Can't give them a dodge bonus, they all take autumn anyway and you'd end up with mongooses. They can get a parry bonus but again they all take autumn so they're reduced even small which hurts parry.
So you have to check person by person, where bob, where fred, etc.
I know Kanaev and probably others had aliases/scripts to very quickly do who pk and have the familiar check where *name* for all of them. I wouldn't even know where to begin with something like that, I find making just simple targetting systems hard.
My second char and first hero was a util/defense shapeshifter. I knew jack shit about anything but had sweet mob killing forms. So my deal to lowbies was so long as it was new to me I'd go anywhere and get any gear they wanted, with them showing me.
I remember I got a level 5 duergar thief a full set of Dern.
"You close your eyes and a silent owl lands upon your shoulder."
...fuck.
Tempted to reroll but I'm not Mr. Questypants so getting a mage to seventeen isn't a two hour job for me.
Plus when you rank in a group you fight bigger mobs, which means your skill percentages go up much faster. Most of the time you won't lose anything on important skills.
Ranking is horrible enough as it is, you'll not soon find me willing to rank on 50-100 exp mobs that you can maybe get a few in before needing to rest, or one 400xp mob.
I've already admitted it's his right to pk people whenever. But sometimes, like when you're a first form shifter, all you want to do is rank. And when someone refuses to allow you, it gets frustrating.
Nvm me this whole topic was started as a way to not go all fagtron spam on him IC.
To be another shapeshifter sitting on a shitty one legged spider or something as a form and to have this guy bust in on every single ranking group I manage to scrape up.
But overall you're right that's my cross to deal with. I was just frustrated to have logged off, signed back on ten hours later, and to get zapped by the guy within three ticks. Eh, I just immediately signed back off
It reminds me of the Thatcherites that looked around at the satisfaction of her death and said "What the fuck? Me and everyone I know got rich from her, so everyone else must have too. What is their problem?"