a madman  

I followed this to get him:

https://everquest.allakhazam.com/db/npc.html?id=4242

Greetings,

These are now part of the OoW Task quest.

My lv 13/14 war had to kill 10 of these in Northern Desert of Ro.

Its me the 56 warr guy I'm not allowed there anymore. While following them i get attacked by the guards But I also wast them which kills my faction making it annoying for me around there and so on. I dont really even like it there anymore. It used to be where i tweaken strangers and pwr lvled them tho. I once armed a lvl one with full crusty armor and a shield (iksar targ) and a sword (Yheska short sword)

If u find me now in lake of ill omen i may tweak you.

I thought this was funny, I was fighting one of those caster madmen (meanies) and suddenly he says, "Damn, my eyes! You're all an Illusion! I think they are very funny :D

I was doing my normal morning lusty kill when i ran across a madman who conned blue to me. Normally this would not be a problem to me as i am a shaman with the ability to sow and run away from it. I decided to take it on and kill it for some decent exp. Little did I know it was a caster so i decided to run from it and all i got was a quick death by spell casting...

My only question is why do NPC's get better mana than a lvl 9 Shaman

Talroknor
lvl 9 Shaman NRO
Silent Oath Guild

There is nothing worse than getting jumped after a fight with and orc warrior on the orc hyw by a Madman caster. It has cost me many of good lay hands and even then taken me to 1/2 health after that.

lvl 16 Paladin with 20 dmg weapon

Do not underestimate these guys. I just turned 20th and I have been hunting the spiders in the three deserts. (NRO, Oasis, and SRO). I am a monk and jumped a spider in NRO when over the hill walks this guy.

I noticed him when he grasping roots me and it succeeds. I continue fighting the spider until blast after blast of spell drops me to two bubbles of health. I keep feigning, but it fails (And my skill is only a paltry 102).

The zone is not far, but I can't move - 1.5 bubbles of health - will this Feign Death work?

Nope.

one bubble of health - I CAN MOVE. I run for the zone and blam Wind Spell - I am stunned. NO, I am unconcious - the world goes black, I die.

Excerp from Skrax's diary, an Iksar Monk hunting very far from home.

A week ago, my level 15 cleric (also named Kyrsi, who has since been deleted) was wondering and poking about nro as I normally do with my Druid friend Alura (level 8 at the time, I was helping her kill spiders).

I ran into a madman, who I've fought before, but never seen as a caster. It was a druid. Being cocky, I ended up going into the fight with very little mana, since I didn't realize it was a caster, and it conned green.

As the thing started to beat me to a bloody pulp, I told my friend to run. As the madman knocked me down, a shriveled mummy came up, and attacked HIM, instead of me, oddly enough instead of frenzing on my body, the madman was distracted away, leaving me to bleed. So I'm laying here with the lovely overhead camera, watching the madman (I really love how NPCs can cast to their heart's content. Grr) pound the mummy into bandages.

The madman killed the mummy with the half health I had knocked it at, having conned green to me, and mummies generally conning stronger (I couldn't con this one as I was dieing), only to be jumped by a second mummy. It was at this point that I died from bleeding.

It's too bad npcs that kill npcs don't leave corpses, cause when I came back to get my corpse, not a single mummy or madman was to be found anywhere nearby, and it was a short walk since I did bind in east FP.

Since that time, I've given up playing a cleric (I really hate sitting on my rear, watching the battle in the text window while I med to heal others), and started a druid. Maybe I was envious that the madman druid could take out mummies better than a cleric could. =)

It's strange having Alura on a higher level than me now, heehee.

Moral of the story: The overhead camera provides for some super exciting death footage! Ohyeah, and madmen hurt. Muchly.

If you can and he looks ugly...KILL IT!!i hate madmen!!!once that thing KILLED ME and it wouldnt of happend if some..PC came in!!!

Some of these things are casters.. and will cast spells that suck HP's out of you in a hurry. One conned blue to my level 15 druid.. I tried it.. and died before I knew what hit me. I went back after looting my corpse and picked a fight with the same madman.. and died again very quickly. Then I got so annoyed that I zoned into Oasis and kited a deepwater croc that conned yellow to me.. and got some of my exp back ;) Anyway, to hell with madmen. I'll never attack one again unless I'm attacked first. They're not worth it.

Guards often don't attack things that would be considered friendly to their race. The GFay guards won't attack the elven bandits and the same with the pixies and faeries. Iksar guards won't attack Buryunai (sp?) either. There are probably much more that I haven't seen yet.

My theory about why the guards dont attack the madman is because they are they are considered one of their own kind, human, crazy as they may be. Same goes for other types too i was in the greater Faydark when i was a newbie, got attacked by three bandits and like any sensible newbie would ran to the guards who in turn did squat to help, they just sat there and watched as i got thoroughly thrashed. Well thats my theory anyway
good huntin all.

If you know what you are dealing with, attack them. If you have no idea what a madman can do. Stay away. BTW Guards don't anything to help you. Run to a zone!!