Best thing I have seen in EQ yet... (video)

[wc4482]

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

I'd love to learn to swarm kite like this. I am level 17 now, and am wondering what the correct songs are to use for swarm kiting. I do not even know the basics, to be honest. Do you cycle your targets and re-cast the DoT, while also twisting in selos? I don't mean to hijack the thread but if anybody has any tips I am all ears!

The magic isn't what songs you twist (Chords of Dissonance, Denon's Disruptive Discord, and Selo's) Its the positioning of your character

[EvilMallet]

"MGB Fo7 at Nexus stone in 3 minutes"

[azxten]

Since the mobs are always heading directly towards you if you have a faster run speed you can run a circle around them of a specific size that keeps you just out of melee but in song range. Finding that sweet spot though is rather difficult and as stated a tiny bit of lag means you die in addition to things taking 15 minutes to finish.

Personally though I feel that if you're gonna AE kite you should pull a lot more mobs than this. You're dead if you get in melee range anyway and the time is the same regardless. I would have added in all the gnoll spawns, centaurs, etc. Anything that doesn't cast spells.

[YendorLootmonkey]

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

Personally though I feel that if you're gonna AE kite you should pull a lot more mobs than this. You're dead if you get in melee range anyway and the time is the same regardless. I would have added in all the gnoll spawns, centaurs, etc. Anything that doesn't cast spells.

Well, as you said above, you don't want to pull so many that you create video lag and die. I would think that there's probably an upper limit related to the power of his graphics card.

[VincentVolaju]

Lol Yes this is real guys no programs, even Rogean came to check it out to see for himself. Bono said he gains a yellow every pull, however each pull takes like 20mins total. Between rounding it all up, getting it bunched together and then killing them. He also said he dies every now and then too from lag, even 1 second spike of lag = death, when you 30 things on you lol. It looks fun but yeah, really risky and need to practice it alot before you can pull it off easily like Bono does.

[oldhead]

I played a bard once and did that shit...


never again.... soooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo boring round and round and round and round and round and round and round and round and round and round and round and round and round and round and round and round and round and round and round and round and round and round and round and round and round and round and round and round and round and round and round and round and round and round and round and round and round and round and round and round and round and round and round and round and round and round and round and round and round and round and round and round and round and round and round and round and round and




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oh jesus... I just tried to quote myself to agree with myself. After i posted "what he said" i was like WTF... I edited that guys post... WTF!!!

[ryandward]

Do the Aviaks have smaller hit boxes than giant scarabs and giant spiders? I can't seem to get this down, I literally run smaller and smaller circles around those, and cannot hit them unless I am within their hit range.

[ukaking]

Tried kiting for the first time in SK last night. I have a lvl 23 almost 24 bard and I couldnt get it efficiently. I didnt die but it took way too long and I was only kiting four mobs tops. Just couldnt find the sweet spot to get the dot to land and not get hit and stunned most of the time.

[Mcbard]

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

Tried kiting for the first time in SK last night. I have a lvl 23 almost 24 bard and I couldnt get it efficiently. I didnt die but it took way too long and I was only kiting four mobs tops. Just couldnt find the sweet spot to get the dot to land and not get hit and stunned most of the time.

It takes some practice to find the sweet spot, but once you get it it pays massive dividends. I was averaging about a level every 2 hours 18-26 doing it. It starts to get harder to find good areas to kite masses of blue mobs (it's hard to get enough in SK it's so overcamped) around 28+ I've noticed. I've grouped the last few levels and sure do miss that exp. :P

[Messianic]

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

Tried kiting for the first time in SK last night. I have a lvl 23 almost 24 bard and I couldnt get it efficiently. I didnt die but it took way too long and I was only kiting four mobs tops. Just couldnt find the sweet spot to get the dot to land and not get hit and stunned most of the time.

My Bard's 12, and has been doing it since 8. It's very effective, you just have to be (extremely) patient and flexible while you learn the ticks.

I had a ton of HP gear, and kiting 20+ mobs I usually had one round of hits worth of a buffer zone before they dropped me. If I made a mistake and got hit/stunned, I had to get out of their range immediately and twist in healing song with a lute for a while to heal before attempting it again. That's part of the patience...

A really good place to start is gfay - I found that grabbing non-caster orcs and the willowisps that spawn near the newb lift and near felwithe were good practice before I went to NK.


Also, Beetles (even the giant ones), Griffawns, Bears, and Cats mostly have average hit boxes and are great kiting material. Lions have big hit boxes for some reason, I avoid them. I've heard Crag Spiders have big hit boxes too, but haven't tried them yet.