At 04:48 PM 12/15/1999 -0500, you wrote:

>From: Greg Gillan <GGillan@...>
>
>I've heard (and don't know if its true) that some servers use bards in the
>plane of fear to do the pulling.
>Any truth to this? If so, what is done?
>
>
>Elwyn Heartstring
>Level 50 Bard of Erollisi Marr
>

Well, pre random cazic death touches (dt) all i did was get sow and sing
one of our many mr songs. Since i never got feared, stuned, blinded,
snared, or rooted i could safely pull stuff in the pof that would get many
others killed. As an xtra bonus, if a worry wraith/jello cube dispelled my
sow you have the safety of selo's to fall back on. I even pulled the fire
castle sometimes, though i disliked doing that cause 9 harm touches even
with 250+ mr puts a kink in your day.

But now... my bard dislikes even setting a foot into the plane of fear with
the cazic dt's, the reason being that bards are such efficient transfers of
agro. With one pulse... everybody is added to cazic's dt list it seems.
Going solo and pulling would solve a lot of these problems, but the people
buffing/healing you would still be added to the agro list of cazic.

One last thing to be aware of is autopull. Autopull used to be great but
you DEFINATLY do not want to be using it now. Autopulling now just ensures
that cazic starts DTing people at random much sooner than later.