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The last piece I am not getting out of the documents is they refer to
"Progressing any number of steps in a Virtue will grant a character some special abilities. Players will be able to access these abilities by clicking the related Virtue symbol on their own Virtue gump. For example, double-clicking on the symbol for "Sacrifice" will activate the virtuous ability for Sacrifice."
"Players will be able to access these abilities by clicking the related Virtue symbol on their own Virtue gump."
The above is throwing me. As you indicated I am some what hesitant to ... experiment as I am reluctant to toss away my efforts in Raising Honor.
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You invoke virtues the same way, whether you are gaining or using. To sacrifice you invoke the virtue and target the lich or demon, to rez yourself, you invoke the virtue when you are dead. The same applies for honour. You invoke the virtue and honour your target to gain honour, and you invoke the virtue and target yourself to use it. What it does specifically is prevents anything from attacking you.
However if something is already trying to kill you, invoking honour won't stop it from continuing to try and kill you. It just prevents anything new from becoming aggressive. So you can tame a dragon and it won't attack you. You will get the message that you have angered it, but it won't attack.
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Thanks for the heads up on the Macro, I will do that. I have also been honoring GD's before I kill them (aka recycle them) but mysteriously/magicaly they seem to have a fraction of tjheir health missing and as far as I know no one did anything to them. Fully 80%+ of the GD's have come in this way and of course that makes Honoring them impossible.
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What has happened is it has blessed itself. If they have any damage indicated at all, you can't honour them. When they bless themselves they gain in their hit cap, but it takes a short while for their hits to catch up. If you have good evaluate intelligence you can curse them, or you can just wait for them to heal. With succubus it takes a while for them to heal, so I curse them, then invis myself, and if they are at full health, honour and attack them, and if they still aren't, it doesn't usually take long for them to heal up to full. I think greater dragons regenerate faster, so you shouldn't have to wait as long for them to be at full health.
What I do when I am honouring my prey, is I use a ridable pet. I precast invis run up, invis, dismount, then use my honour/kill macro. If they have managed to bless themselves, I run off, invis, precast curse, come back, curse them, run off, invis and wait for them to heal, then precast invis, come back, invis, dismount, and use my honour/kill macro.
It helps a great deal to have mount/dismount on a macro as well. You can do this easily with UOAssist by recording macros as you mount and dismount. I don't think this is possible yet with the KR client. I have my mount and dismount macros bound to my left and right scroll on my G5 mouse. It is amazing, I can mount and dismount like lightning, with minimal movement. (If you have a G5 you need to first bind the macros to a key combination, then bind the right and left scroll to those key combinations.)
With UOAssist all I do is set the target for mount to whatever my mount is for the moment. So I can set the same macro to any of my mountable pets, or my ethereal mount if I wish.
I love pets with attitude, wouldn't sell my feisty wee hellkitten for anything
