Message 3466 : How to stay alive as a bn (Prist)
Written on Tue May 22 19:17:15 2001


It's impossible. All bns die, no matter how good you are, it's a part
of divine plan or something as they say... ohwell... so basically you
have to get used to dying/reequipping or choose another race to play.

Don't whine how underpowered bns are. We aren't underpowered at all.
Other players think that we are tho, that is what makes them careless
and possible to kill... they will often enter after you in traps, 
hoping for an easy kill, and are surprised if they find themselves in
mandos afterwards... that goes only for players that haven't played bns
themselves - clueful 'old' players know exactly the strengths and weak-
nesses of bns, therefore losing the element of surprise and leading 
(probably) to your own death... it is advisable that you stay away of
such players, unless you are extremely good yourself or have some 
excellent plan you want to try out...

Mostly there are 2 sorts of bns: portalwhores and solohunters. Which
one you want to be is up to you... Portalling bns tend to spend half
of their playing time in Cave, locating mounts and players, preparing
traps etc... such players are hated by the opposite races, called trap-
whores, overkillers etc, on the other hand playertrolls will love you
for you can provide them with a lot of action... it is quite dangerous
tho for after locate/portal you rarely have enough mana to cure yourself
or rearmour or port out or anything like that if things go ugly, probably
resulting in your death... there are a few hints though you can follow
to make your life easier and safer:
1) Use a lot of caps to get ppl for portalling, it works better
2) Don't scout portal - let some orc scout it, otherwise you might end
 up buffing 10+ in closed room and instadying.
3) Do not stand still or try to do damage to pukes. Your only purpose
 is to group orcs/trolls and get them to trap, they do not expect you
 to spam around and nuke... just _try_ to stay alive (it's hard enough
 and keeps you occupied)
4) Get another bn with block with you. You won't have mana to block
 exits when needed, therefore the trap will fail.
5) Do NOT buff any pukes - you got other groupmembers for that.
6) When things go bad, try to regen enough mana and portal your group
 out to safety. Do not port unless you are really dying - you should
 not abandon your group. The worst kind of ppl are those that portal
 several trolls in closable area, then proting somewhere else and
 leaving trolls behind suntrapped, therefore getting them killed.
7) Stay alive.

The life of a solohunter is much more interesting and dangerous tho.
Your main hunting ground will be Morthan/eregion/abr horseshoe, last
changes to powerrangers have made it almost impossible for bns to solo-
hunt near bree/fnost so there is no point in going there to kill lvl 3
sleeping *elves*, therefore u should carefully learn the southern areas...
Tharbad is OUR city and it is your holy duty to slay every puke who is
careless or stupid enough to visit it. But don't get too excited tho - 
sometimes you meet unnamed legends there who can annihilate your sorry
ass back to the Island...
As usually there are some hints to help you when you try to hunt solo:
1) Try to avoid powerrangers.
2) Kill all pukes you meet.
3) Stay alive.

Simple, isn't it? This whole post is 100% useless though, written only
because it is awfully boring to wait for some friendly V+ that would
let me out of retirement for the 348275482th time... but if you had
enough time and patience to read it then perhaps my time wasn't completely
wasted either :)

Take care my little ones! 

 -Prist