Plane of Valor kiting

[Badnewz]

Anyone who can help me with some ideas on where is a good /loc spot to agro kite the crystal golems in poV? or know a good tatic for doing this zone as a 60 necro?

[Ahura Mazda]

I personally would wait until 63 for Embracing Darkness.

I'm sure its totaly doable but the 63 snare gets resisted too often as it is, I cant imagine how it is with a lower level one.

[DogMeat]

I am a 61 necro and aggro kited pretty much in POV.. i still use dooming darkness though(think its our lev 34 or 39 one?) 1. because it has a faster recast time so if its resisted i can run far enough away to recast it without taking damage. 2. Its lower cost of mana, I mainly just use the darkness line for snare effect, other dots do the damage. 3. if for some reason pet gets aggro another cast of this and its right back on ya for low mana cost and fast cast time.

As for spots to aggro kite.. there are pretty many, the main ones are the outter camp if you can get there when no groups are there, or ther NE corner is good too.. just watch for the spiders, they are hard to see and unsnareable.

[Badnewz]

i get about 1/2 my dooming casts resisted. go go sow pots i guess. gotta straft my ass off down the wall to get him out of cast range and reapply a new snare or try anyway. cant wait till 63, bought to ding 61 the xp here at 60 is wtf crazy makin a little over a blue a kill. was wondering if any of u got a good dot rot to throw down on the mobs that would apply for a lvl 61, i have funeral pyre. havent found a good way to keep agro yet keep from casting to many dots, but not so few that mob dont die fast. any spell rot you use is welcome to suggestion thx.

[Goshozal Sans Merci]

Go to the East Castle Camp. (East Castle is what it is called on my server; if you're on the bridge between the two castles headed up, it's the wall that the bridge connects to the "higher" castle on.)

If you're standing at that camp, there should be a zonewall visible opposite the castle wall. Invis and run to that zonewall. When facing the zonewall, turn left, and follow the wall. In a few hundred meters, you'll pass find a "corner." It's really easy to find with a map from www.eq-toolbox.com - it's the Northeast corner of the zone. This is where I soloed 60-62.

Summon a pet, buff it, etc. Pull with dooming darkness, and aggro kite in the corner area. There are several nearby static spawns that are EASY to pull, so many that you can't solo them all before they repop. No breaking spawns needed.

Yes, you'll get darkness resists. It's not a big deal. If you're reapplying darkness, make sure you do it with plenty of time for 2 or 3 tries. If they resist the first one, pull them to the zone wall. Have enstill (58? I think root) memmed. It has a 1 second cast time, run the mob along the zone wall and enstill it, then cast darkness. They can be pretty resistant at times, but with both enstill and dooming darkness being so low-cost, I never ended a fight below 40% mana. And my equip is very mediocre.

I always soloed with my LFG tag on and eventually got into one of the zone's groups. That's just me though... I get lazy with all the attention you have to pay to soloing after a while. I prefer to sit on a mount in lich form, hit 1 key to assist and another to /pet attack and cast a token DoT. :P

60 will go incredibly fast. 61 will be slower, but still 2-ish percent xp solo per kill. Haven't done much in 62 yet since I've taken a break for catching up with my guild flagwise.

[Doomfir]

40% mana left means a 60% loss and a pretty long (in relative terms) in downtime. I make more experience in Veksar in the undead section than I ever did soloing in PoV. With our undead slows and mezs, you might want to reconsider where you solo. I have done PoV in OC, and NE corner and they are both good exp. But when I am soloing rather than a kite group, the downtime because of how much mana it takes to kite mobs there, make it worse exp than Veksar.

I typically can kite at least two to 3 mobs before I have to med up. But even than I experience a fair amount of downtime in PoV because of mana reasons. If anything is better than Veksar for me it is HoH at the entrance and using a DC squire for the pet dmg. I can typically pull 2 - 3 mobs at a time and kill them all.

