Fun With "Sylph"

[Arielle Nightshade]

<DIV>Thought you guys might like to see this...I obtained Sylph (the upgrade from Wisp) in Master  <img src="/smilies/3b63d1616c5dfcf29f8a7a031aaa7cad.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" /> for a really good price (read:  Free).  I hadn't used Wisp much so "Subjugation" isn't where it ought to be.  I'm spamming Sylph whenever it's up to get the skill on this up.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Sylph's Description (for the Master):  "Instant hate reduction for enemies in the caster's immediate area.  Briefly impairs the Movement rate of all enemies in that area and Teleports the warden a short distance away"   </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Effects:  Teleports target to a random location within 10 meters - decrease threat by 602 - Root Targets in AOE - Only affect targets lvl 62 and below </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Ok:  Teleports the Warden a short distance away:</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><A href="http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y218/ArielleN/EF2.jpg" target=_blank>http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y218/ArielleN/EF2.jpg</A></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>(I suppose this depends on your definition of 'short')....I found myself about 500 feet above my Zerker Partner waving down at him...</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>From experience getting dumped by the Griffin in Antonica..I knew if I took a step, I'd fall to a grisly, splatted death on the ice below..so I evac'd out.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><A href="http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y218/ArielleN/EF1.jpg" target=_blank>http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y218/ArielleN/EF1.jpg</A></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>The Zerker did NOT evac with me...which answers our question about evac distance in Adept 3  <img src="/smilies/3b63d1616c5dfcf29f8a7a031aaa7cad.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" />  </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>So...I guess those Masters are really really something!  LOL     I thought I'd share this with you..and also show you the panoramic View of Everfrost from the Air that...well..so few of us are privy to  LOL!!!</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV> </DIV>

[drews]

Lol this is great i'll have to try it<img src="/smilies/3b63d1616c5dfcf29f8a7a031aaa7cad.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" /> It's a good thing that we get evac otherwise we could end up in real trouble. Lorical <div></div>

[Unmask]

<P>Nice screenie. <img src="/smilies/3b63d1616c5dfcf29f8a7a031aaa7cad.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" /></P> <P>If you want to get subjugation up, spam sylph while running back from EF docks after you evac. <img src="/smilies/3b63d1616c5dfcf29f8a7a031aaa7cad.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" /></P> <P>And I have verduous journey at master - I know how useless it is. <img src="/smilies/9d71f0541cff0a302a0309c5079e8dee.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" />  </P>

[Ram]

<FONT size=2><FONT face="Comic Sans MS">I also have the Master Sylph, I have used it a couple of time and never been thrown that far, maybe i need to try it more often just for fun.</FONT> </FONT>:smileytongue:

[Arielle Nightshade]

<DIV>I have been too lazy to /bug this..but will if it happens again.  Having the panoramic view from the air in EF is sort of the highlight of Sylph Adventures.   I used it in the Drafling Tower  (again, spamming..not cause I needed it) and fell through the world..my first journey of that kind..so interesting.  I also spammed it in Deathfist and ended up LD for about 20 minutes  LOL</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>I wouldn't call this 'worthless'..just..um..INTERESTING.   If I had paid for it, I might be a bit miffed about now.  As it was a gift..I just wait to find what new places it will take me next...<img src="/smilies/3b63d1616c5dfcf29f8a7a031aaa7cad.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" /></DIV>

[3cho]

<P>This is really funny.  FYI, I have had Wisp teleport me into walls before (not pysically inside of them, but on the other side of them.  I too have been spamming the ability to get the skill up.  While in the Forrest Ruins mining T1, I happened upon a forgotten guardian, and decided to work on my crushing skill.  So after meleeing him for a couple of minutes (got a couple of crushing skill up's) I hit Wisp... and everything went black (I was in first person mode).  I pushed forward.... then strafe left, then right, then backwards... .and then I fell out of the other side of the wall <img src="/smilies/3b63d1616c5dfcf29f8a7a031aaa7cad.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" />  Reminded me of a Star Trek episode gone horribly wrong.</P>

[neble]

