I noticed this last night with regard to chains, which I have kept memmed
all the time since I got the song (better safe than sorry when a runner
takes off, I like to have it as a backup just in case).
I was running through sRo on my way to guk and as I crested a dune I bumped
smack into an SG someone had aggro'd but I kept on running deciding not mess
with it at the time. However, I stopped after a bit and turned around to
notice it was still chasing me so I made an executive decision: "mess with
the bard, die like the rest. Ok big boy, follow me then..."
I took the SG to the Innothule zone area of sRo and made sure no newbies
were around and then started to chain/fear him. I was amazed at the fact
that the SG stopped running at half health and even though it took me about
5 minutes and a bar and a half of stamina (I stopped attacking at zero STA
and rested until back up to half) that I was able to solo him. He only
resisted 2 fears out of five minutes worth of twisting and only got in 2
smacks on me the whole time. He just stood there and grumbled as I beat the
living crap out of him.
I guess this was amazing to me because I had never solo'd a giant before and
I generally DON'T solo as a rule. Heck he even had a lambent stone and 31pp
to reward me for my right of passage.
Moral of the story:
Don't mess with a bard! We're nice enough folks but if you tick us off
you're going down baby :-)
-Faras
> -----Original Message-----
> From: kim@... [mailto:kim@...]
> Sent: Friday, March 03, 2000 1:54 PM
> To: eqbards@onelist.com
> Subject: Re: [eqbards] Stun/root
>
>
> From: <kim@...>
>
> On Fri, 3 Mar 2000, Papa Legba wrote:
> >
> > char is pretty amazing). Our groups biggest problem is no
> snare (we are
> > warrior/bard/cleric/wizard), but chains aren;'t too far away for the
> > bard. (We also have a friend training up a necro who will
> give us the
> > darkness spells)
>
> In my experience, the darkness line is inferior to snare.
> Stuff with darkness on it will start to run *before* the
> darkness will halt their movement. So they'll still manage to
> flee a bit depending on how quickly you're damaging it.
> Early on Chain acts pretty much like snare. But later (level
> thirty-something?) it will stop runners when they're at half
> hp. That makes it superior to snare for stopping green
> runners, since greenies tend to run when they drop below half.
>
> --
> John H. Kim
> kim@...
>
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