[Vaelhan]

PoV outter is a hell of a good spot to kite, pending on how good a comp you have and how much lag you put up you can easily solo outter, at 53 i get like 2 of 3 resists on dooming , then scent never gets resisted and puts agro like mad on the mob, there after its just a matter of splut/ebolt/plague and send in the rog pet. if higher ofcourse use higher dots. hope this helps.



Your lord and master,

Vaelhan Hemafier- Tunare

[Alaster]

Originally posted by DogMeat@Jan 19 2004, 07:21 PM
I am a 61 necro and aggro kited pretty much in POV.. i still use dooming darkness though(think its our lev 34 or 39 one?) 1. because it has a faster recast time so if its resisted i can run far enough away to recast it without taking damage. 2. Its lower cost of mana, I mainly just use the darkness line for snare effect, other dots do the damage. 3. if for some reason pet gets aggro another cast of this and its right back on ya for low mana cost and fast cast time.

As for spots to aggro kite.. there are pretty many, the main ones are the outter camp if you can get there when no groups are there, or ther NE corner is good too.. just watch for the spiders, they are hard to see and unsnareable.
I'm 61 and it's my prime exp spot (until someone comes for camp and dispells my snare and then runs up to trade 1sp with me, like someone did yesterday. YES I DIED!). Dooming only gets resisted about 2/10 times for me. SoW is not needed, only Run3, because it's easy to run to shore and FD them. Wait for it to get far enuff and then get up and cast snare. If you get the timing right, snare will hit just as it leaves the water. Level 63 Darkness will be cool, but it's still trivial with Dooming.

I pull from inner with Ceramic band and FD split them. Really fun to play monk.

[Alaster]

BTW my spell lineup when kiting at OC in PoV is as follows:

Pyrocuror
Funeral Pyre of Kelador
Cessation of Cor
Vexing Mordinia
Splurt
Dooming Darkness
Augmentation of Death
Death Peace

Cast in this order imo and just cycle them:

Dooming
Splurt
Pyro
Cessation -> Good agro spell (debuffs). Send in pet after this on mob.
Vexing
Pyre
Dooming -> Always resnare after stacking DoT's or you'r in for a 10 min kite becuase you won't be able to stop to resnare (they run fast) and if you FD, the mob will immediately regen up to full health.

[Doomfir]

Dooming darkness sux for a snare though. Embracing darkness is light years ahead of it in both cast time and resist rates after you hit 63. After that point you will never use DD again.

My Spell lineup is
Touch of Death
Sarynn's Kiss
Funeral Pyre
Blood of Thule
Dark Plague
Embracing Darkness
Death peace
Seduction of Sarynn

I use Sarynn's Companion if I am not using a DC pet.. which isn't often these days.

Have fun.

[Jebasiz]

Envenomed Bolt is good for agro iirc

Jeb

[Alaster]

So is Darkness line; and Cor debuffs the mob's melee stats, making it easier for pet to hit it, it also costs 80 mana less and does comparable damage (1k vice 1.1k). I have Ceramic Gravel of Justice, so it is very mana efficient to kite them. IMO we should get a poison DoT upgrade before level 60 cause waiting for BoT sucks. I'm about to get imprecation, which will add another pinch of damage for meh :P

[Neme Sis]

Ummm... did anyone read the post called Power Kiting? Funny thing is that I addressed this question before it was asked. hehe.

I list 2 of the easiest spots in PoV as well as several other zones to use this technique.

But to save you the trip... Outter Cave (OC) just to the left of the zone in, and the Northeast corner over looking the tar pits from the zone line.

Good luck!

[Badnewz]

[QUOTE] "I typically can kite at least two to 3 mobs before I have to med up. But even than I experience a fair amount of downtime in PoV because of mana reasons. If anything is better than Veksar for me it is HoH at the entrance and using a DC squire for the pet dmg. I can typically pull 2 - 3 mobs at a time and kill them all."

there is a undead mob in poV that u can DC too. think its same mob. hits for 149 DC'd