What is the purpose of war mode?

[randale]

I don't even use it, since you don't need to in order to attack someone/somemob

[Soma]

I don't even use it, since you don't need to in order to attack someone/somemob

Changes the music to the awesome combat theme.

[Jill Stihl]

AFAIK if a weapon carrier wants to attack a mob they have to be in war mode to do so. Unless I'm missing the obvious?

[the bazookas]

Don't need it: Razor Hotkeys, in Targetting submenu: Target closest non-friendly will target the closest non-blue creature or player. Then Attack Last. I use this almost exclusively. Also, Set Last Target and then Attack Last can be used if you need to target an enemy who is not the closest non-blue to you (but I usually just run up to them so they BECOME the closest).

[Jill Stihl]

Ah thanks for the info. I've not really made use of Razor beyond crafting/fishing/recall macros, I'll have to have a deeper root around in it sometime.

[xevec]

So is war mode still needed for melee attacks? I'm specifically thinking of dexxers.

[Pirul]

War mode exists because razor didn't in our era (and I'd venture a guess that most people in the early days of UO would click or dbl-click to do everything).

[Millerisfuntoplay]

The real reason we need war mode is to look bad ass. Try going in and out of war mode thats how you dance UO style.

[nightshark]

its useful for tabbing in and out of combat.

i still use war mode and double click things in some situations

[randale]

One other thing no one has mentioned is that it lets living toons see you as a ghost. As far as I know, you can't cast a blind resurrection spell, you have to be able to see your target