<BR> <BLOCKQUOTE> <HR> Arielle Nightshade wrote:<BR> <DIV>I thought I'd share this with you..and also show you the panoramic View of Everfrost from the Air that...well..so few of us are privy to  LOL!!!</DIV> <DIV> <HR> </DIV></BLOCKQUOTE> <P>So there really isn't anything beyond Pleasantville!!!</P> <P>*cries*</P> <P> </P> <P>I have had the pleasure of using Wisp at the bottom of Runnyeye just to plumet into bottomless darkness and end up being teleported back to the entrance... that was kind of cool, well aside from the fact that my group was without a healer at the bottom of RE.</P> <P><BR></P>

[Wolfyette]

<P>Discovered a fast easy *safe* way to up your sylph skills today :smileytongue: While you bored standing around lfg or while camping some mob doing nothing just target yourself (while not in battle) and spam away, you'll fizzle tons for fast upping and when you do manage to cast it just says no eligable target and doesnt take the skill down, continue spamming. Worked like a charm today standing around camping agony :smileyvery-happy:</P>

[Arielle Nightshade]

<BR> <BLOCKQUOTE> <HR> Wolfyette wrote:<BR> <P>Discovered a fast easy *safe* way to up your sylph skills today :smileytongue: While you bored standing around lfg or while camping some mob doing nothing just target yourself (while not in battle) and spam away, you'll fizzle tons for fast upping and when you do manage to cast it just says no eligable target and doesnt take the skill down, continue spamming. Worked like a charm today standing around camping agony :smileyvery-happy:</P> <BR> <HR> </BLOCKQUOTE>Awesome...great idea.  I have not done it this way cause it says 'no eligible target'...didn't take it further to see if it worked or not.  I'll try that tonight  <img src="/smilies/3b63d1616c5dfcf29f8a7a031aaa7cad.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" />  Thanks!<BR>

[neble]

<P>Get it up while you can!</P> <P> </P> <P>That's either a ad for [Removed for Content] or me saying you better do this method before the dev team considers it a glitch and fixes it.  I mean, they may never fix our broken spells, but if they catch wind of this you can bet there will be a patch for it tomorrow.  :smileywink:</P>

[FreaklyCreak]

<DIV>Warden's get a evac?!? This is news to me what level?</DIV>

[neble]

<BR> <BLOCKQUOTE> <HR> FreaklyCreak wrote:<BR> <DIV>Warden's get a evac?!? This is news to me what level?</DIV><BR> <HR> </BLOCKQUOTE> <P><BR>Eh?  That's coming out of left field for this thread, but yes we do get an evac at level 39, Verdurous Journey.</P> <P>Check it...<BR><A href="http://eq2players.station.sony.com/en/classes/index.vm?classId=16" target=_blank>http://eq2players.station.sony.com/en/classes/index.vm?classId=16</A></P> <P>If you're thinking about Wisp though, it's not a teleport in the sense of a evac.... it just moves you a few feet away and reduces aggro in an attempt to get you out of harms away.</P>

[Arielle Nightshade]

<BR> <BLOCKQUOTE> <HR> FreaklyCreak wrote:<BR> <DIV>Warden's get a evac?!? This is news to me what level?</DIV><BR> <HR> </BLOCKQUOTE> <P>Evac...the sweetest spell in the game, IMO <img src="/smilies/3b63d1616c5dfcf29f8a7a031aaa7cad.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" />  Lvl 39.  Treasured, awaited, enjoyed.   Although Furies' Group Invis is pretty cool, too  <img src="/smilies/3b63d1616c5dfcf29f8a7a031aaa7cad.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" /><BR></P>

[Shennr]

<DIV>Slyph and Wisp are acting a bit differently for me now then in the past. I have noticed that I get the usual teleport of a few feet like usual but now I also appear invisable for 5 secs and can move around as invisible even further away.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>This may just be a graphics change. However, a friend did say after using this spell that I did become invisable to them. Can any of you confirm this or has it really changed? I have the masters of both but I doubt that has anything to do with it.</DIV>

[neble]

<BR> <BLOCKQUOTE> <HR> Arielle Nightshade wrote:<BR>Evac...the sweetest spell in the game, IMO <img src="/smilies/3b63d1616c5dfcf29f8a7a031aaa7cad.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" />  Lvl 39.  Treasured, awaited, enjoyed.   Although Furies' Group Invis is pretty cool, too  <img src="/smilies/3b63d1616c5dfcf29f8a7a031aaa7cad.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" /><BR> <HR> </BLOCKQUOTE> <P>True, but I haven't seen an evac totem yet so I agree evac is the better spell.  </P>

[neble]

