Solace Old Forum

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Agak is here.
(Charmed) A horse is here waiting for its master.
(Charmed) A disgusting mass of stitched flesh stands here.
(Charmed) A zombie of a nymph is standing here.
(Charmed) A zombie of a nymph is standing here.
(Charmed) A zombie of a centaur guardian is standing here.
(PK) (Translucent) Xzar is here.
A pet seller is trying to sell his animals here.

<***/*** hp ***/*** m ***/*** mv [Exits:E, TNL:688568]>
strangle xz
You step out of the shadows.
You trample around loudly again.
Your strangulation attempt misses Xzar.
Xzar yells 'Help! Schomberg just tried to strangle me!'
You hand block Xzar's whip.
You dodge Xzar's whip.
Xzar is in perfect condition.


< Tanker: Schomberg: perfect condition Target: Xzar: perfect condition> hide

You parry Xzar's whip.
You hand block Xzar's whip.
Your hands flick Xzar's weapon and it snaps back!
Your weapon turning mauls Xzar.
A horse's charge misses you.
You hand block a flesh golem's slash.
You dodge a flesh golem's slash.
The zombie of a nymph's pierce misses you.
You dodge the zombie of a nymph's pierce.
You hand block the zombie of a nymph's pierce.
You parry the zombie of a nymph's pound.
You hand block the zombie of a nymph's pound.
The zombie of a nymph's pound misses you.
You dodge the zombie of a centaur guardian's pierce.
You parry a flesh golem's slash.
You hand block a flesh golem's slash.
You dodge the zombie of a nymph's pierce.
You parry the zombie of a nymph's pierce.
You dodge the zombie of a nymph's pound.
You parry the zombie of a nymph's pound.
You parry the zombie of a centaur guardian's pierce.
The zombie of a centaur guardian's pierce devastates you.
Xzar parries your punch.
Your punch decimates Xzar.
Xzar has some small wounds.


< Tanker: Schomberg: a few scratches Target: Xzar: a few scratches> rage

Xzar chants a strange, yet melodious line.
You are blinded!


< Tanker: Schomberg: a few scratches Target: someone: a few scratches>
Someone's charge misses you.
You shield block someone's whip.
Someone's whip misses you.
Someone's slash devastates you.
You hand block someone's pierce.
You hand block someone's pierce.
Someone's pound maims you.
You parry someone's pound.
You dodge someone's pierce.
You hand block someone's pierce.
Your punch decimates someone.
Someone parries your punch.
Someone parries your punch.


< Tanker: Schomberg: small wounds Target: someone: small wounds>
You attempt to hide.


< Tanker: Schomberg: small wounds Target: someone: small wounds>
Someone intones an ancient mystical chant.
Your spellbane deflects someone's spell!
You step out of the shadows.
Your spellbane mauls someone.


< Tanker: Schomberg: small wounds Target: someone: small wounds> hide

You parry someone's charge.
You parry someone's whip.
You hand block someone's whip.
You shield block someone's slash.
You shield block someone's slash.
You dodge someone's pierce.
You parry someone's pound.
You parry someone's pound.
You use your shoulder to partially deflect someone's pound.
Someone's pound devastates you.
You parry someone's pierce.
You dodge someone's pierce.
Someone parries your punch.
Your punch devastates someone.
Your determination have enhanced your atack!
Someone parries your punch.
Your punch devastates someone.
Someone parries your punch.
Someone parries your punch.


< Tanker: Schomberg: bleeding wounds Target: someone: bleeding wounds> rage

You erupt with fury and your body is filled with the power of a raging beast!
You blur into the shape of a beast for a brief, deadly moment.
You tear into someone with your claws.
Your rending claw maims someone.
Your rending claw devastates someone.
Someone looks stunned by the attack.
You get past someone's defenses, but he managed to deflect a part of your attack.
Your claw mauls someone.
You get past someone's defenses, but he managed to deflect a part of your attack.
Your claw decimates someone.
You get past someone's defenses, but he managed to deflect a part of your attack.
Your claw decimates someone.
You get past someone's defenses, but he managed to deflect a part of your attack.
Your claw mauls someone.


