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I had my first experience with a party member bailing when their vitality
bar ran out last night. I honestly don't know what to think of that. My
first thoughts are simply that I find it a bit shallow.

Anyone else seen this?

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Rumble
"Write something worth reading, or do something worth writing."
-- Benjamin Franklin
 
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"Rumbledor" <Rumbledor@hotspamsuxmail.com> wrote in message
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>I had my first experience with a party member bailing when their vitality
> bar ran out last night. I honestly don't know what to think of that. My
> first thoughts are simply that I find it a bit shallow.
>
> Anyone else seen this?
>
> --
> Rumble
> "Write something worth reading, or do something worth writing."
> -- Benjamin Franklin

What a mook. (The bailer, not you) What's ironic is that the XP
calculation has NOT changed one bit since the vitality meter was
implemented. You always got the bonus before, you just didn't have a little
arrow telling you so.

LoonBoon
 
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On Mon, 07 Feb 2005 17:57:38 GMT, Rumbledor
<Rumbledor@hotspamsuxmail.com> wrote:

>I had my first experience with a party member bailing when their vitality
>bar ran out last night. I honestly don't know what to think of that. My
>first thoughts are simply that I find it a bit shallow.
>
>Anyone else seen this?

I've not teamed since the introduction of the ar, but yes - it sounds
a bit shallow. He or she loses the bonus, true, but the normal xp you
get from killing bigger monters should help compensate.



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"Rumbledor" <Rumbledor@hotspamsuxmail.com> wrote in message
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>I had my first experience with a party member bailing when their vitality
> bar ran out last night. I honestly don't know what to think of that. My
> first thoughts are simply that I find it a bit shallow.
>
> Anyone else seen this?
>

So does that mean that they are not going to log in and try to level until
they get their vitality back up? If that's the case I guess they want to
play for 4 days, take off for 4 days, etc etc.

Doesn't sound to good to me.

Bcarpal
23 Paladin
Steamfont
<Divine Essence>
 
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Graeme Faelban wrote:
> I've been wondering if it runs out...
>
> So far, on both characters that I play, both tradeskill and regular
> vitality has been showing it goes on through the next level, for 3
levels
> of tradeskilling on one, and 2 levels of adventuring on the other.

It does run out, at least on the adventuring side. I haven't managed
to make much more than a dent in the tradeskilling side, so that one is
always maxed for me. The adventuring one tends to get used up rather
quickly (at least in my case).
 
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Graeme Faelban wrote:
> "scritchy" <scritchy@gmail.com> wrote in
news:1107883457.915155.119120
> @o13g2000cwo.googlegroups.com:
> >
> > Graeme Faelban wrote:
> >> I've been wondering if it runs out...
> >>
> >> So far, on both characters that I play, both tradeskill and
regular
> >> vitality has been showing it goes on through the next level, for 3
> >> levels of tradeskilling on one, and 2 levels of adventuring on the
> >> other.
> >
> > It does run out, at least on the adventuring side. I haven't
managed
> > to make much more than a dent in the tradeskilling side, so that
one is
> > always maxed for me. The adventuring one tends to get used up
rather
> > quickly (at least in my case).
>
> In the course of 3 days, I've done almost 2 full adventuring levels
on my
> Mystic, and the vitality arrow has remained indicating that my
vitality
> will continue into the next level. For the tradeskilling one, over
the
> course of 3 days I have dinged 3 levels with the same results.

That is crazy, not sure what is going on then. When we are in PF, it
takes one, maybe two kills before the .5% vitality that you get per
hour is used up. Last night I had about 14% vitality when I logged
in (adventuring). Less than an hour later, it was dry - but that
includes one quest completion and progress on a book quest (not sure if
each page gives an xp bonus or not).

One thing that is possible is the xp bars are messed up. The top and
bottom bar don't agree with each other. I didn't think that issue
applied to the vitality marker, since it is external to the bars, but I
guess it is a possibility.
 
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Rumbledor <Rumbledor@hotspamsuxmail.com> wrote in
news:Xns95F683DABEC2FRumbledorhotmailcom@204.127.199.17:

> I had my first experience with a party member bailing when their
> vitality bar ran out last night. I honestly don't know what to think
> of that. My first thoughts are simply that I find it a bit shallow.
>
> Anyone else seen this?
>

I've been wondering if it runs out...

