To hunt seords, you need to be a Barb or a War Mage, or to stay hidden.

They wrecked my seords!

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~Dulcinia

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Rybran says, "have to admit, takes a big man to ask for a divorce cleric and a date in almost the same breath"

Until the promised changes to spells like LB and how our magic resistance affects them, critters like seordmaors are just insanely sick in offensive power and not worth the trouble to hunt, by the time you have enough skill/MR to have even a nominal chance of survival they won't teach worth a darn.

Unless you're a Barbarian (BMR) or have insane amounts of TM (like a WM) for the current resistance formula, as was mentioned.

Even if they just changed the mechanics so special attacks like the seord's LB were changed to actually teach in accordance to their difficulty (which is also needed), it wouldn't help much because by the time even a Ranger had enough evasion to survive that attack they likely would be far past the point they would learn anything else (weapons, defenses) unless they were backtraining their 7th or 8th weapon and old armor they haven't used in years.

~~~Krin
"Quando Omni Flunkus Moritati"
"Goblins ... aisle 6, Mycthengelde ... hunt smart, hunt S-Mart!"
"You whine like a mule ... you are still alive!"
"Call me Snake."

<Even if they just changed the mechanics so special attacks like the seord's LB were changed to actually teach in accordance to their difficulty (which is also needed), it wouldn't help much because by the time even a Ranger had enough evasion to survive that attack they likely would be far past the point they would learn anything else (weapons, defenses) unless they were backtraining their 7th or 8th weapon and old armor they haven't used in years.>

I have to disagree with that. While I wish they would tone down that LB some I still find them worth the effort for a few things. I admit I mostly ambush them as they are perfect for my hiding and stalking ranks but I usually evade the LB. Hurts alot when I don't. They teach well into the 400s and I wouldn't consider backtraining anything on them.