Anti-Swarming Kung Fu
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I'm currently running my no-twink solo pally through NM at players 5. I stopped yesterday at the Chrys Passage wp.

Up to this point, I am using Smite/Conversion heavily. I generally smite the first 2 critters that approach me to create a nice little wall in front of me. The rest of the pack has to go around these two, and I can smite/convert the first one to get to me. Once you get a convert, the job gets a lot easier because the monster AI will focus on the converts first. I can back off and zeal one-on-one at the edge of the pack. Or I can smite a monster against my former wall in the middle.

Conversion is a fantastic skill now. It takes a lot of pressure of a pally since he doesn't get to cast minions. I've put 7 points into it, and with a +2 combat skill circlet I have a 33% chance to convert. My swing rate is pretty decent since I'm running Fanatacism, and I find there are several times I'll just convert 5-6 relatively quickly and let them help me against a tough boss/champ combo.

For the ranged characters, I find 1 point in Charge does wonders. You can Charge while chilled (I hope this isn't a bug), so you can close the distance to one, smite it, convert it, and Charge to the next. I had 2 spearcat bosses right on top of the Frigid wp, and this worked wonders for me. Get a couple converts, and smite down the bosses.

I had a similar situation as your second screenshot above. After converting a few of the abominables, the encounter was pretty easy. They would stun some of the gloams, while I was busy smiting the boss.

I don't see how people can dismiss the Smite/Conversion combo in 1.10. It works extremely well so far. Granted I'll need to see how effective it is once I get to Hell. But so far, once I started adding stun duration (I'm at 2.8 seconds now) life got a lot easier.

My char is lvl 66, with 5 skill points saved. And I don't really expect to face anything that I can't handle until Lister when I'll have to run around to try and separate the pack.
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Anti-Swarming Kung Fu - by Nicodemus Phaulkon - 08-03-2003, 03:14 PM
Anti-Swarming Kung Fu - by Brista - 08-03-2003, 03:38 PM
Anti-Swarming Kung Fu - by lemekim - 08-03-2003, 05:49 PM
Anti-Swarming Kung Fu - by Rataxes - 08-03-2003, 06:06 PM
Anti-Swarming Kung Fu - by Crystalion - 08-03-2003, 09:27 PM
Anti-Swarming Kung Fu - by Ruvanal - 08-03-2003, 11:45 PM
Anti-Swarming Kung Fu - by kandrathe - 08-04-2003, 12:11 AM
Anti-Swarming Kung Fu - by pbrain - 08-04-2003, 02:13 AM
Anti-Swarming Kung Fu - by Loschonorg - 08-04-2003, 02:32 AM
Anti-Swarming Kung Fu - by WarBlade - 08-04-2003, 03:14 AM
Anti-Swarming Kung Fu - by pbrain - 08-04-2003, 04:02 AM
Anti-Swarming Kung Fu - by Ice - 08-04-2003, 08:32 AM
Anti-Swarming Kung Fu - by Zath - 08-04-2003, 09:41 AM
Anti-Swarming Kung Fu - by Nicodemus Phaulkon - 08-04-2003, 10:59 PM
Anti-Swarming Kung Fu - by Nicodemus Phaulkon - 08-04-2003, 11:09 PM
Anti-Swarming Kung Fu - by Kensan - 08-05-2003, 12:32 AM
Anti-Swarming Kung Fu - by Hammerskjold - 08-05-2003, 02:40 AM
Anti-Swarming Kung Fu - by Nicodemus Phaulkon - 08-05-2003, 05:16 AM
Anti-Swarming Kung Fu - by Nicodemus Phaulkon - 08-05-2003, 05:21 AM
Anti-Swarming Kung Fu - by Swarmalicious - 08-05-2003, 11:25 AM
Anti-Swarming Kung Fu - by csivils - 08-05-2003, 06:56 PM
Anti-Swarming Kung Fu - by Nicodemus Phaulkon - 08-06-2003, 08:38 AM
Anti-Swarming Kung Fu - by Raziel - 08-06-2003, 01:02 PM
Anti-Swarming Kung Fu - by csivils - 08-06-2003, 02:55 PM
Anti-Swarming Kung Fu - by Nicodemus Phaulkon - 08-06-2003, 03:10 PM
Anti-Swarming Kung Fu - by Raziel - 08-06-2003, 03:34 PM
Anti-Swarming Kung Fu - by csivils - 08-06-2003, 03:37 PM
Anti-Swarming Kung Fu - by Striker - 08-06-2003, 09:24 PM
Anti-Swarming Kung Fu - by GenericKen - 08-06-2003, 10:24 PM
Anti-Swarming Kung Fu - by Bhima - 08-07-2003, 04:01 PM
Anti-Swarming Kung Fu - by Raziel - 08-07-2003, 05:37 PM
Anti-Swarming Kung Fu - by Striker - 08-07-2003, 08:18 PM
Anti-Swarming Kung Fu - by Raziel - 08-07-2003, 10:05 PM
Anti-Swarming Kung Fu - by Striker - 08-08-2003, 05:38 AM
Anti-Swarming Kung Fu - by Nicodemus Phaulkon - 08-08-2003, 02:46 PM
Anti-Swarming Kung Fu - by NERDmanWhippy - 08-14-2003, 03:05 AM
Anti-Swarming Kung Fu - by Ice - 08-14-2003, 05:40 PM
Anti-Swarming Kung Fu - by NERDmanWhippy - 08-14-2003, 05:47 PM
Anti-Swarming Kung Fu - by Raziel - 08-14-2003, 06:29 PM
Anti-Swarming Kung Fu - by whyBish - 08-15-2003, 08:41 AM
Anti-Swarming Kung Fu - by kandrathe - 08-19-2003, 04:55 AM
Anti-Swarming Kung Fu - by whyBish - 08-20-2003, 10:58 AM

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