I wanted something new to do in PvP too and I combined my love of idocs with a little trouble making as follows. Note, the template will have you singing 'Who let the dogs out' when you're making a trammie's hidden llama life miserable.

100 Detect Hidden (to find said pesky stealther at a fel idoc, they are always there)
100 Hiding
100 Stealth
120 Ninja (for dog/wolf forms. 120 is mandatory if you toss shurikens or darts, and you should)
120 Swords (120 wep skill mandatory for hit chance in PvP)
100 Tact
100 Anat
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= 740 total, only +20 required in skill from items. If you want to spend gold you can bump tact/anat or stealth to 120 too. Make sure you have at least 100 REAL skill in all to get the bonus from each skill. Example: 90 tact + 10 from an item does NOT give you the +5 damage that 100 tact real skill does. I've tested this repeatedly, hit 100 real on all skills above.

Stats: Start with 125 STR, 124 Dex and 11 Int (+25 stat scroll and valiant commendation required)
Simple Gear:150 STR, 182 STAM, all 60's resists, 45% HCI, 45% DCI, 100% DI, 5% SSI, HPR 18

Mastery: I went with the mana passive mastery, the only other option is the warrior passive. You won't be using any specials with this build.

-- Artifacts --
Head: Captain John's Hat - takes care of +20 swords
Apron: Crimson Cincture - Mandatory to cap 18 HPR and 25 HPI, Dex also puts you over 180 stam, 10 HPI needed towards cap
Talisman: Primer on Arms Removal - That 1 STR brings you to 150, HPR of 2 required for cap, 20% DI frees up a jewel imbue slot
Neck: Voice of the fallen king - STR 8 and HPR 5 mandatory for caps, decent cold/energy resist
Cloak: Ranger's cloak of Augmentation, mainly for the 5% SSI which will bump a 1.5 wep down to 1.25 if you have 180+ stam

-- Player Made --
Legs/Chest/Hands/Arms: reforge one piece for 3 HPR, rest need 2 HPR for cap. Imbue HPI 5 on 3 pieces for +25 cap. Imbue 8 stam increase on each, rest is resists. I suggest platemail armor and make it mage armor to retain stealth. If you prefer keeping the extra imbue slot for more resists that's fine too, this is strictly a melee template.

Jewels: 15% HCI, 15% DCI, STR 8, DEX 7, 15% DI on both to reach all caps.

Weapon: DI 50%, DCI 15% and HLL 75% imbued mandatory for caps/health. I went with lightning and area cold for the other two, up to you. Go with balanced if you plan to chug pots, you don't often need to vs most trammy idoc sitters.

NOTE about weapons: Do not put any swing speed on the weapon. Doing so reduces the % of the hit spells so put SSI on items only(cloak in this temp) to keep weapon hit % as high as possible. Also, with this template you will never leave dog/wolf form and so will use no weapon specials. That means ALL weapons are on the table as per your wep skill.

Since this temp has 5% SSI and 180+ Stam I went over to the weapon damage calc(http://uo.stratics.com/content/arms-armor/arms.php) to plug in my stats to see which gave the highest DPS. The highest DPS will ALWAYS be the weapon type that you hit exactly 1.25 weapon speed with, if you can't hit 1.25 speed there is a weapon that does hit 1.25 for your stats that will do slightly more damage per second. In this case a bladed staff or crescent blade hit hardest at 1.25 speed(that 5% SSI on the cloak matters).

Obviously if you want to swap player made items for legendary arties you could conceivably add a whole lot more stam/SSI, let me know if you manage to swing a Halberd at cap speed, that would be sick for dog PvP.

PLAYSTYLE
- No tracking, you will only ever use detect hidden to reveal people, no skill wasted on tracking them first.
- You will not use any specials, you will always be in wolf or dog form which is why cap speed heavy normal hits matter
- In Wolf form you can keep up with mounts and get an extra 20 hit points, 170 hits ftw(i'm usually in wolf form at idocs, unless fighting a parry dexxer)
- In Dog form you are extremely hard to kill due to the extra 40 HPR(58 total, dog form does NOT count towards 18 HPR item cap). At 6 hp per second regen while hitting with a heavy 2 hander at cap speed that also leeches life you're a mean doggie. Also, this works in PvM champ spawns if the wep has an area effect. Just sit at a champ spawn and don't do anything, let them come to you and they die at your feet. Actually this build is really fun at champ spawns too, if you don't mind the playstyle.
- Set up a macro to use darts or shurikens on 'last target' so that you can keep people poisoned too, takes a bit to get used to using them right.
- If you have a balanced wep carry pots, smoke bombs and apples/trap pouches. Otherwise don't bother, most trammies will die anyway.
- travel is from runebook charges(no fizzle) and healing is from sick HPR (58 dog form or 18 + 20 life wolf form) + life leech on weapon
- Use pots/pouches/apples and a balanced wep for more fight or none of them to keep more room for idoc loot, up to you

- The best part about this template is how easy it is to play. You don't worry about specials, you don't need to cast anything, you only need to sniff out your targets well and know when to run if it's not working out. You will regen quickly so you may find yourself re-engaging quickly.

SEE IT IN ACTION: This isn't the best PvP temp in the world, lol, but for flushing out stealthers at idocs it's hella fun and very survivable. The inspiration for building this came from this video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MQEwqPzAeYI

I have a lot of skull rugs, too many in fact, and don't want to spread them around my house but they aren't stackable by default. They are also awkward to stack using the goza mat trick because they take up a 3x5 area and so the center 3 tiles can't be reached to move the goza mats.

