EverQuest/Strategies/Swarm Kiting: Difference between revisions

*1. Pull any number of charmable, non-summoning, social mobs. Beginning swarm kiters should practice with small numbers. Larger swarms will kill the charmed mob more quickly, but will require more skill to manage, and better timing to break charm at a good time.

*2. Run in circles to aggregate the mobs into one large clump of mobs.

*3. Target one of the mobs and charm it.

*4. Have the charmed pet attack another mob in the swarm. The swarm should now stop and all attack the charmed pet. If any are still chasing the player, try to kite it back into the swarm so it may join in on attacking the charmed pet.

*5. While the swarm is attacking, monitor the health of the charmed pet carefully. If charm is broken or wears off, reapply charm to the pet and send it back to the swarm. Take care to recharm the correct mob--if a different mob is charmed, the old pet will not forget you, and it will continue to go after you instead of the new pet.

*6. When the health of the charmed pet is low, break charm using Invis. The timing of this is crucial. If the pet still has a lot of health remaining, it will take a long time to kill it off, making the technique inefficient. However, it is even worse if charm is not broken in time. In this case, the charmed pet will die and vanish, and no experience or items will be gained by the player.

*7. With the pet's charm broken, the X-pet and the entire swarm will now go after the player. The X-pet, nearly dead, can now be killed by the player using Chants, or other ranged damage songs. This must be done while kiting the entire swarm; chant kiting experience will come in handy here.

*8. Once the X-pet is killed, the player will receive full experience for the kill. The technique may  now be repeated by charming another mob.