I think one of the most important things to note in Allu's story is the fact
that there were NO nukes. Enchanters are a strategy class first and
foremost.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Shawn Alley [SMTP:shawna@...]
> Sent: Monday, February 28, 2000 12:38 PM
> To: 'eqenchanters@onelist.com'
> Subject: RE: [eqenchanters] The Solo Enchanter
>
> From: Shawn Alley <shawna@...>
>
> 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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