On Tue, 3 Aug 1999, Kimes, Dean W. wrote:

>
> What level are people who have trouble with casters? I have not had any
> trouble with casting bandits, necros in Befallen, orc casters in Kithicor
> etc. Even the ones that con yellow to me are possibly beatable. On the
> other hand I have a difficult time with the tank variety of monsters. This
> seems totally contrary to what other bards are experiencing so I wonder what
> the big difference is? I am currently level 15 and have dealt well with
> casters since about level 10.

I noticed something similar when I was playing my druid at
about level 8. I was grouped with a level 10 bard and with me
tossing a couple heals his way, he could easily defeat a red
orc oracle. At low levels the casting mobs don't have many hp
and are pretty easy to kill before they can do much damage.

This changes at higher levels. Drastically. The casting
bandits you've run into are the tip of the iceberg. If you
run into one I'd imagine they're not much of a problem. You
know that if you run into two, you can die pretty quick,
right?

From about 15-20, casting desert madmen can drop you 3-4
bubbles in just two spells, even the green ones. The goblin
evokers in Permafrost like to cast area effect spells that
usually wiped out about a bubble from each party member. And
last night in Cazic, a yellow judicator was casting wrath on
me that was wiping out about a bubble and a quarter, even
though I had both bravery and symbol (nearly +200 hp in
buffs). If I were soloing him, it would take a good 2-3
minutes to whittle him down. Meanwhile he's casting wrath on
me every 5-10 seconds. A couple days prior, I screwed up on a
pull and got two justicars, and they killed me with 4 spells.
I barely had time to tell the others to zone and kick in
Accelerando.

--
John H. Kim
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