On Mon, 25 Oct 1999, John Robertson wrote:

>
> My group has been hunting here quite a bit, and it IS a
> very nice place to hunt. Lots of things to charm, lots of
> space to run. There are three big things to worry about
> though, from my experience:
>
> - The pathing and warping in the zone is VERY bad.
> You'll be fighting a giant and suddenly it's just GONE.

Yeah. I tend not to use Chain/fear in there unless I have
to.

> Sometimes it warps just a short distance, which is no big
> deal, he'll come running after you quickly enough. The
> real danger is when they warp a long distance away, and
> then never come back. Never, that is, until you happen to
> walk near him later, and he comes running with his 4 giant
> friends and the little cyclops who wants to be part of the
> group.

In the area we were fighting (near the entrance pass with the
stone) there seems to be one spot where the warp to - a good
deal further South near the lizard camp. Once I figured this
out, it was pretty easy to go and retrieve the giants that did
warp away. There's also a pathing bug near the pass. Unless
you pull a giant across a ridge there against the wall, it
will head for this warp spot.

On the up side, this meant if we got in trouble in a fight,
fear would be much more effective. :-)

> - Sometimes there's too MANY hill giants. When you're in
> a group, one hill giant is tasty, two makes them see how
> powerful you are as a bard. Three means run to the zone.
> Four means run to the zone and try and take a screen cap.
> :)

The group I was with could handle a hill giant without me. If
we got three, I'd tell them to take one, then I'd pull the
other two aside to let them get better aquainted. :-) We
never got four. There were several groups there fighting
(though I suspect we were doing the most killing since with
charm you have zero downtime). We pulled a couple giants off
them if they got too much, so I think they would've done the
same if we got four.

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John H. Kim
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