Dumb Monk FD Question

[SpartanEQ]

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

I believe that if you sucessfully FD when I mob is swinging at you and then subsequently hits you it will recognise that you are in fact, alive.

Is that because you say "Owie!"?

I didn't know any of this stuff. I'm glad I asked. I searched but didn't find much on the subject. Is there a level where you can say that FD is finally relatively reliable? Also, prior to this, will groups ask you to pull thinking that FD will just work and you'll be able to split? I'd hate to have that responsibility now with about a 40% success ratio.

[Messianic]

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

Is there a level where you can say that FD is finally relatively reliable?

It's more reliable with every extra rank in FD in terms of not getting the "soanso has fallen to the ground" message.

However, it's continuously less "reliable" at higher levels in the sense that higher-level mobs retain hate longer and rarely entirely forget you based on a single FD, so it actually is "less reliable" at higher levels in that regard.

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

Also, prior to this, will groups ask you to pull thinking that FD will just work and you'll be able to split?

Sometimes. Don't worry about that, if you learn your class well enough, you'll be able to manage. Plus, often there's often a secondary puller who helps pluck single/doubles instead of whole rooms, etc when necessary. I don't know if that's the case on this server, but it was very often the experience in Kunark/Velious.

Sometimes it might mean you lay on the ground while the group takes out a mob or two to make sure you don't bring more, but you'll manage.

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

40% success ratio.

It's higher than that at higher levels - my "fall to the ground" ratio was probably in the range of 2-5 percent (guessing). Failure rate for simply not using FD correctly or it "failing without failing" is based entirely on your experience and usage (i.e. feigning while a caster is casting). I rarely failed to use it correctly once I started to figure out how to get it to work right (probably 1 percent if only a little more than that). Another helpful skill is how to run around a corner when a caster is casting, eat the spell, and immediately feign so he can't run around the corner and start casting again, and thus keep you in a state where you can't feign.