So far, on both characters that I play, both tradeskill and regular
vitality has been showing it goes on through the next level, for 3 levels
of tradeskilling on one, and 2 levels of adventuring on the other.

--
On Erollisi Marr in <Sanctuary of Marr>
Ancient Graeme Faelban, Barbarian Soothsayer of 70 seasons

On Steamfont in <Insanity Plea>
Graeme, 24 Dwarven Mystic, 21 Sage
Aviv, 12 Gnome Brawler, 19 Craftsman
 
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"scritchy" <scritchy@gmail.com> wrote in news:1107883457.915155.119120
@o13g2000cwo.googlegroups.com:

>
> Graeme Faelban wrote:
>> I've been wondering if it runs out...
>>
>> So far, on both characters that I play, both tradeskill and regular
>> vitality has been showing it goes on through the next level, for 3
>> levels of tradeskilling on one, and 2 levels of adventuring on the
>> other.
>
> It does run out, at least on the adventuring side. I haven't managed
> to make much more than a dent in the tradeskilling side, so that one is
> always maxed for me. The adventuring one tends to get used up rather
> quickly (at least in my case).
>
>

In the course of 3 days, I've done almost 2 full adventuring levels on my
Mystic, and the vitality arrow has remained indicating that my vitality
will continue into the next level. For the tradeskilling one, over the
course of 3 days I have dinged 3 levels with the same results.

--
On Erollisi Marr in <Sanctuary of Marr>
Ancient Graeme Faelban, Barbarian Soothsayer of 70 seasons

On Steamfont in <Insanity Plea>
Graeme, 24 Dwarven Mystic, 21 Sage
Aviv, 12 Gnome Brawler, 19 Craftsman
 
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Graeme Faelban <RichardRapier@netscape.net> wrote in
news:Xns95F761CB3A011richardrapiernetscap@130.133.1.4:

> Rumbledor <Rumbledor@hotspamsuxmail.com> wrote in
> news:Xns95F683DABEC2FRumbledorhotmailcom@204.127.199.17:
>
>> I had my first experience with a party member bailing when their
>> vitality bar ran out last night. I honestly don't know what to think
>> of that. My first thoughts are simply that I find it a bit shallow.
>>
>> Anyone else seen this?
>>
>
> I've been wondering if it runs out...
>
> So far, on both characters that I play, both tradeskill and regular
> vitality has been showing it goes on through the next level, for 3
> levels of tradeskilling on one, and 2 levels of adventuring on the
> other.
>

I was crafting elm strong boxes the other day, including all the sub-
combines, and noticed that my crafting bar was only ticking down .1%
(that's one tenth of one percent) per item crafted. I didn't notice if that
amount increased on the actual box combines, themselves, but all combines
were green IIRC.

--
Rumble
"Write something worth reading, or do something worth writing."
-- Benjamin Franklin
 
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"bcarshaman" <everquest@wiselogel.com> wrote in message
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>
> "Rumbledor" <Rumbledor@hotspamsuxmail.com> wrote in message
> news:Xns95F683DABEC2FRumbledorhotmailcom@204.127.199.17...
>>I had my first experience with a party member bailing when their vitality
>> bar ran out last night. I honestly don't know what to think of that. My
>> first thoughts are simply that I find it a bit shallow.
>>
>> Anyone else seen this?
>>
>
> So does that mean that they are not going to log in and try to level until
> they get their vitality back up? If that's the case I guess they want to
> play for 4 days, take off for 4 days, etc etc.
>
> Doesn't sound to good to me.
>
> Bcarpal
> 23 Paladin
> Steamfont
> <Divine Essence>

There are a couple of possibilities:

1. Since adventure and crafting vitality are tracked seperately, the person
could be going to concentrate for a while on crafting while letting their
adventure vitality recover a bit.

2. The person could be an alt-aholic (like me) and be switching to another
character with a full vitality and play that character, and the next, and
the next, while the vitality of the original character recovers. (I tend to
do this a little bit, though honestly I haven't run down my vitality points
completely yet with any character, and I certainly wouldn't leave a group
just because vitality hit 0%.)

Neither really seems a valid reason to disband from an active group to me,
but I can certainly see why someone would want to maximize their experience
gain if they are either a crafter or an alt-aholic.
 
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