05-06-2006, 12:28 AM
Delerious, do you use a merc... I didn't cause I thought they were just a hassle and my din could easily work alone. Tried it out, I equipped him with some less than perfect EQ; bonehew, levi armor, andy mask -- nothing ethereal, just mid range for the stats. He is a holy freeze (act2 nm) merc. When I tele the merc appears on top and when attacked seems to take the first hit, two or five, whatever until the merc moves. For times of lag the merc tends to die and I dont. I used to die 2 times per night of runs, and since starting to use a merc I haven't died a single time (about 2 weeks).
Typically overnight set of runs - 200-300 runs, 40-60 drinks (stupid merc), 0 deaths, 4-12 chickens, 5-15 merc ressurects. Just costs money... better than losing experience, and risk the small potential of losing equipment. Also add a redemption (even if you just put 1 lvl in it plus skillz will make it more than useful) to your sequence. After each shenk and eldritch, or just whatever you do second (usually shenk).
My loot shenk looks something like this -- not at home dont copy word for word
K(@redemption)
s(key_delay)
s(sleep_delay4) ; this is like 300-500 mseconds, watch the bot and tweak if necessary.
Pkit... or whatever and so forth.
I find that cleansing is worthless, I am never that badly poisoned, especially by shenk/eld. So just replace that command with the redemptions. give it an extra brief delay, and then let it continue while he picks items until he returns to town and switches for Vigor. My pally almost never drinks a potion himself so they can all go to merc more or less. I have NEVER run out of full juvies.
Typically overnight set of runs - 200-300 runs, 40-60 drinks (stupid merc), 0 deaths, 4-12 chickens, 5-15 merc ressurects. Just costs money... better than losing experience, and risk the small potential of losing equipment. Also add a redemption (even if you just put 1 lvl in it plus skillz will make it more than useful) to your sequence. After each shenk and eldritch, or just whatever you do second (usually shenk).
My loot shenk looks something like this -- not at home dont copy word for word
K(@redemption)
s(key_delay)
s(sleep_delay4) ; this is like 300-500 mseconds, watch the bot and tweak if necessary.
Pkit... or whatever and so forth.
I find that cleansing is worthless, I am never that badly poisoned, especially by shenk/eld. So just replace that command with the redemptions. give it an extra brief delay, and then let it continue while he picks items until he returns to town and switches for Vigor. My pally almost never drinks a potion himself so they can all go to merc more or less. I have NEVER run out of full juvies.