On Fri, Sep 17/99, Miriana Windryder <miriana@...> wrote:

>
> Since there was alot of discussion over the cleric's divine aura
> spell, I've decided to throw my 2 cents in.
>
> I've tried to use Divine Aura as a method to tank a creature, the
> problem is that once you successfully cast it, you are moved to the
> bottom of the creature's agression list.

Ah. This makes sense. Actually a clever bit of programming to.

>.. In lower guk, for example, bards I've grouped with can't
> afford to be singing celerity, chant of battle, and melee because
> that causes so much anger that they die very quickly. Alot of mana is
> wasted healing them, so I usually ask the bard to drop chant of battle
> and sing mana instead (or one of the psalms for the damage shield),
> which seems to make it just a tiny bit easier for the tanking classes
> to keep it from turning on the bards.

In my time in lower guk I usually found that this wasn't the case after
the cleric cast the first big heal on someone. At that point they seemed
to move to the the top of the the unattached mobs hate list and stay
there no matter what I tried to do. The only people that seemed to be
able to get mobs off the cleric in groups I was in were Warriors with
good taunting technique, and rogues, with backstab.

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