Curing poison is too easy ...
Posted: Fri Nov 02, 2018 1:20 am
I've wanted to bring this up for a while (I'm talking, "years"), but I wanted to try to make sure of my evidence (btw, I have none) to make sure that I would be offering a valid argument.
I hope others who are better-versed-than-I in investigating issues of era-accuracy might pick-up on my failures.
My "evidence": an anecdote, only, and which might even be pre-t2A (although I never remember seeing a patch-note that made poison-curing "easier"):
Those who were there will remember that we did not have stat/skill locks and, at least for a while, we could gain skill indirectly.
OK, so, OSI-Chesapeake-Saxmund is entertaining/babysitting his "UO girlfriend", whom I will identify only as, "Jewel": she wants to slay Bone Knights; I'm kind-of bored (I do not even remember which Dungeon this is; Deceit?). Anyhoo, stupid-me is in another room and I'm bored so I start to throw open crates.
Um, bad idea: I trigger lvl-5 poison …
I must have been ridiculously-lucky timing my Recall: it was not interrupted and I appeared at WBB; "Bank" and, while I was doing anything/everything to "not die until I got all my stuff off of me and into the bank", it was not going to be enough, soon-enough.
There was a crowd at WBB, including a lot of nice folks: while trying "to strip", I'm also accepting trade-offers for GCure, and gulping them, and no good; I don't know how many times some kind person dropped In Vas Mani; I was handed several GHeal potions; I was also hit by a veritable barrage of An Nox; ALL to no effect.
Wow, still alive and stripped-to-underwear, I ride off towards the Healers: "Thnx: Healers now"; I get about 10 metres from the bank and my green-hitbar turns blue …
I remember that someone at WBB remarked, "I've never seen anyone survive lvl-5 poison".
I mentioned no stat/skill locks for a purpose: I did have 100 Strength, but such a thing required work to maintain in that era.
Of all the people who hit me with An Nox, what was their Magery? I can have no idea. I can't remember, now, how many GCures I gulped, and certainly have no idea as to the level of the alchemists.
I will say that my experiences with poison, here at UOSA, do not commute with my experiences on OSI; furthermore, according to information imported to our Wiki, what we currently have 'live' is not nearly as nasty as what was 'live' on OSI.
Some folks might think that I'm "butthurt": lol, Coop DeGrace is one of my most-favourite characters; the 1st time that William of Yew got swiped by that Poison Elemental should have been certain death but, well, wasn't.
I appreciate that what I have supplied is anecdotal and insubstantial: I'd love it if someone could provide better evidence.
SS
I hope others who are better-versed-than-I in investigating issues of era-accuracy might pick-up on my failures.
My "evidence": an anecdote, only, and which might even be pre-t2A (although I never remember seeing a patch-note that made poison-curing "easier"):
Those who were there will remember that we did not have stat/skill locks and, at least for a while, we could gain skill indirectly.
OK, so, OSI-Chesapeake-Saxmund is entertaining/babysitting his "UO girlfriend", whom I will identify only as, "Jewel": she wants to slay Bone Knights; I'm kind-of bored (I do not even remember which Dungeon this is; Deceit?). Anyhoo, stupid-me is in another room and I'm bored so I start to throw open crates.
Um, bad idea: I trigger lvl-5 poison …
I must have been ridiculously-lucky timing my Recall: it was not interrupted and I appeared at WBB; "Bank" and, while I was doing anything/everything to "not die until I got all my stuff off of me and into the bank", it was not going to be enough, soon-enough.
There was a crowd at WBB, including a lot of nice folks: while trying "to strip", I'm also accepting trade-offers for GCure, and gulping them, and no good; I don't know how many times some kind person dropped In Vas Mani; I was handed several GHeal potions; I was also hit by a veritable barrage of An Nox; ALL to no effect.
Wow, still alive and stripped-to-underwear, I ride off towards the Healers: "Thnx: Healers now"; I get about 10 metres from the bank and my green-hitbar turns blue …
I remember that someone at WBB remarked, "I've never seen anyone survive lvl-5 poison".
I mentioned no stat/skill locks for a purpose: I did have 100 Strength, but such a thing required work to maintain in that era.
Of all the people who hit me with An Nox, what was their Magery? I can have no idea. I can't remember, now, how many GCures I gulped, and certainly have no idea as to the level of the alchemists.
I will say that my experiences with poison, here at UOSA, do not commute with my experiences on OSI; furthermore, according to information imported to our Wiki, what we currently have 'live' is not nearly as nasty as what was 'live' on OSI.
Some folks might think that I'm "butthurt": lol, Coop DeGrace is one of my most-favourite characters; the 1st time that William of Yew got swiped by that Poison Elemental should have been certain death but, well, wasn't.
I appreciate that what I have supplied is anecdotal and insubstantial: I'd love it if someone could provide better evidence.
SS