So ends my Herald Mummy,
Corvalah,
01-May-10 06:10 AM, #13
RE: So ends my Herald Mummy,
lasentia,
01-May-10 08:37 AM, #14
No!!!,
Dervish,
01-May-10 11:37 AM, #15
You were great,
lasentia,
28-Apr-10 02:44 PM, #2
Ah, pity you failed :( n/t,
Dervish,
28-Apr-10 12:45 PM, #1
I know from experience,
Jafel,
29-Apr-10 04:23 PM, #3
RE: I know from experience,
Daevryn,
29-Apr-10 04:39 PM, #4
So people can't just rank up and have the same chance t...,
Lhydia,
29-Apr-10 04:50 PM, #5
RE: So people can't just rank up and have the same chan...,
Daevryn,
29-Apr-10 05:02 PM, #6
RE: So people can't just rank up and have the same chan...,
sorlag (Anonymous),
29-Apr-10 06:29 PM, #8
RE: So people can't just rank up and have the same chan...,
Daevryn,
29-Apr-10 07:23 PM, #9
RE: So people can't just rank up and have the same chan...,
wareagle,
29-Apr-10 11:41 PM, #10
RE: So people can't just rank up and have the same chan...,
Hutto,
30-Apr-10 11:44 AM, #12
Counterpoint,
Valkenar,
30-Apr-10 06:57 AM, #11
I am with you on this.,
Jafel,
29-Apr-10 05:50 PM, #7
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lasentia | Sat 01-May-10 08:37 AM |
Member since 27th Apr 2010
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#92099, "RE: So ends my Herald Mummy"
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Looking forward to what you conjure up next, if this one was any indication it should be a good char for the game. The Inn can always use another herald, but go with what will be the most fun for you, those are the chars that make it fun for everyone else. It is pretty obvious to see when someone is enjoying their char or not, and those that are are great to interact with.
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Dervish | Sat 01-May-10 11:37 AM |
Member since 11th Oct 2003
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#92103, "No!!!"
In response to Reply #14
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lasentia | Wed 28-Apr-10 02:44 PM |
Member since 27th Apr 2010
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#92044, "You were great"
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Maybe 122 hours is a little too soon to get mummified, I don't know, but I really enjoyed this character a lot and had a bad feeling when I did not see you for a while that it didn't take (I don't know if there is a forced waiting period). And the whole herald angle you were going for had some really great potential I thought.
I would say try again with the necro since you know how to play them clearly, but nah, do something where you make that kind of rp investment you don't bet it all on a roll.
Hope to see you out there with something just as good.
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Dervish | Wed 28-Apr-10 12:45 PM |
Member since 11th Oct 2003
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#92040, "Ah, pity you failed :( n/t"
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Jafel | Thu 29-Apr-10 04:23 PM |
Member since 04th Mar 2003
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#92056, "I know from experience"
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If you try to mummy with less than 200 hours you are going to have a pretty damn good chance to fail. I did something similiar a number of years ago where I tried to mummy in like 94 hours. Epic fail. Heard later that the chances were piss poor without imm intervention and at 90something hours that just wasn't gonna happen. Not saying it's not possible just highly unlikely.
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Lhydia | Thu 29-Apr-10 04:50 PM |
Member since 04th Mar 2003
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#92058, "So people can't just rank up and have the same chance t..."
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Daevryn | Thu 29-Apr-10 05:01 PM |
Member since 13th Feb 2007
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#92059, "RE: So people can't just rank up and have the same chan..."
In response to Reply #5
Edited on Thu 29-Apr-10 05:02 PM
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It might to you, but as I've said a hundred times, the game is not meant to begin at hero.
Edited to clarify: It's not simply about the number of hours, or number of PKs, or anything like that.
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#92062, "RE: So people can't just rank up and have the same chan..."
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Because I think nit-picking is the best, are you also saying that a necro who powers to 51 and THEN spends a significant amount of time PKing, exploring, observing, etc., etc. has just as good of odds as someone who "played it slow" sub hero, or is that actually a factor that some people simply throw away and cannot make up for?
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Daevryn | Thu 29-Apr-10 07:23 PM |
Member since 13th Feb 2007
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#92063, "RE: So people can't just rank up and have the same chan..."
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>Because I think nit-picking is the best, are you also saying >that a necro who powers to 51 and THEN spends a significant >amount of time PKing, exploring, observing, etc., etc. has >just as good of odds as someone who "played it slow" sub hero, >or is that actually a factor that some people simply throw >away and cannot make up for?
Technically, you can only power to 47.
But sure, if you want to do that and then make your mark, I don't see any reason why that wouldn't work just as well. Without enumerating every relevant factor (if I could even remember every relevant factor), they're the kinds of ducks that a veteran character will tend to have in line and a 20 hour hero (not that Corvalah was that) won't.
Thematically, risking permanent death for the sake of immortality (and being enough of an expert in necromancy to succeed) is more an old man's wager than a young man's.
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wareagle | Thu 29-Apr-10 11:41 PM |
Member since 19th Aug 2007
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#92068, "RE: So people can't just rank up and have the same chan..."
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Ugh, how much I want to have hints on relevant factors. I gave a wrong item with my necro so that's a wash. But I sure love that class and would love to give it a go with a little more insight about mummification.
Come on, vague hints will suffice!
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Valkenar | Fri 30-Apr-10 06:55 AM |
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#92071, "Counterpoint"
In response to Reply #9
Edited on Fri 30-Apr-10 06:57 AM
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>Thematically, risking permanent death for the sake of >immortality (and being enough of an expert in necromancy to >succeed) is more an old man's wager than a young man's.
That's true, but risking losing 2/3 con per death looks a lot better if you still have a bunch of con. Why bother mummying if you're down to say, 6 con? You'd be dead in a week and have wasted your time? Unless you want mummy as a rich-get-richer scheme, you have to look at it from the perspective of a 50% PK ratio, since that's (obviously) the average. And if you have a 50% PK ratio and do a lot of PKing, you're going to be low on con at the same time you're exposing yourself to needing a 66% PK ratio just to stay on par.
Either that or you're talking about being super conservative so that your 50% PK ratio reflects a 5-5 record or something. So I suppose the alternative is that mummying is a very conservative old man's wager.
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Jafel | Thu 29-Apr-10 05:50 PM |
Member since 04th Mar 2003
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#92060, "I am with you on this."
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I am saying that with super low hours the chances aren't very good without immtervention. Which is pretty much what you said. I also understand that even without immtervention the chances can be improved substantially. I was just saying I feel his pain on the low hours cause I tried it just to see what a mummy was about and like him failed.
The way I approach it is.. if I know I am putting the hours in I am always going to try for lich. Personally I'd never waste 300+ hours for a mummy, but that's just me. Maybe that's a flaw in how the becoming is done and maybe it's just me being me. I would expect the mummy process to be easier and it's doubtful I would put that much into a char just to become a mummy when I could lich instead.
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