Newbie coercer question

[Badko]

<DIV>What's the best and easiest way to tell what class a mob is before charming it as a pet??</DIV>

[MugnMo]

<P>There isn't a perfect way to the best of my knowledge but there are a couple of things you could do:</P> <P>1)  Look at the buffs on the mob.  This will often identify the mob if it is a fighter class.  Unfortunately, not all mobs have up any buffs to use this tool on.</P> <P>2)  Erudite Vision.  Mobs give off an aura to erudites that will tell you if it's a fighter / mage / etc but not individual classes.  I've never played an Erudite to know for sure.</P> <P>3)  Experience.  If you pay attention, you can often know based off of the type of mob / the name of the mob.</P> <P>A couple important thing to note is that not all mobs are a single class and they can also have non-PC skills.  For instance, the infamous corpse candles cast soul blister (warlock) and absorb vitae (SK I believe?).   Also, one of the fun pets in Nek 3 hits with a skill called splinters that no PC has.  Furthermore, a (insert class here) doesn't always make a good pet.  It depends alot of their scripts.  You can get a berserker mob that is passive and it'll do 200 dps at level 70, or you can get a super aggressive berserker mob that will do 1000+ dps. </P> <P>Really the best tools at your disposal are experience and these message boards.</P> <P>Good luck!</P>

[RightInTwo]

<BR> <BLOCKQUOTE> <HR> MugnMobs wrote:<BR> <P>2)  Erudite Vision.  Mobs give off an aura to erudites that will tell you if it's a fighter / mage / etc but not individual classes.  I've never played an Erudite to know for sure.<BR></P> <HR> </BLOCKQUOTE><BR>Priest will glow green, mage will glow blue, fighters wont glow at all. It's a VERY handy tool....especially in pvp.  >=)

[Kyriel]

<DIV>WOW, erudite vision! I never thought of that, ROFL! Now i'm going to go make a erudite :smileyvery-happy:</DIV>