Well, I guess it is time to retire this character. After an IMM
telling me I was just logging in to locate stuff, I was an
equipment "whore", etc. True, True. Most of the stuff was non limited,
snow worm, pb rings, only things worth mentioning were:
2 x cold brooch, circlet of living seas. Circlet, any water form
can get it easy. Go after the hoarding paladins why don' you.
Not much when you're not in a cabal, a neutral character that's 90%
of the time in form. Isn't that true for most neutral/neutral non-
cabaled shifter? I decided to delete. I've been around when Dullameh
was a whee necro. This shifter was just strictly for PK. I had the
eagle/dolphin forms. I thought these two were pretty good. As an
eagle, you cannot win against the golden eagle or vulture. Both dodge
more than you can out damage them. As a dolphin, pulled even walrus,
beat a manta ray and squid. Only one gripe, while in form, you can't
say anything which limits any interaction with anyone. Sucks.

Most of my fights were against WARDERS and BATTLE:

WARDERS: Any gnome-based class caught on water was 99% dead. Dolphins
simply tears them up. Against any other class/race, you've got a
chance to run and quaff. I don't understand the half-drow hating. Tried
to talk to Alysrith about it, got no where, so I ended killing any
Warder that poppped out till it got changed..like it was gonna happen.

BATTLE: Only arial/felar sword/spear specializations stood a chance
against the dolphin. A good flurry will send a stone-skin dolphin
packing. Spin is really effective against a dolphin.

that if your guy is just locating stuff, he is doing it for the benefit of another of your characters who can't locate stuff? ie it is a form of multi-charring?

So it isn't so much whether that character could get it, but more whether your other characters would know whether it is available to be got?

Only have heroes for chars....<40, i don't care about eq, just power
ranking. I never had to locate something for a lowbie chars. That's
lame.

I didn't know you, but hearing others mention your name or seeing you on the who list, you seemed so familiar. I could never quite place why.

Was there another Annette I might've known long ago?

Anyhow, from not having met the character personally but going by IC comments from others, you seem to have done a good job and were fairly well known. Congrats.

I had another Annette, gnome porcupine. Back in the days when
shifters only got 1 major form. with over 1300hp, you can kill almost
anything in the game. Being aligned neutral means you don't have to
worry about evil gangs, raid or warders (wall of thorns).

I wouldn't have known that other Annette either. I still think of the introduction of shifters as something recent, and the 'long ago' I was talking about was before shapeshifting was even part of the transmuter class. Any times from shortly before transmuters shifted and invokers stopped enchanting, to early last year is mostly a big blank spot for me.

Just out of morbid curiosity, with the big interest in hit points most people seem to have lately and since you seem to know a little of how good total hps are, how bad off is a hero with 800 hp?

with equipment? that's really bad. if you natural hp without training
hp. that is really good. you can get basic eq for hp easy. let me
see, roughly +250hp. and that's not even trying. that should get you
to the 1000hp mark easy. i always have a (basic) set in mind at hero.