(Player Kill)

Terms
General
How to Trashtalk
Styles
Weapons, Damage, and Health
Armor Class
Stats
Races
Deities

Terms

Badge: The colored tag that appears before a deadlies name on look and after a deadlies name on where;
(Excordis)(Maleficae)(Catarrh)(Feralis)(Unclanned)

CR: Corpse Retrieval, when you go and get your equipment from your corpse.

DH: Short term for Darkhaven.

DL: Down Link, when you are disconnected from the mud or stop recieving output from the mud but are not given a Link Dead flag.

Drop Sac: When you loot someone and then drop their loot on the ground and sacrifice it.

Ganking: When you disarm someone and pick up their weapon.

Gay/Lame: Doing something that is considered cheap.

Ghetto: Someone who is wearing weaker, easier to get equipment that gives very low enhancements to their stats.

Gravoc: The main mob in PK Town, when someone says gravoc they usually mean to meet at gravoc.

Grim: Short for Grimoire a PK area connected through PK Town.

HQ: Short for headquaters, the areas made for each individual clan to reside in.

KB: Killing Blow.

LD: Link Dead, this is when you are disconnected from the mud entirely and have a link dead flag before your name.

Lowbie: A referance for a character any level below avatar(Lvl 50).

Leveler Killer: Someone who repeatedly kills someone who is trying to level up.

Nub/Noob/Newb/Newbie: Someone who is new to PKill, can also be used as a taunting phrase.

Offloading: When you take equipment you looted and put it on storage, or put it on a peaceful character.

PK: Short for Player Kill, when you fight other players.

PVM: Player vs Mob.

PVP: Player vs Player.

Rotting: When you forcably stake someones corpse and prevent them from corpse retrieving so that their corpse rots and they lose all their equipment.

Scooping: When you disarm someones weapon and another player gets it or fills a container to get the weapon.

Tissue/Cry/Whine: A singular taunting term to denote that someone is crying or whining about something.

Town: Short referance for Player Kill Town.

5 Upping: When someone logs a character five levels higher than another character to kill it with.

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General

Deadlies are dicks, thats what we are supposed to do, suck it up and don't take it personally.

Triggers are bad for PK don't use them. They will lessen your abilities and get you killed. If you don't believe me see for yourself.

Keep gag off, you will not be able to see missed bashes, circles or anything that misses with it on. You will get used to the spam.

Keep brief on, it cuts down on room spam when you move around.

Always keep sanctuary on, it cuts damage by half. You never know when anybody on anything will come out of nowhere trying to kill you.

Type who pk and where pk often, and by often I mean _OFTEN_ make it a habit, you never know when anybody on anything will come hunting you.

Being deadly means you are 100% at risk 100% of the time, accept and understand this.

Generally speaking, doing things like blinding, poisoning, using poisoned weapons, offloading, LD/DL killing, scrapping containers, ganking weapons are considered lame("gay") don't do them. Remember anything you can do to someone can easily happen to you.

Quaff to drink ratio is 8:1 you can quaff 8 heals before getting full and need to drink from a spring. You can buy spring scrolls from Sevrias in grimoire(2e, n from Plaza of the Avatika) always have some in your inventory or container and have an aliase to quickly recite them, they can save your life.

Always have pass doors on hand. They will save your life in choice scenarios.

Always have gutbusters on hand for cure poison and remove curse.

Always have true sight potions and cure blind scrolls _and_ potions on hand.

Type af (for affects list) often to know exactly when your sanc and true sight will wear off so you can be ready to requaff.

Always have fly on. If you are over level 35, have a magic carpet in your inventory, say 'let me fly!' and it will cast fly on you.

Don't use secondary attacks(kick, strike, elbow etc...) for damage, the damage is easily healable and they only lag you down, and thats bad. Only use them for pursuing or to nail an incapacitated person.

Have a mage for spelling/brewing or buy tank pots, resist magic, nonmagic, slash and pierce are all vital.

Never be at full health, someone backstabbing you is quite bad. Remove a piece of eq with a small amount of hit points on it and quaff a heal then re-wear the eq so you will be slightly under full health.

PK resistances and suscepts are capped at 10%.

If you are tanking too much damage, flee, it will break up their melee hitting. Don't stay in the same room you flee into though, move several rooms away, heal if needed, and return to the fight.

Have macros for healing and drinking from springs and aliases for murder, recalling, reciting springs, styles, fleeing, quaffing sancs, elds, trues and other potions and any skills and spells that don't have a shortcut already(i.e. bs is already keyed for backstabbing, but you nearly have to spell cleave out to use it.)

