Runes of Magic US / AU

I'm not a Druid, but I've seen Spirit Guidance used brilliantly. There was a large group of mobs together, and our Druid used Spirit Guidance on one of the tougher ones. The rest of the mobs killed it for us, and we were able to clear content, even when our party really didn't have sufficient dps. I wish I'd had a better understanding of what was going on, but at the time I didn't even know Druids had such a skill.

I used it quite a bit in HoS and other instances with funky trash pulls. The only real secret to it is to make sure You use it on a mob farther away from you. The instant you use Spirit on a mob its going to try to run to you. If you cast on the farthest one and strongest one you can then its going to run past other mobs and aggro them. It just takes practice and some thinking but it gets used all the way up through Sardos so, yeah, its an important and usefull skill.

Love that spell. A frequently run with a D/M in my group and it's one of my favorite tools in our CC toolbox. Between the two of us, we can have pretty much the entire trash pack silenced/rooted/stunned/turned making those nasty Grafu Castle trash pulls almost easy.

Quoted from "niburian;453234"

Guess I'm just SoL on that skill then. Mine functions nothing like what you guys are describing. I just don't get it. For one, the mobs run far away from me once I use it, they won't agro anything, nor will they attack anything, even if I drag the group right on top of their stupid heads. I've treid it in HoS, on regular trash mobs, all over the place, no difference. Thanks for taking the fun out of the one skill I looked forward to RW >.< Idk a fresh reinstall maybe? Will be the 3rd one this month :s

Record a video and post it for us to watch.

The behavior should be server-side so installing again would not make a difference.

Ok i think i understand the issue your having now that ive read all your posts.

as some skills there is a bit of a learning cure to use this one effectively.

best place to try this out and get used to it ive found is HoS. charm the healers and watch the group kill them. this is one very useful function of it.

now, to address your problem with them running away from mobs and things. I believe it sounds like you cast the skill then immediatly turn tail and run. you cant to that because it will in effect "reset" your target. now that being said you dont have to run into the middle of the mob, but just cast the spell and take a step or two out of the way. the mob will stand right were you want it and begin attacking other monsters in your and the partys way.

ok, go in to hos easy mode alone, go left up the ramp, and then look left in the the first hall way with the group of mobs, let them come toward you until they hit the door, target the blue rune elder, and when they turn around to go back farther in to the hall way, follow them, but DONT aggro any of them. when they get close-ish to the corner where you turn right, there are more mobs there, they will stop for a second or two before turning around toward you again. Right now, when they are stopped, cast spirit guidance on the blue rune elder. he will start to run toward you, just hop away a bit, but he will quickly turn around and go back to his group while still green. all of his friends will then attackhim, and kill him. To me it sounds like your problem may be that you are aggroing mobs before you try this, pulling them away from their spawn, and then turning them, which would cause them to run past all their friends, who are already attacking you or your party, and go back to their spawn. Spirit guidance does not make them attack, it makes their friends attack them. So try it all by yourself without aggroing anything, while they are at that corner and let me know if that works.



*EDIT*
just went in and did it myself, in easy mode, there aren't enough mobs to kill him, but you will get the idea if they all start fighting so no big deal. I went in to normal mode and took a video, but I dont think it will be done uploading by the time i have to go to work, so if you can't get it by this evening, ill put up the link to the video.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kbzCxrAwJII theres the vid =] sorry about the quality and silence haha

Quoted from "niburian;452025"

Had anyone else noticed that? When you use spirit guidance they run away from you and don't agro anything as they run past the other mobs?

No no no, they run to you for few seconds until they realize they on your side and suppose to attack what behind them then they turn back and fight.


Sometime in Kawak Tomb it fail and cause the target as well as entire group jump you.

Run GC hard with a Druid regularly who uses this. Mostly on the mobs that cc us like the conjurers with the hats.
Very helpful for annoying trash.