Tactics

A list of general tactical ideas:

Basic Tactics

• Tank + Hitters
  • Tank in a more aggressive style than hitters and focuses only on healing
  • Hitters only focus on hitting. Duh.

• Rescue Tanks + Hitters
  • Two Characters with 'rescue' share tanking, while hitters hit.
    • Rescue Tanks quaff to full, rescue OTHERTANK, repeat.

• Round-Robin Tanking (some mobs just switch randomly)
  • While tanking, stop hitting and just heal like crazy.
  • While not-tanking, hit hit hit!

• Style Control Tanking (some mobs aggro the most aggressively styled player)
  • Switch styles up/down to control who is tanking, have some plan for how to do this to share the burden.

• LinkDead Tanking.
  • Useful for avoiding IP Limitations.
    • You can start a fight on a char that you LinkDead. Log another Killer. You are still ip1.
  • LD Tank will die, but, might last long enough to allow hitters to take the edge off the mob so its more doable.
    • Recall that Gas attacks are HP based. If you can drop its HP significantly, its Gas will be much more withstandable.
  • Especially effective with CM Mages as LD Tanks against all-magic-attack-mobs (see below)

• Flee/Heal Tactics
  • If you cannot quaff in the room, or there is a prog or other problem preventing quaffing....
    • Fight until you need to heal, flee to a safe room, heal up, return to mob. Repeat.
  • (Might also want to look into edible heals if its only 'quaffing' specifically that's a problem)

• Zurg Rush
  • Death may not be much of a big deal at all in a freely supplicatable area....
    • Fight. Die. Quit. Log a new character who is ready to go, go to mob, Fight. Die. Quit. Repeat.
  • You may only need 2 or 3 characters if you can reset/return quickly enough

Class Specific Tactics

• Ranger Archers
  • Ranger (or Ranger Army) fires arrows from a room away at the mob.
    • Can have a tank fighting mob while archers fire arrows, or, no tank - JUST fire arrows into an un-engaged mob.
    • May only be viable to a certain point before mob heals. Could drop HP enough to reduce Gas Breath damage though.
    • Mob may chase you, so heads up!

• CounterMagick Mage
  • Path of Countermagick 'invoila magicka' spell gives full immune magic.
    • Can tank magic-attack mobs super effectively for about 40 rds.
    • Perhaps you can flee to re-cast invoila?
  • If the penalty for exceeding the mob's IP limit is a magic attack, CM Mages nullify that. Multi CM Mages All You Want.

• Barbarian Choke/Flee or Choke/Flee/Quit method.
  • If another player chokes the mob, you can then choke again. So, 2 or more other barbs can all choke/flee/choke/flee:
    • Choke Mob. Flee. Another player chokes mob, they flee. You return, choke,flee. In/out/In/out etc.
  • If solo: choke mob, flee, quit, reconnect, return, choke mob, flee, quit, reconnect, return, choke mob, flee, repeat til dead.

• Immobilize Mage
  • Mage of the Path of Balance 'immobilize' skill renders a mob fully incapacitated.
    • Have immober cast immob while a hitter or several hit.
  • Many mobs are immob'able. Some do require Nephandi spelldowns for immob to land however, test!

• Stun
  • Warrior's 'stun' skill can be useful to knock some crap out. Not really much of a 'tactic' but something to test.

• Poison
  • Poisoning a mob and waiting it out makes any mob a wimp. Again, not a huge "tactic" perse, but worth testing if poison lands!