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The only thing in my dps set out of kara is Garona's Signet Ring. That aside, I get your point, to an extent.

You don't need to overgear your opponents for the combination of Feral Swiftness Talents + FFF a target to meet you half way to basically make up any difference prowl/pouncing would have made.

My whole journey to Lv70 I basically did the same thing. I will admit that my time in FFXI has me habbitually doing everything I can as best as I can. A good bit of my solo work would consist of popping consumeables, pretty much every instance I was in also consisted of popping consumeables all the way to Lv70. I farmed up Argent Dawn Exalted before I was Lv63 and this is my first/only character and the only reason I did it was for the shoulder enchant for my tank set at the time. Call it a power gamer or whatever you want. I've always seen prowling as inferior to just mowing stuff down. Personal opinion? Sure it is.

Have I not already said lines such as:





Hell, both of those quotes came out of my first post in this thread.



And depending how far your oponent is from you, a simple rejuv >> cat >> keep running to target >> FFF >> meet half way will probably accomplish the same thing as far as keeping health topped off.

On the flip side you could always rejuv after the target is neutralized. Takes quite literally ~1.5secs to rejuv and be back in cat. And the whole duration of that you can be moving to next target.

If you're actually playing to play (and a reader/researcher of forums), and not playing to shortcut yourself to Lv70 (something most first time players will more likely do on a first character rather than a second character), you should never find yourself in a position that leader of the pack isn't more or less sufficient enough to carry you through with occasional rejuv or lifebloom once you get it to kinda help out.



And from there, it's not like you're really saying anything I hadn't already said before. Really it's just said the other way around. Afterall, I hadn't ever used any definitive terms saying that prowl/pounce was definitely worse off and instead I've used words that clearly stated my position on it.

And because you're not really saying anything I hadn't already opinionized before, I'm not really sure how to interpret your post, but it's leaning toward offensive. But maybe that's just how I read it in my head /shrug.

Edited, May 10th 2008 3:58am by Torzak

Solo mob grinding goes Pounce>FF>mangle>shred> (if OOC procs) shred > if not then rip followed by maim. Why maim you ask, well FB takes all of your energy, when I'm grinding I want to be able to kill next mob right away. I'm doing so much damage that the mob dies from Rip and Pounce bleeding before Maim stun wears off. The whole time my energy is climbing while I white damage the mob. 90% of the time I have to wait for prowl to finish cooldown. That in my opinion is the best way to grind for hours without any down time at all.

Edited, May 21st 2008 11:54am by xxRolandxx

I do the same thing, but oddly enough didn't figure out to do it until I started playing a priest and got more used to that DOT playstyle. Fer heaven's sake, don't stand there fighting the thing til it's all the way dead.