01-15-2006, 09:21 AM
(This post was last modified: 01-16-2006, 04:11 AM by MongoJerry.)
MongoJerry,Mar 23 2005, 12:02 AM Wrote:I tried levitate a couple of times, and I didn't see anything conclusive. I still died even though I managed to cast it on myself prior to being blown up one time. More testing would need to be made to be sure if it'd help. I had much more success shielding myself and getting under ledges. That death in the final battle was one of the few times I actually died from the The Bomb. Far more often, I managed to live, and I was quite proud of my ability to keep not only myself but my partymates alive even as others were dying left and right. It helped that my party did a good job of staying within my casting range so I could shield them and heal them to full when they got The Bomb.
An addendum to this: Levitate works wonders. What I must not have realized at the time of this writing is that Levitate breaks when the priest receives damage. Obviously, the priest takes damage when The Bomb first explodes, so that would have canceled the Levitate. However, after you explode, you can cast Levitate at that point and live quite easily.
Also, in addition to pre-shielding a victim of The Bomb, you can heal them while they're still in the air. I've saved many people by having a renew ticking on them and casting a Flash Heal on them while they're flying or falling through the air.