Sylly wrote:

> a grifon hits YOU for 64
> a grifon hits YOU for 64
>
> Ruh roh! Time to start moving. So then as I am heading to the Plains of
> the Western Karana, I sees old Guard Frederick killing some corrupt lion and
> I train Merv onto poor old Guard Fred. Well, old Fred starts whacking on
> Merv but Merv don't care about some lame greenie whacking at him and keeps
> chasing me. So, I just keep on kiting and eventually Fred nibbles him down
> and KS's him off me.
>
> So now I am thinking, hmmm, I bet I could do this with a party member and we
> would get he kill and the xp??? Might have to try it sometime. I think that
> Merv might view things a little differently if a party member is slashing
> his tail feathers or not? Or charm Fred when he has Merv down to low health
> - I guess that would have worked too. I was in a risk adverse mood right
> then.

Well, from my experience, if you charmed fred, the griffon would have
immediatley turned on him and killed him. If the griffon was already low
enough and fred killed it, you would have gotten XP, and could have
looted it and run for the zone. Since fred does not die in this
scenario, no faction hit. Have to test if you get faction hits from your
pet dying to an NPC, not sure on this one.

Sylly, no offense, you seem to have trouble charming? (just from your
post here) One misconception I think many Bards have is that you sing
charm, it works and you sit back and watch the show. This is not true.
I'd say charm fails at LEAST 50%, maybe 75% some times. The trick is to
weave charm and selo's(with drum) so you can run backwards from the
targets and re-sing charm as many times as needed. During a particularly
bad run yesterday I had to sing charm NINE times before I charmed my HG.

Uldar Ulfangson
35th Bard, Rodcet Nife