Project 1999 - Low-hp kiting gone

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Damn. There goes a hilarious way to use LoH.

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Originally Posted by Swish (Post 1281819)

If it were up to me I'd add some code that gives outdoor mobs scale of wolf speed if they're not dead within 2 minutes of being engaged, and standard flee speed if they do drop below 20%.

Go on now bards, get with the program and level like everyone else :p

Someone once suggested a mob in a kite pack spontaneously getting the summon ability if more than 20 were pulled and unable to melee for more than X time. I can imagine the reactions here.

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Originally Posted by zanderklocke (Post 1281776)

Did not have to zone in Dreadlands except for Ravishing Drolvargs. Did not have to zone in Frontier Mountains, and I'm pretty sure one did not need to zone to clear aggro in Emerald Jungle either. Only commonly kited zones people had to zone out of to clear aggro were Burning Wood and Skyfire.

Still, I'm not sure having the damage dealer camp out or zone out to clear aggro really entails "much" risk.

I think this change to the server is a step forward. I very well remember bards AE kiting in classic, but I don't remember people low-hp trivializing content. Maybe it did exist in classic, but it certainly wasn't wide spread like it was here.

You have to zone agro in EJ or get owned. Can't comment on DL or FM though.

Personally, not that I low HP much, but I don't get why this was changed. As people said, it really won't change much, so I don't understand the point. Spamming rune is actually going to make it go faster now as people won't zone/camp out. Too many bard haters I guess.

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Originally Posted by nilbog (Post 1281816)

More classic than it was. As stated before, low hp aggro didn't provide permanent highest hate if there were other group members damaging the mob.

I put a substantial amount of research leading up to this change including videos you can find on youtube.

Did you find info on bard song agro, after song agro was nerfed due to raid issues, compared to low hp agro values? I would like to see that.

Also, why don't mobs of the same faction assist on a pet here? It makes charm kiting annoying and slow.

I find the server a bit laggy for solo AE kiting, with low hp kiting gone (which I understand), and slow charm kiting, this makes bards kind of terrible soloers for xp. That sure isn't classic. :(

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Originally Posted by Swish (Post 1281626)

teija just said he wants item links removed, the old classic UI installed asap, a classic timeline, no EC forum on the forums, people playing on 56k modems at the most, CRT monitors, Windows 98 platform...etc etc.

Right teija? :p

I want this.

As long as we're doing healing and aggro, how about we look at group healing--especially word of restoration? I can pull off a full mallet with one WoR.

Good, the real "skill" was tight-circle-swarming. And its not even that hard..

Its how I leveled, I SAY BACK IN MY DAY!! :mad:

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Originally Posted by Calibix (Post 1282154)

I recall using the rune song in exp groups on live without pulling aggro. It may not have increased aggro if it was just reapplying to an already ruined target.

Regardless, aggro kiting the the whole zone for exp is a game mechanic better suited for King Mortenson's Raid Addicts server that for people trying to recreate a classic experience on p1999.

This changes nothing. Low hp Kiting was lame anyways.
Although it will be much harder to power lvl melee now which kind of sucks.
When there's a will there's a way however.

Dolic