I nearly got him!Follow

Nearly managed to kill my first Frost Giant all by myself this morning!

It all went really well, went to the Great Divide, buffed pet and myself, activated even Lesson of the Devoted and Infusion of the Faithful. Didn't give my pet his proc as that's a huge aggro creator. Told my pet to guard at the PoK book, went off and found a white con (lvl 34) Frost Giant Scout not too far away. DoT, second DoT, return to book, pet attack, Ice Spear to keep aggro, run in circles. Recasted DoTs whenever they faded (and got hit a few times while doing that). Threw in an Ice Spear from time to time to keep aggro, but 50% of them were resisted (Frost Giant = high save vs. cold?).

I took him down to 25%, me 68% and my pet 100%. Then my pet out-aggroed me, my spells didn't land, bam - pet dead. I thought that I could tank him from then on, but man was I wrong... Got a few hits, and health went down really fast. Managed to land another DoT and ran in circles again. My health was down to 20%, mana about 20%. And then: Fizzle, fizzle, fizzle, bam, bam. Low on mana, low on health.

When I zoned to PoK, it read:
Frost Giant: Health 16%
Me: Health 12%, Mana 5%

I was so close, so close!!!

Note: This whole story may be no big deal for you, but I never kited before, only tanked. Just wanted to share this experience...

BBot, sure, kiting is different, and a great experience :)

as to not buffing the pet with the proc, why? iirc, as long as YOU are in melee range, you will always be the one the mob is beating on.

else, for aggro kiting, I'd just slow, nuke, dot, and once he is down to 95 you can sick your pet (just ensure pets taunt is switched off).

have fun :)

PS: as for me, last night it was the frist time I quadded in Maidens Eye (toilers, near the lake). didn't die, and managed about 6 quads, where I had to abandon only one (adds due to unknown pathing). So I can very well relate to your post - this "first time experience" is just great

Nooooooooo!

/ally to Kromzek
/amiable to Kromriff
/indiff to Tormax

Soloing my first frost giant as a level - cant remember what - pally was one of my all time EQ Highs:)..

An ogre? or an orc?

Good job on the giant. You'll get um next time. I was in GD with my 34 BL not too long ago, but along with a 34 Shammy. We took the giants ok, not sure if I coulda soloed one or not though I should try. I know my paly was pawned at 39 trying to solo FG's, my ranger was pretty easily able to take one out at 39 but used gobs of mana doing it. My wiz was blasting their butts all over the hill by about 32.

I love watching the Giants fall over after you kill em!

Everything is in slow mo, and you hear there deep scream and until they hit the ground.

bbot
Thanks for two very nice writeups. My Bl is only 28 and is a ways off from GD.
One word of advice, in a situation where you will be kiting, having flash of light memmed can be useful. It may buy you a few seconds of sitting to med while the mob runs off.

Not that I use that spell a lot.

Well, sadly there is no "Frost Giant Prayer Shawl" quest...

That's easy. Get that Coldain faction, finish your shawl quests, then turn around and slaughter countless dwarfs until you fix your Kromzek and Kromrif faction.

It's so simple!

Was pet taunt on? That would explain why it had such good agro. When u kite mobs as a pet class it is important to have pet taunt off.

I cannot imagine how u could get a mob down to 25%, then send in pet, and it somehow gets agro unless it was taunting. When kiting always turn taunt off.

I didn't know that one could turn off pet taunt. In fact, I thought that it would be great if it was possible...

Anyway, I tried it again this morning.

AND I TOOK HIM DOWN!

It didn't start as good as yesterday; I turned off pet taunt, but gave my pet the proc buff (as Kajolus suggested). Started kiting a yellow con Frost Giant, the pet proced 2-3 times and got aggro. Couldn't get the giant off, and the pet died when he was still at about 80% health. I just continued kiting, and it took about 10 minutes and 90% of my mana bar until he was down to 19% health and started running. Then it was easy.

Got 3 plat and some exp, but it was less than I expected.

The other side of the story:

"Anyone seen Khellren? He didn't return for lunch..."


Edit: Wow, didn't realize it... my 500th post!

Edited, Thu Nov 10 08:47:25 2005 by bbot

Grats, man! It's a great feeling.