Play a Monster

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P.a.M. Facts/Rules

• You get a kill shot bonus when you kill someone and 1 experience point for each point of damage you deal.
• You can move between arenas (look for places when you can go down).
• You can talk to other monster via normal and clan chat, but regular players won't hear you.
• You can't page/whisper anyone.
• You can't use any of the special action commands (such as hug dm).
• If a player hides, you will have to use /search, i.e. no auto-search.
• PaMs cannot see in the dark.
• You cannot attack/heal/rob other monsters.
• You get no exp for spells/robbing on regular players.
• You can pick up items and use potions, but you won't be able to equip anything or use knapsacks.
• You can't go through locked doors.
• You can't attack charmed/tamed/summoned creatures.
• You can't give items to players or other monsters.
• Even though all P.a.M.'s have Kaos divinity icon, they still follow one of the 5 normal divinities.
• Any items you picked up while playing a monster will disappear when you're killed (i.e. you won't drop them).
• You can look over yourself/other monsters and anyone can hear if that monster automatically says anything.

P.a.M. Hints

• Playing an arena monster gives better experience than any of the other missions.
• When you first start out, giant bat will be the best monster available to you, since they do good damage (for their level) and can usually survive a couple hits. If you spawn as one and then get hurt, run to one of the safe rooms and wait until you're back to full health. It's just faster than if you got killed and had to play a few weaker monsters until you spawned as a giant bat again.
• If you see someone asking for a heal, chances are they're at less than half the max hitpoints. This means, a couple hits might be all you'd need to get a kill. If you can attack them before they get healed, do it.
• Because of cleric's ability to heal, you will almost never be able to kill one. This also applies to paladins, though to a lesser degree, as they tend to concentrate on trying to kill you, sometimes at the cost of allowing their own hitpoints get low.
• Look over everyone when you have several targets to choose from. You'll be looking for anyone who's in the mod to grave range, or has low quality armor, or is an easy-to-hit class (sorcerors and necros are the easiest, assassins, monks, and morphed druids are the hardest).
• Team Work. I can't stress enough how important it is coordinate your attacks. 3 or 4 monsters working together can score a kill much easier than any of them could by themselves.
• Whenever something drops as a result of a player or a monster dying, it is in your best interest to pick it up. By grabbing these items you prevent your targets from buying mana/pots and better weapons/armor, which in the long run makes them easier to kill.
• Avoid arenas overcrowded with players. If you stay there, you'll probably get one-rounded.
• Look for arenas where there are monsters with the same name. If someone tries to attack you, you won't get hit as much.

P.a.M. Experience Table

Note: When you have enough points for the next mission, you'll need to restart you RoK client before that mission becomes visible to you.

• 0 Monster Points - Play an Arena Monster - Kill as many players as possible while earning monster points! You WILL die a lot getting started out, but as you gain monster points you will be able to play more powerful monsters and play new monster missions.
• 250 - Play a Plain's Monster - Play a monster in Tanjir's Litvarian Plains!
• 250 - Play as the Chipper Grove Alliance - Play an animal in Syndar's Chipper Grove and join the Alliance to help prevent murder!
• 500 - Play Rogue Goblin mission - Play a wandering goblin raider! Starting in the village of Gwiny Mukyuk, find other goblins to organize a raid or wander out on your own in search of victims. Wreak terror and kill as many players as possible! Donate your spoils to the temple of Kaos for extra experience!
• 4000 - This is when you first see the Night of the Living Dead mission (available whenever). As a skeleton you can travel around in the graveyard and beyond; you can explore the almost the entire west side of the Syndar continent. Also, at this point, you are no longer restricted to the lower level arenas (both in Syndar and Tanjir); now you can be a troll, troll mage, strider, lesser gnoll, greater gnoll, druid, rogue, thief, etc on the Syndar continent and monsters such as moon bear, barbarian, druid, etc on the Tanjir continent.
• 5000 - Lake Tarnok mission. You play as a fisherman.