I, a 70 bard, want to swarm kite because I've had trouble with "conventional" soloing techniques.
My bot experience has been decent at best because Bard (at least with my current gear) can't tank effectively, or heal a tank bot. - Thus I have decided to kite.
Having trouble finding a decent swarm kite spot - need social mobs in an open area that don't summon.
Do non-custom zones have the server XP modifier?
Any particular reason that PoP seems to be locked down? can't port to any of the zones.
Any ideas on locations? Custom or non-custom are welcome.
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I hit 70 recently on my bard and have been having some trouble soloing.
As far as bots go, I've found that an SK is essentially my best bet, because I can't take the damage and they can (kind of) heal themselves, but in general I have found that there really isn't much that I can do without at least rolling a healer.
I have tried my hand at boxing, and although it is nice, I have been having serious issues with locking up when zoning, and having it happen on two clients is just more trouble than I care to go through (maybe this will change as a fix is found for this issue). The other issue is that I'm not really a huge fan of boxing in the first place - maybe 2 boxing, but certainly not 5-6 boxing.
That being said, for the time being, I've let my bot take a break and have tried some of the bard solo techniques.
Chant kiting is fine; however it's quite slow and I'm limited to 2 mobs at a time, at roughly 4-5 minutes per kill (or 2 kills).
PBAoE kiting sounds fantastic, but I've never tried it and I'm about 97% positive that it will only result in a smelly Eattat-shaped stain on the zone floor.
Charm kiting!
I've been able to do this successfully with one mob at a time - pet vs. one mob. What I would love to get into is swarm kiting - sending my pet against several, let them beat him to a pulp, and I subsequently finish the job. However, I've yet to find a decent (custom) zone to do this in. A few things:
Swarm kiting requires:
Social mobs
Open Area
Mobs that don't summon
Despite the cramped quarters, I tried Icewell Keep and found that charming the guards there results in a bad time because the pet seems to draw no agro whatsoever.
Plane of Storms definitely meets the Open Area criteria, and there are also a large portion of mobs that don't summon. However, in my experience, the only social mobs are giants, who do summon.
Fungus Grove, although indoors, may be a possibility. However, in my experience there on live, a large portion of the mobs there are casters. I have not tried Fungus Grove yet because of what I remember of it from live. Can anyone confirm deny summoning mobs/casters?
Along the same lines, here's a quick side question: Do the non-custom zones (IE the "all" porter zones) offer the custom XP rate of the custom zones?
To be honest, if it means I can solo efficiently, I'll give up the 3x xp - if the "standard" zones don't have the XP modifier.
Any ideas for solo spots in these non-custom zones are welcome also.
One final thing: I tried heading to PoN yesterday because I wanted to try hunting there, and received a message stating that I was too much of a noob to use the portals. I subsequently tried Halls of Honor and received the same message.
Is there something going on with this? Are they keyed zones? Are they set aside for alt-P? PoP was one of my favorite expansions and I would love to be able to hunt there
