I find the fact that being called a safer has to be one of the most stupid ideas to be thought-up of.

 

 

 

Originally, to be called a safer was to stop other Pkers from eating at maximum hp everytime they were hit (so 90%+) at the time this was acceptable, many of the weapons at the time could not deal that much damage whips could hit up to 41 tops and that was the most powerful weapon before godswords/d claws/dfs etc. Even at this time, a combination of high hits would be rare so having your hp at around 60% of your max would be acceptable and you would rarely die.

 

 

 

Nowadays you can barely eat above 50hp before a hurl of insults such as safing and noob etc, shortly before they teleport out or run saying "safe 1 more and i run/tele" yet they are hitting 65+ damage including venge of up to 30 and don't forget recoils aswell!

 

 

 

Ok maybe you should only risk what you can afford to loose, as a rule of thumb i do myself, but PKing is meant to be fun (I myself really enjoy it from time-to-time) but to be consistantly dying to please another player who calls you a safer isn't fun in my case. Calling someone a safer when you have the most powerful weapon in the game including the deadliest combination of armour and vegeance is taking the p#ss i beleive.

 

 

 

Now with the introduction of dragon claws - possibly the most powerful weapon when using its 4 hit spec it is vital to keep your hp at a relativly high amount (60+) to ensure you survive, any pker knows that when you go pking in a fight you try your best to survive? Even now it is almost impossible to survive a 1 hit, only recently i was 1 hitted from over 100hp from 1 spec from dragon claws (very unlucky) and was down and out for over 20m gear :wall:. In a fight would you really tell another person to stop safing when you have such a strong weapon? You may aswell ask them to hand over the items and save the fuss of fighting.

 

 

 

To reiterate my point i believe that the idea of calling someone a safer has gotten out of hand and is killing off the true experience of pking - to fight for your own survival, and the irony being the people to call you the safer are usually the first to be running away in the fight or teleporting away :lol:.

 

 

 

So whenever i get called a safer, i just eat anyways :shame:

It's because people become frustrated that they cannot kill you in one hit. Because of that, I keep my public chat off while PKing.

It's because people become frustrated that they cannot kill you in one hit. Because of that, I keep my public chat off while PKing.

 

 

 

This frustration is literally scaring off potential new pkers, which used to keep a good circulation of different pkers to fight, but at the moment it isn't happening. :thumbdown:

There's another important factor here - PJers. I've seen countless DHers at mid to low HP get killed by 2 d claw specs when they were on the verge of finishing their opponent off. They just don't stand a chance at 50 or lower HP. Weapons hit too high nowdays.

And often it's the PJers that complain about safing. I find that amusing.

 

 

 

I don't get called a safer generally - they're too busy whining at me for farcasting instead of "coming on and fighting" (???).

 

 

 

EDIT: I just remembered a time someone whined at me for praying - when they had started using protect prayers first. I mean, WTF? Just ignore them. You might be a "noob" but you have their stuff and they don't.

People have made up a list of rules that include what they think that is allowed and what is not. Anyone to disagree with them shall be flamed to hell, where they will be flamed again in hell's eternal flames.

They just want you to conform to their invisible rulebook. Fight the power - live by your own rules!!

Eh, he is the one slowly dying not me. Then I just lol when they eat/run.

People fail so much at pking that they can't kill you at 50hp, so they flame you for it. :wall: