Morrison

[Postmaster]

Originally posted by Pacal

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You lightly bruise the black-robed hooded wraith's body with your mithril
crescent-moon axe.
wear ring
You slide the ruby-eyed snake ring onto your finger.
Your hand feels slightly cold.
Your ring feels warm on your hand.
The black-robed hooded wraith gestures quickly in your direction. Suddenly you
find yourself being pulled forward, inescapably bound by its grip.
The black-robed hooded wraith disgourges copious amounts of noxious fumes from
beneath its a black hood, hitting you directly in the face.
You feel somewhat hurt.
The air around you seems to stiflingly thicken as the black-robed hooded wraith
inhales deeply, causing you to gasp for breath.
> You are physically slightly hurt and mentally degraded.
The black-robed hooded wraith is slightly hurt.
The black-robed hooded wraith gestures quickly in your direction. Suddenly
you find yourself being pulled forward, inescapably bound by its grip.
The black-robed hooded wraith disgourges copious amounts of noxious fumes from
beneath its a black hood, hitting you directly in the face.
You feel somewhat hurt.
The air around you seems to stiflingly thicken as the black-robed hooded wraith
inhales deeply, causing you to gasp for breath.
You barely scrape the black-robed hooded wraith's body with your mithril
crescent-moon axe.
Your ring feels warm on your hand.
The black-robed hooded wraith gestures quickly in your direction. Suddenly you
find yourself being pulled forward, inescapably bound by its grip.
The black-robed hooded wraith disgourges copious amounts of noxious fumes from
beneath its a black hood, hitting you directly in the face.
With your feet dug firmly into the ground, you do not yield an inch in response
to the black-robed hooded wraith's devastating blow.
The air around you seems to stiflingly thicken as the black-robed hooded wraith
inhales deeply, causing you to gasp for breath.
> You are physically somewhat hurt and mentally degraded.
The black-robed hooded wraith is slightly hurt.
> 
You strike out wildly with your mithril crescent-moon axe, just grazing the
black-robed hooded wraith's legs.
You just nick the black-robed hooded wraith's left arm with your mithril
crescent-moon axe.
Your ring feels warm on your hand.
The black-robed hooded wraith gestures quickly in your direction. Suddenly you
find yourself being pulled forward, inescapably bound by its grip.
The black-robed hooded wraith disgourges copious amounts of noxious fumes from
beneath its a black hood, hitting you directly in the face.
Just as the black-robed hooded wraith moves in for a swift attack against you,
you let out an aggressive roar as you bash it with your elbow causing it to
stumble backwards.
The air around you seems to stiflingly thicken as the black-robed hooded wraith
inhales deeply, causing you to gasp for breath.
You feel calm again.
You thrust at the black-robed hooded wraith's legs with your mithril crescent-
moon axe, but its flowing ermine-lined robe protects it.
The black-robed hooded wraith gestures quickly in your direction. Suddenly you
find yourself being pulled forward, inescapably bound by its grip.
The black-robed hooded wraith disgourges copious amounts of noxious fumes from
beneath its a black hood, hitting you directly in the face.
You feel somewhat hurt.
The black-robed hooded wraith gets a black potion from its black leather
satchel (open).
The black-robed hooded wraith quaffs a black potion.
The air around you seems to stiflingly thicken as the black-robed hooded wraith
inhales deeply, causing you to gasp for breath.
The black-robed hooded wraith puts a black potion into its black leather
satchel (open).
You barely scrape the black-robed hooded wraith's body with your mithril
crescent-moon axe.
Your ring feels warm on your hand.
The black-robed hooded wraith gestures quickly in your direction. Suddenly you
find yourself being pulled forward, inescapably bound by its grip.
The black-robed hooded wraith disgourges copious amounts of noxious fumes from
beneath its a black hood, hitting you directly in the face.
You feel barely hurt.
The air around you seems to stiflingly thicken as the black-robed hooded wraith
inhales deeply, causing you to gasp for breath.
> You are physically somewhat hurt and mentally degraded.
The black-robed hooded wraith is slightly hurt.
You find yourself spent from your efforts to defend yourself from the
onslaught of attacks.
The air stirs and feels heavier to breathe as the black-robed hooded wraith
draws power from the realm of shadows.
You get a handful of small purple berries from your open thick qarraba.
> You close the qarraba.
> You eat a handful of small purple berries.
As you eat the purple berries, a terrible bitter taste fills your mouth.
You gag.
Your stomach feels a bit queasy.
Your ring feels warm on your hand.
The black-robed hooded wraith raises its hand, menacing at you, and commands:
Libo makil!
You fail to understand the words, but you are striken dumb.
You feel your tongue cleave to your mouth, and your heart labouring.
Your mithril crescent-moon axe is left damaged  and heavily corroded by the
black-robed hooded wraith's spell.
You swing at the black-robed hooded wraith's body with your mithril crescent-
moon axe, but it dodges your attack.
Faking an opening, you lure the black-robed hooded wraith to launch for an
attack, but in the last moment you charge your shoulder into it leaving it
shaken.
As the black-robed hooded wraith strikes at you, you sidestep its swing and
push it out of balance.
The black-robed hooded wraith lightly bruises your head with its left foot.
A flash of power erupts from the bone formations on your splint helmet and
tingles the flesh of the body of the black-robed hooded wraith!
It looks slightly hurt by the armour's strange power.
> grin
You grin merrily.
The black-robed hooded wraith draws power from the realm of shadows.
How rude, farting!
You feel the nutritional benefits of the herb going to work in your body. 
You strike out wildly with your mithril crescent-moon axe, just grazing the
black-robed hooded wraith's body.
Your ring feels warm on your hand.
The black-robed hooded wraith strikes at your head with its left foot, but you
easily parry its attack.
You swing at the black-robed hooded wraith's legs with your mithril crescent-
moon axe, but it easily dodges your attack.
> You are physically somewhat hurt and mentally degraded.
The black-robed hooded wraith is somewhat hurt.
> 
The black-robed hooded wraith draws power from the realm of shadows.
say your gonna kick my ass arnt you!
You say: your gonna kick my ass arnt you!
> dgrunt
crescent-moon axe, but its midnight black platemail protects it.
You grunt.
> You are physically somewhat hurt and mentally degraded.
The black-robed hooded wraith is somewhat hurt.
> 
Your ring feels warm on your hand.
The black-robed hooded wraith raises its hand, menacing at you, and commands:
Libo makil!
You fail to understand the words, but you are striken dumb.
You feel your tongue cleave to your mouth, and your heart labouring.
Your mithril crescent-moon axe is left damaged  and heavily corroded by the
black-robed hooded wraith's spell.
The mithril crescent-moon axe breaks!!!
> 
You feel yourself relax from your aggressively offensive posture.
guffaw
You drop a broken mithril crescent-moon axe.
> 
While your belly shakes, you hear your roaring laughter echo in the distance.
> 
The air around you seems to stiflingly thicken as the black-robed hooded
wraith inhales deeply, causing you to gasp for breath.
say oh shit
You say: oh shit
You don't have the appropriate weapon to do that.
> 
Your ring feels warm on your hand.
The black-robed hooded wraith gestures quickly in your direction. Suddenly you
find yourself being pulled forward, inescapably bound by its grip.
The black-robed hooded wraith disgourges copious amounts of noxious fumes from
beneath its a black hood, hitting you directly in the face.
The attack from the black-robed hooded wraith strikes you, but the impact seems
to be deadened so that it does not hurt you as much as it should have.
You feel slightly hurt.
The air around you seems to stiflingly thicken as the black-robed hooded wraith
inhales deeply, causing you to gasp for breath.
climb tree
You quickly scamper up the side of the great oak and onto one of the great
branches.
It seems that every step you take towards the up the great oak tree and
disappears into its folliage exit feels heavier than the last. It can only be a
matter of time before you give into despair completely.
> 
You feel a surge of adrenaline, and once again feel ready to rage like a true
dwarven warrior!
You strike at the black-robed hooded wraith's body with your left elbow, but it
easily dodges your attack.
You roar in fury and throw yourself into the fight like a madman!

