On Mon, 13 Sep 1999, CYR, Thierry wrote:
>
> speaking of fear/chain, i was running to rathe mountains and on my way from
> freeport saw a ranger getting wooped by Dorn... well well well payback time.
> I start pounding away at him with my normal buff songs and he's doing about
> the same damage as i am than he is to me, well to hell with this, i chain
> him down and fear him, so i took off about half his health using fear, this
> tactic is great against cyclops when ya get a druid to snare it, then fear
> it and just pound away. Its sad when a level 14 npc is pounding the hell out
> of a 31th level pc. I just decided to not take any chances with him. And
They did something that increased the effectiveness of lower
level mobs against high level PCs within the last week. I
used to regularly kick Dorn around from mid 20s on, losing at
most two bubbles. He'd usually ding me for 1-2 points with an
occasional 20+ getting through. Now he's hitting regularly
for 20+. Same thing with Kizdean Gix - I used to solo him
just because. The last couple times he's sent me running
unless I use chain/fear. I barely soloed Dragoon Zytl two
weeks ago, but I'm not even going to bother trying now. Gotta
love these unannounced changes. It's funny to read Brad
saying most of the uber-mobs have been removed, when these
guys were recently upgraded.
> upon zoning into Sro afterwards, i saw terrorantula, but was alone and not
> taking any chances against it, since i would have needed to charm a giant
> against it so it was too dangerous for me and my untrusty ISP.
Heh. I have a nice screenshot of Terrorantula calling me
master after I charmed it. I think I'll send it into EQ
Vault. Too bad there wasn't a giant nearby...
--
John H. Kim
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