Library: The Player Killers Field Guide

============================================== = THE PLAYER KILLERS FIELD GUIDE = ============================================== INTRODUCTION ------------- Before you read this please read 'help player killing'. This guide is intended as a reference for player killing techniques for players who wish to seek revenge on other players who have pissed them off in some way. It aims to provide the best possible chance of success in getting your revenge. HISTORY -------- How did I become a player killer? Well lets get something straight. I only pkill people who have pissed me off or bee assholes to me. I got picked on by some highbies as a newbie who would repeatedly kill me because I had my own opinions which they did not agree with. This has caused me to seek methods of revenge over the years. In the end I grew to enjoy the challenges of taking out players much higher level than myself. WHY DO WE PLAYER KILL? ---------------------- Why do players pkill each other? Well there are many reasons, but here are a few. Tiger missions --------------- The tiger guild is an assasination guild and therfore is given tiger missions to complete. These missions involve killing victims who have a price on their head. Revenge -------- Many players get pkilled as newbies, sometimes for good reason, but sometimes because highbies are just plain assholes. Revenge is sweet. Bullying --------- Unfortunately there are many assholes that play BatMUD. I will not give any names since players that I think are assholes are based on my opinion only. Quite often highbies that are arrogant will punish newbies or even other highbies unfairly. Maybe the like to pkill, or maybe they are loners in real life, or maybe they just cant get layed. GUILD CHOICE ------------- TIGERS TIGERS TIGERS! I believe tiger is hands down the best choice for a pkill guild. However! Tiger is still pretty lame without a secondary guild, and even then you need NAVS to be a truely effective at pkilling. Reaver, Spider, Tiger, Navs are all great guilds for pkilling, therefore evil religious is the best choice for a background. The alternative approach is a zapper. Civ mage / Civ Fighter with zapping skills and wands can also work but this also limits your normal game playing as these guilds are not the most effective guilds for exping. SPELLS AND SKILLS ------------------ The best pkilling spells/skills are listed below in no particular order. They all have their uses which will be explained later. Offensive skills/spells: Dim mak, Tiger claw, Word of Oblivion, Spider Wrath Stealth skills/spells: Sneak, Shadow Leap, Spider Gate, Track Other skills/spells: Heavy Weight, Spider Web, Summon, All-seeing Eye BASIC TECHNIQUES ---------------- These are the most basic killing techniques. Chase and Kill -------------- Spell/skill requirements : none Other requirements: none Overal Rating: 1/10 The most basic and probably the least effective of all killing techniques is the chase and kill approach. This involves finding the victim, and attacking them with no particular planning or organisation. It often results in the victim running away and hiding in their castle or in the church. Summon Attacks --------------- Spell/Skill requirements : Summon + Heavy weight (optional) Other requirements: no-exit room Overal Rating : 6/10 Summon attacks are very effective! Providing that you are tough enough to take the victim 1 on 1. Summon attacks must be done in no-exit rooms otherwise they are about as effective as the 'chase and kill' approach. There are a number of no-exit rooms in the mud that are very easy to get to. Two popular ones are the freezer room in Newbie Forest and priest room in katvil. The objective is to get a key for the room, lock yourself inside and then summon your victim and fight them 1 on 1. See below for some advanced techniques as well as some escape prevention techniques to use once the victim has been summoned. Therps Guard! ------------- Spell/Skill requirements : Summon + Invisibility + Word of Recall (optional) + Heavy weight (optional) Other requirements : none Overal Rating : 7 / 10 An oldy but definately a goody! This is once of the easiest and most effective pkill techniques in the game. Therps guard is located 2 rooms into the 'Land of Anarchy' area. He is agro, he blocks all directions and he is mean (about 80k worth)! So he hits nicely and is too big for any player to solo in a single run. The objective here is to invis yourself, walk into therps room (he can't see invis), then summon your victim. Ok here is the catch. Once your victim is summoned you will also become visible. Therps Guard will attack you both. If you have Word of Recall then set wimpy to very very high and you should be home free. If you don't have WOR then you have 2 options. The first option is to Die gracefully. The second option is to try and time it so that you quit immediately after you summon your opponent (before the guard hits you). This requires you to type quit while the summon spell is in progress. Your character will quit after 5 seconds. This is very hard to time correctly, but is achievable with practice. This technique is good for newbies who cannot take on a victim 1 on 1. STEALTH ATTACKS ---------------- Stealth attacks involve arriving at the enemies location without them knowing that you are there. Leap Attack ------------ Spell/Skill requirements : Shadow Leap + Invisibility + Spider Web (optional) Other requirements : none Overal Rating : 4 / 10 Shadow leap can be used to arrive in a victims room without them seeing any message that you have arrived. Unfortunately this is hardly more effective that the 'chase and kill' approach. However with a few additional techniques it can be effective. An example is described below. Turn sneak on. Leap to your victom. Walk out of the room. Cast some spider webs in adjacent rooms. Invis yourself. Go into the victims room and Dim Mak them. A good Dim Mak should kill most casters. If they are a tank they will probably try to run at this point, which is where your spider webs come in handy. Once they run into the room with the web, if they try and leave that room in any direction except the way they entered then they will get stuck in the web. You can now finish them off. Gate Attack ----------- Spell/Skill requirements : Spider Gate + Invisibility Other requirements : none Overal Rating : 4 / 10 This technique is executed in the exact same way as the Leap Attack. The only difference is that you Spider Gate to them instead of leap. This has 1 advantage and 1 disadvantage of the Leap attack. Advantage: You are not heavy weighted since you didn't leap. So you can make a quick getaway if required. Disadvantage: A web will be in the room which may alert the victim to your presence. ADVANCED TECHNIQUES -------------------- These techniques are more advanced. Often more fun and exciting when you pull them off, but also harder to 'set the stage'. The Black Reaver ------------------ Spell/Skill requirements : Summon Other requirements : none Overal Rating : 9 / 10 Suprise factor: 10/10 This is by far my favourite pkilling technique. It has also given me the most laughs. The obective is to kill Lilian in the 'mists' area. She has a sword called 'sword of wonder'. When a player picks up this sword the Black Reaver will come and attack them. For those that don't know, the Black Reaver is a sizeable EQ monster. He hits nicely! Most players will not last 1 round with him. The objective is to kill lilian (100k monster, so you will need help), Then summon your victim. While the summon is in progress pick up the SoW. Once the victim is summoned just give them the SoW and stand and watch as the Black Reaver sends them to hell. Timing is crucial! You must time the summon/picking up of SoW very well or it will be you who goes to hell. I would love to see my victims face IRL when they are pkilled using this method. Example Reaver Kill ------------------- Summon: ## You take sword of wonders <red glow>. You are done with the chant. You frantically wave your hands and yell 'gwwaaajj' (Summon) Merioli snaps into existence. You drop sword of wonders <red glow> to Merioli. Black Reaver arrives looking for it's prey! Black Reaver raises his axe and booms: 'Bakta Ascora Topax!' Bolt of lightning from Reaver's axe hits Merioli's head! There is a fierce combat going on here, beware! Merioli lapses into unconsciousness from severe loss of blood. A large cavity replaces Merioli's chest. Merioli is DEAD, R.I.P. Black Reaver shouts 'Merioli isn't much of a party animal!' Merioli's corpse is collected by Death, clad in black. Black Reaver appears, puts a crystal sword to the cave floor and disappears! You emote to Merioli (dead) 'sends you some flowers --,--'<@ --,--'<@ The Drawbridge --------------- Spell/Skill requirements : Spider Gate + Invisibility Other requirements : none Overal Rating : 9 / 10 The drawbridge area is home to a very interesting monster. It has a special ability where it can instantly kill a player. I wont give any more details away on its location. What's even more remarkable is that this monster is lock in a no-exit room! The objective is to get the key for this room, invis yourself, enter the room and summon your victim. Once you have summoned your victim, Leave the room and lock the door. You should make a command for leaving the room and locking the door to ensure that your victim doesn't get away. The beauty of this technique is that no matter how badass your victim is they will be dead withing a few rounds, due to this monsters special ability. PREVENTING ESCAPE ------------------ When trying to pkill a victim it is essential that you prevent them from escaping. Many victims will either have Word of Recall, Teleport without Error, will ask a friend to summon them, or will just try to run. You must prevent this! Spider Webs ----------- Spider webs are effective for victims that try to run. Spider webs will only trap a victim if they try to leave the room in a different direction to which they arrived from. Spider webs are essential if you are using a 'chase and kill' approach. Heavy Weight ------------ Heavy weight is the most important spell for preventing escapes. For any pkill technique you should aim to heavy weight your victim ASAP. It is a 1 round spell so it is not very hard to do. This will prevent them from being summoned, WoR'ding or teleporting home. OTHER TECHNIQUES ----------------- Some other techniques are described below for dealing with certain guilds. Killing nuns ------------ If you are a tiger and your victim is a nun, change your alignment to good before trying to kill them. Especially if they are nun/templar. Killing monk/tarms templar/tarms --------------------------------- An Anti Magic Field potion or a Truga plate will come in handy here. After summoning them use the potion or plate special. They will not be able to heal in combat and you should be able to take them down with melee attacks. Even if they are stronger than you in melee, you can make a command to leave the room and lock the door so that you can heal youself and go back in. The field should last long enough for you to finish them. REMAINING UNSEEN ----------------- If you are cowardly then you might not want your victim to know who you are. Here are some techniques. Burgle Mask ------------ There are not many techniques for remaining unseen. One option is to use a burglemask. Since there is only a few players with these it is not really an option. If a player kills you while wearing a burglemask you can easily find out who they are anyway, by using the track skill at the location where they killed you. Tiger Mask ---------- If there is a current tiger missions, you can mask yourself. Note however that it is most likely illegal to pkill players other than missions while using your mask. SOME MEMORABLE MOMENTS ------------------ Krom tells you 'what?????? why THE FUCK DID YOU KILL ME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Huppu is DEAD, R.I.P. Walor is DEAD, R.I.P. Conquer is DEAD, R.I.P. Broetchen is DEAD, R.I.P. Daria is DEAD, R.I.P. Merioli is DEAD, R.I.P. RUBBING SALT INTO THE WOUND ---------------------------- Always send your vistim flowers after you kill them. Example: You emote to Huppu (dead) 'sends you some flowers --,--'<@ --,--'<@ CONCLUSION ----------- There are many more techniques which I have not disclosed and many more that I don't know about. I will add more as I see fit, so please keep an eye on any updates. Player killing is a skill, it requires practice, as does anything. Pkilling can be fun, but it can also be not fun. Once you get into a war with a player then you must follow it through. It will do you no good to whine to anyone.

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