Hello, recently coming back to the game, and have seen a few posts that SK swarming got nerfed. Can someone tell me if swarming is still viable for SK's? I tried to check the forums, but the search seems to be a bit funky, every time I searched for SK stuff, paladin and ranger stuff came up lol. Thanks for any input anyone may have on this subject...
Sk swarming got nerfed a bit yeah. Now theres a counter on the buff so it limits you somewhat on the size of a pull you can handle. Can still pull small swarms and do it that way. just not what it used to be.
Question, whats the trick to doing this SK swarming? I have an SK in his mid 90's, and was wondering how its done.
find the easiest light blue mobs possible. you probably want to be able to kill 3-4 per minute. and mobs that do less damage to you then you do back to them with riposte. after that it's a matter of keeping mortal coil going and covering gaps with 2.0
still see SK all the time in the grounds. still see Sks doing epic quest constantly. so my guess they are still being useful to AE kill.
You can swarm just fine in raid gear, same zones same amount of mobs same levels as before nerf, only the filthy casual sks was nerfed.
Oh man that's so funny I have swarmed both in Fort Mech pulling 160 mobs at a time as well as Kaesora Library raid instance 80 mobs per pull. I did that 2013 BEFORE the nerf with group gear. They did something to mobs in fort mech that made them rubberband back to much to be able to pull more than 100 or so and that happened before the nerf, so nowadays you can only pull 100 or so but that's not because of the nerf. In KL you can still pull the same 80 mobs as before nerf, you just have to be raid geared, have a good raid wep and use visage of death one run and second spire next run also need to pull a few mobs to kick in mortal coil, then pull the zone. If mc dies before mobs are dead use epic. But 9/10 times all mobs are dead before VIsage of Death runs out. I rarely have to use epic, mostly when I have to use it, it's because mortal coil proced mortal residue. PWNED. You need more proof? Feel free to pm me and I'll invite you to a run in KL. "didn't know what actual swarming was" pfft I am genuinely insulted right now, I'm basically the king of real swarming.
Is kaesora even green anymore? Haven't been there is way to long. If you are using it to pl, just do CoTF HA's if you are in raid gear you can pump them out faster for more XP than "swarming" old grey content. Also sorry, don't consider grabbing a ton of mobs that mean nothing for XP to be swarming. Tell me when you can pull 80-160 current lb mobs on a constant basis, and then we will talk. Oh and that rubber banding was called zone lag, you should have found the cut off point to prevent that and it would have made your xp faster back then Edited to add, The kaesora raid instance *might* be LB at 105, not sure what the cutoff is and haven't been back there in a very long time, but there aren't 80 mobs in that instance, think the max was 50-60, which you can do down by deceitful deflection and a defensive disc because of the SoD weak dmg compared to current AC.
You need to stay at level 100 to do KL. anyway this proves that you know nothing about swarming. All mobs in the raid instance are light blue up til you are level 103 but it's just easier to use a Sk that doesn't have the TDS expansion. I don't swarm with my 105 Sk, I just do TDS thulia HA nowadays, but then again this thread is about swarming and not doing HA's so I'm not going to derail it by talking about cons and pro's with swarming vs HA's Can one swarm lightblues with a level 105? Absolutely. Do you think I would tell where? Absolutely not. I don't care if they nerf level 100 KL swarming. I do care about the new places it can be done and I will keep that info to myself until levelcap is 110.
Simple smell test... 1. If you are 105, most of those zones mentioned are overpopulated with greens, ie. there are no MC procs off of them. 2. A pre-pull MC proc will almost be down by the time you round up that many mobs in either of those zones thanks to spacing and pathing. 3. If those mobs weren't green and you were only in group gear, you didn't swarm that many without VoD. 4. 2nd spire is crap - every SK should know this. Results: Failed The proc blocker killed SK swarming. And SKs were the only swarm class nerfed that was not compensated for said nerf ( Zerkers, Rangers, and Rogues all had their abilities changed from kill shots on LB con mobs to big damage hits on DB con mobs ).