On Thu, 13 Apr 2000 John_Senior@... wrote:

>
> I kicked on the jboots and lev song and slowly dragged the dino way out
> into the ocean, back to the seafury island. Here I used him to slay Gornit,
> who had a fine steel war hammer. I gave this too him and OMFG that was one
> big hammer. But it made me realize that he could now dual wield. So I
> dropped Dixl and gave him a rusty rapier. I now had a level 50 pet hitting
> for quad 137. I told him to attack a seafury, he killed it in under 40
> seconds. I killed a few more, incredible exp. Literally killing a seafury
> every minute. Only taking a break every few clops to run around twisting
> [...]
> I kept this up for about an hour, making nearly a bub of exp. I think went
> LD and lost half of it! Oops. Serves me right I suppose, these kind of
> tactics are exactly the reason our charm song was capped at level 37 to
> begin with and it most likely is not in my best interest to be exploiting
> them. Err.. what am I saying. This tactic OWNS! Enjoy it while it lasts, I

The thing is, I can get close to a bubble of exp an hour
killing the seafuries with just 1 or 2 other people. Your
kill rate there with a bard in the party should be non-stop.
I (puller) reguarly make my monk friend run out of stamina
when we're fighting there.

Also keep in mind that this song was put in with the expansion
in mind. Charming a L50 mob post-Kunark should be regarded as
no different from charming a L35-40 mob now. Yeah if you
charm a hill giant in Rathe, let it dual wield, and make it
kill giant skeletons and cyclopses it rules, but does anyone
care?

--
John H. Kim
kim@...