Bard question - Page 4

Dalven · #31 01-13-2014, 01:34 PM

You should be fully zoomed out with mouse scroll and strafing. As you strafe you should be using your mouse to turn until you can see the mobs just appear in the bottom corner of your screen. This should be close enough for you to land your dots. It'll likely take a bit of trail, error and deaths before you master it. I prefer the other method of hitting f9 four times and zooming out and using the turn keys to circle.

hopped · #32 01-13-2014, 01:56 PM

Well I was trying it with some light blue/dark blue orcs in sro without selos because supposedly you can just strafe but I'll give it a few more shots, practice practice...

Dalven · #33 01-13-2014, 01:59 PM

Yeah you can just strafe but like I said my preference was the other way. Try it with just one mob at a time until you get the hang of it.

hopped · #34 01-13-2014, 02:04 PM

ok I zoomed out and slowly shrunk my circle til they were visible hit my dot and circled out... they caught me a couple times but it seemed to work out.

falkun · #35 01-13-2014, 02:13 PM

Practice, and you'll get better at not getting hit. If you are dieing while practicing, grab fewer mobs until you have the "do not get hit" part down. Then add more mobs.

hopped · #36 01-13-2014, 02:19 PM

only died once in practicing but for some reason I am crashing upon zoning in an out today for some reason... Anyway I was avoiding trying to zone so I died.

Samoht Farstrider · #37 01-15-2014, 12:24 AM

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This video is a good tutorial on one way to do a kite, it was in another bard kiting thread somewhere.

Only thing I do differently, currently 21 doing hounds/griffawns in EK, is that I use selo's w/out a drum. This may or may not work well if you pull stuff with different run speeds (like some cats or rhino's in OT) or later in levels but for now it seems to work just fine.

It only took me a couple tries to get the cutting into the kite strafing thing as explained in the video but it works really well for landing the lv2 dot.

IMHO jboots are a waste of money, people keep talking about missed notes and what not which I think is rubbish. Just play selo's between each dot, they last for 18 seconds each so its not like you can kill faster by spamming them.

ie. selo - dot(18) - selo - dot(2) - selo, etc etc. mix in a hymn of restoration if you get tagged and survive.

This is the way that I found worked best for me and I still died many many times trying it out. Got it down pretty good now, but still would get hit and die once in a while when I get too aggressive.

Morcant · #38 01-15-2014, 02:37 PM

Is he just using autorun and tapping to turn? I have been strafe kiting since I am still sub 18 and I end up having to mouse steer while strafing but this seems much less involved then what I am doing. Anyone have some insight into how to steer during a kite? I have a hell of a time landing the level 2 dot unless I have no speed boost at all and strafe so maybe I am doing something wrong?

Mandalore93 · #39 01-15-2014, 03:00 PM

I always mouse steer. I actually find it easier to do so than any other means. But to each his own barding, eh?

Samoht Farstrider · #40 01-16-2014, 01:51 AM

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Is he just using autorun and tapping to turn? I have been strafe kiting since I am still sub 18 and I end up having to mouse steer while strafing but this seems much less involved then what I am doing. Anyone have some insight into how to steer during a kite? I have a hell of a time landing the level 2 dot unless I have no speed boost at all and strafe so maybe I am doing something wrong?

Yes. Turn turn turn turn strafe turn turn turn strafe

That's how I do it.