solo monk or ranger with no funds?

[kaev]

Originally Posted by mystang89 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

"Archery is shitty damage compared to what you can dish in melee, but the mob isn't hitting you back and Snare is cheap to cast, as long as there's room to kite you can finish any mob even if you were losing the fight in melee."

Just curious why you don't root rot them and shoot arrows while they are dotted? Do arrows break root? I thought only DD spells had a chance of breaking root.

Oh, I do root & shoot with him now when I need to take less damage, but that's at L51 so low blues are around 10 levels lower than he is and he has a longer lasting root spell besides. The level difference is what affects root breaks (mobs get a chance every server tick to resist, besides the bonused chance when they are DD'd). At lower levels you tend to fight mobs a lot closer to your level. I found that root & shoot didn't work so well for me until I had SoW at 39, SoW makes root breaks a lot less dangerous and by then root breaks were less frequent as well.

Snare always lasts full duration and is less mana to cast. At low level in cheap gear your manapool will be more of a manapuddle. If you're oom and the mob is snared you can easily catch a couple med ticks by getting some distance, sit for a tick -> stand -> shoot -> run -> shoot, rinse/repeat and you're ready to re-snare the mob. I always hated having to zone with a mob at 40%, ranger has the tools to kill most any non-caster outdoors so it feels like complete failure when you can't quite finish that last add off.

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I generally use archery to finish a mob when I feel I'm taking too much damage to be safe, whether that's due to potential adds or just the toughness of the mob. Mobs that are blue at 51 can chew through a ranger's self-buffed hp pool very fast when the RNG swings their way. Root mob, back off, refresh DoT(s) and shoot between med ticks, maybe cast a few heals too if I had trouble getting it rooted, keep shooting until root breaks. Avoid undead, that last 20% where the mob doesn't fight back but just stands there snared is gravy.
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