Quark,Apr 20 2005, 09:58 PM Wrote:One tip to Rogues, if they haven't figured this quirk out yet. If someone aggros a monster while you're stealthed, that monster can walk right through you and not see you. Use this to your advantage to get in a good position to Ambush without having to chase the monster down :)I did forget to mention that and I'm glad you brought it up. I do that constantly. Taranna (GG's druid) starfires to start the fight, I stealth as he's casting and take that time to position myself in front of him, facing him while he's pounding it with wraths and a moonfire and then faerie fires. The critter just walks through me and I'm in a great position for ambush without having to move much and faerie fire definitely helps boost my ambush damage. :) Edit: Him blasting away also helps keep aggro off of me when I do the insane crits so I can whip out the damage while he tanks/heals. Works amazingly well for us. :D
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I backstab a lot if we are fighting multiple things because I'm not going to vanish every fight just to get in an ambush. Most of the time I am also behind the critter because I've got the druid who really works to build up a lot of aggro before I ambush so I'm unstealthed, but behind a critter. Perfect time for backstab! ;) Sometimes the backstab does less than the ambush, sometimes it does more, sometimes it's about the same (excepting when one crits and the other doesn't). It's especially all over the place with the new patch. My crits with ambush were actually higher though after the patch than before the patch. Not by a whole lot, but by a noticeable amount still.
Edit2: I have no idea why this isn't in Strategy/Game Mechanics. Must have had a brain cramp. Would some kind mod/admin move it there please?
Intolerant monkey.