Bard AoE kiting screenshot thread!

[Softcore PK]

As I said, just a pet peeve.

[georgie]

just ruined my fucking day

[Softcore PK]

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[Diggles]

Especially when the "truth" comes from a blithering idiot. The only reason swarm kiting refers to charming now is because classic swarm kiting is impossible on Live, mobs don't take damage from bard dots while moving

[Lazortag]

You guys are so mean [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

[Pyronost]

Hey geigue! Tried to find ya online, but it seems you're hidden somewhere in game [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.] Ive got it down to the point where I can kite around groups of 10 or so without issue (not getting hit at all). However, I find once I move beyond this, and start picking up more types of mobs (nothing larger than a humanoid), Im having issues grouping them all into one lump of potential exp. They get spread out, and thus I end up only hitting half the pack when I get in close enough for the dots to land.

Tips?

[Pyronost]

Originally Posted by machin576 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

• L1-18ish: Field of Bone, great zone.

• L7ish: The bandit sister camp in GFay (location #3)

• L10-12ish: The orcs in LFay (locations #6 & 11)

• L9-15ish: Willowisps in NK, WC, or possibly Kerra Isle in Erudin’s crossing. Beware, Kerra does not have many flat surfaces and there is no zone lines if you need to reset, so probably not a good idea.

• L13-15ish: The Derv and orc camps in SRo or NRo, lulling the casters and taking them out solo afterward. I usually also went in the desert and grabbed some extra roaming undead/dervs. (locations #3, 5, 6, & 10; although more locations in the southern portion are orc camps. I just found those listed to have fewer/no casters.)

• L14-18: Field of Bone. Good spot North East of Kurn’s and a plethora of mobs to kite.

• L16-19ish: LOIO fields. (I did 17 off the skellies/lower level sarnaks between locations #4, 5, 7 & 9. I did 16-20 off the non-caster wanderers between locations #9 and 13)

• L18-30+: South Karana – Anything and everything. Beware of non-bard classes and their curious philosophy called “Camps”.

• L17-24ish????: Gorge hounds, undead gnolls, all kinds of delightful mobs. I need someone to add some input on this zone, since I have never kited it.

• L20-26: Iksar outcast camps in WW and the lower level field portion of OT. (WW locations #B, 9, 10, 11 and OT field between locations #5, 6, 9, 10). OT is off-the-charts exp at this level range. If you can gather up the whole area, you are looking at ~45min/level during this range.

• 26-28The EXP really started to slow down in OT, so I headed back to WW and continued on the iksar outcast camps there. Was slower, but I didn't have to spend half my kite gathering up LB mobs.

• 29-30: I am doing this portion on the Drolvargs in FV. I have to admit, this range is by far the most dangerous I've done so far. The drolvargs are larger than most MOBs I've kited so far, and therefore have a larger hitbox, while I still have to be within 35 measurement units to hit them with my 18 dot. I have really perfected my distance/selo's speed, while also dieing much more than I would have liked in this level range. I gather up yellow/blue drolvargs while avoiding froglocks (especially casters) and other red dogs. It's actually not that hard to do. On this map of FV, I gather drolvargs from the area surrounded by points #3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 9, and A on the map, and then I take them back towards the NorthEastern Swamp of No Hope zone line as there are no wanderers back there. I'd recommend only pulling a few until you perfect your skills, as I have gotten stunned and 1-rounded (or even not stunned and one-rounded) more often than I'd like to admit. These dogs can take me to probably 35 or so, but I think I may try to find some MOBs to kite that aren't quite so deadly. The good news is I can sell/bank without zoning.

• 31-40: I went back to OT and started kiting the Western/Southern areas of the zone. Basically any blue-red mob (besides dragoons) between the Outpost, SF, FM, the center valley and location #10 on this map of Overthere is fair game. I do recommend you pull only cockatrices, tigers, and cacti. They all move at the same speed. Rhinos move faster, but selos is much faster and a rhino-only kite would certainly work. Some Sarnaks cast, and I'm moving way too fast to check names to see if I'm about to pull a caster or not. This post shows some kites where I had probably 50+ mobs in my kite (figuring 1-2%/kill, and I know I made 100% of a level for each of those 2 kites). You can make some pretty awesome pulls. I've pulled so many that the dot spam insta-crashed EQ to desktop (creating a crappy CR).

• 40-46ish???: Dreadlands, drovlargs. Hopefully Hmo will come give some inputs on which walls of Karnors he used, etc, etc.

• 46-52ish: Spectres in Feerott or Oasis

Kind of stumped after this. I did all my kiting in Velious on live after level 30, so not the best source for this information.

Also, does anyone have any information on TD, I remember being there on live, doing Aviaks or raptors maybe? I cannot remember what level they are.

This list is in no way exhaustive, so feel free to add to it and repost it.

Eastern Karana - Gorge Hounds & Griffawns were my main staple, this is a *great* place to start learning to swarm if you're level 18 and just starting. I normally use the entrance to the Gorge of King Xorbb when I begin circling, as it's nice and flat, clear of trees, etc. Caution though, the two lionesses and two griffawns patrol into the mouth, so either grab them and pack them into the herd, or be aware. Farther to the south is a large hill that has gnolls and undead gnolls depending on the time of day. Be careful of the spiders on the way back to the Gorge though, as their range is considerably larger than anything else mentioned above.

**Edit - Keep an eye out for the undead gnolls skeleton pet at the top of the hill, as well as the floating eyes (Enchanter class) that are roaming around from time to time. Nasty little shits.

[Pyronost]

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A modest 58 mobs, and a ding to 40.

[falkun]

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

Especially when the "truth" comes from a blithering idiot. The only reason swarm kiting refers to charming now is because classic swarm kiting is impossible on Live, mobs don't take damage from bard dots while moving

No, "swarm" kiting refers to charming because Live aggro table works (worked?, I haven't played Live since '04) in such a way that gathering a group, charming 1, then having it attack another in the pack will turn the ENTIRE pack onto the 1 charm. Thus the "swarm" you have gathered turns on 1 mob and makes very short work of it. Swarm kiting does not work on P99 because the "swarm" does not transfer aggro to the charmed pet like it does (did?) on live; on P99 the one mob your pet is attacking will turn on your pet, but the rest will stay aggroed on the bard.

And machin576's post is not the original. He added some updates, but I'd like at least -some- credit.

[Calamitous Oeuvre]

I noticed there was not an audio triggers folder in my EQ folder, I made one and named it both Audio Triggers and AudioTriggers but neither seemed to work for me, so I figured I would turn to the community and ask what the folder needs to be called.

I created the folder in my EQ directory, btw. Also, I deleted all unnecessary files (everything but classic, Kunark, and Velious) from my EQ folder.