Most people use a lvl 20 thief or warrior for buying heals with. The warrior to hold more at one time, and the thief for the 22 cha. It will save you gold in the long run.

Learn PK Town and Grimoire like the back of your hand, ue a lvl 2 if you have too. Learn all the PK areas and directions to headquaters and peaceful areas all by hand. Get it to the point where you can walk anywhere from anywhere blindfolded, because you might just have to walk blind someday.

If you are 17 years old and don't want to wait to turn 18 then type mature and it will automatically set you to 18.

If you are new to Avatar PK starting on a Thief works best.

If your team mate dies spam shove the person that kb'ed them so they cannot loot their corpse, if the kb'er sits down use drag to move them out of the room. Likewise if your team mate kb's someone else keep murdering the rest of their team so they cannot shove/drag your team mate while they try to loot.

You can skin a deadlies corpse only if you are level 50, and scored the killing blow, you will also need to be wielding a long or short blade to do it.

You can have any item flagged PKill by giving it to gravoc, and you can have a container tagged to your name(i.e. you can use your name to get/put/quaff from the container)by giving it to Taergosa, he is 2s, e, s from gravoc.

Ultimately the best way to get good at PK is simply by PKing if you die, don't get mad and bitch, just cr, replace any looted eq, and go back out to PK more. You _will_ get better and die less.

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How to Trashtalk

You have a 3 second window to make a grammatical correction to someone.

You have a 5 second window to comeback to someones insult.

Call someone on trashing from recall/saferooms if you are still in town.

Don't just blatantly cuss someone out, try to sound a bit more intelligent.

Copy paste wearing of eq you just looted off of someone(right circumstances required, of course).

Make a play off of someones name! Always a fun one.

In the end though, the best way to trash talk is to just feel out what sets off/pisses someone off so you can use that to push their buttons.

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Styles

Style	Damage Done	Damage Taken
Berserk	120%	120%
Aggressive	110%	110%
Standard	100%	100%
Defensive	85%	85%
Evasive	80%	80%

Styles are pretty simple, the higher your style the more damage you do but the more damage you take and vise versa with lower styles. Remember that cannot flee in an Aggressive or Berserk stance, and you also cannot drink from springs in Berserk, so be cautious. If you are taking way to much damage you might want to style down for a while, and if you arn't tanking you probably want to go to a higher style to do more melee damage, or if someone you are keying starts getting low style up to try to deal the killing blow on them. Overall you will learn to feel when and how you should style up or down.

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Weapons, Damage, and Health

Weapon Type	Damage Type
Long Blades	Slash, Slice
Short Blades	Pierce, Stab
Pugilism	Blast, Bite, Suction, nomessage
Bludgeons	Crush, Pound
Talonous Arms	Claw
Flexible Arms	Whip
Missile Weapons	Arrow, Dart, Stone, Pea, Bolt

Blade	Blunt	Generic
barely scratch	barely scuff	brush
scratch	scuff	scratch
nick	pelt	graze
cut	bruise	nick
hit	strike	jolt
tear	thrash	wound
rip	batter	injure
gash	flog	hit
lacerate	pummel	jar
hack	smash	thrash
maul	maul	maul
rend	bludgeon	decimate
decimate	decimate	_traumatize_
_mangle_	_shatter_	_devastate_
_devastate_	_devastate_	_maim_
_cleave_	_maim_	_demolish_
_butcher_	_cripple_	MUTILATE
DISEMBOWEL	MUTILATE	MASSACRE
DISFIGURE	DISFIGURE	PULVERIZE
GUT	MASSACRE	DESTROY
EVISCERATE	PULVERIZE	OBLITERATE
SLAUGHTER	OBLITERATE	*ANNIHILATE*
*ANNIHILATE*	*ANNIHILATE*	**SMITE**

Glance Description	Health Level
perfect health	100%
slightly scratched	95%-99%
a few bruises	81%-94%
some cuts	71%-80%
several wounds	61%-70%
many nasty wounds	51%-60%
bleeding freely	41%-50%
covered in blood	31%-40%
leaking guts	21%-30%
almost dead	11%-20%
DYING	1%-10%

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Armor Class

AC will help you take less damage from hits and avoid more hits, the maximum AC you can get is -500, after that the affects are too small to make a difference. Theres two types of AC the -AC on the equipments aff stats, and then the armors actual AC(The hits it can take before it scraps). The armors AC is added to your own -AC, all eq slots are x1, so 20 ac on a piece of equipment equals -20 personal ac, but there are a few slots that get an extra bonus, body is AC x 3, and head, legs, and about are AC x 2.

