Most fun lateral thinking or unusual XP methods

[Izmael]

If you have two mobs you need to split but you can't do it through regular means (calm, FD, etc...), you can aggro some other (ideally low level) mob that will be assisted by the target mobs and kite him into the assist range of one mob, but just outside of the assist range of the other.

Assist aggro only spreads once, one mob will come, the other will stay there.

[Videri]

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

If you have two mobs you need to split but you can't do it through regular means (calm, FD, etc...), you can aggro some other (ideally low level) mob that will be assisted by the target mobs and kite him into the assist range of one mob, but just outside of the assist range of the other.

Assist aggro only spreads once, one mob will come, the other will stay there.

Very nice. Splitting for classes that can't split.

[stebbins99]

Damn there is some sweet stuff in this thread!

[Wallicker]

Someone in ALS told me one the other day I didn’t know...if you are going to fight a SK mob wait til it’s casting and engage it then, it will use its HT but it won’t work since it’s already casting a spell

[Benanov]

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

Someone in ALS told me one the other day I didn’t know...if you are going to fight a SK mob wait til it’s casting and engage it then, it will use its HT but it won’t work since it’s already casting a spell

I would suspect they'd just fire it off later.

If you've got a disposable pet (SHD for sure, which is how this trick gets is name), you can always use the "bone shield" trick. Best place to test it out is against Prince Ragnar in the Warrens.

Pull with low aggro at a distance (siphon strength or a bow / javelin), wait a few seconds, then send in your taunting pet. If it suddenly evaporates: congratulations, Jibober did his best Ranger impression.

Your goal is to do this without pulling any of the green trash in the Prince's court.

Harder to do against the King.

[Wallicker]

It wasn’t theory craft, it’s proven. If a sk mob is mid cast and you get within melee range his HT will be effectively wasted and no he won’t cast it on you later unless you fight him for an hour. This trick is amazing for non pet classes soloing a sk or people who don’t have HeBs or stalking probes on them.

[Jibartik]

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

It wasn’t theory craft, it’s proven. If a sk mob is mid cast and you get within melee range his HT will be effectively wasted and no he won’t cast it on you later unless you fight him for an hour. This trick is amazing for non pet classes soloing a sk or people who don’t have HeBs or stalking probes on them.

COOOL I did not know this I love this type of stuff. I don't feel like it's an exploit, well I don't feel its a game breaking one, so its one of those, secrets of the universe that you can uncover with time played.

Like discovering quantum entanglement. You don't know why the spells in this universe work this way, but you did uncover something that you can turn into a computer, or a strategy to win.

This is what I love about EQ [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

[Wallicker]

https://wiki.project1999.com/Insidious_Fever
Shaman aggro spell
1 second cast time yum

[loramin]

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

https://wiki.project1999.com/Insidious_Fever
Shaman aggro spell
1 second cast time yum

[You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.] That's my pull spell, for the very rare occasions where I'm racing someone to a mob (eg. the old Seafuries).

[Tethler]

It's far from a secret, but bards spamming single target mez on mobs to interrupt spellcasters. It's really satisfying against wizard, cleric, and shaman mobs.