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most ppl do the npc theif way. ive seen it done. but how do u do it? just hide somewhere with ur goods then pop out and pop the 1 star. i cant see this being safe because the entitre time ur waiting ur endangering ur own goods. plz explain this way to me. right now i just hide in hyungo ghost land... start to kill there camel(yes i get offender or w/e) then when the camel is really low health they end up running afte rmy pure str self trying to kill me... there npc theives or an aggro mob do rest of killing camel... i pop on theif suit. kill the trader and grab the goods.

ok can you explain the last part again please?

thats not popping, thats attempted murder, lol.

when you pop someone you need to have a horse with some goods, dosnt matter how much, you just walk in front of the trader and your theifs should attack them.

ok i dont know how to use my npc to kill them... so this is wha ti do....




im in regular outfit not theif suit. i hit alt and start attacking their camel/horse. my name goes purple so they can try to kill me.afte ri get there transport down to really low health. i run around so the trader runs after me to try to kill me. he forgets about his transport. an aggro mob or his theif comes to his camel. and hit away at its little bit of life. it dies. now the trader can be killed. i get in theif suit and kill the trader. wait 20 seconds. get on my camel and grab the goods.

Innovacious wrote:thats not popping, thats attempted murder, lol.

when you pop someone you need to have a horse with some goods, dosnt matter how much, you just walk in front of the trader and your theifs should attack them.

yeah but do i just have to wait in the shadows with my horse filled with goods till someone comes by? last time i checke di cant unsummon horse

You can either sit in 1 spot (the ferries are good) or move around.

If you think that sitting in 1 spot is dangerous or boring, then walk around and search for 1 stars.

Either way, there's a big risk to getting killed by a hunter.

But the way popping works is that your NPC thieves will attack the trader 1st. The way that the game is programmed, NPC thieves have an order of attack: trader->hunter->thief->anyone. So, your NPC thief will target the 1* trader and do your dirty work for you. Keep following them so that thier thieves + your thieves start to gang up.

So now instead of just having 1 thief their own lvl, they have 2+ thieves (varying lvls) to worry about...ultimately proving too much.

Hmm the order that Thiefs target is Hunter-->Trader--->Anyone--->Thief or atleast thats what i find

Poping so for like 60+'s cause otherwise you'll get killed easy by any high lvl hunter running around

u horse has to carry goods otherwise no npc thieves will spawn right ?
my question is this : where do u find those goods from ? im really confused.u r trying to get goods but u need goods to do that ?

Zlatan wrote:u horse has to carry goods otherwise no npc thieves will spawn right ?
my question is this : where do u find those goods from ? im really confused.u r trying to get goods but u need goods to do that ?

lol yes... exactly you must have some good on your horse to be able to pop.... as far as getting teh goodsyou have to either have a friend who drops it for you or you wander jangan/Dwhang until you see a random good lying around and you take it.

DarkLaw wrote:Hmm the order that Thiefs target is Hunter-->Trader--->Anyone--->Thief or atleast thats what i find

+1

All you do is follow trade routs until you catch up to a camel or meet someone going the opposite direction.

Then you just follow them and hope you don't run into a higher level hunter or another higher level multi* trader.

Although standing in the middle of ferries, crossroads in Jangan, or outside town gates is usually fun.

bowner wrote:most ppl do the npc theif way. ive seen it done. but how do u do it? just hide somewhere with ur goods then pop out and pop the 1 star. i cant see this being safe because the entitre time ur waiting ur endangering ur own goods. plz explain this way to me. right now i just hide in hyungo ghost land... start to kill there camel(yes i get offender or w/e) then when the camel is really low health they end up running afte rmy pure str self trying to kill me... there npc theives or an aggro mob do rest of killing camel... i pop on theif suit. kill the trader and grab the goods.

lol i do that also but 1 time i had the camel on burn and it died and i got murder but i also get in front of the camel and then my theifs spawn then BOOM!

I always find it fun to grind on one-star-popping thieves' NPCs. I do this even when I'm IN my thief suit. I see a thief trying to pop, I'll just kill his NPCs. It really aggrivates the thief, and confuses the trader

If the trader happens to die in the process, I'll offer res and even offer to give a horse or camel so the trader can get back their goods. If they don't take it, the loot is mine.

Hey, I TRIED to help.

what's the difference in lvls for 1* to get popped? i normally go on 1* and im lvl 30 with 6 gap, some higher lvls (mid 30's probly) try to pop me but ss/gs + fire imbue = dead npc thief, so they end up wasting their time trying to pop (im on a camel).

i got popped once coz he spawned ice and my npc was ice and i was froze most of the time, took about 4 thieves (2 from him and 2 mine) to kill me, damn!!

went back with reverse return scroll and hit zerked on the thief = me dead, guess he was that much higher lvl than me (not good with bow so can't identify his lvl through his wep).