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I got lost in the new bazzar right after they changed it.

Rogue epic pre-quest it seems.

saw him there last night, i have no idea what hes for at this time...been trying to find out.

Well, I would make the following guess.

As he's level 19, he probably was fighting in Palual Caverns prior to coming to the bazaar. In paludal, he probably fought some of those fiends, and picked up a case of the creeping crud. This is a VERY long lasting DoT spell, and I have seen people die a significant time after they stop fighting, when their regen spells wear off, and their HP slowly drop to nothing.

The pain and suffering hits you thing, has been in the game since 2001 when I started playing. I was told that it was put in to deal with some bug that was happening when people died from non-melee damage, although I am not sure what the bug was.

Find out which of the Amondson brohers in the stable handles what color horse. Hail him and give your bridle to him. He will give you a bag of platinum pieces which you in turn sell to a vendor. There is no quest chat or purchase window - just give the correct guy the bridle and you should be gtg.

Ok, here are the speeds of the Horses...


Rope Bridle = 25% Movement Rate Increase (8000-13000PP)

Leather Bridle = 50% Movement Rate Increase (27000-41000PP)

Silken Bridle = 60% Movement Rate Increase (60000-85000PP)

Chain Bridle = 70% Movement Rate Increase (95000-136000PP)

Ornate Chain Bridle = 85% Movement Rate Increase (Only dropped off high level NPCs in Luclin)

A note on prices, the most expensive price represents a 40 charisma while the lowest price represents a 110 charisma. 110 charisma is the best you can have for the horse merchants, anything higher doesn’t lower the prices further. You can see how getting a high level charisma buff would be good when buying a horse though.

Advantages

-Sitting on horseback allows casters/hybrids to meditate without incurring the agro you gain from sitting down.
-You can run from outdoor fights a lot easier. Faster horses naturally mean easier fights to flee from.
-You move at the same speed on horseback regardless of how encumbered you become.
-Horses can be used at level 1.
-When riding a horse you get an innate Safefall skill of 150.



Disadvantages

-Meleeing is a lot harder on horseback than not on horseback. Frequently, you get the message 'your target is too far away' or 'you can't see your target'. Looting from horseback can also be problematic as you click on your mount instead of the corpse.
- Currently if you cast the wrong spell during a fight, you can't interrupt it by ducking.
Most, if not all illusions, don't stack while you're on horseback.
-For kiting classes, kiting is not very easy as horses require a 1 to 4 seconds to get going and 1 to 4 seconds to fully stop for spell casting purposes.
-Horses are expensive to obtain and also No-Drop. This means you can’t sell it to other players later, though there is an NPC in The Bazaar that allows you to sell your horse for roughly 60% of what you paid for it should you want a better horse later.
-Horses require food and water from your rations to upkeep.
-Horses have a casting time to summon. Unlike Journeyman Boots you cannot simply click them and be instantly on a horse. The only exception to this is the Paladin and Shadowknight horses obtained via alternate advancement which are instant use.
-Beggars who see you on horseback assume you can give them high-level gear and that you're rich.


Summary

Overall, horses are the most beneficial to casting classes, both wisdom and intelligence casters. In high-end raids where a lot of casters need to med during fights, it’s beneficial as you don’t gain the agro from sitting down while not on horseback. However, interrupting spells you mistakenly cast or don’t want to cast can be annoying, especially if you’re a cleric casting Complete Heal.

For Melee classes, horses are pretty much a very expensive luxury aimed at getting you from point A to point B. Meleeing on horseback is especially difficult because the mobs tend to be too far away or you can’t see them, even though they can still pound on you.

For Hybrids, horses tend to be in the same boat as melee classes, though if they are fixed so that you can melee well on horseback, it might be a little more useful in gaining mana back faster. Still, Paladins and Shadow Knights get a special AA skill that summons a horse for them that is as good as the Ornate Chain Bridle horses, so patience might be better than putting out a minimum of 8,400pp for a horse. Out of all the hybrids, Beastlords would gain the most benefit as they tend to be the most mana-dependant hybrid class out of all the hybrid classes.

Lastly, Bards are the least likely to ever need a horse. They have Selo’s and horses are kiting-unfriendly, so Bards would be better off with their Selo’s over a horse in my opinion.


Edited, Mon Oct 28 07:29:12 2002

The Rope Bridle doesn't seem as fast as JBoots! Are you sure? It seems rather Slow. Maybe I'm just have trouble with lag cause of the graphics. Any Ideas? I'll keep it for a little while! Can we real sell the bridle back to the vendors?

Meanfists
Druzzil Ro


Edited, Wed Jun 12 19:43:35 2002

Pallys and SKs can earn thier horses through AA points. The attribute becomes available at 59 - but it takes ALOT of AA points to acquire it.

no.its a do drop bag that has 10 giant slots and only costs a little over a plat(cost me 1 plat 5 silver with 113 cha)but the downside is it weighs 25 pounds. so i just bought 10 of them and put them in the bank =)

I read an official message that you simply trade in your bridle to the NPC who offers to buy it. He trades you an item that you can sell to a vendor. No mention was made if this turns out to be an equal value item.

There's a "stable" in the west of the zone. I believe the NPCs that sell them are called "Stable-Hands" (or something similar). There's 2 of them - one sells rope and leather bridles (all colours) and the other sells the silken and chain ones.

I have a black rope bridle - it is NOT soul bound. If I die, I have to get back to my corpse and loot it just like everything else.

Perhaps you are a paladin or a shadowknight with the AA Ability horse?

- Paghk Heyokah'Zek

no, you only need to buy one horse, you dont buy the horse exactly, you buy a bridle, there are 4 types of bridle and 4 colors of each type. the bridle has infinite charges of summon horse, you summon the horse and poof, your on a horse, when you zone the horse dissapears but you keep the bridle, so just re-summon the horse, i have heard that horses can only be summoned in outside zones (i have yet to prove this, need to buy a horse)