Hi there,

This is a community announcement from the melee of DDO. Please pay attention.





If you choose to spend all your time kiting in a quest with that piddly ass piece of wood and string, we ask that you quickly learn to solo cos we don't need the -4 to hit chasing your mobs around.


Thank you for listening and please, fuck off

When forming my own groups I always ask if they are ranged or melee spec'd.  If I get a ranged response I decline unless they are someone I am familiar with.

When joining someone else's group the best way to teach them is to leave them running in circles or away from the party.  You took aggro, deal with it.  I also keep grease clickys and a way to dispell handy if someone becomes too disruptive in their kiting of mobs.

haha... don't forget to dispel first.

I think this is the part where one points out the difference between someone who knows how to kite (useful), versus someone who holds up the quest/griefs the party.

Personally, I've nothing against ranged builds.  Some are interesting but haven't ever tried one.  I do have a chip on my shoulder for the player who chooses to kite around a boss mob or a mob that has to die to advance/complete.  dispel/grease works very well for that.

The problem is that there are so many ranger players who cannot grasp effective ranged use a clusterfuck ensues in some quests.  That's where you see the Benny Hill action going on.

There is a difference between kiters and rangers..... Most Rangers worth their weight in salt will be able to kill ANYTHING that they aggro *(at high levels). If you're experiencing problems with mobs: It's either a poor player (drop the prick!) or a bad character (drop the prick!). 

Either way: Don't hate the class: Blame the player!

Chris!

Why don't you run with us anymore? Was one time enough?

Also, I've put a similar post about pew pews and kiting in the 'other' place. Please feel free to contribute to that discussion.

If even a few pew pews read it and take heed, we could provide clean water to 20 impoverished villages.

http://forums.ddo.com/showthread.php?t=298664

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Chris79 wrote on Jan 26^th, 2011 at 6:25pm:



You, Sir, have the intellectual grasp of game mechanics of a dead hamster.

Valanthius wrote on Jan 26^th, 2011 at 10:32pm:


But if that dead hamster is the one running the turbine servers, then I win!

Cale wrote on Jan 26^th, 2011 at 11:06pm:


Like u give a fuck anyway.....

melees' single-mindedness makes me laugh sometimes!  Don't get me wrong... I play AA's and I'll be amongst the first to yell at a shitty archer but c'mon... think outside the box sometimes.  I was running vale slayers with a barb friend of mine.  We would kill something and he'd go running off toward the next mob only to have it teleport/run by him because I'd already shot it causing him to have to chase it back to me.  "Damn, Peech, you're killing me with the kiting" he bitched.  "I'm not kiting, I'm pulling... stop running away" I said.  He did and we proceeded through the vale with me delivering wop'ed mobs to his great axe practically with a big red bow on top.  Worked like a charm: they did all the running, we took minimal damage. 

Gornn wrote on Jan 27^th, 2011 at 12:12pm:


And if they lived for more than a ninth of a second after getting to us then very similar weapons were in my hand...