FD and roamers?Follow

I've been leveling up a SK and am having problems losing agro on roaming mobs. It seems when I FD the mobs always re-agro on me when I get up. Sometimes it takes a couple minutes for the train to arrive but it always comes. Is there some trick I'm missing on losing agro on mobs without a static spawn point?

I'd search a previous post. I've never played an FD class or known much about it. I can recall reading something about this kind of subject though.. something about how it's easier to lose agro on static spawns since they return to position, but with roamers, you have to wait such and such a time before getting back up.. two minutes, was it?

You normally get that message arond 2 minutes from losing agro. Note that if you have a snare on a mob, it'll be about 2 minutes after the snare wears off, not from the point you FD.

When you FD, there are three conditions that'll cause a memwipe:

1. small random chance of instant memwipe on mob (using sneak before standing seems to help)

2. the mob paths back and resets at their spawn point (this is what makes roamers difficult... it can take a long time for some of them to reset)

3. stay FD for a full 2 minutes, you'll get the "enemies have forgotten you"

When you are trying to split mobs, you can leverage #2 to split mobs (e.g., wait for one to path back and reset)... as an SK, snare will be useful for splitting.

If you want to learn more about FD splitting, I'd recommend reading some of the posts/guides in the forums at monkly-business.net (under Guides and Tactics)

Thanks for all the advice. I guess I haven't been waiting long enough, never even seen the "your enemies have forgotten you" message. I need more trial and error but so far this SK is a fun class.