On Thu, 26 Dec 1996, Pheonix wrote: > 2) In Daniel's new prompt what is tank? I can't get it to work. Whats > wrong? A tank is, in the technical sense, the person whom is fighting the same mobile that you are and getting hit by that mobile. In essence, the person who is leading the battle attack. For instance, you are fighting "The Penultimate Prophet, Bob", who always writes his prophecies in upper case letters, a habbit he developed in his home land of AOLin (a magical land that has more stupid faeries than not [although there is a small group of people that are acceptable in society that live in AOLin]). All this is beside the point, though... So, there you are, hitting Bob and Bob is hitting you. Now, your friend jumps in and he's hitting Bob and Bob's still hitting you. Ta'da! You've just become a tank, who all your friends that are beating on Bob, too, are hiding behind. Call it old fashioned, but on an old Circle 2.2 I used to play, me and my friends would group up and go find a tough mob. We'd put the best warrior at the front and attack in a sort of order, so that when the warrior eventually had to flee (eg., when our clerics ran out of mana) it'd fall upon the person who we deemed the next toughest. All the way down to our clerics, who we tried to keep alive long enough so that they could heal the warriors who would 'rescue' into the fight. The order would dissolve after the first time through it and on occassion we had our clerics stand aside (so that they could heal us and weren't hit). Often times, though, the little damage a cleric did was the difference between life and death for several of our group members. I'm not certain if any other players ever bothered to create a "tanking order" of sorts so that the clerics and mages would live longer and be able to save all the warriors at the fore-front. -- Daniel Koepke dkoepke@california.com Forgive me father, for I am sin. +-----------------------------------------------------------+ | Ensure that you have read the CircleMUD Mailing List FAQ: | | http://cspo.queensu.ca/~fletcher/Circle/list_faq.html | +-----------------------------------------------------------+
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