Been in talks with my new contact. Last night he asked me if I really wanted Animal’s Demise or Human’s Demise. He said HD is actually better to deal with trolls, even though I told him that HD is mainly for PvP.
Went with AD anyway, and got the 15s bad boy in the mail today. It was slightly damaged (the guy said he’d been using the axe and forgot to repair it before sending it to me). But it’s no problem.
However, there’s another. And that’s weight. It’s something I should had noticed weeks ago when adding more weight to my inventory, makes the horse slower. This new huge axe, and my plate set..weigh a lot. My 5-speed that I got for free, normal 70QL horse shoes? Not going to work. I had to use the WoA horse gear. Even with this, sometimes he slows down to 20-22km/h.
This, is NOT…GOOD. Why is it not good? Wild horses don’t have the ‘strong back’ trait, which will make them ridiculously slow even with WoA horse gear.
I can feel the game laughing at me, and nagging me every time I see the horse slow down. I try to ignore it, but it just keeps up. I hear “HA-HA!! Now you’re going to have to join a deed to get a 5-speed with good traits!! :D”
On top of that, I have to get up to at least 20-30 in Huge axe skill in order to be able to attack the face. So no troll-killing until then. I am able to kill mobs in three hits, though.
…Dunno what I’m going to do about the future of my exploration thing. The whole point, was to NOT HAVE TO FUCKING RELY on people!! I want to go alone, hence “solo exploration’. But Wurm is an ‘MMO’ (even though it’s Survival Multiplayer).
Guess I should re-add Wurm to be another “X is not for you” game. I refuse to depend on others. I don’t CARE if they might be willing to help me. It feels wrong! Go solo or go home!! And it looks like I’m “going home”… 😛
Love the axe. It’s great. I can kill mobs in three hits (even though I got to get my huge axe skill between 20-30 to be able to attack the uppercenter). But the weight, is just too much.
I could try wearing Chain to try to lessen the weight, but I won’t be as protected. I could try to get higher casts of my WoA gear, but that would also feel like a waste of silver (since my own horse drops down to 20km/s at times).
So, say I just..simply asked in that server’s kchat “Hey, does anyone got a good 5-speed I could barrow? I’ll bring it back.” Here’s the risks, that are involved in that;
A) “There are wild horses around.”
B) No one to be online at the time that will give me one/refuse to give me one without payment because they’re fucking greedy.
C) “Sure, I have one”, I go to their deed and get told “I lied, that’ll be 5s.”
Face it, readers. There are no guarantees the community will be nice on every server I visit. There was Deli, and Exo was nice (after I had my horse taken from me).
THIS is why I hate depending on others! I hate this forced “you must be engaging with the community to get what you want” shit. It’s not a thing I can pay once and the problem is taken care of (when you can’t take a horse cross-server).
At this point, I want to blame everyone and everything else instead of myself for refusing to be a ‘team player’.
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And now, for some good news. Yes, GOOD news! This, is NOT the end of the world! Infact, the “flaw” was forgetting something else.
But before that, I needed to get my huge axe skill up to a level where I can attack the head, and it came as soon as I hit around 8-9 in the skill. Tried to challenge my first troll with the axe, and almost died. Even almost died to a hellhound. So I grinded on wolves/bears, and spiders. When I had it up to 14’ish, a Adol troll engaged me..and died at my feet. First troll’s life taken by the mob decapitator. 🙂
In total I killed four trolls. Would had been five, but I’ll get to that a bit later.
So I wanted to do a few weight tests. I felt, there has to be another way around having to ask. Though I still had to ask, but to know the whereabouts of some wild horses. Someone said they found some to the NE in the ‘North East Praires’. I’ve never actually been there, so it would be a bit of an adventure. Had to wait for Sol rise, then grabbed my 5-speed and my boat and sailed as close as I could there, following the northern coast.
Parked infront of a series of switchbacks going up to what I assumed to be the way up to the main East/West road going to the Tundra biome. Instead I got lost. Mobs knew this and attempted to get me. Their blood is now coating my axe (including a crock).
Managed to get my bearings of returning back to my boat, and was able to get to the main road.
Started following it Eastbound. Another troll shows up. Seeing how I was on a hill, I decide to engage. Yet the troll wasn’t dropping like others. Thankfully I was near a tower. Unthankfully, server lag happens…NOT GOOD!!
Forced to run away, while lagging in hopes I won’t show up dead. I’m also near a pretty sizable deed. A few minutes later after the server finally catches up to me, I race back to finish off what I started. Yet when I tried to attack, I’m being told “that would be illegal here”… wat. H— HOW and WHY would you prohibit the killing of hostile animals?! The irony is there’s a sign on the road that claims the area is protected. Yeah, protected from anyone wanting to do anything!
Managed to kill a few lesser mobs to get my health back up. Eventually made it to the Tundra biome.
Started searching for a horse, and I’m only seeing hell horses. Perhaps the guy mistook what I said about looking for a wild horse (and not a hell horse). Continued to search, seeing Sol making its downward arc. During Solset, I finally found an Old horse after nearly a half an hour of searching. Lead the horse and made my way back to my boat with absolutely no issues.
On the way back home, in the dark, I decided to engage my first shark swimming just off the coast. Like bearsharks, it’s quite tricky with my boat moving. But I can’t anchor it incase I’m forced to run away. The thing actually attempted to ram my boat before dying. Boat suffered no real damage.
Made it back home safely, and quickly began the tests by branding the horse (in order to be able to access its equipment). Got the WoA horse gear off and on the new horse.
First test, is my Chain set with the axe. After doing everything I could think of (inclines and sustaining speed), I’m pleased to report the test PASSED! 😀
Test 2: Plate armor and the axe. This was the decider for me. Did the tests. Slightly slower speed (1km/s slower), yet..it too PASSED!!
As I was heading back from my sustaining speed tests (yet getting lost a bit), someone named ‘Aramisii’ entered my Local. I asked them if they were exploring the area, and was told “Did some imping over at Death bay”. I welcomed them to my “neck of the server”.
Then the person asks if I want any imping done on my forge and my guard tower. I pause for a bit, curious where this person came from and..why stop by my deed?
Finally back near my deed, I decide to ask how much they want for their services (and how high of a QL they can do). Was told they can get my forge and guard tower both at 80QL for 1s, and then gives me a link to their thread on the Wurm forum.
I got down to my docks, and see the person swimming. I’m starting to wonder if this person is trying to trick me to take all of my stuff in my deed.. or if this person is a lost newbie that got dropped off.
Decided to accept their offer, and gave them the necessary perms. Not one problem from imping what I asked for, and I paid them. Then the person asks if I need anything else to let them know, and heads back down to the docks…and swims away. The person has a boat, but is invisible to me. Before they left, I asked the person where they lived. Said the Release server.
I’m still scratching my head. Who…WHAT?! What..just happened?! Person I’ve never seen before, enters my Local and offers to imp my forge and guard tower. W..why here? I never even ASKED to have my stuff imped! I mean, I definitely appreciate the help, but…at the same time, why here? Is this person visiting random deeds like a typical salesman and offering their services?
And their “boat”. Again, completely ..not there from my POV. That…, this whole thing was a “WTF” and a half!
Anyway, this is..cool! My forge is now 80QL, and I now have more guards! Unfortunately they weren’t able to get either to Rare status. And also, it seems my 5-speed’s barding(it’s quite obvious with the thing weighing 15.00) caused me to assume the Plate + huge axe was too much for the horse (even with WoA horse armor).
This means, tomorrow I’m restarting my exploration thing. Next server, is Celebration!