Why all the thief hate?

[Tiberius]

I don't carry side arms, I sell'em so keep up the good work.

Just to change the rant, I'd like to kick the guy who thought up smoke bombs and dismounts in the freakin balls; I mean really Hiding and stealth worked just fine with the 8 steps distance. People tended to die alot before dismount so imo it was not needed. I rocked a heal/hide mage for 2-3 years pre-aos and never found the need to go poof 2 tiles away from my opposition; then again I never had to worry about being knocked off my freakin horse when iw as already fight 2, 3, 4 to 1 odds.

IMO remove dismount, remove smoke bombs and we have a damn good pvp system. I was here to witness a mass exodus when weapon based dismount came into play and I am sure the shard lost a few hardcore pvpers over smoke bombs.

 

[insanepete]

I agree smoke bombs are a rip off in pvp, I dont carry em cause I try to carry nothing but I see lots of unamed naked tamer folks do it all the time to evade dying honorably. as a thief im not much for honor but i hate losing a pile of smoke bombs when I die so I carry nothing but GM Resists and a blessed bandana. smoke bombs should be changed so they can be interrupted or something, even a 1 second delay and smoke animation would make it a bit more fair in pvp.

 

[Chad Sexington]

No more thief hate?

Why would you want to get rid of the best screenshots?

 

[Blindside]

back to the topic at hand.....boogers was crying :loser:

 

[Anonymouse]

If you really hate thiefs make a char with tracking/detect... Every template in uo can be countered with another in my experience.

 

[Shh!]

Thieves will be hated because, like Otto said, there's no 70s resist thief suit. You have to THINK to play a thief and, therefore, have to THINK to stop a thief. I will let you take that to its logical conclusion.

 

[Tiberius]

could always leave your blessed weapon in your pack and arm your side arm...

or set a disarm macro to a lock chest through uoa

 

[Cruxshadow]

or set a disarm macro to a lock chest through uoa

this... hate this...


although im pretty sure a last target macro would negate this

 

[Falon of Eldor]

@OP - your mailbox is set to anyone, thanks for the nutcracker.....Ariana, sister of Oscar.

 

[AEowynSP]

No more thief hate?

Why would you want to get rid of the best screenshots?

YA!

 

[Indigo SP]

I dare you to steal from me you rascal...lol

 

[FrejaSP]

Question: Why all the thief hate?

We steal, what, ONE item from you, you chase us, we get away, we laugh and bank it, you get upset (but not that upset).

However, when we fail, we get looted dry. You take my 2k gold Horned suit and trash it, take my +stealing jewelry, and think nothing more than "Glad that thief is dead and gone".

Yet when you get ganked by a group of people, they take ALL your stuff, and sell it back for boatloads of cash (I hear 1mill per suit).

Why do you have to take my stealing jewelry or my horned suit, you won't use it, you take it to hurt me, I ask you why?

Why not look at stealing as a weaker form of PvP? I cannot win in a fight vs you, I can steal an item and get away, thats about it.

I think you are missing one important thing here, on Siege you can't take respect for granted, respect is earned here.

If you comes to the PvP scene as a nobody, you may get looted alot more than a Siege vet who had made his/her name here or is in a guild that had earned respect.

My advice to you is to treat others as you want them to treat you because what goes around comes around. You may lose alot stuff at the start but you will soon see it pay off.

If you steal something you don't want to use yourself, be willing to sell it back to the ex owner before you put it on your vendor or tell him where to find your vendor.

A little RP may help, both when you success and when you die. Be careful not to turn out as begging or crying but be cool about it.

Also if you count the risk and expect to lose your stuff if you die, it do not hurt so much.

Trust me many new SP players feel like you the first times they die and get looted dye and then see others be able to buy stuff mack from same killers.

Don't give up.

 

[booglerz]

@OP - your mailbox is set to anyone, thanks for the nutcracker.....Ariana, sister of Oscar.

Heh, just came back after a few years away, mailboxes are new to me... thanks for the heads up!

 

[Mitzlplik_SP]

I don't carry side arms, I sell'em so keep up the good work.

Just to change the rant, I'd like to kick the guy who thought up smoke bombs and dismounts in the freakin balls; I mean really Hiding and stealth worked just fine with the 8 steps distance. People tended to die alot before dismount so imo it was not needed. I rocked a heal/hide mage for 2-3 years pre-aos and never found the need to go poof 2 tiles away from my opposition; then again I never had to worry about being knocked off my freakin horse when iw as already fight 2, 3, 4 to 1 odds.

IMO remove dismount, remove smoke bombs and we have a damn good pvp system. I was here to witness a mass exodus when weapon based dismount came into play and I am sure the shard lost a few hardcore pvpers over smoke bombs.

Yes I totally agree with this. Dismount is plain ******** and one of the stupidest things added to UO. Its too frustrating to PvP much with this in the mix so I don`t do it unless I hafta defend myself. I`m not gonna even try to be an active pvp`r while having to deal with getting ganked by sum tards with a bola and being forced to run ninja to even have a chance counter it.

No thanks.