The easiest and simplest class to play?

[magnetaress]

Originally Posted by Jibartik [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I was gonna say druid but now people like, use druids to solo pull hate and the spore king and log onto other characters, so man Im going to say that sounds like maybe the hardest class to play haha

u could do the same thing with a wiz

[greenspectre]

Originally Posted by pivo [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Thank you, yes it was confusing at start. I didn't realized that colors were defining a range not a single level.

I'm assuming, same (colors) goes for magician pet. (playing now magician also) No other way to figure out the pet level, correct? If I /con it and it is yellow I'm OK ;-) (until I level up)

Yes, con will determine the relative strength of your pet when you first level into a new rank of pets, but eventually they turn blue and then the only way to tell is to see what it hits for. Pay attention to what the max damage hit on your pet is, as the highest level pet you can summon generally hits for 2 or so more max.

Also, give your pet the highest damage rusty 2-hander you can find. Pets can hold weapons, and they ignore the delay but DO get a bonus for the damage. So a 9-damage rusty halberd will make your pet hit for up to 18 per swing.

[Jibartik]

Originally Posted by magnetaress [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

u could do the same thing with a wiz

Didn't loging out wipe detrimental spells in the olden p99 days? Are people able to do this now because of a change? Or has it always been like this?

[magnetaress]

Originally Posted by Jibartik [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Didn't loging out wipe detrimental spells in the olden p99 days? Are people able to do this now because of a change? Or has it always been like this?

I noticed it's been kinda buggy from memory. Snare n roots seemed to always behave this way here AFAICR. Not sure if classic.

[ewjax]

Originally Posted by greenspectre [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Also, give your pet the highest damage rusty 2-hander you can find. Pets can hold weapons, and they ignore the delay but DO get a bonus for the damage. So a 9-damage rusty halberd will make your pet hit for up to 18 per swing.

Tagging on to this comment with a little more detail:

Pet damage with weapons = the higher of
- their innate damage value (depends on pet level)
- whatever weapon you give them will be 2*damage + 1

That 9 damage weapon will hit for a max of 19 points every swing.

If you and your pet are high enough level that the pet hits for more than 19 already, giving the pet a weapon will have no effect.

[pivo]

Originally Posted by greenspectre [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Also, give your pet the highest damage rusty 2-hander you can find. Pets can hold weapons, and they ignore the delay but DO get a bonus for the damage. So a 9-damage rusty halberd will make your pet hit for up to 18 per swing.

That is useful! First I forgot I can give pet a weapon. And if I would recalled, I would just create one with the spell, I didn't know I can give them a 'real' weapon. And that only damage counts. Great, pet is now even better ;-)

[pivo]

Originally Posted by ewjax [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Tagging on to this comment with a little more detail:

Pet damage with weapons = the higher of
- their innate damage value (depends on pet level)
- whatever weapon you give them will be 2*damage + 1

That 9 damage weapon will hit for a max of 19 points every swing.

If you and your pet are high enough level that the pet hits for more than 19 already, giving the pet a weapon will have no effect.

So much useful info I'm getting here, thanks!

[pivo]

This game is brutal!!! Is there somewhere available some basic statistic about the game? There is how much time I played total so far. What about how many times I died? I bet I'm topping this metric. I must of have died over 100 times total for 4 toons: mage gnome lvl 8, druid1 half elf lvl 6, druid2 wood elf lvl 6 and Necro gnome lvl 6.

So I'm at very start and I died way over 100 times. Easy. This must be some kind of record. Many times because of my mistake. But several times because this game hates me! [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

"ouch, forgot to 'con' it and right this one has to be much higher level"

I learned what 'social monsters' means. I learned that not all skeletons are skeletons. Dwarf Skeletons are a little bit different that Decaying for example. First one you attack, from second one you run lol.

About brutal game. I'm minding my own business, killing skeletons and yelp something, can't recall the name, when one attacked me from the back, while I was dealing with the other one. Social thing. I was glad at first, cool, will not need to hunt him down. But when I saw my HP going down to fast, I realized it was probably a yellow. I had speed buff on me and, as clumsy as I am, I somehow remembered anyway, to throw a snare at him. *patting on my back* Then I ran. It was pitch dark. About the direction I was heading, I had the idea, but wasn't sure.

