An open letter to SMs.

[HolyAegis]

/Quit is your only option.

[angelsarc]

Originally Posted by Figaro

Better yet, train your own mobs next to them and lay heals down on the SM, and this is likely to put your mobs you were kiting that unleashed onto the SM and kill them.

Please do this. I'd love to see someone follow this piece of advice.

[Littlefeat]

Have had many other classes train me and never felt the need to QQ.

[Biscuit]

I think SMs really are the best class for griefing. It's so fun to find a mob a party is focusing on and fear it into a pack of socials. Dumb melees will stay on it and die almost instantly! Then the mobs go on to the healer because he's dumb for healing the dumb melees. You can also put your servants on the mobs they're CCing. I'd love to see the look on a sorc's face when his CC keeps breaking and he can't figure out why.

[Godzilla3232]

Originally Posted by Biscuit

I think SMs really are the best class for griefing. It's so fun to find a mob a party is focusing on and fear it into a pack of socials. Dumb melees will stay on it and die almost instantly! Then the mobs go on to the healer because he's dumb for healing the dumb melees. You can also put your servants on the mobs they're CCing. I'd love to see the look on a sorc's face when his CC keeps breaking and he can't figure out why.

Sounds sexy; if PvE groups are going to shun us anyways we may as well give them a reason to REALLY hate us. SM's keep on soloing those elites, and if a pesky group gets in your way just wreck 'em.

[Phish]

A SM looked at me wrong the other day, guys. True story.

[totalsiege]

best thread evr

[Silent'Ax]

Less qq more pew pew!

[Axxyl]

"Hey guys, I rolled a class that can't solo elites, therefore NO ONE IS ALLOWED BECAUSE IM ANGRY!"

Nice thread OP.

[Abedeus]

Originally Posted by S3nton

Maybe if we got invited into groups more then we wouldn't need to solo?

"Sorry waiting for a Sorc"

Ding ding ding.

If we were accepted as either the CC class or another DPS, fine. But nobody takes SMs to groups.

Therefore, it's easier for us to spend 3 minutes per elite mob than spend 3 hours trying to get into a group.

So, gth.

[feriseena]

Originally Posted by Alent

Kaiden HQ is not solo content. It is group content. If you are not in a group, do not kite mobs to death, GET A GROUP OR GET OUT.

While attempting to get Warrior's marks last night, my group was trained by multiple SMs who were soloing elites without any regard for where the 2 extra elites in their pull went when they leashed. Not only were they unaware that the mobs could leash on other groups, they refused to even acknowledge that their actions were harmful or change what they were doing.

I know some SMs are respectful of other groups when kiting, but the bulk of SMs need to understand that when you train groups, you wipe them and cost them a boatload of kinah.

If an SM can solo elites there, then why is a full group wiping to them. Perhaps you should try harder.

[Biscuit]

To all the SMs complaining about not being wanted in groups: Make your own parties. I've never had issues with finding people to join my parties, except at bad times of day when everyone is asleep/working. No one complains about your damage either, when you use Blessing of Fire and Spirit Wall of Protection. Everyone absolutely fawns over you when you save the group from a wipe by using Fear Shriek when someone messes up and pulls 6 mobs, heh. In the end, I've only heard good things about SMs in groups.

[angelsarc]

Most people don't expect an SM to pump out super high DPS. They usually want the SM to make up for some deficit or other that the group might have. For example, a Gladiator tank might want a Spiritmaster in the group, because regaining hate from CCed mobs is more difficult than for a Templar. Blessing of Fire for melee heavy parties is also quite nice.

I don't know about anyone else, but one of the main reasons that I chose Spiritmaster was to abuse AI mechanics to grief others.

[Sardoni]

Enmity Swap is delicious for grieving people trying to KS or tap my elite kiting.

Dump agg to pet, (stop all attacks) let pet die, mob aggs to nyerk, nyerk dies, root, resummon pet, resume kiting.

I don't keep it slotted recently, but lol. Only viable use I've found for it lol.

[ZNICK]

Originally Posted by S3nton

Maybe if we got invited into groups more then we wouldn't need to solo?

"Sorry waiting for a Sorc"

QFT!

Also, if we can kite and handle 1-2 mobs there solo, and their whole GROUP can't handle an add, you better find another group.

Z