Guide to AoE Bard Kiting, here on P99.

Cribanox · #1 07-09-2010, 02:39 PM

@ Jete

Hey, about charm kiting, the recent charm nerf to my knowledge only shortened the duration of the charms. Charm kiting (the way I used to do it) didn't depend on the charm's duration.

According to Jify a few posts back, the key ingredient to charm kiting, bard style, isn't working correctly. Which is to have mobs attack your pet, and not you.

I'll play around with this in later levels once I have charm, but here's how I used to do it.

I would go gather up a bunch of KoS monsters, and not touch them, just get aggro. I would choose one mob and charm it. After it was charmed, I would send it into the mob group, and the entire group would attack my pet.

If you had enough mobs, your pet would lose HP fairly quickly. Once your pet is about dead, you go INVS and lose the charm. You had to invs or break charm before your pet started running. If you break charm after your pet begins to run, you won't recieve any EXP. If you were able to break charm before your pet started running, you would finish it off with DDs and DoTs, and then repeat with the next monster.

This can be very safe and effecient EXP. I really only used this 50+, and I remember doing it in Cobalt Scar (at the port in) with the Wyverns looking over the cliffs.

So, if here on P99, if the mobs for some reason won't attack your pet, and come after you instead, then it won't work. Like I said, I'll mess around with it later on, but maybe we can find the reason why and /bug it.

Jete · #2 07-09-2010, 02:43 PM

Crib, please check out my latest post in the bug forums, as I am trying my best to get all this fixed. If you agree with it please say so, I will need some backing to it.

Excision Rottun · #3 10-08-2010, 10:31 AM

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You had to invs or break charm before your pet started running. If you break charm after your pet begins to run, you won't recieve any EXP. If you were able to break charm before your pet started running, you would finish it off with DDs and DoTs, and then repeat with the next monster.

This is incorrect (at least in Luclin / PoP era, I never swarm kited before then).

I used to break mobs at 1% and 0% regularly with my Goblin Gazughi Ring and receive full XP.

Arkanjil · #4 10-08-2010, 05:08 PM

Here's a bit of advice also.....every bard should get themselves a pair of jboots. Not having to cast selos while kiting is so so nice! And Jboots seem to give me the perfect speed I need for kiting.

Lazortag · #5 10-09-2010, 10:27 AM

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Here's a bit of advice also.....every bard should get themselves a pair of jboots. Not having to cast selos while kiting is so so nice! And Jboots seem to give me the perfect speed I need for kiting.

Actually just use selo's without a drum if it's too fast, or weigh yourself down, or etc. I'm so used to using selo's that I'd never be able to just use jboots!

Arkanjil · #6 10-09-2010, 05:00 PM

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Actually just use selo's without a drum if it's too fast, or weigh yourself down, or etc. I'm so used to using selo's that I'd never be able to just use jboots!

Yeah definitely a good idea! The nice thing about having jboots though is you can twist an additional dps song in place of selos. [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]