Wizard Quad Kiting Guide?

[thieros]

Level 12 - Jboots / Temp Flux / 200int

how soon can i start quad kiting? My guess is i could have started at 8 with column of frost. Do we use spiral line at all or stick to column/pillar? if so, why?

Level 8
Column of Frost Area Effect Cold Based Direct Damage (Max: 31 per mob)

Level 12
Frost Spiral of Al'Kabor Area Effect Cold Based Direct Damage (Max: 44)

Level 16
Pillar of Fire Targeted Area effect fire based direct damage spell. (Max: 76)

Level 20
Fire Spiral of Al'Kabor Area Effect Fire Based Direct Damage (Max: 76)

[Raavak]

Do a thread search, this has been much discussed. But in short, use columns/pillars as they are the most mana efficient. You can start at level 8. It gets way easy once you get snare at 29.

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[thieros]

search only turned up two threads. i was shocked. tried a few permutations of quad kiting/wizard/etc. to no avail! (by forum searching skills must be poor) thank you for posting that sir!

[Raavak]

That quadding efficiency assumes 4 targets too. Sometimes you can't get 4 so it goes down of course.

[Velerin]

If the spell says Al'Kabor in it don't even bother to mem it.

[thieros]

oh wow, yeah, just looked at the difference between the two. i cant see the purpose of any al kabor.. other then rapidly alternating between pillar/al kabor to mitigate recast delay, but that would assume you were in a position to chain cast (which would not be the case id imagine with quadding). silly verant!

[Estu]

Originally Posted by thieros [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

oh wow, yeah, just looked at the difference between the two. i cant see the purpose of any al kabor.. other then rapidly alternating between pillar/al kabor to mitigate recast delay, but that would assume you were in a position to chain cast (which would not be the case id imagine with quadding). silly verant!

The Al'Kabor line is different in that it can hit five monsters instead of four. Although since AoE snare only hits four monsters, it's not really worth it. Maybe before you get Bonds of Force it might be better to try pentakiting since you're not snaring the monsters anyway.

[thieros]

ill give it a shot and report back, if only for the supercool name of pentakiting

[Daldaen]

We call it Quintkiting on EQ Live. Druids got their AE line restarted at 91 (stopped back at 62) and they made it hit 5 targets instead of 4 (and made fire/ice versions instead of magic).

Quint sounds much cooler than penta.

[Estu]

Originally Posted by Daldaen [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

We call it Quintkiting on EQ Live. Druids got their AE line restarted at 91 (stopped back at 62) and they made it hit 5 targets instead of 4 (and made fire/ice versions instead of magic).

Quint sounds much cooler than penta.

Quintkiting just sounds like you've got this guy chasing you:

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