Mon Sep 19 12:18:20 2005

At 8 o'clock AM, Day of Thunder, 3rd of the Month of Futility
on the Theran calendar Saqzawaz perished, never to return.

I would, if I could, but being broke, ain't no joke.

It was posted yesterday dude.

Yours was the assassin Jrekgrim most feared; not that you had had much success assassinating him, but you were so persistent in your attempts to nail him and so darned good at getting away from him, that even if my character was doing ok, I wondered what was going to happen to turn the tables. Good luck on your next.

Thanks. I do try. At some point I had decided to age die Saqzawaz, but after a while the monotony just got to me. Log on, look for a few pieces of gear, try to find someone to stalk. The last death to Meagara gave me the impetus I needed to actually delete.

It was never my plan to stick around for that fight if I missed the attempt, but at some level I always felt a little dirty when, after missing, I would immediately flee and quaff. Basically I was shamed into fighting and paid the price. It's a pretty stupid sentiment; I should have paid the naysayers no heed and gotten the heck out of dodge as soon as I failed the attempt. Hindsight is 20/20.

One observation about skills: I don't recall ever actually spamming anything, and my stuff mastered relatively quickly, even with felar int. For a while I kept a record at the rank (and hours) at which I mastered various things, along with what my parry, dodge and shield block were at each point. Here it is:

lvl22 18hr sword (psd = 94,83,88)
lvl24 27hr enh dam (psd = 99,93,94)
lvl24 29hr parry (psd = 100,94,94)
lvl24 36hr 2nd atk (psd = 100,96,94)
lvl25 38hr dagger (psd = 100,98,96)
lvl25 40hr motp (psd = 100,98,98)
lvl26 42hr dodge (psd = 100,98,100)
lvl29 48hr feral (psd = 100,98,100)
lvl31 54hr dual (psd = 100,98,100)
lvl31 54hr disarm (psd = 100,98,100)
lvl31 54hr staff (psd = 100,98,100)
lvl33 62hr throw (same)
lvl35 64hr bindw (same)
lvl35 88hr caltraps (same)
lvl35 88hr third (same)

Two skills I found truly hard to master were unarmed defense and backhand. Unarmed I'm pretty sure I could have finished even at hero, if I'd wanted to devote the time, but it seemed like a waste. Backhand, however, eluded me. I almost always used a sword w/ no shield and played the character for 400 hours. Backhand was at 95% when I deleted.

I liked you, to bad our times did match better, if they had I would have tried to make you take the oath, cause damn, it's lonely in shadow hero range.