he black-robed hooded wraith gestures quickly in your direction. Suddenly
you find yourself being pulled forward, inescapably bound by its grip.
The black-robed hooded wraith disgourges copious amounts of noxious fumes from
beneath its a black hood, hitting you directly in the face.
You feel barely hurt.
The air around you seems to stiflingly thicken as the black-robed hooded wraith
inhales deeply, causing you to gasp for breath.
se
As the black fog of despair clouds your mind, you are not really sure where you
are going, but it now seems like a better idea to move towards the southeast
exit.
> 
Your mind was so clouded that you almost forgot where you were going! But you
now make your way through the southeastexit.
You are now hunted by a black-robed hooded wraith.
You stand on an almost unnoticeable animal trail that heads deep into the
forest. You notice with some trepidation that much of the forest in this region
is dark and twisted, with choking underbrush that seems to deliberately impede
your travel.
There are two obvious exits: southeast and northwest.
se
se
You manage to push your way through the grasping tree branches and choking
underbrush...
The black shadow of despair, which clings tightly to every fibre of your being,
fights against every step you make towards the southeast exit.
> 
You manage to push your way through the grasping tree branches and choking
underbrush...
You struggle mightily to steer yourself towards the southeastexit, only to
discover that you were already heading in that direction!
> ne

arkness engulfs the surroundings.
A black-robed hooded wraith arrives from the northwest.
The black-robed hooded wraith attacks you!
The air around you seems to stiflingly thicken as the black-robed hooded wraith
inhales deeply, causing you to gasp for breath.