I left them locked down as deeds thinking they would get 1 map per week but, sadly, that didn't happen so I guess they need to be active on the floor, unless someone has found a way to get them to generate maps in deed form?

I did manage to stack a couple but found that moving the goza mat makes the pieces of rug fall on top of each other where they occupy one tile. Trying to move the rug pieces after that results in a cannot move message, even though one rug is clearly broken, because the pieces act as being part of one rug. To save the broken rug you have to lower all parts onto the first rug so that they act as one rug and then you can axe it twice to get both rugs back. That sounds weird but, yeah, the game treats them as one rug when stacked like that.

I'd like to stack 8-9 rugs in a pile, do you know of a way to do that without the pieces falling to become stuck as one item?

Heya,

It's been a long time since I created a provo bard, thankfully I already had it on my accounts from long ago but I have one account that I want to add it to and this is what I'm looking for...

- Not a multi-boat trainer
- Not a pretamed or house seperated repeat provoker
- An actual target selecting and provoking script that runs while I play naturally

Basically I'd like it to replace my target nearest mobile + attack target macro with this script that would automatically attempt to provoke any creature(not NPC) within 8-12 tiles onto another target within that range and, if no other target is avalilable, onto me and do it continually. I really hate UO's in game system of selecting targets because it's not intuitive like WoW's "nearest target" + auto attack method, for example.

I've played with several of the provo trainers in the library here, and from Easy UO, and most require me to specify targets or create a list of combinations... I just want it to target ANYTHING within range onto ANYTHING ELSE within range or on me if it can't, I'll worry about where to position myself when turning it on.

Provo would raise, I wouldn't need to constantly try to manually target stuff or drag bars etc and I'm already out there killing anyway. Does such a script exist yet?

edit: would it be possible to create an in game UO macro for this maybe for the classic client? Haven't tried but it just crossed my mind...

Heya,

I've got more boards than I care to admit, not from lumberjacking but from being lucky(unlucky?) at idocs. I've got a lot on a vendor but they sell for peanuts, under 5gp each, and I have 60k board deeds clogging up my bank now too. I noticed the Luna carpenter often pays up to 15gp, albeit he drops below 10 after a few thousand boards are sold.

Is there a sub tucked away in a script that can use a bank secure and sell resources 500 at a time to an NPC within range IF that NPC is paying enough? ie: sell as many as you can until the price falls below 10gp(or you get less than 5000gp for selling 500 boards)? It would need to place the gold in the bank as well.

Selling stuff to NPCs isn't new so I'm hoping there is a not so new but still useful script that could do this little task. The in game scrolling method of setting 500 as the number of boards to sell gets old pretty quickly.

Thanks in advance if you know of a script that can do this, no frills needed.

As the title says I've become addicted to placing sound files in key locations within my scripts, it adds a TON of fun to playing UO. There are a lot of different types of sound files out there and, for whatever reason, it only seems to work when I use .wav files but that's fine, I have lots of those.

For example: When an idoc falls a .wav file of crows going crazy lets me know, it works even when the game screen is minimized. Actually it goes off when I get disconnected from UO too which is great at letting me know to log back on. Another I use is in my bandaging script, when I am no longer under attack, which is usually because I've killed the attacker, I blow the corpse a kiss.wav. I even added a nuke.wav when I open up an SoS while fishing, lots of sound files in that script to keep me awake!

Anyway, a great site I found for free .wav files is http://www.wavsource.com/ . All you need to do is download a .wav file, place it in the same folder as your script and add a line to your code where you want it to go off, ie:  "sound mysoundfile.wav", rename it to whatever your sound file is called of course. I still haven't figured out where to put the "activity unproductive" sound file from the people<women page 1 section 

"DADDY, THE CROWS ARE GOING, THE HOUSE MUST BE GONE!!" - when I'm on the throne and the kids hear the crows, fun times!!

bonus: if you use sound files while testing a script you've written you can figure out what the code is doing as you play and spot problems. I used a ghost.wav file when initiating a hide attempt and found out that I was trying to hide way too many times within the script... and in places I didn't need to. It's not always obvious something isn't working right, until you hear it.

What sites do you use for free sound files ??

I decided to finish up a fisherman to 120 and figured that since I was at it I may as well get a couple of other fishers working too. The fisherman I was working had 115 fishing, the other two just 100. The one I was working also had 1800+ luck in his suit, the other two had none... this is the result(see pic).

So my question - is it skill or is it luck that gets better results ??

Hello,

I'm trying to work out a sub to drag a chest only if a)it's not empty and b) it's not too heavy for me to hold and I'm running into a couple of problems that I'm sure have already been solved(looked but didn't find).

Problem #1 - Maxweight
It seems that the maxweight found by easyuo and the actual maxweight in game are different? Example: if my max weight is 555, which exceeds the maxweight of my pack(550), easyuo is reporting my maxweight as being only 495, can I fix that?

Problem #2 - the math
I'm trying to set my current weight in a sub and to check container weight before dragging only if the combination of the two do not exceed maxweight. I've spent a good 3 hours trying and testing this tonight but can't get it just right, does someone have a rock solid "drag only if I can carry it" public sub?

Ideally I'd like to check both weight AND item number count but have it be as lightweight a sub as possible. I'll work on the item count check after I'm happy with the weight checks.