Rogues,
They are by far the best friends of all Fear/snare capable classes.
Unfortunatly, most newbies are scared that the rogue's are stealing all thier copper that they cannot see
them for the tanks/damage dealers they are. The Pickpocket skill is so misunderstood it is not even funny.
"Reece, Tom CPT- 25IDL G4" wrote:
> I will never understand why anyone would refuse to add a rogue to a group.
> The only legitimate reason I can think of is if they aleady have enough
> tanks and need a healer or a nuker to balance out the group. I have have
> tremendous success the past few weeks grouping with rogues in Kunark. With
> just me and a rogue we can chain/fear or instill doubt/backstab mobs left
> and right. Most recent example was in the Overthere zone. There was a
> party of four pulling to the FM zone. I was already grouped with a rogue
> and we asked to join the party. They were willing to add me but not the
> rogue. I told them either both of us or none of us. They decided against
> adding us both. We showed them up by using chains/fear/backstab right there
> next to them. We pulled and killed just as many mobs as they did. Since we
> had little downtime, theres a good chance we killed more mobs than they did.
> And since there was just two of us, I think its safe to say we ended up
> getting more EXP than they did. Anytime a group I'm in refuses to add a
> rogue, I'll drop from the group and join him myself.
>
> Galtin of E'ci
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jamie Bedford [mailto:bbedford@...]
> Sent: Monday, June 12, 2000 3:00 PM
> To: eqbards@egroups.com
> Subject: Re: [eqbards] Why didn't I log out sooner?
>
> Would you really rather have not had an entire evening of awesome grouping
> so that you wouldn't lose a little experience? Treasure your lower levels
> while you still can. As my level 48 rogue, I often just sit waiting for a
> group for hours on end (not kidding here, longest I've ever waited was 4
> hours). If I could stay level 48 for the rest of my EQ carreer, but have a
> lot of fun and always be grouped in the process, I would give up exp in a
> heartbeat.
>
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