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Healers loved me because I was some sort of a miracle tank. Like, my skill was good but I was super lucky on a lot of things that should've killed me.
- I'm not around much lately because IRE games and the lack of consequences bother me
- I'm playing a permadeath MUD instead, where if I do something stupid I might DIE and have hours/days/weeks of investment ripped away from me
- There's a very real chance this will become my secondary game for awhile, so long as Carrier stays going, and that's always a weird thing.
- I probably mudsex better than I pk (laaaadies) because I still manual it (and I consider my system the pker, not me)
- I have the coding knowledge/experience to write a curing system, but I'm ghosting off of an old version of @Draiman's. I've never relied on one I wrote because I hate doing all the tedious little bits and pieces, my love is bugfixing and tweaking and cussing the previous coder for their failures.
- I got a pin-up made of an alt to attract RP attention.
- - It worked
- - - That Daskalos story where I won the Storytelling Contest is probably like the proudest, most accomplished I've ever felt playing this game, just because everyone telling me OOC how I blew the competition out of the water, and I'd never considered myself a storyteller before.
- I feel myself starting to lose interest in playing, for a combination of reasons.
-- I feel bad for this, because I know the game already has so few players during the summer.
-- I know I won't stop playing, even though I probably should, because of the above reason and my desire to make the game fun for others.
--This is because I have flat out out maged both Lim and Mazzion both but still lost due to them just doing more damage because of artifacts.
---Also because of old Praenomen mirrors with pre nerf confusion and pre rework blood curse.
-I'm rediculous insecure about my PK ability. This stems from multiple reasons.
--I've beaten Lim, Varel, Akara, Ezalor, Ashmer, Serrice, Valingar (most still have a better win rate vs me though, some for inactivity reasons >.>), and I always hear how great they are and how OP whatever class I'm using is.
---My OP classes consist of Praenomen, Syssin, Ascendril, Sciomancer, all versions of Indorani in the last two years, Templar, Sentinel, and to a lesser extent Carnifex
----I'm extremely needy and need validation when it comes to PK. >.>
This is why RPK can be dangerous.
A truelock is when you completely and totally eradicate your enemy's abiltiy to cure. Slickness, asthma, anorexia, impatience, paralysis, superstition, etc. Usually impossible due to endgame curing and class curing, both of which can't be stopped.
Prerestore is when you apply restoration to heal limb damage before your limbs are actually broken. Your limbs break at 33% damage, so if you have 15% damage to a limb and apply restoration to that limb, it'll heal that 15% of damage.
If you lock someone as a mage then o.O
I don't know how helpful this will be, but for a long time the Carnifex was a very small guild. It took Moirean a few years to establish a core set of people (about 4-5) who were Carnifex through and through.
After she was banned and I took over, I had he same issue you do with getting people to be involved as aides. It took me about a year of having to RP at the novices, taking people hunting and pouring lots of gold into funding people. It was disheartening to see some of those investments slip away into dormancy, but after about a year the guild was suddenly booming and the people I'd initially invested in were now the ones perpetuating the activity and growing the guild's player base.
This is nice because I was starting to burn out big time on doing all those things. I'm still shellshocked from having to be so involved with what felt like a large number of players. For a while I was keeping track of each person's personal RP arcs and trying to adapt things around each person so as to make the guild fit to what would make the Carnifex a positive experience. I think it's worked because there are a lot of folks in the guild now who are active, but it's left me feeling drained and now I've devolved into a 'yes/no' man for questions, who sits primarily on a couch dozing in the back room of a bar.
Edit: Grammar so hard.
-I really, really, really envy those that can PK with just tri-trans class skills and some survival/trans survival. Or even less than that. Here I'm sitting on artifacts that make me tanky, tri-trans nearly all Spirit-side classes and trans everything else.
On a related note to the above, I am constitutionally incapable of playing a villain, anti- or otherwise. I swear that the shining armor must be welded on. Every attempt I've made has either promptly jumped over to the good guys or left to wither away quietly. I will note, however, that this has always been the case. I can angst with the best of them, but I can't make a baddie badge stick.
I feel like this all says a lot more about me than I can readily appreciate. I just hope that there are some of ya'll that can relate.
