Something in the title of this tactic really amuses my inner geek. Never watched Star Trek: The Next Generation? Well, I'll enlighten you -- the Picard Maneuver was a technique that involved moving a ship at extremely high speeds in order to appear to be in two places at once. And Gweedo (a rogue after my own heart) has put in long hours perfecting a similar technique for rogues to use when attempting to pull annoying caster mobs that don't like moving (because they can cast!) and might have friends (so we can't run in and ambush them). Gweedo breaks the strategy down into three/four simple steps
- Step 1: Take your gun, bow, throwing knife, dynamite, whatever... make sure nothing is behind you, and get the mob's attention. One at a time, please. [Elizabeth's note: I assume he means to do this from maximum range]
- Step 2: Immediately begin backing up. If it's a caster mob, the first thing it will try and do is cast. If you're fast enough backing up you will be out of casting range before their spell is finished casting and this will force them to abort this line-of-attack and give chase.
- Step 3: As they move forward watch where they are, and when they are out of range of the rest of their friends, hit Sprint immediately. This should get you back into melee range before the mob has a chance to get a shot off. This would be an excellent time for the 'ole Gouge/Backstab combination.
- Optional Step 4: If you're crafty and can get a kidney punch in fast enough they won't have a chance to get a shot off. Most casters are stupid. They won't resort to melee or hand-to-hand unless they're out of mana.
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11-06-2006 @ 12:12PM
andy said...
well this is hardly rocket science now is it?
hmmm, a caster wont run at me, i dont want to fight close to him incase i pull his friends. etc.
use a mage or a warlock the silence him, he'll come running.
cool name tho :)
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11-06-2006 @ 12:20PM
Jim said...
hmm, this is a glorified basic common sense strategy. I don't see why its on here.
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11-06-2006 @ 12:49PM
Vhailior said...
Because its an entertaining write up pertaining to the world of warcraft. And it involves the Picard Manuvere, which instantly makes it cool.
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11-06-2006 @ 1:12PM
Kryz said...
ZOMG, this reminds me of my hunter's "Davey Crockette Shot".
I use it when I want to be hurting a mob, and at the time, I'm currently not hurting the mob.
Step1:Shoot the mob.
Step2:Keep shooting the mob.
Step3:Kill mob before mob kills you.
Optional Step4:If you're really good, you can straighten your racoon fur hat between being freakin' 1337 with your pwnage.
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11-06-2006 @ 1:44PM
Deusirae said...
Or, just sap the adds, and kick the casters butt...with "KICK" in order to shut his casting down. A rogue should have no problem killing casters. Kick/Gouge/Kidney Shot/Kick/etc...
Cool name though.
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11-06-2006 @ 1:47PM
Mike said...
I thought the Picard Maneuver was when he'd get up from a chair and pull his shirt down to remove wrinkles.
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11-06-2006 @ 2:09PM
Reas said...
Wow, pulling out of caster range and then using sprint to close the gap. Welcome to level 40 !
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11-06-2006 @ 2:48PM
Hide-Eitrigg said...
Step 3 is completely unnecessary the majority of the time. You can easily close with normal run and stun/kick on a caster advancing into casting range.
Step 4 is wrong. Basic initial caster scripting:
1. If aggro'd from range -> offensive nuke.
2. If meleed -> melee.
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11-06-2006 @ 5:21PM
Gweedo said...
Thanks for the exposure Liz. As it happens, you posted this article on my birthday. Thanks! So... ummm... did I give you this link like in the last 24 hours or so? Excuse the question if it doesn't make sense.
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11-06-2006 @ 6:02PM
Abhinav said...
Yeah this is pretty basic... and kick works great against casters. Ambush, kick and finish em off.
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11-06-2006 @ 9:26PM
Maggot said...
I've been playing a rogue for a month and been doing this for 29 days
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11-07-2006 @ 12:20AM
Satan said...
This post was a waste of time, anyone with simple knowledge of how the game works knows this. And why would you burn sprint to kill 1 mob?
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