Sucks to be a Mage in Dark forces event

[johnyhill]

I'm a lvl 18 mage sure I do lots of damage. But thats the problem as soon as I cast a spell at a monster it forgets abought the warrior in front of it walks over and slams me for 400+ plus damage I only have 260


I lost 150 exp last event from dieing 4 times*and then because of laggy conection didn't even get a treasure chest as consolation any other mages having this problem?

[lunelune]

*cough*party*cough*

[djudjud14]

let other people attack it first.

[johnyhill]

May I direct you to the statement above where I say there is already a warrior attacking. Even if it's a group of ppl attacking it ,it will walk through them to get to me*It doesn't matter, if I do more damage than them than it leaves them and comes to me. the only way to avoid this is if the warrior is 5+> lvl's above me.

[lunelune]

Thank you sir for ignoring my post which fixes your problem quite easily. >_>

[djudjud14]

that never happen to me... if the warrior attack first, n still attacking the monster while i cast my spells, the monster is still focus on teh warrior.. party or not.. maybe u just attack the wrong monster ?? coz there a stack of them during the event...

[Keenan]

*yeh*who ever hits the most dmg thats who the monter will atk.*

[lunelune]

djud, it all depends on when the warrior attacks (howm uch damage he does first) AND if he used taunting move. if he didn't taunt it then it will switch.

[cyrusvn]

lol poor u :))

[extirya]

I never thought about it that way, it never happened to me before... coz maybe because what lune said... party :P I'm always in a party

[johnyhill]

Yah well all my friends that I party with are equal or lower lvl then me I guess it's my own fault I put all my stats into int. now I do tons of damage but have low defense I'll just have to start asigning all my stats to defense. Thanks for the advice guys except for lunelune who ignored what I posted not once but twice.(of course I party I'm a mage thats what we are made to do.)

[djudjud14]

well i think we all put our stat points into int... im going 1:4 end:int.... so yeah... never happened to me before... poor u.. lol =p

[lunelune]

I'm forgetting about int. It's proven pretty useless to add to is. It all adds way too little. Spr and End ftw.

[azol]

well im a mage and im only lv. 8 im weak so i attack and run like hell but i fell your pain i died like 8 times during the event it sucks


 


and no one would team up with a n00b like me

[johnyhill]

Now we got it figured out my warriors wheren't doing the taunt thing.Went hunting with higher lvl warrior they still came for me but she would do the taunt and they would go back to her thanks again for the advice. :D


Dont worry azol I'm lvl 19 now and I'm still running! :D

[Psylex]

What they say about damage is true. I hate mentioning*WoW and I highly do 'NOT' reccomend it, But it's WoWish? The more damage you do the more agro you get, and warrior needs to know to taunt once he loses agro so that the monster will not chase the mage.

[Veil]

If you pull aggro off a warrior, tell him he's a bad warrior later.


At level 15 I could hold aggro of Slime King off the other 14 people... except this other warrior who kept using Snearing Kick as well, and then complained that he wanted to tank when he had 400hp less than me :\


But he died pretty quick anyway, so it was cool :D


But yeah, even if you do hit it for like 300 the warrior should have used taunt at least once. I open with Taunt then the Attack speed ebuff then the defense debuff, THEN stun it. Sometime I open with kick->stun though.*

[megab]

Like fix your own problems? Obviously end game mage will be high up on the damage scale so expect to pull agro if you aren't being tactical, use defense scrolls and vitality scrolls to try and "tank" the hits but obviously you aren't meant to tank it in the first place?


Solution? Mages are Kiters meaning they kill their enemies without getting touched in one go, sure pumping all int is one way to go but if you can't drop the enemy by the time he meets you then time to remake a plan

[jclavau]

OMG I so had that problem, at first it was ok, but then when the group started to move forward...


If you die once you can't get back! Die run back, tons of mobs in the way, try to dodge, die again before you reach the group, run back, die, run back die....and in the end, you lost like 500+ exp and the event finishes while you are still running back and you get NOTHING! Appart for a waste of your time and if you're really unlucky, lose TONS of exp. /sites/all/modules/tinymce/tinymce/jscripts/tiny_mce/plugins/emotions/images/smiley-cry.gif