The skill it takes to cultivate alliances? I can take any non-battle duergar warrior at any rank, ask any evil summoner/healer if they want to PK people, and 9 times out of 10, they will say yes. You aren't talking about skill in cultivating alliances. Cultivating alliances is on a much higher level than the what you are doing. Please don't pretty up the term "ganging" by calling it "cultivating allies."

Ganging is fine - I've gotten into the habit of doing it with my curent character. Make no bones about it, though, I will take any one-on-one fight I can get. People see me gang, but people also know that I can and will fight alone. Ganging as part of a role? Sure. But you are definitely going to have to be prepared for the IC and OOC ####storm you are bringing down on yourself.

Cabals are a stew, but it is the individuals who make up the cabals that make that stew flavorful. From what you say of Drox's actions, you're just a face, man. From this point forward, if I log on and see Drox as my only opponent, I am certainly not going to be cowering in fear, even if I'm a half-naked gnome thief. You are not feared by your enemies. You are bland, tasteless.

Having good teamwork is in no way, shape or form better than having good solo skills. The simple fact being, you are not always going to have a team. You log on and there are two defenders at the Chasm guarding your item. Is Drox going to attempt to retreive his item? Probably not. Gotta have back-up, gotta have support. In my not-so-humble opinion, your time would be much better spent finding preps, for the same reason I listed above. What are you going to do without that healer or transmuter?

As for your last comment, "If your outnumbered and can't beat them, cultivate allies," you are certainly not outnembered and yet you still can't beat them. What's the extension of this statement? If you're numbered and can't beat them, and can't cultivate allies...... what, log off? Log-on your other character, the one with a lot of allies on right now?

I'm not even going to go into addressing your other post, my reply would probably just get deflamed like Timmy's. Like it or not, your stance on ganging has just pained a big red bullseye on Drox's back. It's the way the world works.

My advice to you is to take some time to learn how to PK alone. All of your future characters will thank you for it.