Can't believe this is 11 pages...
If Bard AE kiting were "a thing" back on live, you would've seen at least Some people complaining about it on Sony forums. If someone can find them I'd Love to read it, but I don't ever remember reading a AE kite guide on the Concert Hall backintheday. Swarm Kiting was very popular, so was Chant, fear and (ugh) even Bellow kiting at low levels, but AE kiting isn't "classic" like other forms of kiting.
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Originally Posted by Daldaen
https://web.archive.org/web/20010210...COD_kiting.htm
January 2000 Post about how to swarm kite with PBAE songs.
I don't buy your "only 10 bards knew this" nonsense. It was very commonplace for bards to kite 1999-2001. Computers couldn't handle 100 mob kites back then probably, but bards certainly were kiting.
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Link says:
"Using this technique, I can easily kite
several yellow mobs simultaneously. Also, I've made a fortune kiting 3, 4, or 5 wisps at a clip and then selling the lightstones."
" If you get too close and one red mob stuns you, having his
2 or 3 red buddies pounding"
Your source is from a level 17 bard AE kiting 3-5 will-o-wisps. Is this all we have to support AE kiting? There is a Huge difference in kiting 3-5 wisps around versus 50-100, both technically and logistically. He doesn't even have the 18 AE song yet, which is when you can actually/realistically start AE kiting like its done on p99.
People didn't take risks on Live like they do here. OT/Loio were Very Popular during Live, and everyone would've had QQ threads if stuff like this happened with regularity. Like I said, I remember seeing other bards AE kite during PoP for Exp/plat, and and I'm sure there were some people who knew about it before, but to suggest that it was "Classic" like other kinds of kiting is crazytalk to me. There's a huge difference in AE kiting a few greens for money and AE kiting the entire OT to PL a_TMO_alt04.
Like I said, I'd love to see some old threads about this topic, circa 2000-2002, even. I'll eat my hat for a Concert Hall WayBackMachine post.
Just to clarify: Classic Mechanics vs Classic Gameplay, 15 year old game, Emergent gameplay, qq. I don't want AE kiting removed, just don't be a douche. Its not just about you killing every mob in the zone, its the taking half an hour to wrangle them up/DoT them down/wait for respawn that blows.
Also take bards into your group, they're super cool dog.