Someone one the Bard Board posted their experience with taking on the Hermit
too. They were doing exactly what you're proposing, sitting and blasting an
AOE song that the Hermit would spawn into. The were repremanded by a GM
(after the GM killed the Hermit) and told that it was an exploit and not to
repeat the behavior. Personally I don't agree that it's an exploit, but I'm
just informing you that that's what happened to that one guy on that one
server with that one GM. Your mileage may vary.
Jason A. Farqu´┐¢
CDI at
http://www.pigging.com/
----- Original Message -----
From: James Schuldes <jgs@...>
To: <eqbards@onelist.com>
Sent: Monday, August 16, 1999 11:11 AM
Subject: RE: [eqbards] Lullaby and interupting casting.
> From: James Schuldes <jgs@...>
>
> Here is what I found - we were camping Herman the Hermit for the Winds of
> Karana quest. He was a dangerous blue to me - so there was no way I could
> solo him and in fact he did kill me even when I had help. He's a ranger or
> druid - I don't know those classes well enough to say exactly but he would
> spawn and then buff himself with at least 3 buffs in a row - the 3rd one
> being shield of thorns - ouch!
>
> So when my blonde-ness wore off, I thought hmmm, what if I don't wait for
> him to get all nice and thorny before schwacking him? So, we'd heal up then
> while my party - 2 rangers were medding I went over by his bedroom window to
> practice my brass skills - ya, ya I was just practicing - that's it!
>
> Sylly begins to practice her brass...
> a hermit begins to cast a spell...(some kinda self-buff)
> a hermit begins to cast a spell...(another self-buff)
> a hermit winces...(hehe here is where he winces instead of casting thorns)
> a hermit begins to cast a spell...(now he's mad but has forgotten to do the
> rest of his buffs)
> Sylly is struck by a bolt of fire...(ok, doky time to come out and play
> herman!)
>
> So - while this was not exactly interrupting his casting - in that I would
> see only occasional interrupt messages by him - it did significantly affect
> how he would fight us. As soon as he spawned he gets his first spell off
> immediately then when he got attacked by my Denon's - he stopped his buff
> routine and switched to his attack mode.
>
> So the tip is - don't wait for him to spawn (which you know because you see
> his buff casting) before you attack him - lay down a nice AE for him to
> spawn into. Unless you like stabbing yourself with thorns <g>
>
> Sylly Songsynger
> Bard of the 21st song
> Selling Swords and Such
> somewhere on Innoruuk
>
> p.s. Harmonic Distortion gave a concert in BlackBurrow Paw Sunday
> afternoon. It proved to be very popular because _every_single_gnoll_ in the
> whole Burrow (and some of the married ones too!) came up to the top floor
> and gathered around Harmonic to hear his concert. When he was done, a
> certain druid named Estella who was also enjoying the concert, applauded the
> performance with what sounded like the shock of an earthquake! The young
> adventurers in the Burrow were quite happy to loot the 30 or so gnolls who
> died in that blast <eg>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Darrian Ashoka [mailto:dashoka@...]
> Sent: Friday, August 13, 1999 3:25 PM
> To: eqbards@onelist.com
> Subject: [eqbards] Lullaby and interupting casting.
>
> From: Darrian Ashoka <dashoka@...>
>
> Here's my take on the whole issue.
> I'm not sure of this but this is just a couple of
> observations I have made using lullaby extensively.
> (Been using it a lot since I got it at level 15)
> Every song pulses at every tick (6 seconds) as far as
> I can tell. And lullaby/nod is no exception. I think
> every time nod pulses the mob has to make a savings
> check to see if it resists or not. Assume we have a
> spell caster that resisted it, and then it begins
> casting. If the casting does not take more than 6
> seconds, there is no chance that nod will be able to
> interupt it. Since NPC casters do not suffer the same
> casting time limitations as PC casters do, most are
> able to get a spell off before the next pulse of nod
> and hence can cast without being interupted. However,
> sometimes when the mob resist nod, it attacks first and
> then cast. When this happens, the attack and the casting
> might not be complete within 6 seconds so when nod pulses
> again and the mob fails the savings, then it is nodded
> and it's casting is interupted. This is what I seem to
> observe a lot. YMMV.
>
>
>
>
> Darrian Ashoka
>
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