Nillipus Had it comingFollow

It's also quite satisfying to go to the brownie town or the mushroom village and AE them =D

*In Lfay

Edited, Thu Aug 18 14:38:22 2005 by Brudish

yes rogues can do an "Assasination" for 2x that while using a discipline. Unfortunately it only has a chance to occur on mobs much lower than you and some are immune

Or "True North" after they decided to give everybody free Sense Heading (200).

I guess you can still get your divination up with it, but c'mon! Make it something useful at least!

On a side note, if you use the WoW gems for your spells like I do, True North shows up as a guy throwing up the horns.

When did that swarm kiting nerf happen? I didn't play a bard but damn that had to be a hit to the community. Why didn't they just lower the range so you would have to be in melee range to swarm or something?

Only because they decided to nerf the songs rather than fix auto-circling. Before auto-circling became known by all, most bards had quit AE kiting after the extended notes nerf because it was too dangerous and took too much manual dexterity to twist four songs, run in a circle and keep the mobs in that sweet spot.

/melody is near worthless for about anything except mindless chant kites. I'd rather have kept the AE's

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Swarm kiting = Get a gob of mobs. Charm one and have it attack so the other 40 mobs attack it. At ~20% health, use an insta-invis device to break charm and then chant-kite your old pet to death.

AE Kiting = Get a gob of mobs. Use AE damaging songs to wound them while running in a tight circle -- close enough for the song to affect them but far enough away so they can't melee you.

Swarm kiting wasn't nerfed except for the lvl caps on bard charm and the highest lvl charm has a very small cast range as to make it impractical to charm a new mob out of the swarm.

It is hard to believe that people could ae kite with autocircle, I was never great at it, I always ran in an oval, turning sharply right before the song hit. It seems impossible to get the right sized circle, you have to change drums for different speeds, for different sized circles. I think it is an urban legend that people could kill 200 mobs in dulak at a time afk.

It is easy to autocircle when chanting though because you have a long range.

I've got about 30+ here (due to the nature of AE kiting, some of the corpses are doubled up)

I managed to pull (in Nadox) the lower troll caves, campfire/bridge mobs, mines and Guardian/Vehement room all at once and kite them all. Was slow, obnoxious and I never bothered pulling that many at once again. The obvious issue is that a single misstep means you get plowed by fifty mobs (a third of which are sure to stun-bash you) and you die instantly. Most of my Nadox kites were a single room: Vehement/Furious (the above pic), lower caves, the lower troll room (war torns), etc. Didn't bother with luggalds much because they drop such crap loot. At least with 10-15 mobs, I'd get plowed down to 20% and spend the next five minutes running in wide circles singing health regen before I hit 80-90% and got brave enough to tighten up and go back to AE. I can almost guarentee that any other soloing class could have cleared lower trolls one by one quicker than I could AE them all. In fact, I'd have the lower con corpses rot before I had the lvl 58ish mercenaries and war torns dead so I could loot.

Really, for AA purposes it was okay 'cause I could hit a bunch of barely dk blues, for general xp it was much worse than spending the same time in a decent group and for farming greens it worked nicely since I didn't have to be nearly as careful. Even now, I'm more bitter about having to farm green con mobs one by one than I am about losing the xp. the ironic thing is that SOE's claim was that AE kiting hurt the lag rates in the game due to tracking all the mob movement. But now when I see a named up in Nadox, I just chant kite the named with twenty mobs chasing me, hit Divine Aura to loot and train them all out anyway. No real lag benefit there.

Edited, Fri Aug 19 22:15:40 2005 by Jophiel