2010-11-20, 01:37 AM
octopusprime Wrote:I still think that Bstep + savage would be better even on mobs just because of coin generation for ME.
It's something Shadowers will have to practice themselves. ME training with Pickpocket is hard. It's really hard. To do it with Savage Blow generating the coins would mean you have to lure with Band of Thieves. If you don't want to recast Pick Pocket each time you lure, your Band of Thieves will be dropping coins like crazy, and if the monsters aren't far enough away from that, you'll waste a lot of time blowing up coins you don't want to. And then when they are all stacked together, you can't always guarantee they'll be inside the range for ME from the Savage Blow coins anyways. A lot of monsters aren't even strong enough to be worth the setup time to exclusively train with ME. Most of the time, it's just a pile of coins left over with Pick Pocket that you can explode because something spawned on it.
The most practical example of using Meso Explosion with Savage Blow Pick Pocket possible is Gobies (which suck by the way). You Savage Blow the house for coins and when it breaks, you can ME right away to kill the six Gobies immediately. Of course, you can also miss, and then they get everywhere and you'll never hit them with ME again.
The most popular training maps are best designed for Band of Thieves. ME has a lot less practical use on them because of the way the platforms are laid out. Band of Thieves lets you hit tops and bottoms because of its high range, but ME can't hit anything not on the platform the coins are on.

