On Mon, 27 Mar 2000, Papa Legba wrote:

>
> When the wizard or I (cleric) get agroed in our group, we simply hit our
> "Incoming" hotkey, and back away from the fight (taking the agroed
> mob(s) with us). THe other caster will pop up from medding, and root
> them away from the fight. THis is a really good thing.
>
> With certain pulls, the wizard will whack the second mob (usually the
> hardest melee hitter, assuming at least one caster in the group) and
> draw him away from the battle, I will then root him, saving me a good
> deal of healing mana. We have never had a death doing this, even when
> we get multiple resists. At higher levels this may not be as viable
> (since the wiz has to take a round or two of beatings), but for now its
> great.

Yup, this is a great enchanter-less method of crowd control.
I'm trying to cajole the people I group with to use it more
instead of relying on my Pixie Strike because of the broken
second resist rate.

For something even more effective, have the cleric take one of
the mobs in the direction it came from out of aggro range.
Then root it, then atone (memblur) it. When the root expires,
that mob will (usually) happily go back to its spawn point.

--
John H. Kim
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