Hide and stealth is better. Unless you are doing lvl 1 and 2 chests. Group 2 characters, go to location, use thunter to pop chest...hide/stealth your way to disarm the chest, then let the other char take it from there. It is a serious waste to try to make a character just for level 3 or 4 stuff. What good is provoke going to be when you are doing higher level chest, 4+? You need 2 things to provoke, and most of the time you will be spawning them 1 at a time...
Ah see i like to solo the maps, level 4 or 5, level 6 is too slow to be profitable compared to level 4's or 5's. I don't like to use multi clients so i use a tmap fishing template that allows me to do it all on the one char. I know most people like to use 2 chars for this, but I'm not gonna recommend a new player creates 2 chars just to do a few maps...
@halv , about the talisman or meta, i've no idea what it is or what is it for or even how to get it, I'm playing for about 2 weeks only and don't remember much from back in the days
I read on some forums about it but didn't really understood anything cuz we didn't had it on my old server, so not focusing on that at the moment.
Just to GM my main 2 chars.
I started the meta quest for talisman seven month after starting to play this shard. Much to late and it was a huge waste of vanqs and mobs I could use to do the quest.
If you like to play UOForever forever you should start the quest now, not in seven months.
On Valor Island is a statue of a dwarf. Go there (rune library to Valor shrine) and stand in front of this statue and say something. You will get a quest offered. If you accept you will get a stone you have to charge with 30 vanqs weps to get to the next level.
If you play t-hunter you will have vanqs sometimes in your chest. With this quest already started you can put this weps in your stone to charge it.
Don't sell vanqs. If you filled up your stone sell for 7-10K to other player doing this quest.
After filling up this stone with 30 vanqs you have to go back to this statue on valor island. Now you will get a new stone. This one you have to charge with 100 evil mob souls. Means mobs like level 4 treasure map spawns. Orcish Mine overseer, deep earth ele, drakes, Lich Lords and high level mobs will charge your stone. But you need to kill this mobs with direct damage. EV and EQ or pet kills don't charge your stone.
If you do a lot of level 4 treasure maps you will charge this stone very quickly without really thinking about.
After you charged your stone with 100 evil mob souls, you need to participate at the daily fights for Arch Demon in Wrong level 3. That's a every 5 hour spawn you will have a lot of fun with other players and the usual PK squads.
You only need to hit the Arch Demon once to get his blood. Stay alive and in the room and you will get the demons blood at the first try. If you died and didn't get the blood, five hours later you can try again. Put the blood in your stone and back to the statue you will get a talisman of your choice.
http://www.uoforum.com/wiki/index.php?title=Meta_Talismans
With this talisman you will get a lot of benefits. You can level him to make you very strong or use relics to get awesome abilities. And finally you can solo level 4-5 maps. There are metas doing level 6 solo and PvE without problems.
Actually you will get fame, karma and loot from every spawn. With talisman equiped you will get experience for your talisman too.
I recommend to start early as possible with this quest. You need weeks to get the stone charged and months to level up your talisman.
There are two skills very useable for talisman. The arms lore skill for dexxers and the spirit speak for mages. With a meta mage you will get back 25% of mana from attack spells if you are spirit speak GM. Now you can cast three flame strikes without meditation and you will already have a +20% damage from talisman in level 1.
But ATM, I'm playing mostly with my Warrior and the Mage, can't focus on all of them, aye?
So for the Warrior I'll need Arms Lore, right? or is it for the Bard I need Arms Lore?
And I'll need Spirit Speaking for my Mage also?
Too many skills and no place to add more :\
If you have a talisman you will hit more often melee mobs with high wrestling skill. It's pretty nice in PvE.
How I told, with spriti speak you will need 25% less mana if you cast attack spells like Energy Bolt and Lightning or Flame Strike.
Bard or Tamer doesn't really go for talisman. Somebody told me u can't even equip it. I really don't know. I've got a meta Lumberjack with arms lore but no magery and hiding. Dangerous to play this guy, because he is a berzerker with 0 ar.
If you're a lumberjack Berzerker you will do awesome damage - 40% damage bonus against both players and monsters at GM Lumberjacking.
With the talisman and extra 5% damage per level and a slayer axe you will make normal elementals with one hit. Deep Earth Eles only need 4-6 hits with the slayer double axe (earth shatter or elemental ban). Titans will go down before really casting spells on you. Only Ogre Lords will be hard to get if you have 0 ar. They will hit you with 20-40 dmg.
I use my axer for T-hunting on a beetle mount. I slay the level 4 mobs very easy, only dread spider paragon will make trouble because of the lethal poison.
But, the shield providing me an additional 50 phy resist points, so it's kinda an a big deal for a tank, I can absorb much more dmg in party and draw the mobs to me while bards and mages can heal me and kill focus on the attack of the mobs
Hmm, well my Warrior has swords and parrying, I like to tank and be able to get some hits.
I thought about switching it to LJ+Axe instead of using Katana/Scimitar (or other swords) + Shield. Not sure yet about it.
From one hand, the LJ skill is cool for fighting and just collecting logs for my mule, and u've 1 hand free for pots and draining some mana on the way with the axe
But, the shield providing me an additional 50 phy resist points, so it's kinda an a big deal for a tank, I can absorb much more dmg in party and draw the mobs to me while bards and mages can heal me and kill focus on the attack of the mobs
Hmm, well my Warrior has swords and parrying, I like to tank and be able to get some hits.
I thought about switching it to LJ+Axe instead of using Katana/Scimitar (or other swords) + Shield. Not sure yet about it.
From one hand, the LJ skill is cool for fighting and just collecting logs for my mule, and u've 1 hand free for pots and draining some mana on the way with the axe
But, the shield providing me an additional 50 phy resist points, so it's kinda an a big deal for a tank, I can absorb much more dmg in party and draw the mobs to me while bards and mages can heal me and kill focus on the attack of the mobs