[ineubis]

I bought these initially along with the boots envisioning mana-free fear kiting, only to find out quickly, that was a pipe dream. I banked them both until recently, I figured I would try using only the gloves for clicky Engulfing Darkness.

I would mem Engulfing Darkness instead of Dooming that I normally have loaded so I could recast faster, if-needed.

Using exclusively Engulfing Darkness was effective, and mana-free, but the fights took much longer. The mob moves 20% faster, so you need to chase him around more. The spell lasts 30 seconds shorter and casting time is 5 seconds, so you basically have 55 seconds of darkness time per click. Lastly the dmg is reduced to 11 per tick instead of 20.

I didn't know if this was making my life easier or not at this point. I went back and loaded Dooming Darkness and figured I would try using them together. I found this method to be the most effective.

Here is what I have been doing with these gloves for the last 40ish hours of fear kiting...

I always pull with a click of the gloves, mob runs at you, or if you need to split the snare will last until the other mob(s) have left. Cast your few DoTs/debuffs (150 for Boil Blood, 40 for Shadow Vortex) then Fear (100 mana), then lastly once the mob has been completely "primed" then cast Dooming Darkness (120 mana).

The mob is stacked with your dots/debuffs, you and the pet are beating on it, and you've got a fresh Dooming Darkness on it that lasts for 1:30.... which will pretty much be the majority of the length of the fight. You just need to cast one more Fear (100 mana) in about 20 seconds and you will not need to cast any more spells for the rest of the fight.

When your Darkness is just about to wear off, time it right to apply a click of Engulfing Darkness just as it fades and the mob starts to run. It will take some practice but I can almost get it perfectly 9/10 times now.

You might be saying, "Hey? Don't BE gloves have just ok AC, and no stats?". This is true, so I even was swapping out gloves mid-fight for gloves with better AC +stats, but lately I have gotten lazy and just leave the BE gloves on all the time now.

So there you have it. According to the math, this method uses only 1 cast of Dooming Darkness as opposed to two (possibly three if you used Dooming to pull a mob that needs to be split and spent a good portion of it FD'd). This is otherwise the same end result for the fear kite.

This is my strat for blue mobs... anything light blue or lower (something I can drop quickly) I don't even cast the Dooming on, I just click the gloves and beat it down.

Just wanted to share.