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marvin@... wrote:
> From: <marvin@...>
>
> On Mon, 27 Sep 1999, PHAEDRA WHITLOCK wrote:
> > How do you get Root to work? It sucks up half my
> mana, and so far,
> > never holds even blues (pumas, lions, gt spiders,
> orc centurions). I
> > wouldnt think of trying it on anything higher.
> Dont even memorize it
> > any more.
>
> for me it wasn't viable tull lvl 16 or so...till
> then it just sucked up
> lots of mana...
For me it's been extremely dependant on the target.
From 17 up to 19, Gators in Oasis seemed to pretty
much never resist it (meaning it worked about 1 in 3
times). Stuff in E Karana, up to lvl 20, just
basically always ignored it. Except the Chasm
Crawlers.
>
> > Groups, my groups tend to have the critter dead in
> 5 seconds or less
> > (orc camps) so the 15 rule wont help me.
>
> I had the same problem, so i just step in kinda
> close and guage off the HP
> bar...when it's ~1/8th down is generally a good time
> to start in on the
> critter...
It is definitely a feel thing. Nuking slow is a
tactic for a tank-heavy group which involves long
fights. If I'm in a caster heavy group, which takes
things down quickly, I'll generally just chain cast
and keep my fingers crossed.
>
> > And I always have Gate handy. So much better than
> Fade and Shadowstep!
> > Saved my life yesterday in the dervish camp.
>
> at your level shadowstep and then gate is a great
> escape method...i've
> found that when you hit the really high teens though
> that everythign moves
> really fast and shadow step doesn't help as much
> anymore...of course by
> then the mana you spend for root is trivial, so root
> and gate become a
> decently effective strat...
My experience has pretty much been opposite that. If
I'm in a wide open area, Shadowstep/Gate is my only
prayer for escape (course, it also makes corpse
retrieval very frustrating). Getting to higher levels
(late teens) just meant that Channeling was higher, so
Gate is less likely to be interrupted when they do
catch up to me.
>
> Stannis Starslyder
> Wizard of the Moon
> Innoruuk