So how dose one log onto gvm now?

I experienced this in celebrant and thought it was a wierd and creepy purposefull adition to the mod for undead lol.

   Though  I was irritated that the undead wizard elf would come back just long enough to bigby me and vanish  while the bigby remained .

This is probably a flavor type build  pirates archetypivcal wepon is a cutlas.... nwn=scimtar.   Pirates archeytipacal armor is none. to scary to strap that stuff on with the constant threat of man overboard.

  So even though many other corsair troops arent too archetypical  I think the capn was made to be a old school Pirate.

Gvm in general is to difficult for me lol.   Not just due to bugs but due to overpowered npcs and awsome ai that gives all the mobs acess to your stat sheet.
   

    Quick question which is harder you and a friend taking on  4 random equal level players or.. you and a friend doing some thing interesting like killing a boss in rivendale or the shire or ossgiliath even?

   I havealways beleived that players should be tougher than all but the tough bosses  between spells and the ai many areas that used to be comon grind spots are off limits to all but select builds. builds which soon make a short list for nerfing.

   Example spirits lair, used to be main leveling spot for mords 20-30.  now you will be dispelled with out atleast 20 caster levels {same issue in many areas makes lots of builds unplayable}.   you will be spam wofed and kded only on attacks where the atack roll has a chance to succed with the knock down because the ai knows your disc score.......  come prepared or come to die.  that means no toons waiting to disc. skill dump and no hybrid clerics mages or palis ect because you will be buff striped.


  Now we ad in the bugs of the new spawn system   abd .... well it was fun gvm  i wish you all well.

And a Happy new year!

ummm. 100 strong  armies of npcs in corsair city and helms deep and isenguard tower and sistras camp... wtf  seriously?   Why? Wasn't lake town/ rivendale proof enough that such huge armies of npcs are realy lame and unplayable by most?


    Bats  with echo location and a pircieng scream of some sort to daze its prey is beleivable  and not over the top I think....  also not over the top is the wizard merchants selling some potions...  like clarity pots. surely you could introduce that as a balancer right?  or Radaghast oferring to buff up young adventurers maybey with a nice natures balance...

I like this 65/78 ab build the 78 is true strike and "only" 10 attacks but still.......       



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Not again 


Players play (and build) to beat the game, if they cant do that or every time they do it gets nerfed they will just stop playing (as many have).

Olle your NOT funny

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   Good Points Rad just quoted 2 favorites .  Sowhat If Players make team oriented toons that work reliably? Or even solo toons? the dm dissapointment with this always baffled  and frustrated me.. so I quit playing

best cha based archer i could thik of was clrc 20 druid 5 shifter 15   then you can max cha and get a 28 shifted dex and a +7 bow with very good unlimited ammo.

    changing  bg for cleric is also workable you get  beter base ab and bulls str from black guard is recastabe while shifted [ by potion}  to keep the full magic bonus to ab active.   so he would be alot les buff reliant   and just have to stock potions   to go +13 mag ab....    Lol the more i thimk on it the better it sounds   to go bg...     of course while buffed the cleric version would have  5 beter ab and 7-12 more irresitable damage.   12 if battlle sphere

whats you guyz whine aboot spelling so much  not all can be perfect spelling gramatician like i ams some whines best kept to selfs.. damb it wife kicking me off computers now to play farmtowns on fece book     so all you spellings natzis  can now end  your crybabycation in the  case sensitive cities yes?

All I meant was - if it's a twink (especially a lvl 20ish Monk SD, or a level 15 or something) who wins BH, I personally am simply going to ignore their score and consider the first non-twink on the board to be the real winner. I have nothing against somebody if they win with other things *as well as* the twink build; but if someone gets 50 kills, and all 50 are on one toon, who we all know is a twink toon it's virtually impossible to counter at those levels - I don't see how that is supposed to win anyone's respect as a good PvPer. That's just jumping people before their builds are finished, because you won't be able to kill them when they reach 35 or so and actually fulfill their purpose.
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  Well said Lawson, Those are   alll The reasons I rarely pvp any more.  I usualy only pick a fight if its atleast 2 vs 1 against me if i have a strong pvp toon and if its a unfinished or weak pvp build I am usualy too carefull to be caught by some one,  or too hard to kill to worry about it.

Squinty has a q-staff and he pwns with it mostly due to his 126 strength score I imagine.

 Maglevors Blade.  Two bladed sword from old palace ossgiliath dose 2d4 pos and 2d8 electric  +5 en. keen mass crits spot+12 and hack haste 3xday.

  Storm sword from rivendale is a twin sword with 2d6 electric 2d6 sonic +5 enc. keen and I think masscrit. I have 1 or 2 extra ask me in game if you see me.

On the subject of trap location..  I seem to recall that you need a rouge level to disable/ recover epic traps not detect them..

I have a assassin shifter   the poisons work in most shapes   for best chance ate poision working   equipo a wepon with no on hit properties and no flame weapon.  then use a shape with no on hit effects, like a mino or spectre and the assassin posion will work every time.

  Having on hit efects on pre shift wep and post shift wep and having flame wep all reduce the likelyhood of poison working.

   my shifter assassin is a spectre focused con./int. based build and gets 40+  poision dcs  as well as 40+ death attack dc>  very handy I did put 21 points in con for edr 3 and the rest in int   so even higher dcs are possible   I just liked having a edr3  crit immune kd immune hipser and he was a good tank with the high conceal   until the unlimited harm self pots were removed from the pale master store lol


    Actually, since we're on the subject - Do these poisons work on ranged weapons (I think I heard that they do) and can they be dispelled from the weapon (either by mords etc, or some dispel traps that seem to get EVERYTHING)?
     

