new to server, not to EQ

[Curmudgen]

Mention about aggro made me wonder, is that rogue evade thing working? Never played one so just what I heard. A macro move of attack off, hide or something-maybe sneak?, and then attack on again. Suposedly that moved you down the aggro list.

Can you do that here for rogue?

[Ponden]

Yes, evade macro.

/attack off
/doability <number hide is>
/attack on

[Lazortag]

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

Yes, evade macro.

/attack off
/doability <number hide is>
/attack on

Question, since you seem to know what you're talking about - does this put the Rogue to the very bottom of the aggro list, or something else kinda funky? I do this on my alt and see the "you have momentarily ducked away from combat" message, but the mob keeps attacking me and not my friend who I'm duoing with. Is there a way to make this effect more obvious? Do I just have to move away a bit or something?

[Ponden]

It is like a Ranger's jolt spell, it just decreases it, not drops to bottom.

[Curmudgen]

I played a monk on live for a long time. I always thought of the rogue evade macro like my monk evade macro.

/attack off
/fd ability
/stand
/attack

But I would not wait till aggro to use it. I would spam it every couple seconds. This kept me low on list with minimal downtime to interrupt my DPS.

I always assumed rogues did it the same way to avoid getting up to top of list to start.

[Kender]

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

Kunark contains content to level from 1 to cap.

yeah true.

i was thinking more lake of ill omen onwards

[Ponden]

Cant you do LOIO at 16?

[hedbonker]

LOIO has a low level area around Cabalis - I think you can do that at 1.

[azeth]

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

Yes, evade macro.

/attack off
/doability <number hide is>
/attack on

Your evade macro should actually link to your backstab

Example backstab is Ability 1, Hide is Ability 2

/doability 1
/attack
/doability 2
/attack

The cooldown on BS and Hide are the same, if not +1/-1 second and they sync well. Also, once we can crit backstab it's pretty important you're evading as you land your double backstabs/crits.

[Qaedain]

I believe the LOIO area outside of Cabilis is akin to Crushbone (in terms of level), as there are level 1 mobs outside of Cab, and then level 4-8 mobs in FOB.