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Evil rule the world  ;D
At least succesful attempt.
[log]
You make a brutal swing at Ariaste in an attempt to cleave her in half.
Your cleave slices her body in half with a clean cut!
Ariaste hits the ground ... DEAD.
Ariaste is sent tumbling off a war elephant.

*******

With a crunch of bone and splash of blood you nail the corpse of Ariaste to a sacrificial cross.
The remains of Ariaste shudder briefly as black energy is drawn forth.
You feel invigorated!
[/log]

Damn, I was hoping to die to Megash or Lyeine after some epic battle!

Does that mean inkognito is right? That something has happened to cleave and it works much better than it used to? I personally know that Ariaste's reflex saves are(were?) above 50, in any case much higher than Darmurk could ever dream of having... How how did the darn cleave ever took place? *grumble*

because cleave does not check reflexes

Heh... inkognito... i can go to pet shop and make GREAT percentage of succesfull cleave attempts on kittens.... but i can say that it was my second succesfull cleave attempt in pk. Moreover i tried to cleave Ariaste earlier, tried to cleave you too, and not only you. So it not so cruel like inkognito said.

I do not have log to show it, but I remember very clearly before dying I had 44 ref, 51 will and 59 fort saves.

Anyway I survived 4 cleaves from Darmurk yesterday, so I guess it's not as bad as I thought...

And how many times did you manage to kill him?  :P 1/5 percentage at hero rank (btw you are 35+20 and he is at best 35 +1 or 2 which means you are over 15 levels higher than him) is way too high... And if it's correct that cleave doesn't check reflexes, like Quino says, then what in the name of the Abyss does it check? Willpower? Size? And then they say that assassinate was too powerful! >:(

How many people must stop playing before something is done?

err... Darmurk 35 +16, but it not crusial. Yes size helps, sharp weapon helps... and so on. ;)

Well, if you are persistently standing on junction of speedways for five months, a truck will run over you once eventually :)

[ponderation]
I feel regret for old coders of solace... they gave so much work to invent so many spells and skills, then wrote helps for it, and finally the hardest part, coded it all in some blabla object language...but all that achievement was for nothing i afraid.
Described regarding today's nature of solace and goals of playing implementation...it was waste of time... why, you ask...?
Because they could achieve the same effect with much less effort... To the nature of today's pk in solas do not respond classes with 30 skills and spells...on contraire... i will explain what responds... redo of all classes...strip all old spells/skills... every class, will have only one skill or spell, like this :
necro  -  pwk (nowday's)
outcast - cleave (nowdays)
knight - headoff with sword (like 'highlander', instant kill)
cleric - shield neck cleave (cut off neck with shield, instant kill)
transmuter - hold person for 1 sec than instant kill it
invoker - implosion (instant kill if saves fail)
druid - empower 'icethorn', makes thorn that pierces heart of victim and kills instantly
ranger - enhanced overhead, staff hits head and head explodes, instant kill
thief - let them scribe pwk
assasin - nothing, this class will sux so other can make frags
fighter - cleave(nowdays)
bard - bilo koji nek otpeva narodnjak, ubija na mestu :)

[loud observation]
so make this simplification,why not? simplification is sign of evolution...?


 

Oh, wait... i got even simpler idea... strip all skills and spells from all classes... and give to all players several snowballs in inventory and the winner will be the one who hits the most other players! As you can see, the pk remains unchanged and there will be less work for imms! Some players can write labels on their snowballs as 'pwk' or 'cleave' if they like it more such way... :)