I had just posted the following fairly recently. Gives you a decent idea of
where to go for solo charming. I'm the last person to give advice about
equipment, so I'll leave it to those people.
Windleaf Mistsong, dinged 51! :-)
>Hi all,
>
>Just to help alleviate the fears of any young bards that "charm kiting" is
>dead or too difficult, I just wanted to say that I think it's still alive
>and well. I'm a very experienced charm-kiter and have gotten to level 50
>(yay!) primarily as a solo kiting bard due to my real life commitments, but
>as I've mentioned previously, with some practice anyone can get good at
>this.
>
>I've recently been emptying the giant fort in the Eastern Wastes with a mix
>of charm kiting and chant kiting whenever I pass by. Anyway, it's just the
>same ol, same ol. Charm one and restart selo's, press my "target nearest
>npc" key, press my "/pet attack" social, retarget my pet and wait for charm
>to break. Once it does break, I repeat the process over and over and over.
>Yea, kind of boring, but if you only have about 90 mins at a time to play,
>it's a decent way to get exp and some money.
>
>The only thing the "nerf" really affects would be when you have a large
>group of creatures that you're kiting. I did run into some trouble when I
>accidentally aggro'd an entire hut plus a giant captain (4 creatures). I
>ended up dying (but I can blame that on my buddy kept distracting me asking
>me questions over my shoulder). Pre-nerf, it was much easier since the mobs
>would instantly turn on my pet. Having to try to reissue the pet attack
>command with this many mobs is much more dangerous now and allows for a
>very small margin for error.
>
>Some recommendations for what makes for a good charm kiting area:
>
>1) A nice quiet area where few mobs travel through
>2) A busy area nearby to get your intended victims
>3) Few trees
>4) Nice flat plains-like area
>
>I've got my "change views" key setup as my "+" key on my keypad. I use my
>keypad for movement, so this is very convenient for me. After I target my
>"pet" and send him to attack my victim, I press my "+" key 3 times. This
>gets me to the last external view before the first person perspective, so
>that I only have to press the key once to get back to this view.
>
>Some places that I had very good experience charm kiting:
>Rathe Mountains -- Great place for any high 20's to 30's bard. Can start
>with cyclopses and work your way up to hill giants. Just zone if you get
>too many (make sure you have a hot key warning people which zone you're
>pulling them to). Drawbacks: can be very crowded with players and you can
>end up going through hill giants so fast you clear the zone. Doesn't make
>you very popular.
>
>Karanas -- In your 30's, Froon and Choon were good for charm kiting and I
>think still are. The various griffenne's are lower, but they were helpful
>to kill stuff with. Mid 30's you can start using griffons and hill giants
>to clear things. Mid 40 I used grimfeather to kill stuff with (definitely
>keep your speed up against him) :-)
>
>Dreadlands -- In your 40's this is a decent place to fight. I had good
>experience charming primarily giants. But also found yeti's, spiders and
>drolvarg's to be charmable. The key to this place is finding a relatively
>quiet area. I had a couple of places I liked to use. 1 was just to the
>south of the tunnel that leads to the druid/wizzie ports. Another was just
>to the East of the same tunnel where there's a little shack that leads to
>the yeti caves, a nice little plains area with lots of things walking
>nearby. Lastly, I started pulling from the giant fort nearby. It usually
>not camped and is nice to get away from all the hubbub of the Frontier Mtns.
>
>Lake of Ill Omen -- Mid 40's to 50. Here's my secret fishing hole. Well
>it's not all that secret, but it's some of the best kiting exp I've gotten
>and it's helped take me from my 40's to 50. When I was around 42 I had
>charm kited a pair of them and got an entire blue bubble of exp with each
>kill. They are in the bottom of the lake, and are usually in pairs. I've
>had a fishbone earring at the time (singing steel gauntlets now) and with
>my tambourine I could easily outswim the gobbies. I'd chant 1, and usually
>2 would come (chase view helps here). As I'd pull them to the shore I'd
>continue hammering the one I pulled with 2 chants. When we got to shore, he
>was usually down about 1/4 of a bubble. I'd charm him and have him fight
>his buddy. When he was low in life, I'd charm his buddy to kill him. Then
>I'd fear-kite or chant-kite the other to death. Fear kiting was good to use
>as it help keep up my combat skills. However, they can hit pretty hard so
>be wary. BTW, I had one blue bubble to go to get to 50. I killed 4 of these
>and dinged. The bloodgills have become more camped as time has gone on.
>Obviously the word is out about them, but for us bards, it's one of the
>easiest things to fight for us. Having enduring breath from a fishbone
>earring was extremely helpful since I could just track down the goblin that
>I wanted and pull.
>
>Anyway, now that I've told you all about some of the places I hang out at,
>I hope to see you around. Not sure how much further past 50 I'll go since
>kiting doesn't sound all that attractive with mobs summoning. But you can
>be assured that I'll be giving it a try. :-)
At 08:18 PM 6/4/01 -0400, TommyC wrote:
>Hiya all,
>I the past I have received excellent advise from this list so I turn to you
>again...
>I quit playing my bard at level 30 ( this was about 6 months ago) stripped
>him of all items and started a Mage the mage is now level 46 and I would now
>like to stat playing him again, I have a few items for him but mostly need
>to buy/camp new gear...I'm all set for weapons and instruments. I need
>armor/jewelry suggestions that a 46th mage could acquire with out much help.
>I have about 1k saved up. On the bard I have a troll belt(+5 STR), Star ruby
>Face(+5 DEX/CHA), Dark Elf Hide Gloves(I forget stats). Also he is a 1/2 elf
>with a starting STR of 90 and CHA of 85 I know I messed up but it was my
>first toon<shrug>.
>On a side note any suggestions of where to solo are welcome I know the good
>group spots but am a bit out of shape soloing with out a pet :-)
>Any help you can give I'd be most thankful for.
>
>Pinen 30th bard
>Maxius 46th mage
>
>
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