Pkilling
Pkilling
A sense of retribution.
1) You're in town, and you keep seeing
"has cast an illegal spell" messages. For
some reason, most ghosts can't deal with
the fact that their old TownKill patch
doesn't work anymore, and will repeatedly
try until they run out of mana. Taunt the
ghost repeatedly. Don't try duping or
exchanging equipment; ghosts seem to love
stealing. Entering the dungeon will lead you to:
2) Your mana (if you're mana-shielded) or health
drops for no apparent reason. You can't hear a
weapon or spell, but you're being injured with
nothing in sight. Foo's advice is to leave the
game with all due haste.
3) You create a game, play for a while, and
suddenly you get lagged as if a slow player
has connected, but you can't see them. Right
on both points. Time for another game. Passworded.
It sucks that BattleNet has come to this; we have
to play defensively because there's such a large
population of obvious cheaters who, bored because
the game itself is too easy after they hack their
character and collect the usual hacked/duped items,
prop up their self-esteem by picking on others.
They're not brave enough to do it normally, though;
they have to hide behind invisibility. Pathetic.
- foo
To all those out there that have been Pkilled more than once
by either a Ghost character or a hacker utilizing soft-ice
try this technique: if you happen to be in a game where you are
adventuring in the dungeons, caves, catacombs, or hell for that matter
carry scrolls of both Town-Portal and Infravision. If a Ghost enters
your game (Who is level 0) immediately cast infravision. Notice an
area inhabited by creatures. Use Town-Portal and position it within
the vicinity of the horde. If the P-killer is arrogant enough, he
should be lured to enter the portal. Once he materializes on the
other side...he's (to quote), "a sitting duck." Once when I did this
The ghost lost all of his equipment. I received a unique "DreamFlange"
amulet and sword. Trust me, this technique is quite amusing and it may
let others think twice about messing with you again.
- RJ
Ghost-spotting tips
By now, you've all probably encountered ghosts, people
who've name-blanked themselves and set their level to
zero so that they're invisible. Until Blizzard come
up with Yet Another Patch to address this behaviour,
here are some simple ways to spot ghosts:
Getting killed but keeping all of your stuff
A good way to avoid getting PKed or even just losing your stuff when dying is
ALT-F4. Yes, that wonderful little keystroke to close a Windows program. (also reported
to be the way to the Secret Cow Level by Robbers). Even as you're screaming, by hitting
ALT-F4, the game closes, without saving your dead character. Quite a nice tactic against
those nasty PKs, if I do say so myself.
- Mist
How to kill pesky PKs and other annoying people
you can get rid of PKs by going down to level 16, this may take a little effort,
but it will be worth it, find Diablo's lair, but don't open it, instead, open a portal
into his lair...and lure the PK into the portal...Diablo and his fellow blood knights will
do all the work for you. Also if you happen to see a person with a whole ton of hit
points, say like 30,000,000 use bone spirit, that would take a big chunk out of his
life pretty qiuck.
- Lord_of_Doom
Avoid getting PK'd: Let the other player go first
A new PK technique (two people tried it on me) that mages/rogues use is to let
you go first, then wait until you're busy fighting monsters before they let fly with
fireballs/arrows. If they time it right, they'll help the monsters kill you--so your
gear gets dumped on the ground when you die. To avoid this situation,
always let unfamiliar players go first. Wait a while, until you know you
can trust them, before you begin to go first. You may miss out on a few cool items
in the ear