Notice that all of those more recent chars were rock solid in pk, and the older ones were really not very deadly at all. Somewhere amidst the suckage, I became a pretty decent pk'er.
And by the way, I agree with you that Anordes was god awful at pk. I just could not make it work for him, I think I ended up with something like 15 kills in 200 hours on him. Brutal.
I never ever full loot. The most I've taken from a corpse in the past 3 or 4 years was 7 items, and that was after killing a completely decked guy, and basically wearing half of his set. Even still, I get whined at about taking the 1-3 average pieces of gear that I do. Out of the 60 or so kills on my current char, I've been bitched at 15 times so far. Cmon guys, bitch about full loots
All the same, AP's have to play more conservatively in order to appreciably grow in power, so it's hard to blame him for being worried about dying there. All I can say is that with Adarmar at 100 hp, he would have already been consulving, so you would know after hitting an iceball on a convulsing guy, he's within one iceball of death.
The other thing to keep in mind is that Ada
Hey asshole, look at this dot-looking motherfucker. It's a period. You might want to fucking use it when cussing out other shitheads for using retarded grammar.
It's very hard for me to play goods because of the restrictions on gear, mob killing and pk'ing.
It's very hard for me to gang much or loot a ton because I want other cf'ers to have a good time.
I probably end up playing a not very convincing form of evil, but it's what generally suits me
You have 328 hp, and are in range of level 40 something A-P's with easy access to iron weapons. Plus you aren't watching your back at all. It's not like you're doing everything in your power to stay alive here.
Gotakanal lashes at your feet with the seven flurries of Anguish!
Gotakanal's lash misses you.
You yell 'Help! Gotakanal is lashing me!'
Gotakanal has a few scratches.
|996(100%)hp 60%m 98%mv 4098tnl 4 AM civilized|
Gotakanal's defilement MANGLES you!
You dodge Gotakanal's burst of energy.
Gotakanal's defilement *** DEMOLISHES *** you!
Gotakanal lashes ou
I hit a 1 rounder that allowed you to get a backstab off, then hit a 2 rounder that allowed you to gutshot me into a flee. That's a solid 350 hp right there due to very low bash lag. Great, balls out fight though!
Couple of comments:
-Savage feeding at 100% was more likely to land than last stand at 78% so I went for bash at the end.
-The no fly room just south of there ate my first
That actually sounds like a good idea. Personally, I feel that corpseguarding is enough of a step, but this would also be tasteful. Any hard caps on looting would upset the playerbase most likely, but anything that *hinders* the lowbie looter and slows him down is a good idea
He wouldn't have to stand, since healing past 0 hp makes him alive and well in the eyes of the game. He could have also cast power word kill on the assassin and gotten lucky, or ordered another rescue :) (neither way likely to survive, but both ways very ballsy!)
If he would have entered a direction instead of 'c wr', he would have gotten out alive most likely, since after being stunned he was no longer in combat. If he had entered nothing, the next hit would have killed him with no chance of wimpying out. If he had entered flee, it wouldn't have done anything as his char didn't think he was in combat at that precise moment.