A thread for random questions!

[Ennewi]

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

I have a ton of questions that certainly fit this category but now I've drawn a blank, save one:

Why manually eat? For instance, I've seen folks summon globes of water and bread, and eat 3 or 4 in a row. Why not leave them in your inventory? Thanks

If the player has food that increases their stats, they will force feed themselves the regular food so that the stat food doesn't ever get consumed automatically, but instead stays in a slot preceding the "junk food" so the stat increases actually apply. Even if the player has only one piece of the +stat food, it will stay with them always, as long as they remember to force feed.

Example: Dark elf has a Frost Giant Steak in their first bag, in the first slot. They fill up manually on Summoned: Black Bread which they keep deeper within the same bag. Subsequently, they always have +4str +1sta.

[JboxCSU]

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

@JboxCSU: People charm without invis clickies all the time. You can use Cancel Magic instead of invis, if your charm is in the topmost slot of the mob. Casting time and mana is less for that.

If you only need it for charming, you could camp the goblin gazhugi ring. You can do it at relatively low level (the sarnak courier is level 14 or so, surrounding mobs maybe 20), but it can take a really long time (that's why its really expensive if you want to buy it). It's an invis vs animals clicky. Since any invis breaks charm, this will do.

Nice! Wouldn't have thought of cancel magic. Thanks.

[Voland]

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

Example: Dark elf has a Frost Giant Steak in their first bag, in the first slot. They fill up manually on Summoned: Black Bread which they keep deeper within the same bag. Subsequently, they always have +4str +1sta.

I thought stat food only works when it's in a regular item slot, not in a bag... am I wrong?

[Ennewi]

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

I thought stat food only works when it's in a regular item slot, not in a bag... am I wrong?

Ah you're right. Been like a year since I've logged on. Yeah, have to have +stat food/drink in regular item slot.

[Schnappi]

making an iksar warrior, should i dump my starting points into STAM, AGI or DEX?

[Pyrocat]

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

I have a ton of questions that certainly fit this category but now I've drawn a blank, save one:

Why manually eat? For instance, I've seen folks summon globes of water and bread, and eat 3 or 4 in a row. Why not leave them in your inventory? Thanks

Eating food quickly means it'll take longer to consume regular food in your inventory, making it last longer. So if you're foraging a bunch of veggies and don't want to clog up your inventory, it's helpful to manually eat them to save on space and prolong the food you already have. Usually I'll do it when I'm down to 2-4 food/water in a stack and I need some inventory space.

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

For a poor necro who doesn't have the funds to buy a CoS, what is the best way to solo charm?

Time a Gather Shadows cast at low health or some other spell? Or just don't do it until I have some more monies?

Cancel Magic or Gather Shadows. /pet sit, walk far away, target pet, cast gather shadows, click a clicky that resets your Global Spell Cooldown, cast root on pet.

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

does ENC berserk line stack with SHM fury line?

I don't know offhand, but why would you ever use the Fury line? It has a constant mana drain.

[Rararboker]

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

What cleric race is best for rezzing in Upper Guk and should I put them in a guild? How do the mechanics of this work?? [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

High elf. They are friendly in upper guk and can walk around without being attacked.

[JboxCSU]

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

Cancel Magic or Gather Shadows. /pet sit, walk far away, target pet, cast gather shadows, click a clicky that resets your Global Spell Cooldown, cast root on pet.

Understood, thanks. So the process you describe above has the pet eating half the exp from the first mob?

I always invisioned breaking charm and somehow killing both.

[Pyrocat]

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

Understood, thanks. So the process you describe above has the pet eating half the exp from the first mob?

I always invisioned breaking charm and somehow killing both.

No, that's just the process for breaking charm in general. You can do it while killing a mob in order to get full exp from both. I'll do an example scenario:

You're killing skeletons in Howling Stones basement. There's a decent amount of room to move around in. You have a ghost charmed (but not hasted) and you're killing a skeleton. The skeleton is rooted (always root your target when charm killing). The skeleton is getting to about 5-10% hp and you don't want your pet to eat any of the exp, so you back the pet off.

NOW you can /pet sit, back up, target pet, cast gather shadows-breaking charm. Quickly hit a clicky (I like to use Words of Darkness in my inventory) to reset your Global Spell Cooldown and cast root on your target (which should still be your previous pet, the ghost). You may take a hit or two trying to get root cast on the ghost if you weren't far enough away to cast root before it caught up to you, so it's helpful to keep rune up (diamondskin .etc). Now both the ghost and the skeleton should be rooted, and both should be low health. You can now dot both to death with something like Splurt or another dot that doesn't have a DD component, or nuke them to death with an undead nuke. Tada! Full exp on both.

[Pyrocat]

Sesserdrix has a really detailed video guide on undead charming with a necromancer in Howling Stones basement actually, it's worth a watch if you want to see some high level necro gameplay. Watch in HD so you can read what spells he's casting.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XpjhDVLiQYg