Druid Charm Soloing

Tappin · #1 09-28-2011, 12:23 PM

Hello everyone,
I recently came back to p99 and found a few changes to druid solo... mainly the reduced DoT damage on moving targets, making kiting extremely slow. I did root rot for a while and it works pretty well, but I heard that druids now are charming/fear/snare soloing now.

What level does this become ideal for druids to do? I'm level 34 now and I'm wondering which zones I should start at, with what mobs to charm and which to grind.

And I charm an animal type, then grind on other animals with my beast fear?

Thanks for the advice. I searched around on the forum but I didn't have much luck with finding locations for my level. Thanks!

M.Bison · #2 09-28-2011, 12:36 PM

quad kiting dwarfs at the butcherblock dwarves until u are like 48-49ish is your best bet for xp at your level. u can start charming raptors in TD at like 51, until about 55. then u can charm bears/wolves in the permafrost pits until 60.

hope that helps.

judeau · #3 09-28-2011, 12:42 PM

I've been quad-kiting in OT the last few nights (35-39). A Lot of fun. A little afraid to kill that many dwarfs. Isn't there a big faction hit? Been curious about this.

Tappin · #4 09-28-2011, 03:19 PM

Thanks for the info. What are you killing in OT? I'm not very familar with Kunark.

judeau · #5 09-28-2011, 03:23 PM

Just some of the trash. Mostly the cacti n birds. Rhinos get tricky if the snare runs out.

M.Bison · #6 09-28-2011, 10:17 PM

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I've been quad-kiting in OT the last few nights (35-39). A Lot of fun. A little afraid to kill that many dwarfs. Isn't there a big faction hit? Been curious about this.

No, only faction hit u get is from CitizensofKaladim. which is exclusively the dock dwarf faction. You can still go into kaladim and use all the vendors/bank.
so basically u only drop your faction with about 12mobs in the entire game killing dwarves

and wtf is with all this talk about Invis to animal rings...youre a druid use hide, its free and instant.

Kevlar · #7 09-28-2011, 10:21 PM

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and wtf is with all this talk about Invis to animal rings...youre a druid use hide, its free and instant.

There are human druids, who chose not to look like stupid little cartoon characters.

Nirgon · #8 09-28-2011, 04:51 PM

Is animal / undead only charm hurt as bad as enchanter charm?

Tappin · #9 09-28-2011, 05:28 PM

Are there any quading guides around? I've never done it and am not even sure which spells to use for efficiency. Thanks!

Auvdar · #10 09-28-2011, 05:42 PM

You simply find 4 mobs that don't cast, and who are generally the same (HP wise), and ensnare all of them. Run them around with SoW on in a semi-circle until they are "packed" together. Then just run out a bit, cast Lightning Blast (I think that's the 34 one), run again, cast again, repeat till dead.

Really quadding is your best bet till 51. After 51, you can quad raptors a bit ( I didn't find charm holding well until I was around 52/53), then at 54/55 you will want to flop down and bind in the bear pits, and just freeze to death down there until you hit 60.