About 2, 3 years ago there was a smattering of smart bards/seers running around thought they would get smart with trigger emoting to make someone go through all their herbs mana in one go. This practice got to be so widespread that you couldn't get a fight without 4, 5 lines of emote trigger text preceding every attack and defence. I'm all for abusing a silly persons triggers, or if they have some old settings they needed to look at . cough.
I would condone the intelligent use of illusions, or emotes, or best of all mime in dramatics.
Abuse it to take up herb balance during a fight. What I won't recommend and hope nobody does is spam 75 lines of text in under two secconds over and over and over again. 1 or 2 bad eggs who do this are just setting a poor example for pvp. This kind of griefing has been gone from avalon for the most part and good ridance.
There is one person, one password stealing cheater, who brings back all the cheapness in fighting. Knights lost their ability to grief when double rub shirolos strike right strike left double order was taken away. If griefing tactics are to be used frivolously I would ask only the ability to also retaliate in kind.
I would say that all classes should get at least one way to grief their opponents. As a deterrent. Thieves break into your home and guilds etc to grief you steal items from you slice open your pack/sack, Bards get an immense ammount of grieffing potential. Seers also, are especially now suited very well for grieffing with little to no repercussions. Loremasters can break into houses and shatter potions and warp items etc, rangers (the least of the classes) can make it so that stepping into a forest loc
ation gives you 4 afflictions makes you lose a veil dismounts you etc.
I am going to propose some griefing knight skills on the professions board.
Thank You
Written by my hand on the 13th of Skyelong, in the year 1250.