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Message ID: 24023
Date: Mon Feb 26 23:24:18 GMT 2001
Author: Jeffrey Sue
Subject: Re: [eqbards] Bards and Pulling


oh, one other thing i forgot, it seems (no i haven't verified this) that if you use lament
at max range, you get "critical failure" (the mobs all aggroing you) less.



At 05:52 PM 2/26/01 -0500, you wrote:
>Yeah, you had a bad roll there. That scared me off Lament for quite awhile myself. For that reason,
>Lament isn't especially useful when trying to break an area that you can't handle if things go wrong,
>unless you're willing to eat a death. It is VERY useful trying to break an area that would be really
>difficult and mana-exhaustive but doable. Chef in Sebilis is an example. There are five MOBs there.
>With mez, a solid group can handle all five at once. It isn't pretty, it takes a long time to recover
>afterwards, and it doesn't break the room up very well for later respawns, but it can be done. It's much
>better if you can take the room apart in pieces, though - one, two or three at a time. Which Lament lets
>you do. Basically, it lets you get smaller pulls a large part of the time, which helps a lot with
>downtime and mana management.
>
>Kenross Cantoforjado, 57 songs, Innoruuk
>
>
>
>Christopher Sanders wrote:
>
> > Outdoor pulling is no problem, when grabbing wandering mobs, but correct me
> > if I'm wrong, but we are *not* dungeon pullers, correct? As in, pulling one
> > mob out of many.
> >
> > I refuse to pull in Dalnir's now. Last time I tried, the first lull on the
> > first mob was resisted...and it took the long way around to get me. So many
> > casters, I was dead faster than I could warn the group. With that less than
> > stellar record, even contemplating trying to lull 2 or 3 before pulling 1 is
> > less than appealing.
> >
> > I don't think I'm missing anything, but just wanted to check here, and make
> > sure. :)
> >
> > Atonal
> >
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