Yay, begging finally maxed

[data9724]

Since theres no forum for the beggnig skill, ill post here.
Begging 200, whee, thats been 2 and a half years in the coming, but finally done.
Now i only need smithing (197), fletching (206), hand to hand (2) and bind wounds (104) up, then all skills maxed

[Sanna]

heheheh.

what does it do? is it just a random skill that people get so they don't have Begging 0 Awful? Or do you actually get stuff from the mobs?


.... mine's 22... ^_^


-- Sanna

[Verdandi]

Mine's stuck at 187. I've toyed with the idea of using training points to get it up to 200, but that will cost a few hundred plat. Somehow, it just seems wrong to spend that much money maxxing a skill that's designed to get you coppers.

Oh, and I recommend the spiders in Velks for working on hand to hand (or any other melee skill), if they're still light blue to you. (You can still get melee skillups from light blues, right?) Get a crystalline, if you can, as they're the easiest (just avoid the hunters). I pulled them to the first bend in the ramp to the zone and backed them into the corner and went into third person view to watch out behind me for trains. Nowadays I expect it's even safer. If crystallines aren't light blue anymore, the shards or blizzards might be.

[Merle ApAmber]

I'd really like to hear what benefits begging really does offer at Grand Mastery...
(might even make a character who's sole job was to panhandle)

I supose most of us wouldn't even bother with advanced begging... like standing infront of a boss MOB to see what a successful attempt provides.... (death tax would be way too expensive don't you think?) so the real "benefits" of begging may never be realized.

[Doebi]

Gone are the true glory days of begging. Until a year or so ago, you could actually get begging skill off of your pet.

I have an enchanter that used to make money by selling Vicious Mana. As these are mana hogs at low levels, lots of med time was required.

So summon a pet, get out the fishing pole, and off I went.

Somehow the idea of standing in front of a mob and whining at it until it flattens me hold much less appeal now.

[Sanna]

but still.... what are you supposed to DO with this skill?

-- Sanna

[Thicket Tundrabog]

Begging is a totally useless skill, but I maxed it anyway Just like hand-to-hand is useless for a druid, but mine is maxed out at 75. It's like EQ in general... useless, but a lot of fun.

I'm not sure if anyone else has done it, but I got to 200 begging without successfully begging even a measly copper. It was probably because all my begging was from mobs that I was killing at the time... Hehe.

Thicket

[Draggar]

Begging? Who needs begging?

Pick pockets is much more profittable!

[Verdandi]

Originally posted by Sanna
but still.... what are you supposed to DO with this skill?

You bring up your list of skills and admire the nice, round, maxxed out numbers.

[Mistofelees]

Well I recently started a Warr, When creating my taunt social, I added a begging element for extra aggro. <Which seems suprisingly effective>. Warr is now lvl 40, with a begging skill of 50. I have now on 2 separate occasions Begged the weapon right off the mob. I know, crazy, but, Clicked taunt, and next thing I knew I had a weapon.

[Stugein]

My friend wins for begging skill. I don't know what his skill was at, but we were down in the Qeynos Aqueducts and he sucessfully begged 3cp from one of the "a Beggar" mobs down there. I was totally lmao irl.

[Zacatac]

It did have 1 good use back in the old days. If you died, and while on CR you died again with a completely empty corpse, that corpse would disappear in a matter of minutes and you had no chance to get a rez.

So, what you could do is bind yourself in the city, next to a friendly guard. If you die, you pop up back in the city, beg 1 copper from guard, and THEN go run off to do the CR. With the 1cp on you, any additional deaths would leave a corpse behind for the longer amount of time.

[Doebi]

There is 1 current use for begging.

You can use beg to raise taunt. Turn off attack, beg, turn back on.

But the more you beg, the better your begging skill, the less the taunt.

Kind of like using alcohol to raise your strength.

[Dunthor Warsmith]

People loved to work on their begging skill while we were gathering for Naggy raids at the Lavastorm druid rings. I think someone *once* got a few coppers from the merchant, but normally she aggro'd before anyone got anything, usually resulting in a death or two and some faction hits.

<sigh>

As for the function of the skill, its basically a very small chance to have an NPC give you money (generally on the order of 1-3 copper, but I've heard a story or two of up to 3pp). If you fail that roll, you then have a chance to aggro the NPC. At high skill levels, it seems to increase chance of getting money and decrease chance of aggro, but that just translates into you're most likely to get nothing out of repeated begs (neither money nor aggro) in general.

[Balkin]

A friend of mine took a screenshot once of his Halfling Druid.

You see, he had just begged 2 copper from "Lucky the Beggar" in Freeport.


"Here, take this XXXXX and LEAVE ME ALONE!!!"

I was ROFL big time!

I think my warriors begging skill is like 2. And that's my highest begging skill on ANY character!