Grouping Tips.Follow

Okay after playing for a bit, and reading posts on sites and asking in-game i have come up with tips for each archetype. This is kind of a question of what else i should know.

Tanks:

Agro

-Keep 3, Or Atleast 2 Taunts out.

Know your Camps

-Learn if you need to; Bow Pull, Body Pull or Taunt Pull
-Watch other Tanks at that Camp and see how they perfer to Pull, Use their Mana ECT.

Speed

-Chain Pull
-Have someone ML For you. Don't waste time looting. Groups want fast pulls.
-The speed of XP Is all up to you. Your part is to get the mob to the group fast.
-Run to the Camp to pull another once the mob starts running.

Control your Mana

-Don't over due your specials. Save a good amount incase you need to taunt alot.
-Decide on If your battery (If you have one) is allowing you to use all your mana.

Smart With Gear

-Get High Durr Armour
-Bring 2 Sets of Full Armour.
-Bring 2 or 1 Sets of Weps. Whatever you have enough money for.

Damage Sheilds

-First off, tell the Druid/Mage if you don't want one
-If you have one on, you probably won't be able to root during a tight situation, so tell the Group you have to SoW Up and Run instead of Rooting.
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Healers:

Know your Tank

-Is he good enough for a lower level heal?
-Can he keep enough agro for you to be able to use Nukes, Debuffs, DoTs ECT?

Control your Mana

-If you only have 2Blues of Mana Less, Do nothing but Heal.
-Decide if you're going to chaincast or cast every so often, You may run OOM To much to ChainCast.

Smart Gear

-Highest AC Gear As Possible, Healers pull lots of Agro
-Max Cha at Higher levels,Get Cha High at Low Leves, but not too high. Maxing at Low Levels is bad Idea Because you will Pull Too much Agro.
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Melees:

Unleashing Specials

-Don't unleash until your tank has taunted some.
-Save some Specials that have longer recast so the mob can't run for that long.

Smart with Gear

-Bring 2 Sets of 2 Weapons (Unless you're 1 - 19, then bring 2 sets of one weapons)
-High Durr is Best, Depending on how long you usually have to play.
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Casters:
Wizards:

Abilities

-Chain Cast(Keep two out)
-Keep Mana Spells Out
-If you have Battery, Keep your two strongest nukes out, if you have no battery keep medium nukes out

Gear

-Max Dex (Strongest DD In game, Max will help)
-High AC As possible. I know you get low AC Gear, just get the best you can.
Petters:

Pets

-Learn to control your pet, especially during roots (Learn Passive, Neutral, Agressive ECT)
-Learn your situation. Are you Grinding? Raiding? Soloing? Farming? Use the appropriate Pet (Mages that is)

Spells

-Chain Cast. Though it is not as important with Pets, stil ChainCast.
Alc:

Power and PoT

-Low Mana
-High PoT

Spells

-You should be using your Potions for the most part
-Nuke every so often, no chain cast at all.
-In a Tough Situation, Chain Cast + Go all out with your potions it could easily to the most damage (Besides HT, Spite ECT) to save your group.
-Draughts! Use them to bring back mana. Watch your health though, droughts take away life and can kill you causing Debt.

Bards and Ench's

-If one is in your group, make sure you aren't getting their buffs. They mess up your draughts.
-Mana Necros Buffs From What i hear Won't mess you up. Never tried though (Don't have an Alc) But i know when i group with Alcs they try hard not to get my buffs.
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Mana-Batterys:

Mana Spells

-For bards, you should chain between your two path buffs.
-For enchs, ask who needs the mana the most. If there is more than one here is who i think needs it the most in order(IMO): Healers, Tanks, Casters, Melees.

Damage

-You are still a DD. You are not there just to make mana.
-But remember; You are still considered the weakest DD of each archetype (Bards weakest melee, Enchs weakest Casters).
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To all:

Bad Situations

-Decide if you are Rooting or Running
-Decide if there is a group memeber who has long recast attacks/heals (Pally, SK, Chosens, ECT) They could use instead of running/Rooting

Who gets What Loot

Tanks: Stacks
Melees: Non-Stacks
Casters/Healers: Remaining Non-Stacsk
Also Remember NB4G (Need before Greed, give rares to whoever belongs to)
And split gems to whatever type of crafter your group members are

CMing

-It is best not to CM at certain times. Here is when certian
Archetypes shouldnt:
Tanks: Just Before new Taunt
Healers: Just Before new Heal
Mana-Batterys: Just Before new Mana-Buff
Also: CMing right before any new spell isn't good either. Unless you don't care much about the Spell.

Mana

-Always have a satisfying amount of drinks for how long you are going to XP.
-When you have 1Blue mana tell the rest of the group that you are OOM just incase the tank makes a mistake.

Anything else i should add? I am trying to make a great grouping guide. GL With Grouping.[u][/u]

Edited, Tue Nov 9 15:39:51 2004 by Sinenian

^^Agreed

Ty all

And DDs should hit the SAME MOB! =)

Regards,
Byronfan

I have a question...

Where I am a tank, if there is a petter in my group with a pet that holds good aggro, do I let the pet keep aggro or try and peel it off of it?
I usually try to keep aggro so the petter doesn't lose his pet in a battle, am I doing it right?

Perfect, that's what I normally do.

You're right dirges, uhmm i'll add it in, i think i understand ALCs and you're right about high dur.

Anything else i need to add?

Oh and trank i have made some toons but on DH. I like that server i am thinking of making someone MF soon.

double post sorry

Edited, Wed Sep 22 21:20:18 2004 by Singingtard

This is true for all melees, not just bards.
If the healer is waiting till the tenk is almost dead to heal, it is time to get a new healer. If the tank is about to die without a heal on them I am going to assume the healer is about to DC and my heal can only help keep them longer hopefully till the mob is dead, or if not ensure I have aggro so I can run the mob off and keep the group alive.

Ty.. i might make some on PPO but i'm not sure

Ty pure...

What else should i add i no im missin sumin

Hey darkness what lv is ur necro now??? i might wanna xp with it on ma Wizzy or ma Mage im working on hes currently 14 gunny try for 16/17 tonight:). I no i no i make to many chars at one time but once i make one im bound to make another so its a bad thing for me to make a new one cuz i gotta retry everything lol:). Well send a tell to Lilmageman if u wanna xp:).