I personally like pallies or a creative ranger puller. A ranger with good
luck and a good eye for range and proximity can root split a lot of times.
----- Original Message -----
From: Kent King <propellerheadus@...>
To: <EverQuest@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Sunday, December 21, 2003 6:50 PM
Subject: Re: [EverQuest] Hangouts for teens
> We are saying the same thing, and yes a monk's job is
> to not get aggros off tanks and to not get ripostes.
> I think its six the one a half dozen another whether
> to just FD during the fight or to pick appropriate
> weapons so that the poor tank can hold his aggros.
> Doing it the way I do I never get hit (except once on
> the pull and position about half the time of course),
> which is my goal :)
>
> I think its a matter of taste whether a bard is the
> puller of choice in PoP (and I don't see the point of
> discussing a matter of taste like that).
>
> Bards are cool, don't get me wrong, but monks are
> still the best at steady safe pulling I think. Yes
> its true that other classes can pull too. I've seen
> many a would be puller mess it up though... that's
> just a matter of practice since I've been doing it for
> over 4 years now. I never get my groups killed.
>
> But I do wish there were a role for monks like there
> used to be... damn nerf.
>
> Quwi
>
>
> --- Lorie C <mlchiello@...> wrote:
> > In PoP a bard is the puller of choice. Who cares if
> > lull fails, if we can fade. Faster then trying to
> > split the pull. If you are pulling aggro off of a
> > tank, well, you are doing it wrong. It is not thier
> > job to keep aggro off you, but your job to not pull
> > it off the tank. Try FD every 30 seconds. Then you
> > can do max damage.
> >
> > Awulfie A'Mused
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: Kent King
> > To: EverQuest@yahoogroups.com
> > Sent: Sunday, December 21, 2003 11:48 AM
> > Subject: RE: [EverQuest] Hangouts for teens
> >
> >
> > LOL, so so true! As a monk (my main) my trouble
> > right
> > now is that mamby pamby tanks can't hold aggros
> > when
> > I'm hitting the mobs. The art of monkish melee is
> > not
> > to do maximal damage, but to do just a little less
> > damage than the tank I'm paired with. If I'm
> > paired
> > with a bard or a pally then forget it. I might as
> > well hold a fishing pole in my primary hand.
> >
> > You don't know how many times the tank I'm working
> > with has over-aggroed and gotten the group killed.
> >
> > You also don't know how many times I've seen bards
> > having to kite their adds and pull in even more
> > because harmony fails :)
> >
> > Let a monk pull onsies... lots safer for the group
> > that way.
> >
> > Quwi Changkane Fenin Ro Grandmaster
> >
> > --- "Steven R. Hulse" <steveh@...> wrote:
> > > Pull several, that's what the tanks are for, to
> > take
> > > the beating. Unless of
> > > course they are namby-pamby tanks! LOL
> > >
> > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > Message: 2
> > > > Date: Sat, 20 Dec 2003 10:56:24 -0800 (PST)
> > > > From: Kent King <propellerheadus@...>
> > > > Subject: RE: Hangouts for teens
> > > >
> > > > That's why you need a monk :) We can pull one
> > at
> > > a
> > > > time if the tanks would let us.
> > > >
> > >
> > >
> >
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