Guide to AoE Bard Kiting, here on P99.

[nalkin]

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

Cool stuff. Curiosity - how long, in full, does it take to complete one of these mega-swarm kites of 15-18ish? Counting gathering the mobs and actually doing the kite, etc, it seems to take between 7-10 minutes. For killing 18 red/yellowish mobs, that's a very good rate [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

It all depends how crowded it is. Usually I run from ~bridge/stables to splitpaw and then to aviaks. If its crowded though you have to try to get some roamers in the interim. The actual kite (excluding gathering) takes about 4-8 min depending how many resists you get with the red cons. So on average I would say on average about 15 min.

[Tokum-6n0m3]

Where do the screenshots dump to? Im having problems finding the picture i took earlier today.

Swarm kited 12 Koholds in Steamfont at lvl5, wanted to post pic of it 8)

Only reason i wanted to post was somone told me last night after i died doing it, that it was impossible at lvl5 to do it, i wanted to show them its harder, but doable 8)

[nalkin]

Originally Posted by Tokum-6n0m3 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Where do the screenshots dump to? Im having problems finding the picture i took earlier today.

Swarm kited 12 Koholds in Steamfont at lvl5, wanted to post pic of it 8)

Only reason i wanted to post was somone told me last night after i died doing it, that it was impossible at lvl5 to do it, i wanted to show them its harder, but doable 8)

Awesome! Sometimes they aren't in the EQ folder, do a search over your system for "screenshots" Does the trick for me.

[Kender]

nice... i'd imagine it would be alot easier and faster at 8 though. can drum/lute swap to do more damage from discord

[nalkin]

NEW RECORD - 28. They were mostly all DB with a couple yellow/red.

I pulled the entire stables, ALOT of roamers all over, few gnolls, and some aviaks from the aviak tower. Netted about 1.8 yellows.

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[Pescador]

Not sure if selos at level 8 is enough to create the ovals needed for kiting. I'm sure it's possible, but I doubt you could do it efficiently unless you have the steady hands of a surgeon. I would just wait until 18 so you can twist your two aoe dots and cut your kiting time in half

[guineapig]

From my experience AoE does not work too well on any type of Giants.

Due to how large the circle has to be in order for them to not be able to hit you and how small the AoE range is you end up being out of range so often that it becomes mostly inefficient. Of course you almost never find 2 giants up at the same time any more...

[Lazortag]

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

From my experience AoE does not work too well on any type of Giants.

Due to how large the circle has to be in order for them to not be able to hit you and how small the AoE range is you end up being out of range so often that it becomes mostly inefficient. Of course you almost never find 2 giants up at the same time any more...

The same applies to cyclopses though, which means unfortunately it's extremely hard to aoe kite seafuries. Oh well. Maybe p99 is healthier without Bards being able to solo the whole island.

[JayDee]

P99 is supposed to replicate EQlive.

Why not nerf necros because they can solo frenzy in guk and that's unfair ?

Infact, I hear the biggest problem now is enchanters being able to charm mobs in sky to easily take down bosses that were impossible back in the day on live. We are talking about fucking raid bosses here. Nerf enchanters !!!

I appreciate Haynar's efforts he has put into fixing bards but AoE kiting needs to be looked at. It was much easier to execute on live and some pulls are impossible here like kiting all of seafury island.

Newsflash - Bards should be way OP outdoors

[Musetii]

I'm sad brews that AE kiting sucks. FBSS rotting in rathe mnts due to final death of giants.