Got Poisons Use Your Bow And Kite Without Risk (EQ2 Map)
January 20th, 2007Bow styles, even being a swashbuckler, are hitting harder and seem more productive for poison procs as my initial opener vs. stealth attacks.
Therefore, with high dot poison (rather then high initial damage poison) Pull with bow style …enter melee range and run backwards + Sideways simultaneously and constantly. This will make you do backward loops. Poison will do the grunt work for you. At 22 today, I killed a Named blue ++ Group mob with full health and full power after the fight. I was simply 65 arrows lighter for the wear. I also solo'd a 26 griff in TS this way without a scratch. Costs the arrows…but grab that named loot or last quest mob yourself.
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Hello, while I do commend your tactic, I must disagree with you. I am a 66 swashbuckler myself and I have taken the strength and wisdom lines, I use a one handed weapon and nothing in my offhand. With that out of the way let me just say that even before I had AA I found the simplest and easiest way for me was to kill them by starting off with my stealth attack. This attack can be used from any direction and stuns them as well as knocks them back. This allows me to follup immediatly with one of my back attacks, which like most of my combat arts is also a debuff. After I get the second attack off I use my stun followed by two more back attacks. By the time the mob turns around he is already half dead and he has not even hit me once(nor have I wasted any ammo). I then proceed to use the remainded of my debuffs, followed by any damage combat arts that can be used while the mob is facing me. I then (if I need to, which is rare) use our handy mez and turn off my combat while I am casting and then go into stealth, get behind the mob and start over. It's quite a simple method and much easier than running around backwards with the potential to get adds, and I am able solo yellow ^ mobs without any difficulty. Blue ^^ with this tactic is even easier. So go for it rangers, but if you are a swashbuckler use your natural talents which is our ability to debuff and keep their backs to us.
-Scarlocke
Antonia Bayle