Re: How to run my PR? (DM)

From: leeme@cnsvax.uwec.edu

Date: Mon, 31 Jan 1994 09:10:58 +0000

In article <CKHA7x.9I8@ucdavis.edu>, ez007195@dale.ucdavis.edu (Yeon Choi) writes:
> In article <9401281346.tn23412@aol.com> mysticbob@aol.com writes:
>>Thanks for all the advice.  How about some more?  :)
>>I now have a 11-13-5-16-16-6-17 PR.  Based on my small knowledge here is how
>>I would run him.
>
> That's an awful lot of even numbers for a character.  If I remember
> correctly, is this the PR that you submitted to the net some time
> ago for review?  In the future, I'd probably go with WT 17 WL 15
> (if possible, I don't remember the original stats) not only because
> training stats adversely affects the long-term potential of your
> warriors, but also because it helps out their starting skills
> *immensley*.

If you do decide on 16-16 WIT/WILL, DO NOT raise to 17 until you hit 20
skills in most areas.  You'd lose a good amount of skills in the 6 areas and
destroy your long-term potential.  If you'd like to see how a wit raise to 17
would affect him just look at the stat/skills chart.  That's how many skills
extra you can pick up with that one stat raise after you're done learning your
115-120 skills (say 2 years real life time...).  6 stat raises is what you
pretty much have to look forward to in 3-4 years, so think of your guy
eventually looking like 17-19-5-22-22-12-23.  A very good end result.

>>ALE
>
> Always wear headgear with a character you intend to keep.  Always.
>
> A while ago, when I had so much free time I could do things like this,
> I went through all my fights to see how many kills resulted from head
> shots, and the result was something like 90% of killing blows were to
> the head.  I never tried to test out the obvious hypothesis:  that
> the best way to keep a 3 CN warrior alive was to wear a Full Helm,
> but I bet that it would work well.

I agree.  My greatest character, Master Lee, 13-7-5-21-21-6-11 PL, started
out running like a lunger.  The main difference being I wore a full helm
every turn.  It may have saved his life early on as he took a shot to his
head vs a striker and went desperate (won the fight in 1 minute though).
I ran him ALE/F, LO, no backup til I hit the Champions class where the parry
masters are.

> If speed is a worry, then go with a leather helm, or better yet
> ALE/L.  Despite what the red book tells you, the best protection/weight
> ratio is not ARM, but ALE.  The difference between an unprotected body
> and a leather clad one is staggering.

There was a point in Primus where people believed scalemail was the best
armor.  Then it was Stormbringer large shield craze.  Then everyone and his
grandmother started wearing plate armor.  Leather armor is great early on,
especially for any parry types.  I think most people eventually left ringmail
for either leather or scale or plate in Primus....

> With my PR's (only one right now, but I've probably run ten or so) I
> usually run them in APL/H.  Anything heavier and they tend to get
> tired too fast, anything less and they seem to get taken out by a single
> shot.

I have maybe 15 fights total experience with PRs (hated em).  But I've fought
some of the best PRs in the game.  APL/H or around there seems the standard.
Your good CN should help you suck up a couple blows early on until you learn
your parry and defense skills and become fairly untouchable.

>>EP
>
> Good weapon, but your early defense will be a lot better if you wield a
> shield.  Your riposte will be helped out quite a bit by the use of SH,
> DA, or HA.

My personal favorites for offhand weapons were the DA and HA.  You'll have to
experiment a little before you can tell.

> Low activity is fine, but you'll have to vary it to see what your
> warrior likes.  Mob Boss wrote an article saying that he started his
> rippers out as scum, i.e. very low-very low, and then gradually making
> them more active as their careeer progressed.

Mob Boss run his beginning PRs as scum? Naaaawwww! :) This can't be true!
Yeah, at the start it's better to scum than to look foolish trying to make
attacks with a ripper (he ain't no lunger at the start, but later on...!)

>>How does this look?  Please don't laugh too hard if this is a really poor way
>>to run him, I'm just a humble newbie.
>
> If you run him like this, and it works, more power to you.  Alan Yip
> once told me about his pikers on the Rising Sun stable in Sunset(21).
> One character he ran at 9-8-6-Parry to the Duelmastership (I believe).
> If you were to post that strategy to the net, many people (myself
> included) would guffaw or at least strongly suggest against it.

Alan Yip? Alan Yip? Who's he? :) Yeah, sometimes funny strategies that might
not make sense do work well.  Even TPs run at 10-10 in ADM.

Mike Lee
Heard at the face-to-face: "When's Mr. Lee coming back?"
Alan Yip: "What? Didn't you know? I was Mr. Lee all along!"

> Experimentation is the best way to learn.  Otherwise, you're just letting
> someone else run your character while you play the bill.
>
> Trump
> ez007195@dale.ucdavis.edu

References

How to run my PR? (DM)
mysticbob@aol.com
Sat, 29 Jan 1994 02:52:48 +0000
Re: How to run my PR? (DM)
ez007195@dale.ucdavis.edu (Yeon Choi)
Mon, 31 Jan 1994 05:07:07 +0000