Great story! thank you for helping me aspire to becoming a better enchanter.
I have experienced this type of situation just a little with my 16 enchanter
but I can tell how much crowd control power I will gain as time goes on

Azara, 16 HE Enchanter, Povar
Shawn A.

-----Original Message-----
From: srutkowski@... [mailto:srutkowski@...]
Sent: Monday, February 28, 2000 10:26 AM
To: eqenchanters@onelist.com
Subject: [eqenchanters] The Solo Enchanter

From: srutkowski@...

Finally catching up on the digests from last week <sigh>...

Being sick for a weekend has helped me learn a lot more about my enchanter
hehe

Enchanters can solo fairly easily, but there is risk involved in doing it.
Here's a fun story to show you an example.

While sitting in Unrest this weekend, waiting for the 23-26 crowd to show
up I was helping out with the trains, just killing time. After saving a
druid a couple of times from trains I asked him to SOW and skin me, just to
make sure I would be able to make it out if I tried to help and it went
badly. He said just let me know when it runs out and he'd be back to
recast it.

So I'm sitting here in Unrest, messing trains, helping those lower levels
groups that manage to snag one or two from a train kill it, etc. I'm
getting sick of zoning all the time, so I decide to try something else. A
huge train comes out (there were all of 24 people in unrest at that time)
all from the first and second floor, guessing around 20 MOBs. There are 2
groups that are fighting ghouls and mummies already, and I know that they
are going to have to zone FAST. So, I AOE Mes, only got about half of
them. Look for a high blue that didn't get messed- Barbed Bones is even,
oh well, here goes nothing. Tashani then Beguile the Barbed, sick it on a
monk that's beating up on a cleric. Languid Pace and Choke the monk (still
need to research ?tepid? deeds- or whatever the name of the 24 spell is).
Enthrall a couple CGs that didn't get messed, then AOE the other side of
the walkway as they are about to come loose. Only 2 resists that I see on
the mass of MOBs, looks like they are both engaged. Sit down to med.
Check pet. Pet's about 1/2 health. Check Pet's target. Pet has no target
(after scrolling back up I missed the exp message in the Mes spam). Stand
up and sick pet on a CG that's loose. Look around at the carnage going on
around me, looks good <grin>. CG running away (you get to hear their
whines getting fainter) so I throw a Choke on him to speed things up.
*exp*

Sick pet on an newly arrived Monk that's beating up on a little dwarven
paladin. Barbed isn't taunting off the paladin, so Tashani, Choke....
There we go, on me now. Colour Flux. Run to the other side of the battle.

Look around at the battle- throw another AOE mes. Sit to med. Check on
pet. Pet's health about 25%, Check Monk's health, monk at about 75. Charm
breaks. Colour Shift. Enthrall my ex-pet. Tashani Monk - Colour Flux -
Beguile Monk. /Pet kill on mummy. Look around- almost everything is dead.
Plop down to med. Monk kills barbed. Monk at almost no life. Change
spells to invis and nuke. Stand up to see another couple of dark bones
coming in now- I'm getting way low on mana....

Charm breaks, C Flux, enthrall. Beguile a dark boned skellie, sick it on
the Monk. Sit and med. Monk dies. *exp* Other dark boned skellie killed
by the other group.

/say anyone want this Dark Bones? He's not going to like me very much when
he breaks charm.
-a couple of people say "yes" "we want him" "bring him on" etc.
/say let me med a little before I break charm
/say Can I get a little heal? Train stopping takes a lot out of me.
/say Did everyone live there ? Everyone get a couple of kills?
Adriania begins to cast a spell
Bonky begins to cast a spell
-responses like "that was a lot of fun" "yes, we killed 4 I think" "we
got 3" "I thought I was a gonner" "nice exp from that"
You feel better
You feel much better
You feel much better

I med to about 3/4 of a bub of mana. "Ok," I say, "invising. Get ready."
Invis, Colous Flux, Colour Shift- take a couple of shots from the dark
boned, but he mostly misses all together.

someone says "Did you get any kills there Allurreena?"
/say a couple. Let me check.
I scroll back up the list and find 6 exp messages!
Excitedly I check my exp bar- WOW! (I couldn't remember how much I had
before it started but I'm guessing that I made over a bubble in that one
fight).
/say Yep, I got a few there too. Man that barbed was a good pet. I think
he killed a few of them with just his damage shield.
Bonky says, "Fine work again fair maiden. Who are the lucky that you are
grouped with today, M'Lady" (he's a little dwarven cleric who role-plays
the humble, dirty dwarven servant of Brell pretty well. He cracks me up
whenever I've grouped with me).
/say Not grouped right now. Bonky, have you taken a bath lately?
Bonky winces
At this point everyone is silent for a couple of seconds (I think stunned
hehe). Then someone says, "I got a little less than a 1/2 bubble from the
4 kills we got. How much did you get Allur?"
Bonky smelly himself
/say Call me Allu, I don't like that R. hehe I got, oh, little more than
a bub I think- can't remember how much I started off with.
<shocked silence fills unrest>
Things shouts "Allureenna is the best enchanter in the game. She rocks!!!"
/shout hehe Thanks Things, but I think that that would be Goldius, Hika, or
Milexplux too close to call there. Followed very closely by Anastia or
Annelisa.
Now Things is a funny little guy. He's a Halfling Rogue who likes to emote
things like:
"Things don't seem to be as they should be." (/em: don't seem to be as
they should be) and
"Things seem to have changed"

He's always a big cheer leader. But the basement group starts asking what
happened, and then I start getting all kinds of congrats and questions AND
(you guessed it) requests for clarity! To which I replied:
/shout Clarity for anyone who can powerlevel me to the next circle of
spells! hehe- had to try.

Needless to say, it was a great day in Unrest- doubt I'll ever have a hard
time finding a group from now on in Unrest. Only down moment in the day
came when we were fighting in the Tower when a Hag spawned. About 1/2 way
through the battle the Knight spawns, unfortunately he made a beeline for
me and I ate a harm touch. Couple more swings and I was dead.

In this situation, I know that having the others around to engage the MOBs
helped a lot, as did the fact that most of them had worked with one of the
3 or 4 enchanters around my level that are normally in the zone when I
play. Being fairly well twinked doesn't hurt either <grin> (with buffs
189 Chr, 168 int, and about and extra 100 mana). I've also had the
opportunity to watch some of the best on our server do their thing (when my
cleric butt wasn't sitting down medding).

But this doesn't mean that we can't solo effectively with appropriate
equipment for the level that we are. I've seen a high level enchanter solo
bugs in Sol B with no problem, or rooms in Guk. There is danger here
though- and lots of downtime. After all this I Illusion Tree and went to
the store to grab some Pepsi. I was almost back to FM when I got back :)

Allureenna the long winded!

PS- Why-oh-why does Illusion Skeleton not make us able to walk around
Unrest without being molested???

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