On Wed, 15 Mar 2000, David Blank wrote:

>
> >All fear does is increase your survival time - I
> >*have* accounted for it.
>
> Fear lets dot's do full instead of 2/3 damage. That's
> pretty significantly more than survival time, that's
> increased damage over time in addition to the reduced
> damage taken over time.

Hmm, ok if you want to compare fearing vs. kiting, instead of
fearing vs. tanking.

> >Given that necros are great soloing, a group with a
> >necro cannot be any worse than the necro is solo.
> >Since necros are regularly able to solo some of the
> >toughest mobs in the game (outside of the planes),
> >that means any group with a necro will be able to
> >take on the toughest mobs in the game.
>
> I disagree, a necro can still solo the ghoul lord room
> with FD and pet where adding more people (unless they
> had FD as well) would only hurt. The above statement
> is true for most instances but not quite all.

That doesn't contradict what I said. Adding an extra person
does not make the group any worse than the necro solo. Sure
the extra person may just sit at the sidelines and watch, but
it's still as effective as the necro soloing (in terms of
killing, not in terms of exp).

--
John H. Kim
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