UO Second Age

Hi all! Finally i've found it! The shard i've always wanted, a real t2a experience!
I start playing few days ago and im alredy loving this
Ok now here are my questions:
1-does gm lvl of such skills as meditation, tactics or eval give an extra bonus to mana reg/damage?
2-Do i need poison skill to use poisoned weapon in combat?or i can poison the weapon with my mule and then give it to my dex (with no poisoning) for use?
3-How does the permagrey thing work here?Ive read somthing about that in the forum but i still cant get the point, lets take this situation:i steal with my thief from a blue player and i manage not to get caught by anyone, still i will turn grey to him.He then attack me: can i defend myself without taking a count or do i need to wait the 2 min criminal timeout?
4-I have sword on one of my chars but at 60 sword 60 tactics 90 strenght with a katana equipped i do a ridicolous ammount of damage, it takes me several hit to kill even a dog.Am i missing somthing?

Sorry for the many questions but its been a long time since the last time ive played this era, I thank in advance whoever will help me

you are probably missing the dog lol...

50 tactics gives you just base damage, with the bonus of 60 tactics your damage might be negotiated up to -4 points by poor weapon quality, you may be using a practice weapon on top of that. In that case you would be doing about the same damage as all practice weapons "such as newbie dagger".

You can poison with your mule.

Eval gives bonus to mage damage, anatomy and tactics to weapon damage, and meditation does increase at GM as well.

Oh yeah permagrey means you are attackable by anyone even if you got away with it. Some thieves who escape just bank after and suicide themselves in secret so when they are attacked by whom they stole from it will guardwhack the victim. Othertimes the thief has an alt with the same name to have the same effect.

Was that it? Should have quoted ya...

lol thank u for the reply.Just one thing left for the permagrey: can i defend myself right after the theft without dieing or swiching character (in other words: can i noto pk using stealing?)

No, u have to wait 2 mins. If they attack u and stay blue, run, if they turn grey u can defend urself