Should we pot, eat, pray or die "honorably"?

New article at Tip.it about using food, potions and prayers in PvP minigames. Should we do so, or should we not? Honestly, I don't think there is much to discuss there. Of course, we should use whatever skills and supplies we could furnish in the game, regardless whether it is during skilling, player vs monster or player vs player activities. IMHO, "honor pking" is an ugly phenomena.

P.S. I still vividly remember my own "dive" into the world of "honor" pkers at the Fight Pits. Definitely not something I want to go through again...

Massacre at Figth Pits

You might have already heard about the new outbreak of violence. This time at Fight Pits (perfect location...). A bug in the game allowed players to kill and loot each other in the waiting room. For a few hours pkers got their world back. And, oh boy, some people out there are so screwed up...

Watch this... Paul Gower using a wall as a temporary confinement place for the insane pker...

Fight Pits and "Honor" Pkers

Inspired by Merch Gwyar's victory at Fight Pits, I decided to give it a try myself. I was avoiding the Pits before, as I heard all kind of dreadful stories about clans hunting people down there and about solo players not standing a chance, and I didn't like an idea about being piled, killed and abused at the same time. But Merch's story was rather comforting, plus I really wanted "them gloves"...

Anyway, I dressed in my best melee gear, took super set, a bunch of sharks and entered the waiting room. There were 15 people already in, including several 120+ players. Uh-oh. But before I had time to panic the game started. Remembering Merch's advice I went away from the center and stood still waiting for the action to die out. Soon enough only 4 players (including me) remained and I noticed that no one was fighting. I went to the center only to discover that the remaining people were indeed in a clan. One of them was 121 combat, while other two in high 90th. 121 combat player immediately attacked me, despite having only half health left. I was potted up, but still much to my surprise I killed the attacker in 3 or 4 hits. It happened so fast that other two remaining players didn't even join. But next moment they piled on me. It was a mess. I forgot to pray, but I was eating my sharks and occasionally landing rather heavy blows on my opponents. Soon, I was out of food, but one on one. Being higher combat and potted up, I won. It was a strange feeling, I came there for the first time and not expecting much and there I was the winner of the Fight Pits...

Well, I exited back to the waiting room and there the abuse started. Apparently, I violated all kinds of "honor pking" rules by eating during the fight. I was never called so many bad names before in my whole life... It was like an avalanche, and I stood there silently but overwhelmed by the raging hatred coming at me. Then suddenly the next round started and I was immediately attacked by 4 or 5 shouting "honor" pkers. There it was: piling, killing and abuse in its pure form. In a few seconds it was over. I left the waiting room and logged off.

Fortunately, there are always amazing things in this world, which have nothing to do with honor and killing.