I am from the atlantic shard. i haven't played in about 3 years. Back when i used to play i pretty much ran the shard for factions and such with my hybrid warrior. (remember this was way before scrolls and such). I could go one on one with pretty much anything at the time and loved it. But i know alot has changed and really wanna know how outdated this character is.

85/80/55 i think? (haven't logged on to check)
100 Tactics
100 Anat
100 Resist
100 fencing
100 Magery
100 Healing
100 Hiding

I mainly played factions when i played. Loved all the running around and such. This setup let me run when i needed, and dual one on one with any warrior/mage. with 2 kinds of healing maximum damage (at the time) with a para blow with gm resist life was easy for the most part with UO Assist.

Please give me ur input before i start to play again. Will this setup still work?

Okies, here we go. What alot of people are doing nowadays, is running 6 skill temps. I would say drop magery off cause finding good weaps with SC and no -1 fc is hard to find, so you would be behind in the fc. I would drop hiding and throw something like ninjitsu or bushido and you should be set.

I would say go something like this
110 tact
100 anat
110 resist(minimum)
120 fencing
90 heal
100 bushido
and 90 to play with whatever you want, maybe change stuff around to get up to gm parry or something. Just a few ideas. best thing to do is go on a test shard right now and toy around with templates. you wont get the exact setup you want as far as stats like hci dci and di but you can get a general idea of what you want.

see heres the problem though. as a Faction character Hiding is a great benefit. Allows for more time healing and ups ur chance of survival in a 1 v lot of people battle. I choose magery cuz i got so accustomed to having my 50 point heals on the spot against mages, and i used it so much when it was me and other warriors. i was able to portal us around and such. Now i am not sure what a nijistu is or w/e u called it. must be a new skill i haven't researched yet. I never picked up parry cuz i like using a spear. (Weapon of Choice) keep the comments coming

Ninjitsu and Bushido are the top PvP... i guess spell sets now. Seeing asyouve not been around for a while im guessing you didnt see chivalry and necromancy either? All of them 4 skills come with a book of spells much like magery. Necromancy is the only one that uses regents (and is also flavour of the month for many). Its well worth reading up about what they do on uo.com . Both chivalry and necromancy even have ways of healing/recalling.

Also, with regard to not using parry with a spear, theres been a change to parry (about 2 years ago i think). Parry now works with double handed weapons. Therefore even archers can parry effictively now with bows equipped.

ninja+poisoning

go 120 weap skill and can lock poisoning at 80 and be effective.

get 4/6 chiv and keep karma neutral and can get by w/o anat/heal; (even as a red)
only drawback is inability to res red guildies (can res blue w/ noble sac)

This leaves room for alot

120 ninja
120 weaponskill
120 resist
gm-120 parry
100-105 chiv
80 poisoning
70+hiding

-very effective template, and also quite fun to play.

btw, hiding ftw, allways =p

-btw archers' cannot parry, unless they have fixed it.
Not even w/ parry+bushido.

Cutter, wouldnt he be a bit more effective if he had some tactics on there? I know you can get alot of DI on items, but if he cant get the right setup with those, atleast GM tact would help tremendously. I always run 110 tact minimum. I lowered my anat on my chars tho to tweak a few more skills on it. I had a really nice built archer, that I have always hated using, that I am going to make into a nox-fencer, and am gonna lower anat and healing from 110 and 110 to 100 and 100. gonna get rid of my 80 hiding, and there will be enough there for nox. I need to go out and find a 120 fencing though, but in the meantime I have 115s to use. I have some nice fencing weaps that I made with a gold hammer so those will be excellent once I get the skills up.

As far as the resist comment you made earler. I am the type that realizes I am gonna die. Most likely alot. I want to build my char for alot of power, and not soo much defensive. Although I run with like 38dci and 110 parry, so I fare well. But I figure if I am gonna get my buff bar filled up with 6-8 red dots, I am gonna die regardless. I will just go get rezzed, come back and whoop some ass. However, I always have resists on my mage chars. Its the dexer ones that I just dont want to give up any offensive power to do it. I know guys who run without tactics just for resist, and I cant see giving up 100-120 points just to curb a para or curse. Just my opinion, as I die alot, soooo....

I see you;re point...and no doubt tactics will raise you're base damage some...but I look at it this way.

Take an archer...put on decent DI and mebee anat (archer should have anat/heal anyways since parry is useless on archer) and you will do 35 damage ai's w/ 0 tactics.

Add tactics...your AIs will still do 35.
Having tactics will increase the amount of damage you do on a non-special move hit, but that is about it. Id love to have tactics on every char I have, but there are just too many other more important skills. I dont think Ive had tactics on any char since before they nerfed ai I played a tactics mage some and used a hatchet.

I imagine it depends on the template...tactics would be nice sometimes. But most dexer templates these days...the pvp is jousting style. That means run around alot, hit once to bleed/disarm/lp, or what ever. Chase some more, get off another special. Fighting like this tactics doesnt matter. If you want to stand there and do massive damage on normal (non special) swings, then sure, get tactics...but have fun being para ganked is all im sayin =p

btw, not attacking anybody else' templates, or claiming to "know better"
Just sharing my ideas and template with a returning old player =0
everyone obviously has their own opinions on what is and is not effective or viable as far as skillset goes.

Well there is more than AIs tho. I use a swdsman that uses a bokuto/talon bite combo. I nerve em, switch out real quick, and hack away with the TB. I just recently redid the suit with my jackals from my retired archer, so I am at 150 dex. I swing incredibly fast. With 115 tact, 120 swds and little over 100DI, I do on average, 30s on normal hits, and 45+ on crushing blows. The majority I fight are necro/mages, who generally run around with crap phys resist. So I can usually take them out in 3-4 hits. It has been the template I have ran since damn near day one, with the exception of recently added in 90 bushido. I may try out taking tactics off and throwing in resist, but like I said, if I'm gonna die, I'm gonna die. I dont want to spend 100+ points just for the purpose of delaying that impending death due to 5000 poison, pain strikes, explos, FSs and withers. No amount of resist is gonna block that gank. But usually 1v1 if some guy paras me, I am free by the next hit, and confidence and heal through it, and hes back on the run. I find that people usually fight while running and usually just mini healing when they are 1v1 with me. So the trade off of power over resist, I go for power. There is nothing like seeing a mage drop in 2 hits with a TB! hehe..