CPK Basics: Awareness

Once you type “Y” and enter CPK you need to have a much greater awareness than you normally would of everything that is going on around you.

You should always keep your HP high enough to insure that you aren’t killed in 1 hit, and so you can live long enough to adapt to the unexpected (you get tripped, a mob walks in, the zone repops, etc).

You also need to monitor “who -z” to keep an eye out for people who may be coming to kill you. As a newbie in CPK I would probably check where every 20 seconds or so. If you use a mud client that supports events, set up an event to do this for you.

One of the easiest things to neglect is keeping your spells refreshed. Make sure to recast your spells before they run out, ESPECIALLY your sanctuary spell. Sanctuary should never be down when you are in CPK.

Once you have developed an understanding of the individual zone layouts you should pay attention to doors and searchable exits being open when they should be closed, doors being unlocked instead of locked, and so on. Blood in a room indicates something was killed there, did you kill it? Or was it somebody else. A shielded room or a mob struggling in a trap that you didn’t set are obvious indicators that somebody else was/is nearby. Make sure that you don’t overlook small details.

December 5, 2011  Tags: ,   Posted in: CPK Primer

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