< Tanker: Schomberg: bleeding wounds Target: someone: bleeding wounds>
You hand block someone's charge.
Someone's charge misses you.
You hand block someone's whip.
You use your shoulder to partially deflect someone's whip.
Someone's whip decimates you.
You hand block someone's slash.
You parry someone's slash.
You parry someone's pierce.
Someone's pound maims you.
Your forearm partially deflects someone's pound.
Someone's pound decimates you.
You parry someone's pierce.
Someone's pierce decimates you.
You parry someone's pierce.
You dodge someone's pierce.
Your punch devastates someone.
Someone is DEAD!!
Someone hits the ground ... DEAD.

What to comment? Rage is working good...
But its still too easy to blind a heretic...

Yeah, continue to whine.

Golem, horse, 3 zombies and their owner. And you kill this necromancer without kidnapping, blinding, poisoning or any other "funny" skills. Only direct damage.
I feel it was TOOO easy for you.

yes, it was really easy. ::)

Heh.... grow up, man.... and you'll die easy too :)

No time for growing up ... :( and  there is no company for it...
and its boring to grow up alone

Anyway i don't understand why didn't Xzar flee if his enemy was blinded? I think necromancer should allow his zombies and golems to take blows. it's their job. He should be too wise to make this dirt work himself ;)

He spammed some spell on me untill death ...  ::)
surely first of all he should flee.

1. I don't spam blind. I don't spam at all.
2. I tried to cast other spells.
3. When he did rage - it took half of mine hps - so I tried to flee, but... as you can notice - rage stunned me. On next round I died.
4. zombie would die in one round after this assassin.

So... Tower Necromancer has no chances against heretic assassing, isn't it? If so we should change balance, but i just think that you did something wrong.
Hey, mighty necromancers, can anyone comment this fight?

They only thing made me laughing. It's vampiric touch. Draining ~10hps and damage maul-mangle with 2 rounds delay makes this spell completely useless.

Please pay attention on vampiric touch - now we see main necromancer spell absolutely crap.

If i'm not wrong, if necromancer masters this spell and some others, he will gain a kind of vampiric skill, which works automatocally and does not eat mana.
It was so in old Solace, but i am not sure if this ability was kept in this version.

My comment on necromancers. Im not sure, whats wrong with them, but ALL necromancer I ever met with my heretic minofighter died in few rounds, unable to do ANYTHING to me. Im not sure about hero ranks (in logs hero-necromancers look strong enough), but until level 30 necromancers are prey now.

After mastering vampiric touch necromancers gain lichs palm skill. It changes his hands to cold type of attack and he gain the skill palm - 2 PARRIABLE attack less than vapmiric tocuh - in pk it's almost uselss - 2 disembowel at max once it 2 rounds.

I'm not necromancer, but i can comment :)
Situation is opposite - at hero ranks heretic assassin have no chances against tower necros (if he have full set of minions).. if you want i can post rounds under full set of mumies - damage like dismembers and more, i can take 2-3 rounds , not more, and as usually assassin don't deal any damage at all.
About this fight - crappy minions + assassin higher at 4 ranks if i'm not mistaken.

Agree to Semaj. On low-middle ranks necromancer is a piece of meat. But on high ranks, when he is full mastered and have full set of minions he rocks. You need to spend a LOT of time to make necromacer deadly, but it worth it.

And one more additional. Assassin do not have so good resistances as ranger or fighter at least. I bet hero ranger will rape necromancer easy with his resistances. I have an oppinion that every class must have deadly opposite. In case of assassins - it's necromancer.

Today Huurk(fig, equipped in crap) and Warwick(ran) tried to reraid agains Merdok(takhisis necro). And HE raped us like kids. We both died in 2-3 rounds. I had no time even to TRY my eyejab. And Warwick had no time to rescue with animals :-) Later Korli joined us. And... funny thing - 3 lvl 30 heretics VS 1 necromancer. And we could hardly come to the dragon :-) Without even speaking of killing him together. The only plan I could imagine - whyle Merdok is busy killing one of us, others damage dragon. The problem is that this doestn get much time for Merdok :-) And we'll have to make about 3 raids if noone would heal dragon ofcourse :-)

So necromancers definetly worth training :-)

Not sure if something will change on hero ranks, but for now necromancer is the one who rapes :-))

>We both died in 2-3 rounds.<
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(Charmed) A torn and shredded mummy of an Arkham knight is standing here.
(Charmed) A torn and shredded mummy of a druggist is standing here.
(Charmed) A torn and shredded mummy of Artemus the mage is standing here.
(PK) (Translucent) (Shadowed) Merdok is here.

Merdok has summoned you!
You step out of the shadows.
You grab hold of Merdok's neck and put them to sleep.
<707/707hp 315/357mana 549/549mv 1955549 xp__Exits:None>
assassinate Merdok
You try to strike Merdok's critical arteries!
You trample around loudly again.
Your assassination attempt *** DEMOLISHES *** Merdok.
Merdok yells 'Help! Semaj just tried to assassinate me!'
You hand block Merdok's pierce.
You parry Merdok's pierce.
Merdok has some small wounds.
<707/707hp 315/357mana 549/549mv 1955549 xp__Exits:None>

Discordant guttural sound comes out of Merdok's lips.
Merdok conjures forth a vision of the Dark Queen.
The spectral head of a black dragon appears and breathes a spray of black acid at you!
Merdok's draconian holocaust DISMEMBERS you.
Merdok has some small wounds.

<641/707hp 315/357mana 549/549mv 1955549 xp__Exits:None>
Your punch decimates Merdok.
Merdok parries your punch.
Merdok fades away in shadows from your punch.
Your punch mauls Merdok.
Your punch devastates Merdok.
You dodge Merdok's pierce.
Merdok's pierce misses you.
You parry the mummy of an Arkham knight's pound.
You parry the mummy of an Arkham knight's pound.
The mummy of an Arkham knight's pound misses you.
You hand block the mummy of an Arkham knight's pound.
The mummy of a druggist's pound MANGLES you.
The mummy of a druggist's pound MASSACRES you.
You shield block the mummy of a druggist's pound.
You dodge the mummy of Artemus the mage's pound.
The mummy of Artemus the mage's pound MANGLES you.
The mummy of Artemus the mage's pound MASSACRES you.
You use your hands to greatly deflect the mummy of an Arkham knight's pound.
The mummy of an Arkham knight's pound MUTILATES you.
The mummy of an Arkham knight's pound MASSACRES you.
The mummy of an Arkham knight's pound MANGLES you.
You sure you are BLEEDING!
The mummy of an Arkham knight's pound MANGLES you.
The mummy of a druggist's pound *** DEMOLISHES *** you.
You have been KILLED!!
 I'm Faster!!!   ;D

nice pets :)

>> Your punch mauls Merdok.
With physical attacks you almost have no chances. Necromancers are well-protected from it. But they suffer from magical attacks and directed skills that mostly must have none type of damage.

While necromancer is with it's minoion he is a ruler of situation. Just take him out of them it and he would die in a second. By the way, do shadow assassins have kidnap now?

>With physical attacks you almost have no chances.
With weapon in my hands i will not able to tank at all.

>By the way, do shadow assassins have kidnap now?
No.

Doesn't matter you will not parry good. You only need to make necros flee. I think one lucky round will make him to flee away from his minions. On 25 rank worn in HPs eq I have less than 400 (without channel), naked I have about 200. Necromancer class is most thin in the health. Remember thank minions assisting only on 2nd round, and instead of attacking with assassinate which causes long lag, just try to wear magic weapon and attack with murder.

ps. I think shadow assassins need kidnap. It's the most funny and usefull skill of this class.