Medwin Lucrii wrote:Thanks for the welcomes. I'd be glad to help in anyway I can. The more I've been thinking about this project the more the UO Bug is starting to bite me again.
Calix, I would like to run around the test shard. A chance to toy around with AOS sounds good.
Template questions
- 5x with peace/music
- 5x with tracking/hide
Still good pks in AOS? Thinking about some tough choices I'm going to have to make with only two toons to pick.
The UO bug is a scary thing.
A tracking/hide mage works great. I personally switched away from hide with AOS release, but a lot of people still used it succesfully. Tracking is as good as always.. you just obviously have to begin lowering it as you use your powerscrolls - you eventually end up with room only for 6 skills. I had a tracking/detect 7x GM PK that I used for IDOCs until I quit in 2005. Peace/music would work well in theory - not something I've ever tried. What I really love about this era is that so many templates were effective. The two best mages I played with in this era had very different templates but were equally successful.
Your options as a mage in AOS are insane:
Mage 5x(Resist/Med/Eval/Magery + wrestle/fence/mace/swords/archery) - with all of the weapon skill choices being equally effective, depending on what you're trying to achieve.
For the 6th skill, the most popular(and effective, IMO) choices were Poisoning(with swords/fence), Inscription(with wrestle) and Tactics(with archery/swords/fence/mace). Other options being anat, focus, alchemy, hiding, parrying, detect, chivalry.
On top of those - other options that involved greater compromise(7 skills rather than 6):
Magery/Eval/Med/Resist/Wepskill/Necro/SS. My template through the whole of p25. On Drachenfels I was almost the only necro (because everyone else favoured scrolled 6x chars rather than 7x's) With the 720 skill cap, I ran with 120 Macing, 115 Magery, 105 Necromancy, GM Eval/Med/SS/Resist. The extra 20 skill points came from using the Midnight Bracers
http://www.uoguide.com/Midnight_Bracers (I had base 85 necro).
7x Stealth Mage: Still effective for PKing(although only if you had E-Mounts)
...and that's not including any of the templates that relied on certain items to fit all their skill choices in. Mostly involving weapons with the mage weapon property.
http://www.uoguide.com/Mage_weapon
I'll PM you with access to the shard.