Level 70 and still getting Owned!Follow

I die much less today at 70 than I did at 65. I got 11 AA last night and died zero times.

When I die, it's generally one or two rounded (with a stun).. usually I successfully Feign Death back at my Bind Point (it happens so fast, I am mashing the key after I am already dead).

The other night my entire group died in the 68.3 spell mission in a few seconds (3400 quads for the win). Summoned, rezed, went back and won.

Things are dreadfully serious in current content, but you have the tools (including your brain) to manage. No one said you were going to get "God Mode". But, yeah, it's easy.

You have been slain by A_Big_Mob_04
LOADING PLEASE WAIT...
You have entered Plane of Knowledge.
You begin to dance about nimbly.

Ah, yes... the memories

I remember, when I started the game, assuming that at lvl 50 nothing in the game could touch you and that lvl 50 characters probably went around soloing Vox and Nagafen and stuff.

I have a 70 dwarf pally and 65 halfling cleric...it seems like I die way more on my pally as of late. The again, we've done a lot of 1.5 epic fights in my guild, so it's bound to happen.

Grats on reaching 70. Enjoy it and go out and adventure.

Nieve I know:

When I was in my mere 30's, I oft dreamed of the time when I would get my summoned hammer pet. I envisioned myself turning into some sort of mage/cleric hybrid that would be able to solo in zones like Natimbi, Dranik's, etc...

Boy was I wrong...stupid pet hammer...and stupid cleric mitigation...

Welcome to 70!

It's not the gear or level that truely makes you uber. It's the journey; the things you learn and discover along the way.

Mobs are getting harder. In the 50s they don't have much in hp, buffs, and dps. In the 70s mobs have their own buffs of sow, temp/virt, wunshi, and hastes. They rampage, enrage, gate, and CH themselves. Trash mobs are hitting for hundreds and now even thousands. SOE has to keep with all the uber players, and now you're one of them.

You only have semi-god mode in certain zones. Like........Crushbone, Black Burrow, newbie yard, lol.

I died in blackburrow once.

I tell you what i have noticed is that a greater proportion of lvl 70's haven't got the skills required.

If you get a group in say PoI everyone seems to know there Job, the slower slows that tank keeps aggro, you know what i mean.

I got a group in BoT the other day and half the group didn't have a freakin clue how to play, the bard couldn't pull, the tank couldn't hold aggro and the Rogue didn't know how to straif(sp) to keep behind the mob when the useless tank didn't know to put himself into a corner so the mob always showed his back to the rest of the group or lose aggro when he got it.

it was embarising to watch... only a very talented cleric held the group together.

In a MM in HHk, half the players didn't know how taunt worked, wouldn't follow or couldn't understand basic instructions, one of the clerics seemed to believe that what you did when you got aggro was to mindlessly run about the room.

i was shocked when i got outside to find he was a 70 druid....

70? Bah give me a group of 50's at least they try to learn.

It shold be noted that this is only 50% of the lvl 70's i get but still thats half the players, some in high end guilds who do not have a clue.

Why? it doesn't matter what class you play at lvl 70 you should :

a. have a passing knowlage of how aggro works
b. know that in order for people to help you, you're best staying still
c. know to follow the puller when he says "move up" or "OtM"
d. know that if the group leader says "don't move from here i'll pull back to here", that it means exactly that and you don't aimlessly wander off.

Using that it was MM as an excuse for bad play is as much of a cop out as saying "I don't know about aggro control, I'm a druid"

I agree on the Finer points of a class...

I.E.

As a Druid sometimes its needed to grab agro from a Tank so the healer has those extra precious moments to get a heal off....Thank the gods for Extended Range!

Thats why I almost always group with my steady group so I dont have to endure the people that dont have a clue.

That's a good way to grab aggro too hehe.

heh isn't that what druids do? Not moi of course.

MMs are good for teaching other people the basics of other classes though.

Aggro management is probably the #1 issue to understand at the upper levels, most people free-for-alling or PL-ing in HoT zones wont pick this up.

Work as a group from level 30 on (with the same level players) and you will have a better grasp of it, but sadly many people do not do this anymore.