<BR> <BLOCKQUOTE> <HR> Shennron wrote:<BR> <DIV>Slyph and Wisp are acting a bit differently for me now then in the past. I have noticed that I get the usual teleport of a few feet like usual but now I also appear invisable for 5 secs and can move around as invisible even further away.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>This may just be a graphics change. However, a friend did say after using this spell that I did become invisable to them. Can any of you confirm this or has it really changed? I have the masters of both but I doubt that has anything to do with it.</DIV><BR> <HR> </BLOCKQUOTE><BR>Nope, it's been that way for as long as I can remember going back to Nov 2004.  :smileyhappy:

[Unmask]

<BLOCKQUOTE> <HR> neblehK wrote:<BR><BR> <BLOCKQUOTE> <HR> Arielle Nightshade wrote:<BR>Evac...the sweetest spell in the game, IMO <img src="/smilies/3b63d1616c5dfcf29f8a7a031aaa7cad.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" />  Lvl 39.  Treasured, awaited, enjoyed.   Although Furies' Group Invis is pretty cool, too  <img src="/smilies/3b63d1616c5dfcf29f8a7a031aaa7cad.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" /><BR> <HR> </BLOCKQUOTE> <P>True, but I haven't seen an evac totem yet so I agree evac is the better spell.  </P> <HR> </BLOCKQUOTE>Well the best invis totem I've seen so far is a lvl 33 one so if you can cast evac it's likely the totem is useless (but I never used one at that level so I'm guessing).  Evac is nice for personal movement but I'd rather have group invis.  You generally don't want to rely on the healer to evac since the need to evac is usually based on him getting pounded.  Plus a scout's evac is 3s casting time (vs our 5s) and not interruptable (though that can be a problem occasionally).

[neble]

<P>Nahh, I much prefer the versatility of an evac:<BR>-Group evac of course, either because your other evacers died or you're the only evacer.<BR>-Personal get out of trouble free card (barring interuption and having 5 seconds to cast it)<BR>-Jump through zones faster<BR><BR>Invis, at level 39, would be how useful really?  Most zones are already grey to you, and the ones that aren't you don't normally go walking through unless you're there to hunt anyways.  Sure you can use it to sneak your party past a particular area deeper into a hunting ground, but don't mobs also outgrow their invis eventually too?  You can never outgrow evac however.  =)<BR><BR> </P>

[neble]

and like evac, there are other classes that also do invisiblity better... namely Brigands and Swashbucklers, and pretty much all mages for single cast variations of invis.... possibly Illusionist with their group cast of invis as well.

[Wolfyette]

Huge debate on the whole group invis issue :smileysad: I also have a 45 swashy and It has an enourmous number of drawbacks....as far as totems go at 44 I tried one and well soe musta fixed it cuz everything just saw me anyways. I personally like having evac, with sow, jboots, and ghost lion (i don't remember name im terrible lol) I run at sprint speed anyways so if im just running threw a zone its see you later mobs as i blurr by :smileyvery-happy: In that pinch who better to know its time to scoot then the healer :smileyhappy:

[FreaklyCreak]

<DIV>thanks for answering im sorry I posted in the wrong place!</DIV>

[Unmask]

<BLOCKQUOTE> <HR> neblehK wrote:<BR>and like evac, there are other classes that also do invisiblity better... namely Brigands and Swashbucklers, and pretty much all mages for single cast variations of invis.... possibly Illusionist with their group cast of invis as well. <BR> <HR> </BLOCKQUOTE>Well as far as I can tell, furies have the best invis.  It's group, full speed and falling damage doesn't make you visible.<p>Message Edited by Unmasked on <span class=date_text>05-20-2005</span> <span class=time_text>08:35 AM</span>

[Unmask]

<BLOCKQUOTE> <HR> neblehK wrote:<BR> <P>Invis, at level 39, would be how useful really?  Most zones are already grey to you, and the ones that aren't you don't normally go walking through unless you're there to hunt anyways.  Sure you can use it to sneak your party past a particular area deeper into a hunting ground, but don't mobs also outgrow their invis eventually too?  You can never outgrow evac however.  =)<BR></P> <HR> </BLOCKQUOTE>Doing quests in, say, CT, SE perma, etc. are so much easier with invis.  Harvesting in lavastorm is also much easier.  You can harvest in feerott instead, which is gray, but the ?s are much rarer and less valuable.