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Give me a little bit to correct the post structure and grammar wise. I did it on a phone so it was a pain in the ass. But I just wanted to say thank you for the reply. I know you may not remember me from 2005-2006ish I was newish then but I am pretty sure I remember you. It involves summoning balls, teleport, and 7xgm mares. Please tell me if I have the wrong person.
I'm not sure how you think this is going to create cowardly pvp and unhealthy griefing, again and again poeple keep pointing to people using the entrances as choke points to kill people. This only works on the way in and you still have a fair chance of getting away.
Stealth mages should be a viable template, why would they not be?
Well let first say what player killers will be doing if this system is fully put in place. Before you enter any cave or dungeon there is that black space that holds one or two tiles underneath it. Within that space you can crack box's of objects stacked on one title. Similar to what douchebags do in factions but the blackness completely hides it.
This would fully stop any player from entering the dungeon. In turn making recalling into a dungeons entrances a death trap. I will already be attacking you before your screen even changes to your current location. The player first reaction upon getting attacked would be to run for the dungeon to break line of sight and possibly get recall off inside the dungeon. This won't be possible as I blocked it. They will panic and in their panic they will die without even casting a spell in most cases.
This is just one example and I share it because commonly known by old school pks. We used to do it on Altantic in Shame because earth elems at the entrance were popular early on in Ultima Online.
Dont even get me started about how players will use ghosts to monitor spawns. I dont honestly understand how you folks dont get that this will be nothing but problems. It is a bit scarey to see both admins believing this is a good idea at all.
There is many other tactics that I am withholding sharing. We can talk more in private about if you wish to know the other methods but you won't even get into the dungeon. Other pks and I dont care about 10k, so it doesn't matter if the player hasn't farmed anything yet. Hence the cowardly PvP and griefing comment of mine.
Stealth mages are a viable template if dungeons were more active as is. This change would lead to dungeon PvP being a one template show... Because as I said earlier you have zero chance of killing me without recalling almost directly on top of me. No alchy stun, dexxer, bola tamer, etc is going to kill me in a dungeon by running from off screen.
PvP has always been item based, and will continue to be. People who tend to spout off with comments like this believe that playing a 5x mage is the only true pvp spec and everything else is just trash. Removing runic weapons doesn't stop vanq weapons from being used by players. (and yes I know the difference between an exceptional vanq and a regular)
Unicorns and Ki-Rin probably need a rework to make them competitive insted of glamorous, but you can say that about soooo many things in UO. We are trying to make changes slowly over time to bring the shard to a more balanced place.
The Hybrid Mare simply added something new for tamers, and is basically a rehued nightmare. Yes the stats are somewhat better but not glaringly so.
Removing runic weapons doesn't stop people from using vanq weapons but that was my point if you reread what I wrote.
With runic weapons as they are I have no reason to farm weapons in dungeons. Why would I go farm for vanq weapons in a dungeon when I can just make a golden runic weapon? Yes PvP will always be item based to a degree but there is no need to compound that and at the same time you would give me a reason to farm these retarded AI monsters. I didn't say remove runic hammers just let them slowly fade away as they currently are doing on their own.
Note all I play is dexxers and I am asking for runic weapons to be slowly faded out. In no way does this benefit me. Blessed weapons are a joke, nothing PvP related should be blessed.
People are always asking for something to do in this game, when ever we add something new certain people point at it and try to say bad. Adding more and exciting things to do will be the only way to continue the longevity of the shard.
That is all fine but I dont do that. I normally give suggestions and furthermore I do my very best to explain myself. I welcome change but that doesn't mean I welcome what is in my opinion bad changes such as readding t2a.
Pretty sure runic kits have charges, but I digress. Even if runic kits were so easy to get ahold of that you can making an infinate supply of weapons so be it, runic weapons are in the shard and will remain on the shard. Which leads me to bows. Who is to say that releasing runic bows isn't a first step into an overhaul of weapons as is?
I look forward to it but I can't comment on future changes you haven't told us about. You are more than welcome to share your future plans with us but I can only comment on what I know and see.
It amazes me that someone who is so out spoken thinks anyone would type [poppouch while playing this game. Total time and energy spent on those commands is miniscual.
I didn't think that. I said that as a point of saying "wtf" I know it didn't take long that's why it was done.
