Recently my guild has been farming Ssra keys, and as some of
you may know, it's a very long and boring process.
The components are acquired by having one of two
commanders pop, one specific to each floor, and dropping
and idol or a ring each time, respectively.
To get the commanders to pop, you have to kill everything.
With the types of groups we bring, 1 mob dies fast. Problem
is that a lot of mobs are casters, so pulling 3-4 at the time
results in deaths.
This got me to thinking. Since I am the puller, and I love it,
I always try to find new ways to increase kill rate. AE'ing
wouldn't work with most of the groups we bring there, so it
was out of the question. Chain pulling is ok, but while I'm out
of range the group isn't getting my songs and that lowers DPS
a lot. And then it hit me, Eureka!
Ok, so as with all things, I'm sure someone somewhere has
done this before and I'd be a fool if I tried to claim I was the
first "ever" to use such a technique. I however, did figure this
out on my own and have never seen anyone do it.
I've dubbed it the "domino" pull. I walk into a room of 4 lulled
mobs. I mez one, I wait 4 secs, I mez another, wait 4 secs,
mez third one, and aggro 4th one.
My pull message is "inc 4 dominos". The chanter now knows
what to do. The first mob gets to camp and start dying.
At 4 secs intervals, mobs come to the camp one by one, and
the chanter lines them up single file behind the one we're killing.
As a mob dies, we start killing the one behind it, and the one
behind it, always with full twist of songs going the whole time.
They fall like dominos.
While you're waiting for the dominos to come, make sure that
if there are casters you are not in Line of Sight as they make
their way to your group. Otherwise they will stop far and
unload a bunch of nukes before getting close enough. In Ssra
it's very easy since there's corners all over the place.
In places with mobs with high MR I'd suggest pulling with
either occlusion or harmony of sound, then mez one, or else
you have a dead bard fast. You'd also need very high DPS in
pop zones for this to work well, but if you DO have high DPS,
this will be the highest xp a group can get, legitimately. (boo,
boo, network groups)
as always, comments and feedback
is very appreciated,
Astuce Subterfuge
Maestro
Elementals of Tomonari
Innoruuk Server