Can anyone explain this? My newb sis is stronger than me!

[LARAGORN]

Yes, the messages I'd love to see again aswell... Attacked the <take any bodypart> and was blocked.

There's nothing wrong with the combat situation. And ofcourse I'm proud my sister handles herself so well, but I find it weird she's doing so well, when I'm supposed to teach her the ropes and fail miserably.

By the way, the Tefusang I was referring to in the beginning, was just a normal one, in the neighbourhood of Ojaveda. You probably know what I mean. There's quite a herd of them there. But whatever I try, be it in the sewers, be it in the country, be it in the arena, all I could kill before with conciderable ease, is now too tough for me. Even the roaming rogue that only gives 80 experience, would have killed me if I hadn't had a stock of superior healing potions. But I ran out of those quite soon.

The Tefu near Oja only need about 3 to 4 hits before I have to run off with my bruised body and ego. I haven't even had a proper chance to hit back. He's maybe down 10 to 20% while I only have 5% left. I've been killing these with considerable ease for Toda before though.

I'm just saying, it's not adding up. If anyone wants to accompany me and my sister to witness it all for themselves, be my guest. I'm around quite a lot. Just hollor.

One of those Tefus is one mean beast, 2 are normal ones. Have you tried fighting the same one and waiting for it to respawn?

[Bartholin]

Thanks for your time... I will try to get something easier in the meantime. I just hope I can find something to kill without dying myself first. 

a) check all weapons and armor in use.
b) make sure said weapons give no boosts
c) make sure your both attacking the same mob (wait for respawn)
d) ask her to hold on lv.'ing and you make up the extra points in w/e she is ahead of you by.
e) repeat a-c

try switching weapons...
and your both the same race? <<<< might be it
if you both ARE.. then you got a bug.. as far as i can see..

[Pizzasgood]

I've had a couple times when the mobs didn't fight back.  They'd stand there and move their arms around, but they never attempted an attack.  They also wouldn't chase me if I backed up.  I don't know if it was a local glitch or a problem with the NPC server that would have affected everyone playing.  The most recent time was just last night.  I haven't logged in yet today, so I don't know if it's still doing it.  Last time it lasted about two days.

I'm not sure if they were blocking anything either.  I remember some of the mesages saying that I attacked and missed, but I don't remember if any of them said I attacked and was blocked.  If they stopped blocking too, then that could explain how your sister can do more damage and receive none.

[Lyciss]

Id like to add something similar to this situation of the original poster...

Having one point in LA and wearing the full get-up of leather armor, I was able to defend off many of the mobs in the arena. When I finially got the strength to wear chain, I upgraded thinking this would improve me. Yet it didn't. I had 3 points in medium armor yet the chain armor protected me far less than the leather.  Yes I was using the chain torso, and chain arms, a battle helm with the rest being leather, boots, gloves, legs...

My point is. After all the work to get my strength up to wear chain and I can already hear people responding with, "You need to put more points into MA", it still does not make any sense. There are SO many points just to get the stupid chain armor, then on top of that I need to dump more into MA and LA just to make it AS effective as the leather was already?? This is back peddling... It basicly renders low level MA completely USELESS...

There is definately and inbalance here... I understand the requirement issue, so that people wouldn't just by-pass leather armor and go straight for chain if there were no requirements to use it. However the effectiveness is far below all the effort just to aquire the use of chain, it makes it pointless to even use until you have dumped considerable amount of PP into it.

My solution is to bump up the effectiveness of chain a "little" bit more at lower level of MA skill. The reason being, is all the effort put in for the strength increase, there is basicly nill reward for upgrading to chain even after meeting the minimum strength requirement.

[Bartholin]

@ lyciss

 

chain does infact protect you more then leather...'

example... l/a lv 10 ; m/a lv 10

mob - ulbernaught

using l/a 70-80 h/p damage
m/a 40-50 damage

see the dif? i would hope so.. sure you threw pp at l/a dont mean a thing.. O.. not to mention that that was all   


anyway...

@ topic starter

send me a pm when ya test out my advice.. okay? hope to hear from you.. and hope we can fix this for you.

[Lyciss]

chain does infact protect you more then leather...'

example... l/a lv 10 ; m/a lv 10

mob - ulbernaught

using l/a 70-80 h/p damage
m/a 40-50 damage

see the dif? i would hope so.. sure you threw pp at l/a dont mean a thing.. O.. not to mention that that was all 

You completely misunderstood what I was pointing out, so let me explain it again...

1 point in light armor vs. 1 point in chain.

If you have 1 point in light armor and wear a full suit of leather it protects better than having 1 point of medium armor and wearing chain.

So the basic run down is

1 point of light armor, leather is better than 1 point of medium armor, chain.

So leather is better than chain. Perhaps as medium and light armor are trained this may change as you pointed out with 10 pts in each. But that is not what I was talking about.  Early points of medium armor are completely "useless" since you are better off sticking with leather until you train up medium armor.

Understand now?

[Bartholin]

your wrong.. it only APPEARS like that.. since you only have one item of chain.. the torso armor.. and the arm armor is bugged.. if you had a full set of chain v a full set of leather then you would see. but since a full set of chain is not yet ingame. you cant.. and this is still off topic for this topic..