ah, but if your soloing, AND you can finish the fight without needing mend
(even if its close) you can bind up to half way, then use mend to almost 4
bubbles. cuts down time drastically.
just wait till it gets over 100, will very, very rarly fail
On Sun, 16 Jan 2000, Thom Green wrote:
> From: "Thom Green" <thom_mg@...>
>
> It only makes sense to use your Mend the second you are around two
> bubbles down for 2 reasons.
>
> First off it really doens't matter when you mend, as long as you know
> you are going to need it, in this case, any time you lose more than
> about 1 1/2 bubbles you are going to need it, so I make a point to
> Always use mine around 2 bubbles down. Reason one is so your cleric
> (if you are in a party) doesn't waste mana on you. I always tell my
> clerics, only pop a heal my way if I drop below 3 bubbles. That way
> I can use my mend without the fear of the cleric casting a heal on me
> and one of us wasting either.
>
> Second main reason, specially when soloing, is that if you use it at the
> beginning of a big combat (ie when you first reach about 2 bubbles
> down) then you will have that mend button pop up a little bit more
> quicker for the next combat, rather than probably having to go the
> next combat without it.
>
> Shelza, Karana
>
>
>
> >From: "RaceFace" <bean@...>
> >Reply-To: EQ-Monks@onelist.com
> >To: <EQ-Monks@onelist.com>
> >Subject: Re: [EQ-Monks] Mend, my most useless and irritating skill.
> >Date: Sat, 15 Jan 2000 15:04:25 -0600
> >
> >
> >It seems to me that the chances of it failing are a LOT higher if you use
> >Mend and you are at 50% health or lower. I'm level 24 and my skill is only
> >90 (never bothered practicing it when sitting in town babbling with people,
> >I'm going to have to start now. :)). If I use it when I only have 2
> >bubbles
> >of health gone, it seems to work almost all the time. I can only recall it
> >failing twice, in recent memory, and only worsening my wounds once. I
> >always try and use it when I've lost 2 bubbles.
> >
> >-Raean Bloodyhands, 24th fist, Tunare.
> >
> >
> > > From: James W Hooper <jhooper@...>
> > >
> > >
> > > Of the monks that I know, it seems that I have the worst luck at getting
> >my
> > > Mend skill to work, especially in high risk combat situations. I have
> > > maxed out the skill at 17th level. This is not an exaggeration.
> >Yesterday
> > > I was soloing scarecrows in West Karana. I was earning a little Xp and
> > > practicing my newly aquired FD skill, which did work, I used mend 4
> >times
> > > in about a 2 hour period of time. It worked once, failed twice, and
> > > worsened my wounds the last time, which killed me when I had a white
> > > scarecrow on its last legs. My character basically committed suicide at
> > > the point where he was going to win. As I said, it seems I have the
> >worse
> > > luck with Mend. Does any one else have this problem or am I just the
> > > victim of bad numbers?
> > >
> > > Shando, 17th circle, Silent Fist Clan
> > > Bertoxxulous
> > >
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