On Thu, Sep 09/99, kim@... wrote:

> From: <kim@...>
>
> On Thu, 9 Sep 1999, Garramone, Michael (CCI-Las Vegas) wrote:
> >
> > as jhenders said before, if you get a pull of multiple mobs that would make
> > your AE damage songs effective, you are pretty much toast and will have to
> > get out of dodge anyway. multiple pulls of high level mobs means everyone
> > better concentrate on getting the same mob, one at a time, especially if an
> > enchanter is messing the others.
>
> I'll also add that when you get to around 30, the difference
> in tanking ability between you and the other melee classes is
> obvious. Not only do they have a couple hundred more hp, but
> their parries, blocks, and ripostes really cut down on the
> damage they take. When fighting in Cazic, the lizards that
> take 20-30 seconds to drop my melee friends by one bubble
> usually do the same to me in just two or three hits. You do
> *not* want to be playing an area effect damage song that will
> make you the primary recipient of damage from all the mobs the
> group currently isn't fighting. If at all possible, let the
> real tanks do the tanking. The only time I try to take damage
> anymore is if it's a tough fight (to ease the damage the
> others are taking), I'm the closest thing in the group to a
> tank, or if I'm trying to get a mob off a caster.

We should mention however that like everything else in the game, these
aren't rules written in stone. You have to judge the situation. I
remember having some success with DDD and lullaby in Cazic, and even
played lullaby in Lower Guk once when we got mobbed by the remains of
someone else's train in the undead tower. Chain and fear can work
amazingly well in Cazic as well.

The only hard and fast rule I've ever really used is _never_ play the
fear song in Lower Guk, and there's probably some bard who has chained
and feared down there so even that's probably flexible. I've tried all
kinds of stuff I normally wouldn't try, usually to try to get a mob (or
mobs) off the cleric since the charm song stopped working on mobs over
L38, as I sometimes seem to be the only one who can be spared from
beating on the primary target in a tough fight, or if there's no warrior
in the group, the hybrid's weak taunting skills become a liability.

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