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Rangers - Don't snare kite
Posted: January 17, 2003, 4:35 pm
by Soriathus Serpentine
Ok, I'm expecting a huge reply from Aranuil on this one...
I've been in Velks the last couple of days and have been my first few visits ever to this dungeon. There's this ranger who says "Hi, could I group with you, this is the first time I haven't played in like 6 monhts". Sounds like an ebay special to me. He's an absolute moron because he snare kites in Velks. First off, snake kiting as a Ranger?!? Second off, Velks just isn't the kind of dungeon that you wanna kite in, especially when there are 25+ people in the zone and you most likey are gonna trian people every 2 minutes.
Posted: January 17, 2003, 4:47 pm
by Voronwë
if you zone into Velks and expect it NOT to be full of idiots, that was your first mistake
Posted: January 17, 2003, 5:02 pm
by noel
Voronwë wrote:if you zone into Velks and expect it NOT to be full of idiots, that was your first mistake
Seconded.
Velks is full of tools 90% of the time. If you can carve out a niche location or move past the spider groups into the more remote areas of the dungeon, you can do reasonably well, but the idiots that are near the entrance make it a horrible place most of the time.
The best times I ever had there were with Sartori and Kyoukan when Velious first came out, before anyone knew about the zone, or with Cshae, Larain, and Roxburry when we were well past the pit groups crawling through the rear spider maze for hours at a time.
Posted: January 17, 2003, 5:05 pm
by cid
Aranuil,
I remember you dinging to 60 there. Talk about a man on a mission. You was pulling like a mad man!
Posted: January 17, 2003, 5:08 pm
by noel
It's true! I ended up grouped with a cleric from Ixtlan pulling everything I could possibly pull. Funny thing is, it was the same way with Kelgar. You always knew he was about to ding because he'd go crazy with Ransure-sized (tm) pulls, grabbing everything in the zone.
Looks like my friends will get to see that again soon.
Posted: January 17, 2003, 9:51 pm
by Xaem
Those of you just saying fuck rangers that snare kite - go to hell. 106 of my 182 AA points have been made via the snare kite.
Those of you just saying fuck rangers that snare kite in Velks - I agree.. Anyone who thinks that *if* you can even snare kite there is crazy, or *if* the xp is even sufficient.
Posted: January 17, 2003, 9:56 pm
by Ebumar
Rangers that are GOOD at snare kiting are people that you never have to worry about getting you killed. Rangers that don't know the first thing about it... well, they need help, and you probably shouldn't be in the same area.
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Posted: January 18, 2003, 6:36 am
by Ulvian
Snare Kiting in Velks...Sounds like that Ranjor has been hitting the crack pipe too much in those last hours before logging in.
What kind of an idiot actually kites Velks mobs, u can fart directly at them and they like...die.
And yeah, Velks without morons is like I dunno...Searyx without birth defects or something like that.
Posted: January 18, 2003, 10:29 am
by Animalor
Voronwë wrote:if you zone into Velks and expect it NOT to be full of idiots, that was your first mistake
I was there last week farming Crystalline threads =/ Does that count as idiocy?
Posted: January 19, 2003, 12:43 am
by Anuin
Aran.. I thought you dinged in sol b "soloing" giants and spiders during a RF camp...
Posted: January 19, 2003, 4:04 am
by Canelek
I remember!
We PLed him on trash from BW during an Ixtblat thing
However, the majority of his 59 was spent in Velks..where we stayed in the middle or left corner, taking out spiders..
I believe the Velks runs comprised of:
Me
Aranuil
Lorilea
Blumgan
Abash
Anuin
At least as far as I can remember...
Good times, had by all