Wow, I really am beginning to feel like the only person left playing EQ who
doesn't kill druids, treants, guards, dwarves at the docks, gnomes, etc...
Doesn't anyone care about faction anymore? Or is it just players don't want
to take risks anymore...
As for hill giants, I've found Rathe Mountains on the Prexus server to be
good at just about ANY time of the day. They spawn there like the gnolls in
BB (well, maybe not quite that many...). Especially if you get a party
together and go around killing all the basilisks, lizards, giant skeletons,
cyclops, etc...
I personally find charming and killing HG's to be EXTREMELY dull and boring,
however. Last night my party ventured into the pool room at Sol B and my
brother (a druid) and I took over the responsibility of pulling (and
learning the joint). First pull yielded one shaman... not a problem.
Second yielded 2 greater kobolds and a shaman (ouch!). I shouted at the
party not to run and proceeded to charm one of the 2 greater kobolds and
sent it after the other. By the time the party was done with the shaman, I
was almost done with one of the 2 greater kobolds. It was easy to finish
off the other. I need about 2 greater heals in between charms (because of
resists), but I played a little clarity and 2 minutes later we were pulling
again. I learned that there is a 25 minute spawn cycle to the greater
kobolds and a full party of mid to high 30 can handle the place REAL easy
with a bard. We took every single kobold out in the whole section up by the
pool room and held it all night... A combination of lament and charm
together worked incredible.
One note though, one of the shamans Dotted one of the ones that I was
charming once accidentally. Every single time I charmed it, I had to tell
it to back off in order to get it to stop from beating on the shaman... Had
to tell them all to leave the one beating on me alone and pretend it is a
pet. (1 mage, 2 shamans all with pets... I was joking with them that my pet
did more damage then any of the others easily! LOL).
Now isn't it a lot more fun using the tools at our disposal to clear a
dungeon then to stand around watching a couple of HG's beat on each other?
Maybe it is just me...
My only worry now is there was a GM and a Guide standing there watching us
for about 10 minutes... Hope they don't think we did it too easy. I don't
want to get nerfed.
p.s. With the way I use charm or bellow, I wouldn't be effected in the
slightest by a reduction in range... even fighting HG's. :-)
Taneran Dreamweaver
<Clan Jax>
Bard of the 33rd song
Prexus
> -----Original Message-----
> From: John_Senior@... [mailto:John_Senior@...]
> Sent: Wednesday, December 22, 1999 4:46 AM
> To: eqbards@onelist.com
> Subject: Re: [eqbards] Killing Giants in your low 30ies
>
>
> From: John_Senior@...
>
> Hello all,
>
> I made level 31 the other day, and a bubble of that exp was made killing
> Giants in N Karana, I think I've got the art of charming mastered but I
> just wanted to see if there is anything else I could do to improve things.
>
> First off I equip anything that gives +cha (not alot at the moment), I
> currently have Full Lambent (+10 Cha total) aswell as a Mask of Deception
> (+13 Cha) and a +3 Cha necklace, this gives me Cha of roughly 111 (base
> 85), which is not bad but I'm saving for some REALLY good cha jewellery.
>
> Instead of equipping my Crude Stein I equip my MM Drums and start selo. I
> do an /Ooc Anyone see any Giants? And if I'm in lucky I go and pull the
> giant using Charm, then Start up Selo again and run around looking for
> another Giant, in the mean time if I can't find another Giant I make the
> giant kill guards or Griffennes/Griffons. Whilst charming I run from my
> target (backwards) and stop selo and play Charm, if it's a succeed I turn
> the giant onto my target then I fire Selo's up again. I start running
> backwards again(I can outrun giants running backwards). I keep
> backing away
> and charming until the giant has killed the mob I set him on. I then run a
> distance away from the dead corpse, charm the giant. Sit him down and go
> loot, If I'm lucky I find another giant that I can use to kill my first
> giant and so on until I get bored and zone.
>
> It's quite scary having 2 giants on you and it's easy to make a
> mistake and
> get killed. 2 Giants pounding on you is not nice, especially if Selo's has
> dropped. I managed to not get killed whilst charming and I only zoned once
> (made giant attack a druid and the lot came after me). I did however die
> twice (thanks Grimfeather for one and all the guards at the stone bridge
> for the other) this kinda pissed me off cos I lost alot of hard earned exp
> from silly mistakes (mind you having grimfeather beat on you
> whilst looting
> isn't a mistake). Even with Selo's a my MM drums equipped I
> couldn't outrun
> him. Lucky I got good exp rez's both times and only lost 1/4 bub exp in
> total.
>
> Hill Giants seem to be quite rare so it can get boring in N Karana, and
> it's always f***ing raining in that zone too I've thought about trying
> Oasis but the dunes etc put me off and the giants are almost as rare at
> least there is no Grimfeather in the zone (aka death). And the zone is
> smaller which is easier to hunt in, also the people usually
> /shout Giant to
> Dock etc......
>
> Well, enough of my rabbling, I'm really just interested in some comments,
> suggestions or feedback with regard to my charming methods and places to
> hunt that are good for charming.........
>
> Many Thanks
>
> Madagan Songweaver, Bard of 31 Songs - Veeshan Server
> "Where ever there is trouble, there you shall find my corpse"
>
>
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