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Message ID: 23195
Date: Tue Jan 16 21:34:20 GMT 2001
Author: Jeffrey Sue
Subject: RE: Play the damn mana song (was: RE: [eqbards] Proposal to chang e how ...)


At 10:56 AM 1/16/01 -1000, you wrote:
>There are numerous locations in the game where, due to pathing AI, fear
>kiting is a completely safe tactic. A good example is by the giant fort in
>Burning Woods. If you pull a giant to either side of the ramp, snare it and
>then start fearing it, it will just run back and forth while everyone whoops
>up on it. Now if fear breaks then the giant will of course start attacking
>you. I have never fear kited in the Overthere location referenced earlier
>but if the mob still attacks you when fear breaks or is resisted, then why
>would using fear kiting in this location be considered an exploit when it
>isn't in other locations?
>
>Galtin of E'ci

the exploit part is when you can get something ''stuck'' on a feature of the landscape
like a rock or a corner or something like that so that you don't have to worry about
adds. if the giant is actually getting stuck on the ramp, i'd say that would
be an exploit too.