Class choices

[Deathrydar]

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

Necro for sure then. They're a pretty awesome class.

Fear kite, root rot, charming, solid in groups when played well, can solo in dungeons or outdoors, lots of tricks and utility, free to ignore faction and slaughter guards whenever you want basically, don't have trou let outdamaging pet to ensure full exp unlike mages, etc.

Necromancers have the same pet rules for out damaging them that magicians have.

[Tecmos Deception]

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

Necromancers have the same pet rules for out damaging them that magicians have.

I didn't say the rules were different. I said necros don't have trouble outdamaging their pets.

I.e. necro tools make it a lot easier to outdamage their pets. Fear, root, snare mean necros don't have to resort to reclaiming and resummoning or to nuking hard and then having to run from a full speed mob in order to outdamage the pet.

[algernop]

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

Well, there's different types of kiting. You don't generally want to purely kite stuff because DoTs do reduced damage on moving+nonfeared targets though.

I was under the impression in classic that the DoT reduced damage on a moving target is full damage until later (but still before Kunark). I heard something like it wasn't introduced until September 1999 or something.

[Deathrydar]

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

I didn't say the rules were different. I said necros don't have trouble outdamaging their pets.

I.e. necro tools make it a lot easier to outdamage their pets. Fear, root, snare mean necros don't have to resort to reclaiming and resummoning or to nuking hard and then having to run from a full speed mob in order to outdamage the pet.

Sorry. I misunderstood...

[Tecmos Deception]

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

I was under the impression in classic that the DoT reduced damage on a moving target is full damage until later (but still before Kunark). I heard something like it wasn't introduced until September 1999 or something.

That may be the case. But p99 isn't always entirely true to classic on things like that. I'm unsure how it is on the beta.