what is the point of Bind SightFollow

I often use bind sight to scout. You can piggy back your way through mobs using bind sight. using bind sight you can get your vision pretty darn far away from yourself as you work your way through mobs. I've only used it a few times, but both my shaman and wizard have found it useful at one time or another. It's a pretty neat scouting tool. Nothing fancy though.

One of the best combinations is bind site with calm/pacify, etc. You target a mob, cast bind sight, then hit F9 to get an external view. Rotate around the mob so you see the other mobs in the room. Cast pacify (can be cast through walls, no line of sight rules). When you have the room pacified, then you can single pull one of the mobs. You can use assist in a group so more than one person can be pacifying (clerics and chanters and bards, etc.).

I find it extremely refreshing, to see a proper question (and no e.g. "nerf" rant).

I can only second what the posters above said. great. If you don't feel like slaying dragons (or exp. grinding), just superiour camo/improved invis in a quite corner, and scout the zone. I really enjoy doing this, especially as the range was 10.000 afair. hopping from mob to mob halfway across the zone is just "kewl".

As previously stated, bind sight is primarily used for scouting. That said, you can do some fairly impressive stuff with the spell, especially as a bard (no mana cost, so it doesn't cost you a thing to jump though tens or even hundreds of bodies).

Want to see if Trakanon's up for your epic? No problem, just target the nearest mob from zone in, cast bind sight and switch to 3d view. Song pulses on the tick, your viewpoint recenters on mob. retarget next closest mob to trak, wait for tick, viewpoint recenters on new mob. Rinse, repeat. (Can be fun, educational, and even lifesaving to scout around the zone this way while the group buffs up; the spell has no practical range limit, so you can go anywhere you can get a target.)

A secondary technique for this is to combine with the eye of zomm spell. Bards get a clicky helmet with this effect from their Velious armor, but anyone can use stalking probes for the same effect. (Or have the party mage to the pretargeting.) The cool thing about the eye of zomm spell is that it doesn't change your target, nor does it move you around while you scout (if you cast it between server ticks, your movement may still be bound to your body until the tick hits - it's not a bug, it's a feature <G>). So, you can pull a mob and engage it with your normal melee and spells, cast eye of zomm, and leave your body still in combat while you go find the next pull. Once you've located your mob, target it briefly to put it in memory, then hit the "toggle last two targets" button to retarget the current pull. As soon as the current pull falls, or even slightly before if you're chain pulling, toggle targets again, cast bind sight, and pacify/pull the next room.

Another useful technique is to use bind sight to guide new or lost party members to the group. Oh no! Bob was AFK and we're miles away from him now. No problem. Use your function keys to target the lost party member, cast bind sight so you can see where they are, and talk him through the route to you.

If you're not the active puller, cast bind sight on the person who is to allow pacifying and/or pretargetting for mez/snare/root/agro.

The bottom line is that it's a spell that allows you to move your viewpoint to any place within the zone that you can establish a target. The utility of such an ability is only limited by what your devious little minds can come up with.

- Neolith

Use it to spy on pulling techniques of rival guilds to gain l33t z0n3 s33kr3tz!

Wha?... You guys answered all the obvious uses. Sometimes I'd use it on dull raids where you stand in one place for ages. At least I could see what the puller was seeing.

Occasionally, I have used it to see where a "lost" mob is. Especially useful when a targeted mob "falls" into a wall and warps someplace else in the zone. This seemed to happen to me occasionally in PoV and certain LDoNs. Also, when a low health mob gates, you can quick cast and see what other mobs he is bringing back with him.

"bind sight on Tom Curise"

eewwwww......there's an image that will take years of therapy to get rid of. thanks.

/Agree that bind sight is primarily a scout tool with additional uses to belay boredom with the fun factor.

I'm an enchanter that learned the power of this tool to pull in dungeons however. One room in Mistmoore LDoN we simply couldn't pull without 6+ adds from seemingly nowhere. Finally after 4 attempts I remembered this spell in my spellbook and said "lemme see what that goblin frost scout sees .." and lo and behold there were mobs within agro range out of sight behind rocks and around corners that were chain agroing ones farther in. I now pull almost all LDoNs I'm in using Bind Sight + Pac and haven't lost one since =)

Aside from that it's useful for scouting to see if an untrackable NPC is up or if no tracker is in group I've still been able to Bind Sight to roamers in LDoNs to pretty much scout the whole dungeon for named if there is time.