Bard Kiting - 101

[Delvesh]

Yeah, FV, DL and BW you can use hate/social agro to help but I personally just got use to using the DD every where. I hated the short range of shurikens and the fact that they turn you in the mob direction. That slowed me down a ton more than the DD. The DD is very easy, once you get use to it you hardly slows you down even when you have to stop for a fraction of a second and the range makes it a ton easier to use. Not to mention. You will be pulling thousands of mobs in a levening session, so you get forced back to vendors to buy those things. Persoanlly, I'd say just do the DD, it's easier, safer and will be what you want to use when the higher level mobs will rape your hp if your trying to get in too close.

[Kileras]

I can't imagine pulling burning woods with song. Shurikens are so much faster to tag with and readily available nearby to most pull locations. Especially dealing with any non social skele's or power leveling.

[DarthMartigan]

Shurikens are more practical for pulling fast, but when you have to go get new ones and lose the stinking zone because some other bard comes in I can't see shrikes being better. I live by these 4 rules in burning wood:

Punch like no one is watching
Sit like no one will notice you
Pull with chants like they'll never get old
Turn off /role /anon

[TeemoOfAstora]

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

Shurikens are more practical for pulling fast, but when you have to go get new ones ...

It is well worth the running around between thurgadin and skyshrine to get you one of these bad boys : Bracer Of Hammerfal. Took me maybe 3 or 4 runs, but Selo's makes it fast (except through kael) and I haven't bought a throwing anything since. If you can get a friendly druid to GD-CS you a few times it'll be even faster.

[SewingMachine]

Question, I am in OT I am doing very well never get hit, and kill and pull well. I am lvl 19 right now and got 2 yellows from my last pull. Should i be pulling more things? I mean really take my time and grab alot of stuff then go back or keep doing what i am doing and just do a loop around collecting what i can.

[SewingMachine]

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Note - I have spent some time in this zone, and this is my take on it. I like this path because the kill zone there are no wondering mobs that come in there. its a little weird at first because there is a big cliff, but if you do it right its a great spot. Other kill zones have wondering beast. and i hate to stop kiting and move out the way.

[DevGrousis]

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Note - I have spent some time in this zone, and this is my take on it. I like this path because the kill zone there are no wondering mobs that come in there. its a little weird at first because there is a big cliff, but if you do it right its a great spot. Other kill zones have wondering beast. and i hate to stop kiting and move out the way.

Great graphic, Sew!


This is the exact loop I used to pull, and the spot I used to kill. A little tip though: at night time (I think 11pm but I honestly cannot remember the exact time but it is a very exact time, so once you spot them that's the time they'll be back every night) the dragoon patrol walks through this kill zone. They path in from the closest tip of the canyon closest to the the outpost is, where the area starts and go along the inside rim towards the ramps until thry trace the canyon all the way until they're outside of the kill zone. They don't come back through until the next night. Never pull cats or rhinos.

Once I got to about 22 or so the newb stuff greened out and I was never able to find more than about 20 or so DB-Yellow mobs to pull and as you level up that number gets smaller and smaller. Don't be discouraged by this, because it's still infinitely faster than any other leveling you could do at that level.

Once you green out, just head to LOIO for a few levels until you can go to FV. I personally couldn't get a handle on the hit boxes in FV so as soon as I was able to get the higher level mobs in LOIO to con yellow or below I went back there because of their super small hit boxes. Just pull everything except cats and rhinos from the southern tip of the outpost running south towards the FM zone then head back to the kill zone along the same route you came from.

Once this greens out there's no where on the planet you can kite that doesn't have big hit boxes. So either deal with that, single kite (inefficient), or charm kite mobs in DL (pretty good xp if you can get a nice rhythm, or group.

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[SewingMachine]

Typo - lvl should be 26ish. not 29ish

[DarthMartigan]

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

Question, I am in OT I am doing very well never get hit, and kill and pull well. I am lvl 19 right now and got 2 yellows from my last pull. Should i be pulling more things? I mean really take my time and grab alot of stuff then go back or keep doing what i am doing and just do a loop around collecting what i can.

As you get more used to pulling, you should be able to pull (up to around level 40) and ding every single pull, or almost ding. If you master Fioriona Vie 40-45 is like 8 pulls. It doesn't matter if you die sometimes, if you can quickly recover and make another pull, you'll never notice the exp loss. It also doesn't matter if you pull 20 or 200, as long as you don't get hit. Always pull everything possible that doesn't ruin the game for other people in zone (this is why FV and BW are great, empty zones).

Important side note to this: Don't kite in DL if you are going to pull everything, because the zone crashes if you pull too much.

[brecon]

Dunno why there are 20 pages of instructions for how to run in a circle and not get hit by mobs.