Project 1999: a few personal opinions

[Ahnen]

A tip for getting sense heading up: create a hotkey for sense heading, then go in to key bindings and set your left and right key (you can designate two keys for each hotkey) to activate that hotkey. As a melee class this maxed my sense heading around level 5. I hope this helps.

[necrosaurio]

Thanks Ahnen, this is exactly what I did. I set 2 hotkeys for sense heading and assigned every movement key to them.

On my bard, I set macros to run /stopsong /doability 1 /cast X and has sense heading maxed out at level 8, on top of halving the number of clicks to activate a song.

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

A tip for getting sense heading up: create a hotkey for sense heading, then go in to key bindings and set your left and right key (you can designate two keys for each hotkey) to activate that hotkey. As a melee class this maxed my sense heading around level 5. I hope this helps.

[necrosaurio]

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

i stopped playing during Planes of Power, so i find some of the current live things you've written quite amazing.

rogues and monks get get mezz? super lulz

Some other differences:

Rangers, Shamans, Enchanters and I think that other classes get a "push away + memblur" AA.

Necros can sustain 30K DPS (I think that some report up to 54K but I have only seen 30K on Fabled Plane of Time, as I don't raid) and they get out-DPS'd by other classes.

Rangers are in the top 3/4 DPS, and so are Beastlords.

Beastlords have Feign Death.

Monks, Necros and SKs have an FD that instantly drops all aggro.

Monks and SKs can swarm lots and lots of light blue mobs (I've seen 50+) and survive without external heals.

Rangers were able to kill multiple light blue mobs with a single bow shot, by combining two AAs. This was nerfed a while ago so you can only kill a single mob with the headshot.

The above two mean that people go to Plane of Fire and kill the whole castle (any of them) in a single pull. No heals required.

A druid can stack himself with 220+ of DS. This sounds like a great, great thing until you realise that trash mobs have 100K+ HP and quad hit for thousands.

Oh yeah, there are warriors with 70K HP. They still won't last any long agains a single white con mob without heals.

[RiffDaemon]

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

Some other differences:

Rangers, Shamans, Enchanters and I think that other classes get a "push away + memblur" AA.

Yep, Mages have a mez/memblur, too. It's actually a giant fire elemental that melees the mob and then pops a AoE mez/blur. Second rank of the ability will mez/blur two mobs. F'ing lifesaver, as being jumped by a mob that quads me for 6k a hit is no fun at all [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.] Being able to remove him (or his buddy) from the fight is a godsend.

[Francois]

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

Not having swarm kiting sucks. I really would like to be able to do it. AE kiting may be faster for levelling but it's way less enjoyable.

You can swarm kite on P99. There's a couple of guides on the wiki, and if those don't get the job done, feel free to send me a tell on Franswa.

[pickled_heretic]

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

You can swarm kite on P99. There's a couple of guides on the wiki, and if those don't get the job done, feel free to send me a tell on Franswa.

i see a couple of guides on how to aoe kite, nothing on swarm kiting though.

[necrosaurio]

I thought that swarm kiting (with charm) does not work correctly due to aggro issues? At least, I haven't found anything to indicate that it does.

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

You can swarm kite on P99. There's a couple of guides on the wiki, and if those don't get the job done, feel free to send me a tell on Franswa.

[Francois]

My bad. AE kiting = Swarm Kiting to me. You're correct in saying that charm kiting is broken.