Avoiding PK
General Tips and Tricks:
- The best way to avoid a PK is to be attentive! This sounds easy, or obvious, but after prolonged playtime a player's reaction time can worsen
- Keep several potions in your inventory to cure common PK spells. Examples include teleport potions, sanity potions, remove curse potions, and cure blindness potions.
- Players that use full featured MUD clients will frequently create a "panic" macro, that involves fleeing and drinking an escape potion of some sort. Avoid chaining too many commands together in a panic macro. Often times the later commands are predicated on the success of the early commands.
- Example
- A typical panic macro is "fl;quaff red". This causes the character to flee, then immediately quaff a clear red potion (recall) from their inventory. However, if the flee fails for any reason (player is summoned to a no-exit room, cursed, etc), the flee command will fail and the command to drink the potion will cause the player drink the potion in combat. Aliases are typically more effective than macros, since they allow the player to react quickly without predicating the success of commands on one another.
- Be aware of the PK threats who are online at all times. Double check with a high level friendly character. If no one is available, the Magistrate located on Mt Knowledge can "see" all online players, so use the bounty feature to verify whether PKers are online or not.
Class Specific Tips and Tricks:
Mages
- Always wizard mark your items before leaving safe rooms
- Use alarm around the area you will be in
- Keep improved invisibility on as much as possible. This prevents some aggressive mobs from attacking, and in certain instances can save your life
- Don't be afraid to teleport yourself. Even in the case of a bad teleport, items should be marked to portal in for a CR
Clerics
- Keep pass without trace up at all times
- Keep your hit points at a reasonable percentage of your maximum health (spend mana on cures rather than offensive spells)
Shamans
- Use phosphate on the rooms that are on the way to the zone you will be in
- Keep soul sense up
- Keep pass without trace up at all times
- Necroport should be used as an absolute last resort, as a bad port will be much easier for the PKer to get to than a naked shaman