ARRRRRAHHHGGHK

[Sarras Volcae]

THIS GAME IS TOO DAMN HARD TO PLAY!!!!!!! 

a year ago i was able to fight trepors and tefusangs and the like for my pp. now i can't even touch them! all i can fight are rats! my sword is at around 30, my light armor is almost 20, and i can't get enough pp to level up anymore. all i can do is roleplay, but that gets old, especially when it's out-of-character for my character to never train. i want to experience the game part, too. now planeshift is really boring. like, really boring. what the hell happened?

[Earowo]

As i've said, you have high enough skills to fight rogues, as long as you have healing items with you aka food

[Sarva]

Sarras you need to explore the other mob options you have. Can you kill a one eye rat? If yes advance to diseased rat, if you can easily kill a diseased rat then give a  Wrathrat a try. You might be surprised how many PPs they can give you. Also look to the clacker progression, regular clackers to easy then go to the Jade clacker and then when you are really ready the Thunder clacker again a good source of PPs.  Don't forget the arangmas  going from Forest up to Sand.

Of course the amount of PPs you get is based on your physical stats. The higher your physical stats are the lower the amount of Pps you will get no matter what you fight.  Hint to people starting new characters, don't rush to increase your physical stats, From having just started a new character myself I know you can fight increasingly harder mobs with lower physical stats as you level up your weapon and armor skills. I was getting 14 PPs and 19 PPs when I first started killing some of the mobs I mentioned above but then as I increased my physical stats I started getting fewer and fewer PPs but to make up for the fewer PPs I am getting now on the above mentioned Mobs I am onto other Mobs now like Riverlings and trepors ( and getting in the 30+ PP range for those mobs now based on my physical stats).

Yes if you are going to just think the old way about one eyed rats and trepors then yes the game will be to hard. If you expand your thinking and explore the new mobs and realize that a forest Arangma is different in strength and PPs from a Weaver Arangma to a Weaver Arangma to a Sand Arangma ( Same with other mobs)  and work to find the right level of each mob type for your current abilities in terms of what you can fight and what Pps they give then things aren't that bad.

[LigH]

And if you ask other people in game, they will tell you what they prefer. Or you could read again other complaints about the combat refinements and find a few hints there (e.g. about Tlokes).

Either way ... next time, try to imagine a thread title which describes the content of the thread. Please. I don't like to be "forced" into reading a thread to discover if it interests me.

[RlyDontKnow]

as a general hint: monsters get the stronger the bigger and meaner they look

also try to play a bit with the different armors of the monsters. e.g. try a tloke vs a rat vs a kikiri or something similiar easy.
although they basically give similiar amounts of PPs, which one is best for you depends on the weapon you have.

or just as Sarva/LigH said: try to think a bit out of the old scheme and play around a bit with different ones or ask others about their experiences.

also trying out a shield instead of dual-weapons can make a big difference - especially on the higher end (unless you're using a bow of course which has it's own advantages)

[Vakachehk]

Agreed with Sarras, PlaneShift is way beyond to hard to play!

[Sarras Volcae]

none of the suggestions in this thread have helped me so far 

[Geoni]

Look around at other games. There are a few better ones that have private roleplay servers.

[Vakachehk]

Look around at other games. There are a few better ones that have private roleplay servers.

lol

Well sorry ABC but Planeshift is pretty crap if you are the most maxed out person in Heavy Armor and sword but yet cannot kill a Tefusang that lay in the arena...
Just a question, what are those Tefusangs in the arena for? no one can kill them, because GMs nut off at you if you use magic.

[LigH]

none of the suggestions in this thread have helped me so far 

Not even asking for help in game?! ... Are you certain you understood the game purpose?

[RlyDontKnow]

Well sorry ABC but Planeshift is pretty crap if you are the most maxed out person in Heavy Armor and sword but yet cannot kill a Tefusang that lay in the arena...
Just a question, what are those Tefusangs in the arena for? no one can kill them, because GMs nut off at you if you use magic.

maybe you should find a master fighter ingame and ask him to teach you the basics of fighting? try lurking around the next tournament and just ask around a bit

[Koios]

Just a question, what are those Tefusangs in the arena for? no one can kill them, because GMs nut off at you if you use magic.

They won't nut off at you if you would give the monster a fair chance of getting to you by being inside the Pit. Sure, it isn't perfectly realistic that you aren't allowed to stand on a wall and fight them. But it isn't realistic either that said monsters don't try to flee or jump up at you.
And also: http://www.thenoobcomic.com/index.php?pos=216

[Sarras Volcae]

none of the suggestions in this thread have helped me so far 

Not even asking for help in game?! ... Are you certain you understood the game purpose?

already have, before and after i made this thread

[ncfbn]

...because GMs nut off at you if you use magic.

That is truly terrifying; I shall never EVER use magic on a tefusang.

[Sarras Volcae]

so, my totally noob alt, who has 4 levels in knives and daggers, has lost his only dagger. i don't know what happened. anyway, a kind character gave my character an axe, which he has no experience with. so i decide to train in axe. it takes about 2 to 4 minutes to kill a rat. and i get one progression point. seriously? realistically, killing a rat should take two to three blows to its giant eye-target, even for a child with a wooden bat. also, the 1 pp was very disheartening. i thought pp was related to how weak you were in comparison to the mob? sarras gets 1 pp from a rat, and she's stronger. so why does my noob alt also get 1?