    Nothing dispells wepon buffs except  running out of time due to durration experation  or resting.  Use assassin poisions on ammo stacks  not the launchers,  my other asassin build a ranger assassin sd  str based  loves the poisions on stacks of darts

I,m not sure but arent heal and mass heal necro class spells?

I did the same thing. and ollebrec said she would change my alignment,   what changed was it went from wepon master only to  good / evil only   I had it on a lvl 40  true nuetral wep master.

   I beleive some invisible Curse item penelties were removed as well

I just checked on my test shifter and there are no alignment change shapes.

I like half orc favored enemy. lots of Mordor npcs are half orcs and a fair number of players.

As to the str vs dex argument I always land in favor of str., unless there is a lot of sneak attack damage or some unresistable damage to help out. 

 I just dont think favored enemy and bane will quite cut all the super prevelant dr..  but -15 to hide and ms and -11to ac in exchange for +15 to damage..I say yes.   I understand its a tough call, but i am willing to die more in excange for the ability to kill more

   Many things seem not so fun to me on the mod lately..  I have limited play time as it is the bussy season unfortunatley for me at work....  {I fight forrest fires}  and the last time I played any length of time there was a dm quest with lettering on the floor in the mad wizards pocket   It led all over middle earth from sign to sign and took 3 hours to follow all the clues  and at the end was a un funny joke.

  Too many Un-funny jokes in mod latley.

Prettty decent dragon hipser.       a few points   just put 40 points in tumble and put 38 or 43 in spell craft   spell craft is better than heal  for the build i think.

  loose max spell and extend spell and  2 great wisdoms  and take   3 spell focuses in divination and one spell focus in conjuration   The +3 ab and ac from premonition is worth the 3 feats i think   even if you dont make a trustrike potion crafter.  but if the dragon carries true strike potions well lets just say he  is a very serious threat to most anything.    the conj focus feat will up the dc on your lvl 1 grase spells and fighting in grease is always nice for a dragon it also will ad to the durationb of your aura of vitality  more than extend spell would ... per the spell change sign..

Good build idea raj.
   I would take paladin lvls 1-17 and cot lvls 18-21   monk 22 cot lvl 23-36 monk lvl 37 cot 38-39 and pali 40. I think 2 monk would make it alot easier to level and  I like deflect arows for free. 

  Cot gets great wisdom as a bonus feat so you can have great wisdom 10  with a final wisdom of 34 46 buffed for + 18   with +6 gear and div sheild ac would be.. 66ish I think.   A.b. will hit 72 while buffs last   and 26  extra irresistable damage while buffs last!  the best part is you can use the keen cross bow for lots of crits.

   Be sure to take  the rapid reload feat and point blank shot.


  Another option would be to forget a.c. and take 2 fighter levels pre epic  to get weapon specialization.
Cots get to take epic wep.specialization  if you already have wep spec from fighter lvls.  I found that out trying a cleric fighter cot.  crossbow user in my tester module.

No  supper high disable traps are nescasarry for Mordor rougues  that I have found..  Gondor rogues nin baradur need a 85 to flag the toughest traps and a 95 to disable them   My Gondor rogue unfortunatley can only hit 83 

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   Your super heroes are lame olle and have no dance skills

  comming soon superman and spider lady builds

  Indian Superman will destroy Iron baby.  And your frog recipies are unwanted Marcus.

  Ok Terorble I know you have ben working on a on hit widget but I just had a Idea I think would be Superior and less buggy.

  All the changes should be feat based, Like:

Overwhelming crit work as normal but ad half fighter lvl to crit damage

Improved expertise either ftr lvl-30 to hit or ftr lvl -30 to ac

Power attack / improved power attack, + 1/4 ftr lvl + to damage

Improved power attack, + Fighter lvl - 30 to hit


 Knock down, Called shot , Improved knock down, 
 disarm, imp. disarm, + Fighter lvl-35 to hit.

  Improved disarm currently has no effect on monsters so I would suggest adding a -2? ab penalty.

  Called shot  doubles ab or dex penalty for 20 lvl +  fighters.

 
  The + fighter lvl - 30 formula means it only starts improving with 31 fighter lvls.

 The  + fighter lvl - 35 one well it means it improves those feats starting with 36 fighter and actualy adds 1 to regular ab If you made a lvl 40 Fighter   but hey  40 fighter? seriously?


Imp kd  ftr lvl 20 and up last 2 rounds ..   

    I am sure there are many more feat changes that could be easily scripted   Right?  lol   

  I made the build to maximize ab and base damage.  Overwhelming crit... dosent seem worth it to me.  I would be interested to see the out come of using it.

   I would probably substitute 6 wm lvls for 6 fighter levels if i was to do it. using the 3 new ftr. bonus feats to get overwhelming crit. and keeping the strength at 34 base and the damage would still be maxed.
 
  Lossing 2 ab and 40 hp from the epic toughness feats for me just dosent seem to be worth it.
   

  The recent changes to premonition benifits this build if you can cast a premonition from a sequencer robe  it gives a long term +2 ac and ab buff.  Just tested it.