Most fun lateral thinking or unusual XP methods

[Jimjam]

As a cleric? You mem blur it. Or train the giant to a merchant. The dark elf merchants in South Ro will kill any giant they find.

I think rooting them next to each other works (for having them aggro each other) too.

[Crede]

Anytime you’re charming and fear kiting, Keep your pet around 10% hp if possible. They will flee on breaks instead of coming after you. Did this a lot with my bard as well solo charming.

This is a bit off OPs question but about 6 years ago I had a unique xp situation. It was a full group on my enc in FV. It was 2 necros, 2 Druids, and 2 enchanters w/charmed Pets. We were set up on the flat area of east wall in front of the drolvarg temple entrance. Had both Druids chain pulling snared mobs to camp. And the rest of us with 4 pets were keeping them feared and obliterating everything that moved. We had 2-3 mobs in the camp at all times, and it was the only time I’ve ever preferred being in a full group. Some of the most fun I’ve ever had.

[Lojik]

Is this just for priests or any class?

On my shaman it was fun using the cazic neck (fear undead.) It was awesome from low 40s to 53 or so on spectres and spectral keepers in TT. Spectres in feerott would tend to keep turning inside the caves, and they move slow so fear isn't a big deal. The keepers are low hp but nuke, but they use long casting wizard nukes so 2.0 second fear (spamable) is no problem interrupting. They also don't social aggro, and you can pull them into where ganak is for easier pathing. This would have been really fun with other toys like jbb and blight hammer, but I was poor.

Fear also interrupts even if the enemy is rooted. Pretty useful if you're doing vkr and want to prevent slow on party members.

[Crede]

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

Is this just for priests or any class?

On my shaman it was fun using the cazic neck (fear undead.) It was awesome from low 40s to 53 or so on spectres and spectral keepers in TT. Spectres in feerott would tend to keep turning inside the caves, and they move slow so fear isn't a big deal. The keepers are low hp but nuke, but they use long casting wizard nukes so 2.0 second fear (spamable) is no problem interrupting. They also don't social aggro, and you can pull them into where ganak is for easier pathing. This would have been really fun with other toys like jbb and blight hammer, but I was poor.

Fear also interrupts even if the enemy is rooted. Pretty useful if you're doing vkr and want to prevent slow on party members.

Never knew this, seems kinda OP. Is this classic?

[Wendak]

I didn’t read the whole thread so hopefully this isn’t a repeat. On the launch of Blue my friend and I both decided to play Shaman. It was a bit awkward of a duo at times since we didn’t cover each others weaknesses.

From level 34-42 or so we decided to do Hill Giants in Rathe Mtns. They dealt too much damage to slow tank them as we would be healing too much. And root rotting was annoying with root breaks. We came up with a method to balance our aggro by using flash of light.

One would pull with disease DoT and the second shaman would hit it with poison DoT. We send both pets in with taint off. We would be spaced really far apart. One person would sit and get aggro, the second person would stand. When the hill giant got close to the sitting person, they would stand and the opposite shaman would sit. The hill giant would ping pong back and forth between us while alternating who was sitting. In order to maintain aggro we would have to use flash of light to build aggro.

It was honestly a blast.

[loramin]

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

I didn’t read the whole thread so hopefully this isn’t a repeat. On the launch of Blue my friend and I both decided to play Shaman. It was a bit awkward of a duo at times since we didn’t cover each others weaknesses.

From level 34-42 or so we decided to do Hill Giants in Rathe Mtns. They dealt too much damage to slow tank them as we would be healing too much. And root rotting was annoying with root breaks. We came up with a method to balance our aggro by using flash of light.

One would pull with disease DoT and the second shaman would hit it with poison DoT. We send both pets in with taint off. We would be spaced really far apart. One person would sit and get aggro, the second person would stand. When the hill giant got close to the sitting person, they would stand and the opposite shaman would sit. The hill giant would ping pong back and forth between us while alternating who was sitting. In order to maintain aggro we would have to use flash of light to build aggro.

It was honestly a blast.

I've used to Flash of Light to serve as a tank in Seb Crypt groups (as a Shaman). It's really the Shaman taunt button, and it's just too bad we just don't have many excuses to use it.

[Wendak]

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

I've used to Flash of Light to serve as a tank in Seb Crypt groups (as a Shaman). It's really the Shaman taunt button, and it's just too bad we just don't have many excuses to use it.

Haha. I MT’d an exp group in Seb once just using root+torpor. Fun stuff.

[Wallicker]

If splitting a room full of healers and you don’t have mez/calm you can pull a really weak mob get it low and watch them burn all their mana healing the scrub through the wall then kill them. Great way for a melee to split a room with annoying shamans who slow and heal

[Jibartik]

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

If splitting a room full of healers and you don’t have mez/calm you can pull a really weak mob get it low and watch them burn all their mana healing the scrub through the wall then kill them. Great way for a melee to split a room with annoying shamans who slow and heal

haha ok now this one I havent heard before but I love the moxie [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

[AegnorP99]

I used a few less obvious kite methods with my wizard that were kinda fun, though still pretty simple. Both require a good clicky robe nuke.

1. Snare a mob, run to a corner, click robe, kite the mob while the cast timer moves, get back to the corner right as the nuke goes off, immediately re-cast and kite, etc. It took me a long time to realize you just need to start and end your cast in the same location to prevent an interruption, but it's a pretty neat trick when you get the hang of it. Having to re-root every couple casts is annoying!

2. This one requires a bio orb in addition to a clicky robe. Just snare a mob, blind it with the orb, robe nuke while mob runs around aimlessly, re-blind and re-nuke until it's dead. Works really well as a ghetto fear in open areas.

Like I said, both are pretty simple, but wizards are super straight forward and don't have a ton of tools, so I did the best I could!