On Fri, 3 Sep 1999, Christine wrote:

>
> >This is why I almost always have charm memorized - it is great
> >for pulling off mobs that have frenzied. Just be sure the guy
> >low on health is getting healed while the mob is charmed
> >(instead of standing around wondering why the mob stopped
> >attacking, and then deciding to take advantage of the pause by
> >trying to hit it with a few spells to finish it off).
> >Otherwise when the mob becomes uncharmed, it'll look around,
> >see this almost-dead guy, and decide to off him first.
>
> Really? I thought they pretty much always attacked their charmer. But
> perhaps the smell of a kill might frenzy them more.

Yup. I would say it *is* impossible to pull a mob off someone
who's almost dead. I was fighting in Cazic and we'd beaten a
lizard to about 1/4 life. Suddenly it turned around, ran to
another group fighting, hit one of them once killing him, then
ran back to continue its fight with us. Apparently it saw the
guy was almost dead and that overrode all hatred it had for
us even though the guy had never done anything to it, so it
ran over and killed him.

> I've seen an enchanter charm a werebat. and then the enchanter left him at
> that spot and ran away. And we all stood around the werebat targeting it for
> when it woke up... and when it did we all attacked it instantly. And WHILE
> we were plummeling it, it RAN around like crazy until it fount that
> enchanter, and proceeded to lay the smack down on him. (Of course, being a
> good enchanter he just stood there twiddling his thumbs, and very soon we
> got the bat off him :)

A smart enchanter would've hit it with mesmerize or memory
blur. :-)

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John H. Kim
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