From what I understand the greatest difference between a fear/root and
fear/chain(snare) is the fact that a mob when rooted to the ground will
begin to attack if you are in melee range. When chained/snared the
creature will still attempt to run even if it's movement velocity is zero.
This makes fear/root a whole lot less useful for safe kiting of creatures
Treilanin Loreweaver
Bard of Kelethin
Honour Guard
On Mon, 13 Sep 1999, Kimes, Dean W. wrote:
> From: "Kimes, Dean W." <Dean_Kimes@...>
>
> Ok I am confused, how is this any different from Fear/Root?
>
>
> From: Mike Roach <mroach@...>
>
> I personally believe that chain/fear is a valid tactic, why not?
>
> I do not have the occasion to use this combo often as I mostly adventure in
> groups but it did save my hide once in Unrest vs. a con Yellow barbed bone
> caster and even though I would not have known to try it if I had not learned
> it from this list, I was still amazed and ran around telling all my friends
> that I solo'd a barbed for days to come. I had never solo'd a con Yellow
> mob in all my levels before that and was I think 24th or 25th at the time.
>
> Maybe we need to hush up about this one before it gets nerfed like the other
> overused kiting thingy - someone is going to get upset and take this edge
> away from us.
>
> Faras "the drunken bard" Tar'Linedhel
> E'ci (26th for 3rd week now, but I can brew a mean load of Fish Wine)
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: CYR, Thierry [mailto:tcyr@...]
> > Sent: Monday, September 13, 1999 11:50 AM
> > To: 'eqbards@onelist.com'
> > Subject: [eqbards] re: Fear/Chain, is not cheesy
> >
> >
> > From: "CYR, Thierry" <tcyr@...>
> >
> > 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
> > 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.
> >
> > Nothing kills me more then my connectivity.
> >
> > Minkin
> > Sol ro
> > Bard of the 31st level
> >
>
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