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Originally Posted by Jimjam
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You only really have to bag your regen, your haste, your best clicky (e.g. CoS).
It completely neuters the argument of 'a newb army could win a nice item defeating a twink!'
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A bunch of first timers aren't going to rush to a server because they expect to be ganging up on lone PK's wearing fungis and defeating them. No one is suggesting that is the case.
What does happen is that twink PK's have to be careful, and they do lose items eventually. If you spend all your time bagging stuff you are going to die fast. If you don't bag everything, and you do go down, you willl lose something.
Here is a list of items a twink melee PK (the hardest to kill PKs) will almost certainly have. This is assuming level requirements are in place for Velious quest armor, and other non droppable high level gear which would be guaranteed in this arrangement.
1. Earing of essence
2. 6/65 ring
3. Djarns ring
4. Tranix Crown, Frog Crown, skull shaped barbute
5. Blue diamond bracers or others
6. Ikky Regen, rubi bp, fungi
7. FBSS, sash of dragonborn or silver chitin wraps
8. Mithril arms
9. Mithril legs
10. Imbued granite spoulders, or bloodstained mantle
Any of that stuff is worth looting. If a twink is bagging 10+ items he is dying all the time like a loser and not a threat. Mission accomplished.
Most of the time he will do his usual stuff killing low level players with impertinence. However, they now have a reason to try to kill him, and anyone who has been through level 1-59 before may be interested in making an "anti PK" twink themselves.
And some twinks will use full sets of no drop armor like from Thurg which will make them the same level of nuisance as todays twinks. Strong (mostly because they come in ready for PVP vs an EXP grind) and with nothing to lose.
Yes. When you are grinding you don't use armor you are willing to lose. Melee's that aren't game rich spend their plat on weapons and use banded armor and cheap MR gear to grind through the game.
Casters use cheap MR gear and cheap intelligence gear.
Everyone uses HP rings and hopes to suicide via HP ring pull before they die. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't.
It's not like everyone just starts looting fungi's it just makes low level PVP worth doing. And you could make the thurg armor have a level req if its an OP no drop set (it sort of is)
And I remember fondly seeing people with shin greaves thinking "OMG where did you get that uber piece of NO DROP plate armor?!?!?!
The other argument is the 1 shot wizard PK who lurks around and tries to assassinate people low HP killing mobs. They exist with or without item loot, and are a permanent problem in a PVP server. It used to be even more trouble, when they would respawn with full mana after death. Again, you just don't EXP grind with good armor on unless you can afford to lose it. Some people will make super good twinks and grind with them so you can be in a group with 1 super fighter and you can all jump on the local unrest bully while that guy is around. Usually that twink still sucks compared to the professional murderer but its still fun.