orry I could not copy the beginging of the fight but I attacked him.

he begining of the fight went great and he could not hurt me, but he broke both
my
axes so I was screwed.  If I had more axes I might have put him on the run.
I was wearing a black fullplate, a death robe, boots with death spell defence, 
helmet with undead damage and a ruby snake ring.  As well as a couple other
embues.
I think if I had more axes or was able to save my origonal from breaking I
would 
have won or he would have ran.
Pacal

[Kiara]

Yeah that weapon breaking thing is totally annoying. You need like a pack of weapons. And of course a gazillion death resistance items.

Hey, how hurt did you get him?? Log says somewhat hurt? But maybe this isnt the entire log? Was he ever hurt or more?

[OgreToyBoy]

tried using non-magical weapons against the mages?

[Celephias]

Interesting. What do you suppose your relative sizes are?

[Kas]

I think it's small legend vs supermyth/biggest player(?) in the game. In other words, an enormous gap in difference.

[Windemere]

I think this is interesting,

First, it is important to know that Neidar are designed to be uber-tanks. That is what they are. Which is why it was so shocking that Logg was taken out so quickly by really prepared MMs. Now we have a turn around on that. Pacal was completely decked out in resistance gear, had specific imbues to counter MM as well as being his uber tank self and was able to hold his own against a (from the log) unarmed and less prepared Morrison.

Keep in mind we also do not have a full log here so there are still questions about what the outcome would have been if the axe hadn't broken, whether if Morrison was prepared to fight Pacal or not, etc..etc..

Either way, I think that this provides some evidence that shows Mages are not the unkillable, uber myth super-killers, immortals that everyone tends to argue they are. It also shows resistances truly do make a huge difference in respect survivability.

Interesting indeed.
Windemere

[Kas]

Morrison says he was max prepared, which is in line of what he usually is.

[Celephias]

Definitely interesting. He held his own quite well despite being much smaller. Its quite likely Morrison would have run out mana before doing much of anything damage-wise to him. I also wonder if resistances are capped or not.

[Kiara]

Pacal was super-stacked with tons of resistances, nothing your regular player will walk around with. The Logg log (heh) kinda showed what happened if you dont have that.

Morrison disabled Pacal pretty easy though, using one spell, DESPITE all his resistances. So, I guess we now know hat death resistance have no effect on that weapon-breaking spell.

Ogre: Non magical weapons have not been tested I think. It would make little sense if they didnt break though?

Windemere: How do you mean this log shows that mages arent unkillable? It shows that it theoretically possible to _survive_ a mage attack if you're stacked with imbues at all times you leave the guild. (which is realistically fairly unlikely). I agree on that! But it doesnt show much if mages are killable or not. I guess they are if you catch one idle, or have an ogre with you. But other than that, the mage, just as most guilds can just speedwalk away if it goes badly. They can also travel while invisible so... well if you want to hunt one who doesnt want to be hunted... it's gonna be extremely hard to find one. So... if they're unkillable remains to be seen I think.

And... since the mage can keep you from escaping for 2 minutes or more, they can just return another day when you're not stacked on resistances, or just bring a friend, and you're dead, dead, and dead. There is the biggest danger in my opinion. And I will always argue that the imbalance of the "stop-enemy-from-escaping" abilities is the main issue that keeps PVP from being fun for more than a fraction of the realms.

But yeah. We've kinda proven now that death resistances do work well against the mages offensive damage spell. So far it has not seemed to be effective against any other of their abilities. And lets not forget that death resistance items are very rare.

Sooo.... no. Mages are still crazy-powerful. Theres is no doubt about that. Unless there some type of counter against all other abilities that we havent found out yet... not sure what that would be. Maybe stacking on global magic resistance instead of death? Who knows...

I'd love to see how a mage thats NOT a mega myth would perform though. But I suppose they locked Kas in the tower so he wont embarrass them?:)

Wanna duel Kas?

[Amorana]

Ogre: Non magical weapons have not been tested I think. It would make little sense if they didnt break though?

Not really. Perhaps the magic in that particular spell is limited to reverting magic inside of magical weapons, and thereby destroying them. It would make a lot of sense as a spell limitation to only have it work this way. It would also explain why we're not actively finding pile and piles of broken weapons around mage hunting grounds...