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Stats

Strength(STR): Affects max weight capacity, damage roll, hit roll, and successfulness of bash, shove, and drag.

Dexterity(DEX): Affects how much you can carry in your inventory, raises your natural AC, dropping potions when you quaff in combat, and the successfulness of bash, gouge, and thieves being able to poison weapons.

Constitution(CON): Affects the number of rounds gouge lasts, and saves vs poisoning.

Intelligence(INT): Affects the success rate of casting spells.

Wisdom(WIS): Affects saves vs wands, spells and staves, also helps in the casting of spells and thieves poisoning of weapons.

Charisma(CHA): Affects the cost of store bought items.

Luck(LCK): Affects everything in general, the overall successfulness of fleeing, landing secondary attacks etc...

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Races

Race	Affects	Experience Gain Rate	Available Classes
Human	No affects	1.00	All
Dwarf	Infrared, Res_Fire	0.97	Augurer, Barbarian, Bladesinger, Cleric, Druid, Ranger, Thief, Vampire, Warrior
Elf	Det_Magic, Res_Cold	1.10	Augurer, Bladesinger, Cleric, Druid, Mage, Paladin Ranger, Thief, Vampire, Warrior
Halfling	Det_Evil, Sneak, Fight bonus when grouped with other halflings	1.02	Ranger, Thief, Vampire, Warrior
Pixie	Flying, Sus_Blunt	1.08	Cleric, Druid, Mage, Nephandi, Ranger, Thief
Half-Elf	Infrared, Res_Cold	1.04	Barbarian, Bladesinger, Cleric, Druid, Mage, Fathomer, Paladin, Ranger, Thief, Vampire, Warrior
Half-Ogre	Infrared, Res_Pierce	0.92	Barbarian, Bladesinger, Thief, Vampire, Warrior
Half-Orc	Infrared	0.94	Barbarian, Bladesinger, Thief, Vampire, Warrior
Half-Troll	Infrared, Res_Poison	0.90	Augurer, Barbarian, Bladesinger, Thief, Vampire, Warrior
Gith	Det_Invis	1.06	Augurer, Bladesinger, Cleric, Mage, Nephandi, Thief, Vampire, Warrior
Sea-Elf	Dev_Only, Aqua_Breath, Det_Magic, Res_Cold	1.12	Augurer, Cleric, Druid, Fathomer, Mage, Thief, Warrior
Drow	Evil_Only, Infrared, Scry, Res_Poison	1.08	Augurer, Bladesinger, Cleric, Mage, Nephandi, Thief, Vampire, Warrior
Lizardmen	Evil_Only, Aqua_Breath, Res_Slash, Tail secondary attack	0.91	This class is OOG, you cannot choose to make one anymore.
Gnome	Det_Magic, Infrared, Res_Energy, Sus_Fire	1.20	Augurer, Cleric, Druid, Mage, Thief

These are the stat modifiers that affect your characters stat rolls based on the race you pick:

Race	HP	MP	STR	INT	WIS	DEX	CON	CHA	LCK
Human	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Dwarf	+6	-6	+1	0	+1	0	+2	-1	0
Elf	-2	+10	-1	+1	0	+2	-1	+1	+1
Halfling	-3	+10	-2	0	0	+1	+1	0	0
Pixie	-5	+40	-4	-1	0	+3	-2	+3	0
Half-Elf	+3	+3	-1	+1	0	+1	-1	+1	0
Half-Ogre	+5	-8	+2	-2	-1	-3	+3	-4	0
Half-Orc	+6	-9	+1	-1	-2	-2	+2	-4	0
Half-Troll	+7	-9	+3	+1	-2	-2	+2	-5	0
Gith	+4	+20	0	+1	-1	+2	-2	-5	+1
Sea-Elf	-2	+10	-1	+1	0	+2	-1	+1	+1
Drow	+1	+12	-1	+1	0	+2	-1	-4	+1
Lizardmen	+2	0	+2	-6	-6	-3	+2	-2	-4
Gnome	-3	+18	-2	+2	+1	0	-1	-1	+1

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Deities

Theres alot of deities, but most of them are useless if you want to PK, these ones would be your best option:

Estathius: Res Magic and Non Magic

Kardis: Res Pierce

Keltas: Res Blunt, Invis. Sneak when not at full loved.

Ghordohl: Res Slash

Sil-Galith: Res Blunt and Pass Door

The choice is up to you, if you don't mind brewing for the resistances then go with Keltas or Sil-Galith for sneak and pass door. If you are lazy go for one of the others that gives brewable resistances.

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