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Originally Posted by kevoh
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Tigers, Raptors, Sarnaks, Faster than SOW
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Sarnak probably sowed as noted by others.
Can add some old-world mobs too that are now same speed as JBoots (have to strafe with JBoots to stay ahead of 'em). Only tested these in SK & EK, and did not test every mob of a given model:
Centaurs, Griffs (assume Grimfeather is still at his ~ L30ish SoW speed, did not commit suicide with my alt to check), & Wolves. Did not test bears and cats as all were green and I was trying to level the alt.
The centaur speed might be :classic:, I honestly cannot recall (never killed 'em much.)
On live, old-world griffs other than Grimfeather definitely could be outrun by strafing, or just running with well timed jumps, without a runspeed buff. I would have sufferred many additional deaths on several characters if they were as fast then as they are here, I never had JBoots on any live toon until after PoP released.
The same is true of wolves (and bears and cats), I successfully made a lot of desperate long runs to various zonelines without benefit of a runspeed buff back on live. In the original game I did this using well-timed jumps to get a little extra distance, since mobs in pursuit mode were slightly faster than PC runspeed.
I learned about strafe-running after Kunark released when some guy showed it to me while I was soloing (with a warrior, lol) in LoIO. Strafe running was quite adequate to flee non-sowed mobs there/then (i.e. including the grimalkins/tigers).