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@Mephistophelian You are making an unfair analogy. It is not at all fair to compare an Rp environment to a story where there are protagonists, antagonists, a story arc, it's not real time with actual people, etc. 

The problem that I have with a lot of 'evil' monsters, a problem that lots of others seem to have is well is their complete "win or lose" state. As it stands, you can either kill a dark being easily or you cannot kill it at all. There are singular ways to beat big scary dark magic things, and this usually relies on having your own big scary holy magic things. It's not fun to be presented with a random insurmountable challenge that is only defeated if somebody else steps in and one shots it, especially when a large part of the server (looking at Oren) has a tendency to dislike such magical crap to begin with.

The issue is that some people on this server think this server is a cross between world of warcraft and some faction server. 

They only play to PVP and steal items from people. I should know, I've been killed for my items about more then three times in only a few days. 

We need rules that ban people who do the "minas or die RP" or the "pvp default" rp. RP default needs to make a comeback and the players that play on LOTC to pvp and not to RP need to be punished for PVP defaulting. 

As a person who has RPed both a 'dark being' and a 'normal person', before, I can tell you that it does /seem/ like there are no ways to kill 'dark beings' whilst there are actually many. One of the best ways is to not run straight into danger 'for glory'. I think it's perfectly fine that every 'hero' is met with doom when they try the same technique over and over against the villain. Harry Potter beat Voldemort because he did things differently, overall. Yes yes, he was also Chosen, but he did things differently.

Besides, what is this opinion of "It kills me OR I kill it"?? What happened to maiming and leaving alive? Or an equal battle? You don't need to be a big shot to be clever. It is very often that a 'dark being' can be killed in exactly the same way as a normal person, but the stigma around them is simply one of "We must attack now". Want to kill a dark being? Face them as you would IRL. Yes, IRL. Would you charge straight into battle against a misty dark thing that raises corpses? If so, R.I.P. my friend! If not, you're all good! Run away in fear! Running is always a good option. Cowards are more common than brave people; it's a fact. Though not on LotC. Over here, it's fight or die. Or whine that it wasn't fair.

There is no shame in running.