another guildmate of his
> were nuking whole day at HH yesterday. They steal from groups of lvl
> 18-20+ melee fighters. In the end the other groups all invite me to join
> theirs becoz they can see I only nuke and dun steal, and my nuking plus
> their melee can take back some kills.
>
> Last piece of advice, if u are camping at certain spot, and a wiz of lvl
16
> (below lvl 16 we still quite sux, hehe) and above is also camping there,
> either ask for rotation or move elsewhere. A wiz can steal from a melee
> char of 8-10 lvl above him. No joke. Even if you are are in a full house
> of melee chars of the same lvl as that wiz, the wiz can still steal, if he
> wants. So if the newcomers come across this kinda CB players, it's wiser
> to move on to another camp, coz it's only waste of time to stay there (u
> are helpnig him to kill only).
>
> Btw, even wiz can be quite guai lan at time, but IMHO the most seah-lan is
> high lvl enchanter. Not only they just hunt by charming mobs to kill
> themselves (ie hunt without even using their hands, heh). Make them
> frustrated they can train all the mobs on u, hehe.
>
> FYI, if u hunt around NRo, there is a PvP dwarf name Broughm who like to
> train SG to non-PvP players, I bet this is the only way he can kill those
> non-PvP players. Kinda sick minded - kill for the fun of killing. He
> train cutts to me twice, one time almost kill me and 2nd time killed
> himself, heh.
>
> Ziltus
>
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