Monk vss Necro pullingFollow

Don't know Il, my guild uses a fleet of monks to pull.

Wow, didn't know that...

So, if I don't back pet off in time and he strikes the mob and gains aggro from the other three mobs nearby and they all pounce on him, will the mobs then aggro me and my group? or will they just finish off the pet and continue to stand around with their thumbs inserted...?

I've pulled, seen Monks pull and SK's pull. I think in LDON's where there is a time limit an SK probably will do the best single pull initially. The lower the level the pet is the less chance of agro. As a Necro if I use a high pet he doesn't pull as well. Once they start life tapping and kicking they cause to much of a ruckus to single pull. So if I have to I will load a lower pet which is equal to an SK's pet. But contrary to some of what is written I have pet pulled, FD, watched my pet die in a train and it progress past me to the group and wipe. I think anything can happen when mobs get confused. Monks have a great ability to split mobs given space and time. You probably will never see a high end guild on a raid use a pet to pull or even allow pets due to the lack of obedience they have. Monks overall are the best "puller" in the game high end. Monks don't pull efficiently in tight areas under time constraints IMHO. All that being said it boils down to how well the toon is being played, how much experience etc.

I have had a Monk save a group more times than any other toon in the game. In a highly congested area, a Monk can gather full agro draw the mobs to one area while the group progresses to safety. This leaves him either alive under the mobs with one possible death or it leaves him dead with only one rez. In the full picture of things that is the lesser of all evils then wiping a group.

as a necro i make a great puller, but would prefer a monk, sk, pally, bard do the pulling as all of them have between 2-4x the HP my nec would have, thus if something goes wrong, they can deal with it much better then my nec could.

as for who is the best puller in the game, i would have to put my money on bard or sk over any other classes in the game.

bard = god of pulling with all of their songs and a few AA
sk = better then monk due to better AC/HP and ability to keep or drop agro almost instantly.

again the sk is just MHO, but the bard is undisputed. ask anyone who knows a great bard, and that will be the end to that arguement.


so nec or monk, go with the monk, unless he/she/it does not know what they are doing, then as you pointed out it boils down to the IRL player skills.

9 week newbie here who plays 90% of time with monk (liizaard) and sk friends (they both have several years experience on another server). Even in LDoN's, I've seen the monk pull amazingly and now that both have Feign Death its even better.

(EQ newbie but previous experience in another game where pulling was an art and a skilled player pulling was a popular peep)

As I understand it there are 3 classes that can lull up to lvl 65, Cleric, Chanter and Monk.

Under most conditions Monks pull faster than Sk or Necro or Palies, the Monk Lull is an ability and faster than the lull of the Palies. Pet pulling while cool is time consuming. If the puller is chain puling the Monk has the least amount of time out of the group and thus contribites to the dpe more.

If more than one mob needs lulled it is faster to have the cleric or chante do it, since the monk can pull or lull the last one almost istalnly.

But in the end it is the skill of the puller more than the class of the puller

Since when do monks have lull? I played a monk to 44 an all he ever had was feign death. Anyway bards actually are the best pullers once they get fading memories and maybe even before. Thier lull spells work very well and they can mez adds, pre slow, and some other neat stuff. I played a bard to 61 and they are a great class, but I finally decieded all that constant clicking was to much for me.