Guild Wars.

[SwissMercenary]

Stone Summit Howlers are the necros.  And yes, Vampiric Touch and Soul Feast (corpse skill) are annoying.

Thanks.

The Stone Summit warriors that use axes will use Distracting Blow when it's available to them, which is a real pain if you're casting constantly.

Too little, too late. Unlike Distracting Shot, Distracting Blow is hardly guaranteed to land. They are very much a low, low priority target.

I agree for the most part, except I've always wanted to take out the necros after the mesmers since leaving them to the end always ensures them of quite a few corpses with which to (basically) spam Soul Feast.

Killing them after the sages means they can still consume a corpse, while spamming touch spells on your fighters.

If you aren't doing damage to them, they won't cast any life stealing spells.

If you aren't in meelee to them, and aren't damaging them, they'll just stand there, plinking away with their 9 damage wands.

I think I'd rather take out all their buddies, then try to kill a self-healing armour-ignoring 500+ health (Soul Feast) Howler, when there's two snow ettins and a beastmaster knocking the party around like rag dolls.

When howlers are the only ones left, sure, you may have to burn through 800 or so health, but the only damage you will be taking will come from their touch skills.