I was in a group in PoV one day when the tank could not keep aggro off of anyone. I don't know why, I guess his dps wasn't that good. The shaman was ready to leave bc he kept getting aggro and the tank had a hard time taunting off of him for some reason. So I decided to protect the shammy and as soon as the shammy slowed I would stun the mob and run up within melee range and start bashing the hell out of it. I was actually better at getting aggro than the tank. lol. I've had to do that for chanters too. So long as I can take the hits it's ok.
luv,
-Su

======== At 2004-12-20, 14:00:00 you wrote: ========

Gotta agree with ya there Su. With my lvl 67 Shammy i find that my slows tend to pull agro away from the tank and i have to automatically start melee as soon as the mob gets close to me until the Tank can steal agro back until i cast my DoT on em and regain agro again lol. I have learned as well to not run away either cause that brief moment when you turn away could get ya killed a lot faster if you don't just stand there melee back and hope yer healer (druid/Shaman/ Cleric/ or even Ranger) can get a heal off on ya before too long. Prim example was last night in Harbingers and I wound up getting the agro form a Named and wound up melee cause we had a crap load of ads and even with my AoE slow i still managed to not only get the named but the adds at the same time . Luckily I had my Shammy 1.5 in hand and clicked it to help keep me alive till The cleric could get a heal off on me and the rest of the melee could draw the adds and such away form this almost dead shimmy =)

Halyburton (the Recently Sol Ro flagged)
67 Barb Shammy
1.0/1.5 Enabled
Legion of Vengeance
Saryrn

----- Original Message -----
From: Su
To: EverQuest@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Sunday, December 19, 2004 5:57 PM
Subject: Re: Re: [EverQuest] ok here we go agian...

True. I had people laughing at me when I was in my 40s and 50s level range because I wanted to melee a bit and let the mobs try to hit me to make my defense go up. They said I would never need defense and I didn't need to worry about it. However, being able to dodge hits can really come in handy and sometimes I have had to melee mobs to death when oom and having to kill a mob that is running away. A single bash can be the difference between killing a mob and getting a ton of adds.
-Su

======== At 2004-12-18, 11:03:00 you wrote: ========

Skills, skills, skills, skills, skills, skills, skills!

I hate to be the one to say this but you really should focus on your
battle skills. Trust me, at the lower levels that is a perfect time to
get the skills built up. I can understand wanting to go in and just beat
the heck out of everything and being uber and killing it all in one
shot. But ponder this, When you get to be up in levels (50's, 60's, and
70's) you are going to be taking on some majorly nasty monsters. If you
have just gained levels and have an uber weapon but never really worked
on your fighting skills and they are low, it's not going to help you or
your party out very much. Actually you will hurt your group more than
help them. Now being a Shammy you have some awesome spells at higher
levels. This is another thing I would suggest focusing on. If your at a
higher level and your fighting say a dragon and 60% of your casts fizz
then you may as well run or be able to hit! (See first part) otherwise
your gonna get killed or your group killed.

That's just my 2 cents.

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2004-12-20