>I have heard of quad-kiting, but never really gotten
>a good explanation of it. Since you have done it,
>could you explain?
Here's a quick rundown, it's really quite simple and
being a druid, safe as always. By the level you're at
you should realize that we never die, we just gate.
*grin*
First off, always try to do it in an unpopulated area,
people around especially at lower levels are a real
pain. Nothing worse than having some jerk snare one of
the mobs you're quadding. (completely ruins the quad,
you're likely best off gating at that point)
You start by finding four mobs, preferably identical
ones that you know are well suited to quad kiting.
(Snow Cougars, Ulthorks, and Wyverns are well known
for it, Wyverns will get you thru the low 50s I
believe) Snare one, find another, repeat til you have
four snared and angrily chasing you.
Once you have all four up, back away so that the mobs
start to group together a little. Explaining this is a
little tricky, but basically if there's two mobs
snared, one ahead and to the left, one ahead and to
the right, if you continue backing up eventually
they'll come together.
After they're loosely grouped together, run circles
around the mobs just outside of their melee range to
get them grouped right on top of each other. They have
to be VERY close together, it sounds tricky but really
it isn't. If you're not sure, do another circle around
before casting.
ok, so now you have four angry and closely grouped
mobs. What now? If you're lower than level 34 you run
like hell cause you can't quad kite yet. *grin* If
you're level 34, memorize the spell Lightning Strike,
and kite like normal.
Lightning Strike is the first druid AOE spell, dealing
about 125dmg to a maximum of four targets. Just kite
like you normally would with a DD spell until all four
targets are dead. Usually this will take you from full
mana to OOM, so don't be surprised or worried when you
get low on mana.
Quad Kiting usually gets you about one more mob out of
your mana bar than normal kiting, so it's not a huge
increase, but what's best about it is once you're OOM,
you can just hide or camo, have a seat and walk away
for five mins while you get your mana back. Just make
sure Hide succeeded before walking away.
If memory serves you're still 33 so you have one more
level to go, take the boat to Velious to rot and root
Snow Cougars til you get that last level, you can
start quadding Cougars right away and they drop Cougar
Claw Earrings that generally sell for 250-300pp each.
Once the XP from Cougars starts to tail off, you can
head over to Eastern Wastes to do Ulthorks, which is
when the money starts to pick up. (Ulthorks drop
around 4pp in coin each, as well as ulthork hide
armor, words/runes, velium weapons, and rarely ulthork
tusks for a quest in CS where you can get Blue
Diamonds among other things)
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