This is great news Kitasi. You've come a long way from your depression in
Unrest! :)
Congratulations!
When you charm kill stuff, if you haven't already figured this out, one
great tactic is to charm mob A onto mob B and let them duke it out. When
they're getting low on health pick which one's going to win and make sure
you have it charmed at the end (sometimes you guess wrong, them's the breaks
:). Then, let charm break and have your winning pet chase you around while
you look for the next mob to use as a pet. Find a fresh mob, charm it onto
your near-dead pet. Old pet dies pretty quickly and gives you experience.
Let the new mob chase you around til you find something else to engage, etc.
I have fought streams of Hill Giants like this in Lake Rathe for around an
hour or so before I ran out of viable fresh victims. Then simply Chain/Fear
that last pet down for his experience too. It's great. You can do this
without taking any damage at all if you're careful. This was a bit dicier
in the "old days" before the "has broken your charm spell" messages.
Oh, another tip you may already know. When looting the loser, lead your pet
a hundred yards away while charmed, give it "/pet guard here" and then
Selo's over and pick up your loot. Even if charm breaks while you're
looting you'll have a few seconds before he gets to you.
My charming button bank looks like this:
[Selo's ] [Charm ]
[Pet Attack] [Pet Guard Here]
[Fear ] [Chains ]
Unfortunately the 39th charm spell uses mana... you can't really use this
tactic at my level. Charm is now mostly reserved for handling a pull of say
3 or 4 when you have no enchanter in your group. I can charm one, put it
onto an unengaged one and basically tie up two mobs.
Now, next time you're passing through the Karanas and Solo Froon and Choon.
It's fun and EASY. :)
[51 Minstrel] Crier (Half Elf) <Seekers of Norrath> ZONE: work
> Well as hoped I reached my 26th song last Thursday evening and quickly
> scribed it. I was in a group at the time so didn't get to try out the
> Fear/Chains tricks that evening. However we got hit by a huge train by an
> ogre running out of the goblin mines and everyone was sure we
> were going to
> die. The Zone call was made, so I strummed up Screech and crossed my
> fingers. Every single goblin fled. The party seeing this decided to try
> and pick them off as they came back. With our druid and ranger
> snaring them
> and me playing Denon's, Hymn, and Screech, we were able to kill off a 14
> goblin train 2 at a time. It was glorious!
>
> On Friday nite I got a chance to try it out soloing while I
> waited for other
> guild members to show up. All the tricks I was given worked excellently!
> Kudos to all those who gave pointers. Using Chains and Screech was
> ridiculously effective. If I accidentally got extra mobs it
> never mattered,
> they just ran away every time I feared and along the same path as
> the mob I
> was Chaining, so it was like keeping a steady stream of victims 'on the
> leash'.
>
> I was emboldened by my success and decided to try a different theme on the
> whole Screech tactic. An all instrument Screech version. Try this if you
> dare! I ran into the middle of the haunted tower in the Lake of Ill Omen,
> you know the one with the Icebone, Charbone, and Warbone
> skeletons. I then
> fired up Denon's with my horn nailing all five skeletons (All blue to me).
> I then twisted in Fear and Hymn switching to Mandolin for Hymn. From the
> comments of the 5 or 6 passerby it must have been quite hilarious. The
> Screech would send the skeletons (mostly DoT'd) running from the tower. I
> would heal with Hymn. They would run back in, get a dose of Denon's, a
> quick Screech, and then run back out. After several minutes of this they
> all lay dead around me and I never lost more than a bubble of health to
> resisters or when pulsing Denon's. I still can't believe I was
> able to solo
> 5 blues that in melee would each do 3-4 bubs to me.
>
> Needless to say the tactics were a huge success, thanks all
> again! I'm very
> glad I was in an optimistic mood on Friday and downloaded the
> Solon's tricks
> from Rokenn's Song Analysis site. I made 27th on Saturday nite and by
> Sunday evening I had practiced on newbie mobs and was happily soloing duos
> and trios of white/blues using Sirens. I can't wait to get back to it.
>
> I learned a couple of important things about Siren's in Lake of Ill Omen.
> Do not try to charm the renegade Iksar. I could not even charm Iksar
> bandits (probably about 15 levels below me). I got 10 resists in a row on
> an Iksar bandit and gave up. I had previously tried an Iksar brigand and
> gotten 10 resists in a row on that mob as well. Sabertooths seem quite
> susceptible to charm. A sabertooth grimalkin is quite capable of
> killing 3
> blues before you need a new pet and seldom resisted my Sirens
> attempts even
> with battle gear on (93 cha). Warbones skels, although easier to
> melee solo
> than Iksar Exiles, can strangely beat those same Exiles when used
> as a pet.
> My blue Sabertooth Grimalkin pet was even able to beat a white/black Iksar
> Exile and only lost about half its health. Those Grimalkins hit hard!
>
> Thanks for all the suggestions!
>
> Kitasi