mob resists

[fleebones]

Hey All,


Fleebones (62 Gnome Necro on TheNameless) here...

I hope this doesn't sound like a dumb question, but here it goes anyway: I've recently been soloing underbulks in the PoDisease, and much to my dismay, they are fookers when it comes to spell resists. 20% of the time my SNARE doesn't stick, and I have to run circles trying to get enough distance to re-cast. Since snares (i.e. our "darkness" line) are magic based, are there any ways to increase the chance that they stick???

I can only think of the following factors that affect a snare landing successfully:

1) your level
2) the level of the mob
3) possibly, the level of the spell
4) ... ?

are there any focus items that can make out snares stick better?

Thanks guys.


Evily,
Flee

[Starisan]

Partner with a shaman, Mage, or chanter that can debuff for Magic and see how that works for you.

[Schaeffer]

yeah the Magic resist level of the mob is a big one, that's why we get some lifetaps that are diseased based. We also get a disesed based snare that is a nuke, but i've never tried kiting with it. I've used it as a snare in situations when the mob is gonna run and i wanna snare it without using a big mana spell in the darkness line. It's called insidious retrogression, a 500 plus nuke wth a snare. Not sure how long the snare component lasts (MoB is usually dead before it wears off or is overridden by druid / ranger snare), so i wouldn't try it myself, but if you're willing to give it a shot, let us all know how long it lasts.

[Ebonstar]

See here (http://lucy.allakhazam.com/spell.html?id=2545&source=Live) for Insidious Retrogression. It works well, lasts 1:36, and is disease-based instead of magic, so you might have more success with this, although in Plane of Disease you might find that mobs have high DR.

Another tactic is to use a low level darkness like Engulfing Darkness (http://lucy.allakhazam.com/spell.html?id=355&source=Live) which is fast to cast and has a low mana cost. It also has a -20 resist check, so you never know. Then once this lands, you can use a higher level one to slow them down even more.

Or just team up with a ranger / druid who's snare lasts 15 mins :D

[Jebasiz]

I used dooming darkness there...with Csod it was fast enough, using dmf and landscape to my advantage to cast til it stuck. With the exception of mobs that buff themselves I believe your list is fairly accurate. In general if your fear kiting you could dark, fear, proc an orb of tashani on it, to lower resists for a refresh, other then that( and *that* is for mobs 54 or lower) there isn't really too much you can do solo. Except goto pon and kill birds and trees until your higher level.

Jeb

[NeSikWay]

I've found the insidious retrogression, is a high agro spell, cause it doesn 3 things, snare, lower attack rate, and is a 500 plus DD spell. Well worth it, and isn't as resisted as the regular snare, but sometimes doesn't last as long.

[fleebones]

Hey Guys,


Thanks for all the feedback. I will put your wisdom to good use!