burglekutt wrote:If it was equal to how other people get resisted and there was 5-6 + resists in a row then you guys would be getting hit by your red pets, as of now I never even see the mobs try to turn to attack the minstrel in combat. It should take 2 resists for it to turn on its master right? So even if you were to release your pet and then insta charm with 5-6+ resists in a row it would still be attacking you. I am not arguing with daoc mechanics we all know how this was since mythic days. All I know is that I can get resisted 5+ times when I nuke a red mob at 50, somehow minstrels are the exception to the rule.

from patch 1.46

To charm a monster, you no longer require the use of the flute (for Mnstrels). Simply target the monster and use the corresponding spell/song for your charm. Monsters at or below your level will have a very small chance of resisting the charm as it pulses, which means there's always an element of risk involved. You may also charm monsters above the your level (oranges, reds and low purples), though as the monster level increases above that of the caster's, so does the risk of the monster resisting the charm and aggressing the caster. It is advised to not risk charming orange, red or purple monsters unless you believe the situation warrants this emergency action and only if you are prepared to accept the potential penalties involved with doing so.


Except its a total contradiction to the mechanics they came up with, does emergency action entail running across the entire frontiers effortlessly with a red? Or being in a fight and the red mob never attacks the minstrel? So at one point you needed a flute to do it which would have been balanced, but no mythic makes it an insta thing. I mean this is honestly their first massive blunder. Thanks mythic

joshisanonymous wrote:Minstrels, not because it's a difficult fight (my class is horribly overpowered against minstrels), but because almost every soloer I find is a minstrel and yet I rarely get to kill them because of SoS. Also, 90%+ of the grey gankers I ran into while leveling were minstrels, so it feels like payback.

Some advice for assassins, as much as I'd like to have more solo fights with stealthers, don't attack BDs solo unless there's a decent RR discrepancy or you know the BD to be pretty badly played/geared. I know mine can swallow a PA chain pretty easily, especially when purge is up, and any BD who understands how powerful debuffs are in these situations will win after that. However, assassin duos are some of the most difficult fights for a BD to win. BDs win fights by reducing the ability of enemies to do burst damage, and that's most difficult to accomplish against assassins.

(DISCLAIMER: I know I play a very strong solo class. That's why I picked it, because I like to solo and soloing often means 1vX, not 1v1. BDs don't win 1vX fights by /facepalming lifetap, but they can often do so in 1v1 fights. Not surprised how many people say that killing them is the most rewarding.)

burglekutt wrote:Except its a total contradiction to the mechanics they came up with, does emergency action entail running across the entire frontiers effortlessly with a red? Or being in a fight and the red mob never attacks the minstrel? So at one point you needed a flute to do it which would have been balanced, but no mythic makes it an insta thing. I mean this is honestly their first massive blunder. Thanks mythic

aylictal wrote:If you get mezzed, the pet will hit you

Seb wrote:

aylictal wrote:If you get mezzed, the pet will hit you

In what world is this a bad thing?

Severian wrote:Eh my guess is a Pac healer is the hardest class to play well. You have to do everything a Minstrel does, plus the group expects you to heal as well. It's like 2-3 classes stuffed into one, which is why Midgard has the least amount of classes out of the three realms?