Boom
01-18-2002, 08:49 PM
Just caught this on the notes for the 1.43 test patch.
- We removed range restriction from pets in Defend mode. Now they can go after archers autonomously.
If you snipe me, you better kill me on that first shot because you are gonna have a level 24 Boompuppy rushing your ass. And he is gonna be way pissed that you are shooting his daddy. You can start to shoot the Boompuppy, but that just gives me a chance to heal, and gives my party a chance to follow the Puppy to your location. Or you can keep shooting me, but while I instaheal and rush to a safe location you will have a pissed off puppy biting and stunning you.
Time to make a new macro - /macro sniper /say FOLLOW MY PET TO THE SNIPER!!!!
My Puppy soloed a yellow augy yesterday (yellow to me at 32, probably purple to him at 24). I wasn't using the pet to pull, because the horseys all cluster together in that pond and you need a ranged thingy to pull. So I was using poison to pull and sending out the puppy when the horsey was halfway to me (just to slow it down and let the poison work a little more basically). So this one time the horse is running at me and the puppy is biting it and before it gets to me, it turns around and starts hitting the puppy!!! I was shocked! How the heck could my level 24 puppy hit that horse hard enough to draw aggro over my poison (my poison does 30 damage every 5 seconds for 30 sec). So I decide to let the puppy go at it a while just to see what happens. Eventually it gets low on life and I start healing. I expect the heals to draw aggro. If I heal slowly, I can keep the mob on the puppy for a while, but eventually I should draw the aggro. But the horse stays on the puppy. I was freaked. My poison ran out, so I had done 180 poison damage and had done several heals, and yet the puppy still had done enough damage to keep the aggro! Then the horsey died and my puppy ran up to me all proud with his tail wagging. I still had over half my heal juice left. I guess daoc is like D&D with the dice rolling, and my puppy musta got some really good rolls there. But just the fact that it was possible was pretty neat. Not many level 24 players can solo something that cons yellow to me at 32 without me running out of heal juice. That isnt the most efficient way to hunt, because it took over 30 seconds to make the kill (I can usually kill a yellow in 20 seconds or so I would guess) and I was just standing there when I could have been bapping the horsey. But it was just pretty cool to see. Also, I got about 1.7 mil exp for the kill. I soloed some yellows with no pet and got a range of 1.5 mil to 2 mil exp (I guess it depends on the level of the yellow).
Only 38 more bubbles till I get the big pets. :D Anyone know what they cast? If my pet casts stun and his self bafs, the big pet must get something pretty cool. After that its just a few more levels till I get the group heal, then its all about the buffs. Omg, I love this class!! My heals rule, my buffs own, and my puppy loves me!
- We removed range restriction from pets in Defend mode. Now they can go after archers autonomously.
If you snipe me, you better kill me on that first shot because you are gonna have a level 24 Boompuppy rushing your ass. And he is gonna be way pissed that you are shooting his daddy. You can start to shoot the Boompuppy, but that just gives me a chance to heal, and gives my party a chance to follow the Puppy to your location. Or you can keep shooting me, but while I instaheal and rush to a safe location you will have a pissed off puppy biting and stunning you.
Time to make a new macro - /macro sniper /say FOLLOW MY PET TO THE SNIPER!!!!
My Puppy soloed a yellow augy yesterday (yellow to me at 32, probably purple to him at 24). I wasn't using the pet to pull, because the horseys all cluster together in that pond and you need a ranged thingy to pull. So I was using poison to pull and sending out the puppy when the horsey was halfway to me (just to slow it down and let the poison work a little more basically). So this one time the horse is running at me and the puppy is biting it and before it gets to me, it turns around and starts hitting the puppy!!! I was shocked! How the heck could my level 24 puppy hit that horse hard enough to draw aggro over my poison (my poison does 30 damage every 5 seconds for 30 sec). So I decide to let the puppy go at it a while just to see what happens. Eventually it gets low on life and I start healing. I expect the heals to draw aggro. If I heal slowly, I can keep the mob on the puppy for a while, but eventually I should draw the aggro. But the horse stays on the puppy. I was freaked. My poison ran out, so I had done 180 poison damage and had done several heals, and yet the puppy still had done enough damage to keep the aggro! Then the horsey died and my puppy ran up to me all proud with his tail wagging. I still had over half my heal juice left. I guess daoc is like D&D with the dice rolling, and my puppy musta got some really good rolls there. But just the fact that it was possible was pretty neat. Not many level 24 players can solo something that cons yellow to me at 32 without me running out of heal juice. That isnt the most efficient way to hunt, because it took over 30 seconds to make the kill (I can usually kill a yellow in 20 seconds or so I would guess) and I was just standing there when I could have been bapping the horsey. But it was just pretty cool to see. Also, I got about 1.7 mil exp for the kill. I soloed some yellows with no pet and got a range of 1.5 mil to 2 mil exp (I guess it depends on the level of the yellow).
Only 38 more bubbles till I get the big pets. :D Anyone know what they cast? If my pet casts stun and his self bafs, the big pet must get something pretty cool. After that its just a few more levels till I get the group heal, then its all about the buffs. Omg, I love this class!! My heals rule, my buffs own, and my puppy loves me!