Ghost scouting....

The only thing that pissed me off last night was when Blitzkrieg came for my Bard at Blood Ele's, I ran around like a noob turning down every dead end.

*shakes head*

Hopefully he comes for me more so I can get back into form. I would've appreciated a res though. And why wouldn't you? Get's me back to farming sooner and makes your PKing more profitable. I did appreciate him not dry looting me.

Dungeon Fairy and the Safari Shaman (when online) are available for your emergency gating needs.

Oh yes, I've used your service more than once in this fashion!

Just lay back and let it happen baby...

Why use a ghost to scout for pvpers? Seems if you are looking to fight you would be on a live char. If it is for the element of surprise, I get that. But you also have to assume that others do the same thing? Thereby reducing the number of fights?

*I'm not trying to be a dick, I'm genuinely curious

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The main reason is due to the fact that we no longer live in the same Ultima world we once did where action was readily available at most times of the day. Action is now limited to a rather small window of opportunity that requires both parties involved to be logged in at the same time. The way a ghost is used is: we place it in a popular traffic area with the journal left open, which is then periodically checked for familiar enemy names which essentially notifies us that the people we are hoping to get fights with, are online. It really has absolutely no bearing on scouting farmers at all, mainly because it's completely unnecessary to use a ghost to hunt down and kill a farmer.

In a nutshell, you leave the ghost at a high traffic area, and continue to do other things in game, and when you happen to see a party of interest pop up on your ghosts journal, such as an enemy pk/factioner, we now know they are online, and can then actively start roaming the area and checking their known housing spots in hopes of getting a fight going.

As far as killing a farmer, it really is irrelevant. As for myself, and many others I know, we carry runes to just about every known farming location with strategic spots marked so all we have to do is recall in offscreen, use the tracking skill, and move in to their exact location when we pick them up. It's as simple as that. Ghost or no ghost, it really will not change anything in that regard.

As I said earlier, I rarely ever even used a ghost, but decided to use one last night in attempts to scout whether or not our enemies were online or not so we could go out looking for them. Understandably, new players don't understand all of this, therefore their automatic assumption is that they die, see a ghost, and presume that was how they died and something must be done! But that is not the case.

just signed my waiver: "any method to track me down and PK/PVP with me is fine and I will not complain" DISCLAIMER: I have a habit of calling in and using dirty tactics against people who are better than me.

I think alot of people are missing the impact of ghosts here. Let me explain on another shard my guildies all used ghosts connected in a party that would send out messages "blue spotted lvl 3 covetous" we would then recall in and gank them. If you think using a ghost is no big deal and tracking can do everything just as easy you are kidding yourself.

yea but I mean every PK on this shard checks artics about 400 times a day....... but for sure ghosting is bad..... but huge props to the guys who farm in ICE.... hardcore at its best

Okay great. I'm not saying that's not possible, I'm just telling you how and why I used it. I also submitted the idea of preventing ghosts from being able to see live players as it is on some other severs.

I also don't think you understand how powerful it is for me and my guild to run around on stealth trackers, recalling from place to place tracking people down and then coming in on our reds. It's literally no different lol.

@Mandevu SHHHHHHH!!!!!!! first rule of PK is we dont talk about how good tracking is!!

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It doesn't matter. No one really listens anyways.

man there is not better feeling than picking someone up 2 dungeons over and 2 levels down....... It's a beautiful thing

It is different it requires a char used with actual skills and not just a dead char i made 2 mins b4.

lol you all gave great reasons why I don't farm much any more. LOL

Since I don't pvp or "haunt" areas, I'd suggest if you want to farm, use precautions. This world is all fel, so expect pkers, blue scouts,and also lots of nice helpful folk.

Yeah