The problem with "swarm kiting" on p99, for the most part, is that it isn't what folks used the term for back on live.
On live "swarm kiting" referred to charm kiting huge social groups of mobs (i.e. pull 30 orcs, charm one to attack another, get the other 28 mobs to assist against your pet, break the charm with your pet at 1%, hit with one dot, and collect your exp). On some servers during live "swarm kiting" referred to AEing large groups of mobs (i.e. pull a large number of mobs, run in a circle carefully closing the radius until you could hit the mobs with your AE damage songs while twisting selos without getting hit).
What most people on p99 mean when they say "swarm kiting" is low hp aggro kiting. This, as far as I know, did not work on live the way that it works here.
Not only is the low-hp kiting somewhat unclassic (again, iirc low hp aggro or "blood aggro" from live correctly) but it takes very very little skill compared to the bard that is AEing or swarm (i.e. charm) kiting. Although it is not against the rules it is closer to an exploit than any display of bard uberness. You can't fault players for taking advantage of it as it isn't against the rules...but many folks flaunt it by doing it zones that cause disruption.
What is most disrupting about it isn't that it kills too many mobs, but that it takes a long time. As the bard and friend collect mobs and then slowly AE them down it might monopolize 50-60 mobs or more for 20 minutes or longer. If you do this in DL (as so many like to do) it deprives the entire grouping area around KC of mobs for noticeable periods of time. Not to mention the havoc if the kite fails as mobs re-aggro on their way home or are already aggro to other players.
People would definitely have more respect for the bards on p99 if they didn't disrupt zones so frequently or do so in such an exploitative way. Then again, the two player low-hp aggro team is only half bard most of the time...
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