Party Strategy Guide

[bkelly1984]

Thanks again for the fixes Brista. All of them are fixed with two exceptions.

Actually giving direction on what you want the pet to do is very useful. Succubus cc is on a par with mage sheeping and Hunter off-tanking is a very useful last line of defence for the healers. If the pet owner is a newish player it helps to remind them to set pet to passive so it doesn't automatically go chasing after runners, mobs that shoot at the owner etc

I agree with everything you said and mention it in the "Pets" section of "Dealing Damage". This sentence is talking about assigning a party role like "secondary tank" to a pet. If you don't think that is clear I can rework the paragraph.

And I can't believe I forgot about the crowd control of a Warlock's succubus! I'll add it to the list for now since I'm planning to expand the crowd control section anyway. Seduce can only be done on humanoids and can be recast, right?

I'd dispute this. Intelligent players will adapt their strategies to the situation. Basically you're saying priests shouldn't wand (since they're healers not dps), warriors shouldn't Execute (tanks not dps) and dps shouldn't rescue the healer. Unless you have foreseen everything that can possibly go wrong you need to allow people some freedom to make intelligent choices

Actually, I agree with you (that people should sometimes do the job of a role not assigned to them). I was even thinking of talking about rule number two: there are no rules. I left it out because if you say "follow the rules unless you think it's best not to" then nobody is going to follow the rules at all. I could write in something later in the document saything that you can do someone else's job if you can explain your reasons to the party leader. It still seems a bit subjective. Might you have a better suggestion?

But with that, I think your summary of my message isn't accurate. At the top of this secion I say "If you have your assigned roles well in hand or if you weren't assigned a role to begin with your job is to deal damage." This means Priests and Warriors are DPS if their other jobs are handled (but I'll also add the wand part into the healing section). On rescuing the healer, except for the secondary tank pulling aggro and the secondary healer healing, you're right and it is a case where I hope someone would step outside their roles if they know the job wouldn't be done otherwise.

Brian