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out of era ranger post
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Postby Xodar » Sat Apr 12, 2008 1:07 pm
muvandog1 wrote:
Make sure you understand how aggro transfers from NPC to NPC. It is probably the most helpful thing when pulling indoors.
If you have NPCs:
A B C
Lined up something like that, you always should pull (or root) A or C, but never B. Do you understand why?
It's because aggro will only transfer "1 level". If you aggro C, any NPCs near C, and any NPCs that C passes as it runs around, will aggro as well. Those are the "1st level transfer" NPCs. If those NPCs in turn run by other, un-aggroed NPCs, they will NOT aggro anything.
So in the above example, if you pull B, you will always get A and C aggro. If you pull A or C, depending on pathing, you may get lucky and only have B aggro.
The single greatest piece of knowledge for pulling indoors. Direct agro on a mob (ala I just cast snare or shot an arrow) can be passed to any mob it comes in range of.
Assist agro on a mob can not be passed.
This means that if a mob that is assist agroed by your tag runs back into a hallway or room full, they don't spread agro.
Best example I can give of this....
If one is max chardok faction, and is near the royals, just walking around waving at your allys.....
The King is in a small depression with another mob. If you root that mob he passes assist agro to the king, who you can then pull to the hallway, or even back to the library, add free and kill at your leisure. As soon as root breaks though, and that single mob comes out of the depression, it passes it's agro to the room full.
Sneak pulling was a combination of proximity pulling while using the fact that mobs facing the other way won't agro a sneaked person. I can't really remember actually using it since LGuk.
Once you have ae root you can do almost anything. A combination of chromo snare, chromo root, and aa snare that casts while gems are gray is a pretty potent toolset though.
Then there's plan C, one of my best friends in the game is a mage. She and I have been playing together for years. There is NOTHING that a well AA'ed 80 ranger and a mage cannot pull. Hell, in SoF since anything with loot is snare immune we've swapped to the ae root everything and get the fast one single.
Mostly you'll use an amalgam of everything though. With our toolset you'll start mentally tracking static spawns and pathers, and find yourself with a pretty good guage of agro ranges and mob pathing actions. In guild groups I almost never bother to pull singles anyway, our root CC is more than adequate.
Typed a little more than I intended to, lol, but in essence, the same way you get to Carnegie Hall... Practice
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