Pick a fight

Tanita · Post by **Tanita** » Mon Aug 14, 2006 10:25 am

I must be extremely charming b/c I can't get anyone to fight me. I've taunted, I've intimidated. It works a few times and then they call me pathetic. lol

Is it speechcraft or some other skill I need to have higher? Or is it just the perfume I'm wearing?

triline beta · Post by **triline beta** » Mon Aug 14, 2006 10:43 am

I think it is speechcraft because i have a high speechcraft and can get anyone to fight me.

wing · Post by **wing** » Mon Aug 14, 2006 10:44 am

actually, hi personality would help. its kinda strange, but that means perfume can help you make them mad. anyway speechcraft is the skill that you use to taunt. intimidate doesnt make them attack. as you can probably guess, admire doesn't either. but you usually need them to have a little bit of disposition toward you, otherwise it will almost always say "you are pathetic". or something like that. so bribe them, taunt them, bribe, taunt, until they attack. dont worry about the gold. when you kill them you get it all back off their corpse.

mr_sir · Post by **mr_sir** » Mon Aug 14, 2006 10:52 am

Whenever I want to taunt someone I take potions of fortify personality until its well over 100 as my character has low speechcraft. Also, it helps if you have lots of money then you can bribe them when their disposition gets low and then carry on taunting. Some NPCs are easier to taunt than others but I find that taunting til their disposition is about 10 or 20, bribing them with 1000 gold one or two time, taunting till their disposition is 10 or 20 again, and so on usually does the trick. It can take a while sometimes though lol.

Trafficboytrent · Post by **Trafficboytrent** » Mon Aug 14, 2006 12:01 pm

If you realy want people to attack you, get the Frenzy Humanoid Spell. You customized it to 100 points for 2 seconds, then anybody you cast it on will attack you. Works great.

Tanita · Post by **Tanita** » Mon Aug 14, 2006 12:03 pm

Aha!

Weird logic, I actually thought it was better that they had a low disposition towards me! Will try the bribing method then.

thanks

Deadalready · Post by **Deadalready** » Mon Aug 14, 2006 12:06 pm

Just keep taunting your opponent, it takes a long time but I usually have to taunt a person about 5 or 6 times successfully to get them to attack me.

I suggest crafting a spell (or item), which boosts your charisma up by 100 for a duration of 2 or 3 seconds. This will make taunting, admiring, intimidating and everything so much faster.

Greg. · Post by **Greg.** » Tue Aug 15, 2006 6:57 am

You could use sneak, coupled with frenzy humanoid. If you canst it while hidden, the person will attack and you shouldn't get a bounty...

Tanita · Post by **Tanita** » Tue Aug 15, 2006 8:50 am

ooh, sneaky, like that.

fable · Post by **fable** » Tue Aug 15, 2006 10:30 am

Also, some NPCs are scripted to resist spells like Frenzy. It's to keep you from having an easy way to acquire an item, perhaps ending a quest.

Darzog · Post by **Darzog** » Wed Aug 16, 2006 10:25 am

I've also found that people are taunted more successfully with a positive disposition. I usually bribe them up to 40-50, taunt until they hit 10, bribe again and so on. It usually takes 3-6 successful taunts before they attack (Ordinators have been the most resistant to this of the people I've tried).

And the nice thing is that any money you bribe them with will be on their corpse.

Magelord648 · Post by **Magelord648** » Thu Aug 17, 2006 3:40 am

NPSs with a high reputation are harder to pursuade.

Cartell · Post by **Cartell** » Sat Aug 19, 2006 5:29 pm

I've found that when i taunt people it works best and most often when there disposition is in the 80's

fable · Post by **fable** » Sat Aug 19, 2006 6:03 pm

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