08-01-2005, 10:36 AM
First of all, let me congratulate you for such a fine piece of work. Its really nice to see such a complete guide on basic strategy.
I have been reading some of it and found a point where I must disagree with you.
Under Main Assist, Role Responsabilities
I must add here, that warlocks have THE spell to hold runners, which is Curse of Recklesness, this will make them not run away, thus being better than slowing them down. Also I may add, Druids have roots to prevent mobs form running if outdoors and in caster form. I may be even so bold as to say that if there is a warlock in the party, he/she must be responsable for runners. Just slap a CoR when the mob is short of running.
However it is my experience that classes who CC in battle like mages or Warlocks with succubus, which will be changing targets to refresh the CC, will do bad MAs. Same goes for tanks, as they may need to swtich between targets if there is more than one mob to be tanked. This is of course, because people will use the assist key or macro to see the target of the MA if these is just changing target because a cc needs to be refreshed, then the party may attack the wrong mob, or maybe just one person attacks the wrong mob, the rest attack the target the MA intended.
I have been reading some of it and found a point where I must disagree with you.
Under Main Assist, Role Responsabilities
Quote:Any class can be main assist except Priests, Warlocks and Druids since they do not have reliable skills to hold runners. Classes with some armor and both melee attacks are a good choice as they can take aggro and keep the target on the front line. Ranged attackers or people who fight from the back line can me the main assist, but need to be careful not to pull aggro.
I must add here, that warlocks have THE spell to hold runners, which is Curse of Recklesness, this will make them not run away, thus being better than slowing them down. Also I may add, Druids have roots to prevent mobs form running if outdoors and in caster form. I may be even so bold as to say that if there is a warlock in the party, he/she must be responsable for runners. Just slap a CoR when the mob is short of running.
However it is my experience that classes who CC in battle like mages or Warlocks with succubus, which will be changing targets to refresh the CC, will do bad MAs. Same goes for tanks, as they may need to swtich between targets if there is more than one mob to be tanked. This is of course, because people will use the assist key or macro to see the target of the MA if these is just changing target because a cc needs to be refreshed, then the party may attack the wrong mob, or maybe just one person attacks the wrong mob, the rest attack the target the MA intended.