Also, when you do spawns, have a friend that you trust, that he takes the function of "protector" and make sure he protects you, and re-protects you after you die eache time when he rezzes you. So you guys get more scrolls. While you doing the spawn, and esp close to the end when the Boss spawns, if you see any "helping guys" there, esp. in Atl, you can count that they are there to get you. Usually its just one player with two toons one the will "help" you drop the boss, and either towards the end or after the boss drops and the scrolls are in your pack, his "other" character in the form of a white tiger will flash right next to you and steal your stuff, possibly kill you. The other character will conveniently disappear. The white tiger is a ninja mastery form with high dci. Your stuff will be in his pack now. If you manage to kill him, make sure you loot his corpse and quickly make it out of there. Don't use the black gait..His other char is waiting for you in the star room. Exit the spawn area fast, and then try to run away from there is you can. If you have managed to kill the thief, you will not be able to teleport, recall etc. so you try to wait for the timer to end, I think its 5 minutes or so. Its good not to be on foot so you can run fast. Remember to always loot the thief's carcass, since your scrolls/items are in there. Also if there is only one exit from the area, you can count that he is waiting for you there, first, he will try to get you again, then he will try to get to his corpse. So by thinking ahead and having some strategy, you may walk out of there with some PS, and if you get the wrestling one you made good $$. Another scenario is direct PK, when two reds will get you, almost always. The usually work in teams. Possibly can be outsmarted out-fought but don't count on it.
Good thing is PKs are not always there, but they are there enough times, lol. So you may get killed, so what? Frankly I find the thieves 10 times more dangerous esp. the good ones. Heck in Deceit, I get killed at least 2-3 times per hour when I miss a paragon hehe. Spawning in Fel, probably died only 2x altogether.
With spawns you gan make some decent $$ depending on what PS you catch, quickly. Its fun, a little adrenaline but awesome with sampire, or even some tamer templates, esp if your pet is a surprise to the PK/Thief pet! (Something there is no way to get away from, and nearly 95-98% killing even the best geared PK - hint something that is lightning fast, has massive firepower, renders PK unable to heal fast enough, and has no slayer against it, and will kill the PK even after he has killed you.) But of course would much rather use a sampire and not a tamer any day of the week.
The more spawns you do the more you will learn the tricks of the trade.
But first, would try to get all resists to 70's at least, get HCI and DCI and SSI to speed, also damage to max, and get a set of slayer weapons, and you are on your way.
There is a thread in here by a nice player "Rags to Riches". He wrote it a few yrs back, very useful, he left the game, now I was happy to see him come back possibly ATL.
Good luck, and happy hunting!