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Always interested in knowing how I'm doing!
Thing is, in my time of manualling my offense, I'd had to learn the ins and outs of my class (which was old school monk). This then meant, with the backup to support me, I could actually use that knowledge. But it was more than just the knowledge of my own class. It was the knowledge of everyone elses as well.
I now rely heavily on old Oasis (which me and @Rashar are still gimping around on. Though he has an infinitely better grasp of it than I do) and @Serrice's aff-tracker. Essentially nothing in my system (other than a few tweaks to affs, a few added triggers and some utility stuff) has been coded by me. I'm not ashamed to admit it! I don't have the time between working a full time job in Finance and my band. When I do log in, I do just want to be able to enjoy the game and not spend the little time I have coding stuff (though I'd love to learn). Regardless of that I've still managed to beat or nearly beat (damn you @Varel) some of the top tier combatants, like yourself or @Akara.
My own opinion is that yes, the healing and offense is important, but no-where near as important as your situational awareness and general combat knowledge needs to be. I think that that is the key difference between a mid-tier combatant and a top combatant. Knowing when to gtfo. Knowing other peoples classes just as well as they do and what they're trying to build up to. Keeping an eye on your own affs or the momentum of the fight. Knowing what options you have available to you in sticky situations.
Are all of these things codeable? Maybe! What's let me down in the fights that I've lost recently, particularly to Indorani such as @Mazarine, is because a lot of little things have changed in a way that have a big impact on a fight overall. Some of it will need to be added into the curing, but most of it is being able to read what's going on in the fight so I can be aware of what I need to do.
- Synne got to Tekal by killing a planthopper.
- The draw to Aetolia was someone from another MUD (who, I have recently discovered, was @trager) told me it was rp heavy. And while I consider myself a pretty decent writer, I panic about getting the emotes right and so rping is incredibly stressful. I'm super envious of people who rp well.
- I am so thankful for the firstaid system as I don't know how to code and wouldn't have lasted long without it.
- I really wish I knew how to code.
-a result of the above fact of reaching that minimum is that when I eventually get bored with him and toss him aside like I have a terrible habit of doing, I will not hesitate to simply retire him and recoup those credits.
- I have no idea when this will happen, but I know it won't be any time soon, with RP being a main driving force for me staying since pvp is still something I am learning, and doesn't feel like an anchoring force as a result. (RP AT ME AND I STAY FOR LONGER, HINT HINT)
- I likely will head over to Achaea when I get bored of Xandren. Either that, or I'll go back to the Shadow side. Maybe grab a mage-type in spinesreach, or who knows, might go back to the carnifex so I can RP some more with @Xenia, cause it was always fun RPing with her when Moi was around.
- I don't bother concealing who my alts were in the past, but I do have a nasty habit of leaving characters to rot and almost never returning to them. There has been ONE special exception to this rule, and it was because it was a rebirthing of the character from someone focused on control and perfection, to going into a nusto maddened rage berserker. And he used a giant mace with a circular saw riveted into the body in a way that it was left to spin freely. He gleefully screamed at people and wailed on them. and was an acceptably decent combatant. His original control-freak perfectionist self also was a noteable combatant. At least comparable to @lait's current position in the combat tiers. (that's pretty high for MKO. He wasn't a titan, but people were like, "Oi, that SM guy's around. let's NOT do pvp right now", and it was an interesting feeling. I did this without arties too. just self-forged weapons.)
-The above character was based off of two individual sources. Both of these sources I made my own when using them.
- Xandren here uses Deku Scrubs as source material for his Yeleni race. As a result. He's literally the weight of a similar-sized child, and thus is easily able to be picked up and thrown around. He's a small bush. What do you expect.
- I am still going to plug for my Self-Affirmation thread over here: http://forums.aetolia.com/discussion/2133/xandren
- I want you lot to RP with me dangnabbit. Drama RP is.. discouraged, but not expressly forbidden. It just will exhaust me quickly is all.
-I'm stressed when I play Coryn
--This is making me burn out
-I'm totally unsure where to take Coryn from where he is now. Losing any sort of creativity when it comes to playing him.
"The smell of dusty fur, sweet smoke, waiting and patience, a thing that time cannot kill. The moth that candles won't burn."