As I'm running I recalled someone here on this forums mentioned: "Shift-T" to look back. And since I was fast and who knows maybe snare even did stick, I may risk a look over the shoulder. So I did. He was nowhere to be seen, but it was very dark and my (running) body was in the way. So I'm manipulating mouse to see if I can spot him somewhere behind me. Well, I could not see him, so I probably had quite a good distance between him and me. (good, I'm finally getting better...) then BANG! Looks like I run over some hill and fell of the clip. And died. Again! Can you believe it?!? What a stupid way to die. Yep, there has to be some record in my dying!

So I went back to try to find the body (area between GF and Kaladim). I was searching for hours and could not locate it. I died several times. I couldn't resist, bone chips... But every so often I ran into yellow or some non social distancing between monsters, or some other trouble. So I called it a day.

Next day same story. After about another hour or two I recalled that necromancer has some finding corpse spell. So I switched and tried with Necro. Well there are just too many bodies around, I was keep coming to the same ones. Some were there from yesterday. Why are players not pickling up their bodies? I knew I had fallen of something, so I was climbing on top of the hills, just to fell of one and got killed again! Boy, I'm dying like no tomorrow.

Well at least this time was easier to locate body. By clicking on myself, necro's spell quickly found it. Based on how much I'm being killed, Necro may be best suitable for me, for that reason, to easy find my own corpse.

Well after few hours (not exaggerating) I gave up. I called for help in the guild. Some also new player, lvl6 bard helped me (bless his soul). Well his soul was also happier for 5 platina. I gave him what I had, I was so happy I finally got my corpse back. Even Bard had trouble finding it. First he was not experienced, he just got that spell, and second, corpse was not on the ground!!! It was floating way up, at that cliff I fell over. I would NEVER found it there.

Since corpse generally has no business floating and levitating, I technically didn't fell down. Means I technically shouldn't die! So how come I did?!? Where can I get refund? lol

Boy, two days of searching for my corpse, I was probably killed way over 10 times during this time, so most of the time I was running back from my spawn point back into this area. The really annoying thing is keep putting spells back into spell bar. Then I once saw 'save spells' after right clicking on it. I was so happy! How come I didn't noticed this before? Just to get cold shower about a half an hour later, when I was resurrected again at spawn point again. Click didn't go through. And again! What in the world?!? Then I saw the msg. I wanted to cry lol

Anyway, I started with new Druid, since first one (Half Elf) was getting really slow. After every attack I needed to sit down for 2-3 minutes to replenish my empty mana bar. And I droped from lvl 6 to lvl 5 few times. That Misty something on the other side of the wall is just not easy for me. Attack, then wait few minutes. This is booooring, comparing to my mage or necro, who can keep play most of the time. I just sit and use pet while meditating and I'm happy with only 50% XP at that time, so game goes on, and it is fun.

With this Druid, I can read a book while waiting on mana. And somehow I wanted to play the game, not read the book... [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.] I understand at lvl 8 I get meditating skill, but it would take forever and be quite boring to get to lvl 8. I worried if things don't improve I will only play mage and necro.

Because of this, I decided to roll another Druid, the one I can level up low levels with turn ins. And yes, if was easy. First killing skeletons and harvesting bone chips until lvl 4 (well and you know, keep running back from spawn point) ;-) then I used those bone chips to level to 6! Now I'm harvesting those belts with mage to level druid to lvl 8. Then I will get meditate and it will get better.

Good plan, if I wouldn't lost my corpse for TWO darned days.

I love this game, but boy it is brutal! And considering I'm very bad, clumsy player, you can get the picture.

Do I have fun? You bet!
Lots of nice players in the game also! I can see, how some of you can stick with it for so long.

[pivo]

Since my mage gnome was so successful in leveling up from 6 to 8 while looting orc belts, I though I would repeat the same for my lvl 6 necro gnome. I got somewhere half way into GF when Faerie Duches attacked me and it was red to me. Interesting, I though this is starting zone, didn't have a clue there are so high level monsters flying around.

Some high level Druid buffed me with SOW and I didn't want to lose it. So I was running toward zone. My plan was to hit the wall, then just follow it until I spot the entrance. Well, there are too many trees and by dodging them I was running in circles instead of straight line, since I never hit the wall. Then I spot the guard. Good, he will help me! I ran toward him and BAM! He killed me. So much for good plan [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Now that's just injustice! I'm a GOOD necro, gnome necro, everyone likes gnomes!

So I come back, carefully avoiding one guard to try to find my corpse. When BAM! some guard sneaks behind me and kills me again.

No wonder, players are killing these corrupt blood-lust guards, when they level up. I will too, one day! Revenge will be sweet...

[Jimjam]

Haha, I love how you’ve hammered some RP out of that situation instead of getting too mad.