Hmm, I was buffed and in charisma gear for charming so my charisma was about
190 or so. Bet that would help the Lament resist rates :).
BTW, I only got one resist on my charm the entire break in... Not bad :)
----- Original Message -----
From: Reeves, Patrick W <pwr3@...>
To: <eqbards@egroups.com>
Sent: Monday, April 17, 2000 10:08 AM
Subject: RE: [eqbards] Lame List of New Spells
> The last efreeti raid I went on was at 48th lvl. At that time I decided
to
> test lament to see how well it would stick. So I memed it and tossed it
> into my battle weave. at 48 with an unbuffed cha of about 115 I was
getting
> resisted about 40% of the time. I am itching to try it now on a single
> party break in to Efreeti :)
>
> Rokenn
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Jeff Illian [mailto:jeff@...]
> > Sent: Monday, April 17, 2000 7:57 AM
> > To: eqbards@egroups.com
> > Subject: Re: [eqbards] Lame List of New Spells
> >
> >
> > > Much as I've enjoyed using it, I can attest to it's power,
> > and perhaps
> > > overpower. In Hate this weekend, my job became crowd
> > control. Whenever
> > > two things came in on a pull, I would charm the second,
> > command it to /pet
> > > guard here (sit down always made them wander off), run a
> > ways away, and
> > > reassert charm till it broke and retook. Working in concert with an
> > > enchanter casting tashania, I could charm anything that came in save
> > > clerics (never tried) and spites.
> >
> > I finally feel like my old level 30 self again. This weekend I led an
> > Efreeti run. On the third pull someone wandered off a little
> > too far and
> > agroed 2 Lava Guardians and 3 Imps right after we had
> > finished off an imp.
> > Our enchanter went OOM after the first of the 3 remaining
> > Imps fell leaving
> > me to crowd control alone. Using Charm on one of the imps, I
> > was able to
> > keep both imps busy while we were able to finish off the lava
> > elementals and
> > then the imps with no further casualties :). From that point
> > forward, the
> > enchanter and I had it worked out so that I would charm the
> > extra incoming
> > in each pull and keep them busy while he mezzed singles. I
> > would then tell
> > him when the charm broke so he could start mezzing my pet.
> > This had the
> > nice effect of keeping the imp pounding on me instead of the
> > enchanter until
> > he could get the mez to stick as well as giving us an extra
> > hand in battle.
> > We repeated the process every time mez broke as well with
> > great success.
> > The enchanter barely took damage the rest of the break in and
> > used a lot
> > less mana.
> >
> > I was EXTREMELY tempted to attempt pulling for this raid...
> > I really wanted
> > to try out a combination of Lament and charm to pull on these
> > to see if I
> > could really control the pulling better then the monk. In
> > the end I went
> > with traditional break in techniques but I'm not so sure the
> > traditional
> > break in is the best way to go anymore. Have any of you
> > tried Lament on the
> > Imp or Lava guardians or been the puller for the Efreeti
> > raid? If Lament
> > would work, I really think that a single well balanced party
> > of 6 might be
> > able to handle the break in alone.... :) If none of you have
> > tried it, I
> > think I might go for it next weekend...
> >
> > BTW, 2 Efreeti in the first 3 spawns and then we were shut
> > out with only
> > place holders for the next 10 hours...
> >
> > Taneran Dreamweaver
> > <Clan Jax>
> > Bard of the 48th song
> > Prexus
> >
> >
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