PBAoE Groups

[ViscountC]

OK - Midgard hasn't got anyone that can cast a point-blank Area of Effect damage spell yet - but we will have, and hopefully soon.

And once our Spiritmasters get that spell, it seems to me like Midgard will have one of the strongest line-ups for PvE XP-ing.

The PBAoE spell will be used by the suppression-trained Spiritmasters to kill mobs pulled by the AoE hammers of our Thanes, the suppression-trained Runemasters will protect us using their mighty shields (and some AoE of their own), and the icing on the cake must be our pacification Healers, who can not only POM the casters but also AoE stun the mobs!

All we will need to do is find a Thane, a Runie, a Healer and a few Spiritmasters to have the ideal PvE party. Oh, and some really fast-spawning mobs. Suggestions on a postcard as to where we can find such mythical beasties.

Any obvious flaws in my plan to level us all to 50th in a weekend?

 

[trigali]

First things that come to mind as far as beasties are:


Tomte villages for lvl 5-10
WW in Askheim for lvl 10-20
WW in Yggdra for lvl 30-40
WW in Malmo for lvl 40-50

There has got to be more though

 

[Jexa]

Those are gonna be some mad werewolves

Whee, pbaoe xp tho!

 

[old.willowywicca]

well in hib we tend to need more tanks than that for a pbaoe xp group, specifically, 1 tank per mob, because even tho pbaoe is fast, you'll want to be killing red/purple mobs for decent xp and they'll get a fair few hits off before going down which you'd want your tanks not SM or RMs to be taking. Course you could try having your thane tank all of the mobs If you don't have a tank that has aggro of each mob before your caster starts pbaoeing, then all the unaggroed mobs will start to hit that caster and even a pbt can't stop 3 purple cons from killing a caster, they then would move on to the next person who pbaoed them..

So add a few more tanks to the mix.

Mal

 

[stu]

Agreed. Plus pulling multiple mobs with one Mjol won't help, as it won't necessarily give you group bonus. You're better off finding a camp with red/purp mobs that baf, get 4 tanks (at least 2 should be thanes/skalds, pref 3), 1 or 2 SMs, 1 PBT runey, 1 healer.

Line em up, your most newbie tank pulls with his nice flashy spell (thor's lightning is perfect), 4 mobs stroll over (in a group of 8). Next least experienced tank again uses a nice flashy spell to peel off mob #2, next tank takes #3, last (most experienced) tank takes #4 (the reason for doing it like this btw is because the more experienced guys have less time to peel off their targets/clean up missed mobs). Each tank throws a Provoke to build up his aggro, then drags him over to the designated PBAOE spot (a few feet from your SMs). When they're all in the same place, healer AOE stuns, SMs run in and PBAOE like crazy, the mobs will probably be dead by the time the stun wears off. Hello massive xp and big gold bonuses for the baf.

 

[Marcus75]

Um..when do Spiritmaster get PBAOE?

 

[old.Noita]

Next patch 1.52

 

[Sharma]

just hope it aint gonna be alb again where ya get blown off from almost every group for using the pbae..

 

[stu]

PBAoE in a "normal" group is a shortcut to death.

PBAoE in a proper PBAoE xping group is different

 

[old.mattshanes]

Its good once all targets are hit because then the caster doesnt get aggro