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Originally Posted by greatdane
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Since OP specifically asked for input about solo-crawling (which presumably means dungeon-crawling), the fact remains that there are so few places inside dungeons where it's safe and practical to fear-kite that missing out on BE is a lot less of a downside. There's a select few places in dungeons where you can pull a mob to some safe area and carefully fear-kite it, but I wouldn't call that dungeon-crawling. If you want to actually move through a dungeon, killing as you go, fear-kiting is virtually impossible except for a tiny selection of places like certain portions of Howling Stones. In almost all places, you'll either train yourself or the mobs will get feared into water and shit like that.
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I found fear kiting to work exceptionally well, especially with slam. I was doing it in HS, hole, KC, etc. It became a lot of fun finding different spots, and once I got in a nice groove I could go for a long period of time without needing a break. I used most of my mana on dooming darkness as in many cases the engulfing snare from the BE click wasn't good enough. But it was really good at like 40% when dooming wore off and I knew the mob was about to stop soon, and also effective for splitting a mobs as engulfing is enough to stop them in their tracks after you FD. You don't specifically need space initially to fear kite either, you can create space by killing a few mobs first and knowing their timer. There is nothing more efficient than fear kiting from a mitigation perspective which is huge for a class like SK which have very limited ways of efficient healing, they don't even get 210 bind wound whereas a pally does(weird). It workedreally great against casters too dropping a fear so they could never land cheal or big nukes whereas even a class like a monk would struggle since push interrupt isn't really viable anymore.
As already mentioned BE isn't necessary, but it's an advantage. And it isn't just limited to fear kiting, as you can use the greaves for a free 3 second FD with no recast time.