Zo Method, Part II

Borkiron sent the following report to TMN:

Heya Para,

A while ago, I wrote in about using the Zo Method to pass my second circle healer test.

At that time, I didn't try it for my third-circle test and passed anyway. However, recently, I decided to retake my third-circle test using this method.

Now because of the time limit on the test, I knew I couldn't kill everything in the test. However, I decided that to kill one Night Wendecka would do as a proof of concept. Outside of the test, there would be no time limit, so if I could kill one Night Wendy, I could also kill three if necessary.

As you can see, I succeeded. Also, I didn't trap the Greymyr again and took hits from it (as well as one of the surviving Night Wendies) while raising Glory.

Some folks might ask, what is the point of this? Since in a real situation, healers would probably chain the fallen away, or lead the monsters away and lose them before returning to heal, or cad the fallen, or ask a fighter to kill the monsters instead, or something else, but not kill everything themselves. The point is that it's possible to do it if you wanted to.

If there was a real situation with someone fallen with three Night Wendies and a Greymyr, it's possible for a healer with no chain and no cad to solo rescue by killing the three Night Wendies, then blocking the Greymyr with his or her own body while raising the fallen. This doesn't mean you'd want to do it, or that it's smart to do it, or even that it makes sense to try (because new monsters would probably come in the meantime), but it's possible. This ability will come in useful in many less dangerous situations.

Anyway, for anyone who's interested, I made a visionstone of my test; it's now available at the Puddleby Visionstone Repository.

-Borkiron

Posted by Para at May 05, 2006 05:21 PM