Safe Fall

[Game]

<DIV>I have 2 questions about the safe fall skill:</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>1. Is there a real use to this skill?</DIV> <DIV>2. How can one gain the skill at somewhat resonable rate? Runing around and jumping off of hills/cliffs/rocs or even repeted jumping of high places seems do bearly give any skill gains. For example in 20 minutes of jumping off of griffin tower I have gained 2 skill points after that I decided there must be another way.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>I hope someone ha sthe answers. Thanks in advance.</DIV>

[Yojimbo99]

<DIV>For real use wise; not really. However at one time i was asked to pull/eat the first aoe on Vaz'Gok and after the first hit i was about dead then the knockback through the air followed,  at that one ultra-uber  lotto rare moment in time  safe fall did indeed save me and was usefull in combat. But outside the rare knockback or just for the fun of falling off elevated spots "real" use doesnt come to mind.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Rolangard Frostfist; Slayer of Fairies</DIV> <DIV>toxx's favorite lvl 50 barbarian monk</DIV>

[Reposa]

If you want to skill up your safe fall, the absolute best place to do so is the South Qeynos mage tower.  Start low if your skill is low, then move up.  Zone up the yellow portal, jump to red, to blue, and from blue you can jump into the wall and land on a ledge before the bottom.  It's tedius at first, but once you hit about 200-210 Safe Fall, it goes rather fast. Oh yea, food helps <img src="/smilies/8a80c6485cd926be453217d59a84a888.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" /> <div></div>

[OgApostrap]

<DIV>Well... It is a bit useful for mobs that throw you... but there aren't that many... Maybe they should add some just to get monks more useful on some mobs.</DIV>

[Morrolan V]

<DIV><FONT face=Garamond size=3>I have been able to escape some encounters using it.  One place that comes to mind is the darn bees around the entrance to Drafling.  If you jump off the cliff and run, you have a great head start.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Garamond size=3></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Garamond size=3>It's also useful on the "point of no return" jump when going to visit Lord Nagafen in Sol Eye.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Garamond size=3></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Garamond size=3>Otherwise, it's mostly just fun.</FONT></DIV>

[Jagar]

<P>Safe fall saved me when fighting Brother Raster on top of the spiral tower in zek his punch threw me back off the tower and a good ways from it. It was really cool looking seeing me fly like that. And I landed with no damage. Skill at that time was 171. If it was any other class who doest have safe fall it would have been SPLAT!!. I raised my skill to 210 now in the mage tower in south qeynos.</P> <P> </P> <P>Jagarr Battlecat</P> <P>44 Monk</P> <P>Knights of the Shadow Dragon</P> <P>Innothule server</P>

[Crunion]

<P>jumping off the first lvl of the mage tower in SQ will take you to 250 skill. its easy to jump and land right beside the portal backup and repeat. Once you hit 250 skill you can survive jump from the top floor as well as tower jumps in zek.</P> <P>I haven't found a real use in current game, except fun. its fun to take shortcuts by jumping off cliffs or out windows, or even jumping down from the ledges in SP. But soon an expansion is coming out with cliffs to climb, which should also mean cliffs to jump off, and thats where i'm hoping a use for safefall will appear.</P> <P> </P> <P>Choo</P> <P>Gnome Monk of Butcherblock</P> <P>My Kung-choo is strong</P> <P> </P>

[HL12]

<P>Usefullness:  Safe Fall Is VERY useful in every day you play the game.. In all honesty most of us monks just dont realize how much it saves us.  When your running around jumping off hills, towers, bridges and any and everything you can find, take another class with no safe fall with you.  A non safe fall class jumps off Bird Tower and its like 500Hps, The bird towers dont even begin to look like a high jump compaired to Bridges, Cliffs, Mage Tower.  Ive Also seen with the new expansion,  They have added many areas where someone with Safe fall can move around more freely then anyone without.  </P> <P>Example:</P> <P>In the Upper Tunnels of Splitpaw I was with a 50 Zerker and a Mystic.  We caught agro too much agro and had to run, the result got us stuck and the only way out was down.  Mystic jumps = Dead, Zerker jumps = Dead, I jump = You land softly and avoid dmg.  One sec I will rez ya. </P> <P>Point being, safe fall is a passive skill that you dont activate nor can you personally gage how well improving it will help (other then jumping from higher distances and hoping its working better) but its far from useless, just ask someone without safe fall how annoying it is to fall off a rock and get hit for 700hps</P>

[amogl]

It would have saved me from the Ferrott monk way back when.... but it knocked me into the ^^^ x3(4?) that spawns... ya my group laughed so what. <div></div>

[stfields]

<DIV>We take safe fall for granted... but its simply fun to have it.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Good places to get the skill up:</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><50ish:  Griffon Towers</DIV> <DIV>50-135:  CL cliff</DIV> <DIV>135-220: Lowest ledge in Mage Tower to the ledge near the bottom (not all the way down, there is a ledge about 2x height of an ogre you can land on)</DIV> <DIV>>220: Mage Tower, just whatever doesn't kill you much.</DIV>

[zabor]

yeah mage tower is very good, but the jump from blue porter to ledge really starts to kick in when you reach 150. you can jump almost nonstop then without having to regen.oh yeah, undress anything you wear for two reasons:1) obviously, you dont need to repair in case you die2) you regen faster with good food if your max health is lower

[sglant]

<P>Jumping off a normal rock causes dmg to my wizard.... my monk laughs it off.</P> <P>Zarvonns Tower is a good place... I am at 130skill and I land safely about 50% of the time (other 50% is about 2500dmg)...  = )</P> <P>I like SF.. its fun to have others follow and find them dead behind me... LOL</P>

[Dasanhgul]

<DIV>Friends have learned <STRONG>not</STRONG> to <EM>/follow</EM> and go afk on me anymore... it can be a very bumpy ride <EM><grins></EM></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Fun skill, but a tad hard and annoying to increase.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV> </DIV>

[Shach]

my personal favorite is the Zek mine, hit the elevator, dont get on and jump down to each lil ledge and by the time ya get down, elevator should be just about down and hop on there, go up, and repeat, im maxed at 250 and still about 1/3 chance to live when jumpin from very top to very bottom without a  stop in between, could prolly live if i had my armor though... but im cheap and dont like paying to repair <img src="/smilies/69934afc394145350659cd7add244ca9.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" />