Exploration - The Final Frontier!

[jezer]

I'm thinking of doing some exploring... and of course that can be quiet dangerous when you never know what is going to happen in the next room... So I got to wondering how I can explore the world safely.

Carrying recalls fly/water breath/aegis/visage/resist webs/prot evil obviously are givens... but there are a bunch of aggro mobs that can be quite safely negated by hiding your existance... So I got to wondering just how effective these things are on most mobs that are aggro...?

Now there are mobs right, that attack if they see your light? Now if I cast dark cloak does that cover my light AND my aegis, or just my light?
Am I better to remove my light when I explore and use darksight?
If a mob has infravision up, how can I hide from it?
If a mob has detect invis up, how can I hide from it?
What effect does casting darkness on myself make to a mob seeing me?
If a mob blinds me and hits hard, how can I recall safely if I am shifted?
Is shifting ferret the best way to see the world, or should I wander around lit and shifted phoenix ready for anything?
What supplicants can I give a recall to and get them to recall me?

Also just some general info about how to handle difficult situations... and roughly how many aggro's out there see EVERYTHING.

Thankyou.

[Tap]

You should join a channel to use as a backup since a surprise attack might leave you dead before you know what hits you. I'd recommend dragonsworn instead of hosers. They pay better attention to when you drop link.

[strider]

heh, couple things, first off tap. hosers pays attn, we just don't like to raise you!! ohh wait, we're a channel of proud afk'ers, ya we don't pay attn.

for jezer: dark cloak affects your sanc/aegis, not your lite. best way to xplore, get in ac, put up rwebs and every other spell you can think of, protect from evil, wb, fly, etc etc. lite dark cloak darkness self. self darkness just means mob won't see you if you and it are in a dark room. then just have fun.

that big string of questions you have, that's what xploring is, it's no fair if we tell you all that! die like the rest of us did!!

[jezer]

All stats this week are:
Total Experience 3,566,855,785
Experience while alone 2,683,085,048
Experience while grouped 883,650,977
[color=red:geagqhwv][b:geagqhwv]Deaths 0[/b:geagqhwv][/color:geagqhwv]

Dying is against my religion! You may like it, but it's another flaming hour of my life... to get 90mill back!

[Rynquald]

Death != corpse

As Strider and Tap said, join a channel. Adding as many people to your icq list as you can is always a good idea too.

[Stryx]

R.I.P.
Here lies the corpse of jezer...
The poor guy couldn't get the forum fast enough to find out why he was getting killed!

Dude, you really should be doing some thinking yourself. A lot of people here are too afraid of their characters dying. If you can get past that then you'll have a lot more fun here.

[jezer]

[quote="Stryx":1g51qsv1]R.I.P.
Here lies the corpse of jezer...
The poor guy couldn't get the forum fast enough to find out why he was getting killed![/quote:1g51qsv1]

Cackle!

Screams are heard in the distance...

"Ouch! Your hurting me! Hey! the forum said you wouldn't do this! This isn't fair!" *eerie silence*

[*juggleblood*]

Have the bugs in exploration been repaired? There were a lot of zones where track didn't work.

Lis and Stryx reported all the areas where it didn't work a while back. Can someone confirm if any areas are still unexplorable?

[Tap]

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