> I agree fully. This is FD doable, and I would like to spend some time here > with a diversity of groups. Have seen some real interesting drop, however > with them being NODROP, you have to be there. example there was a nice bard > helm, some renger stuuf and get this, two real nice iskar shammy items a BP > and something else I didnt have time to lok at, just remember it being iskar > shammy. I am not a tank/MA. I was busier than a one legged man in an ass kicking contest and the lizard monk wasn't letting up. It took me a few minutes to get the hotkeys realigned. But An Sk's job has certain necessities and adding MA holding taunt along with them I felt I was what bard have been refered to. There are four buffs I keep on myself for mine and the groups benefit. 1.) Hate: decreases the mobs attack by 40 + and adds it to everyone in my group SWEET. 2.) Strength decreases mobs strength and gives it to me. with one strength buff I am at 255. Thats less damage the mob is doing so that assists our healers in less healing and more damage I do keeping aggro and helping to kill mobs quicker. 3.) AC decreaser. Decreases the mobs AC and gives it to me, once again a double edged sword... 4.) I dark every mob it is major aggro getter. slows the mob and also is a DoT, not as strong as the necro of my equal level, but I cast it anyway. Of course the spells take a few seconds to fire thats why i try to get in synch with the puller. If the puller takes off I drop aggro and start looking for the next mob. The hesitation that appears I am just standing is awaiting for the dark or other spell to fire. I have aggro before the mob even gets to camp and if I can I stick a few shafts in it just to make sure it wants to bury me and not the caster still sitting. DO NOT sit when mobs are INC ! You think you are low on mana, wait till Joe Mob finishes. Your health bar will match your mana bar. And then along with mob positioning so I can try to watch adds and figure my next target, SEE text SINI and EMI Chanty/MA 101, and pounding the heck out of the TAUNT key while pulling a mob off the aggro'd nuker makes for a busy melee. Wash rinse INC next Joe Mob.... I can't wait till Muchael can MA....Seriously I enjoy the heck out of it and would'nt have it any other way. The time goes by the exp bar ticks away and I have a piece of tape I put over my health bar so I cant even see, cause I don't really wanna know... Regards, Emirikel > From: "Tilton" <tilton@xxxxxxxxxx> > Date: 2003/05/16 Fri AM 09:23:47 GMT-05:00 > To: "FDMailer" <first_defenders@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Subject: [first_defenders] New Hate > > Spent the better bart of Thursday in Hate with a bunch of peeps and the > retrofit they did to the place was amazing!. As one guy said, "They did a > Trading Spaces episode with Hate and Fear". The new art they did for the > buildings and general atmosphere is reminiscent of 19th centrury London. No > longer do you port in in the middle of a sh*t storm of nasty adds either. As > long as you dont get too close to the walls (as usual) you'll be okay. > > The map has changed also. You may as well throw the old one away and > unfortunatly, LoY mapping doesnt work here either (grab pen and paper). The > npc models are still old world and not much has changed in their make up but > I think they did something to the exp. In raid with 12 people (41-62) I > ended up getting a full yellow of exp in 5 hours of chain pulling. 2 > Enchanters kept the adds to more than managable levels (Sylphan being the > second and by far one of the most economical, reliable enchanters I've had > the privilege of working with). > > In a nut shel, if pulled properly with a good tank and equally good healer, > the enterance and Yard Trash cuold probably yeild a single, tight group some > pretty good exp for a day. Expect death though, as the Liches are still a > royal pain in the arse and as usual in hate....DONT use AoE spells. You wont > have time for evac or port-out. > > Oh, last thing, the port stones now cost just over 50p each (52p 4g 9s 9c) > which is nearly half what I rem the cost being and Sinistraad has a few > extras on hand in his bank. > > See ya in pixels > Degan > >