Zeropoint wrote:A bad guy with that much power and threat should also have enough foresight to have things like alarm spells and contingency plans.
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That. But also, and one DM I RPed with was really good at these sort of details: even bad guys need servants. Make those servants children or Fair Young Maidens.™ Some well treated servants, some little more than slaves. The best was a "Conan" style sub-plot where some mid-ranking nobles daughter was "kidnapped" by the "big bad" and we were offered a sizeable amount of gold to return her safely. So we waste the bad Necromancer and rescue the fair maiden. Shelly immediately goes in to woo the damsel, and she stabs his Bard 2-3 times before my Paladin could intervene.
Either way, because of that, we couldn't just let lose with the AOE in those situations.
Fighting a Rare for a world Quest. Vengeance DH and a Holy Pally.
Me: "Oh my God, I am tired of pulling punches for these fucking Horde. They are cleaving the shit out of me."
Kyle: "Stop pulling punches then, I'm not healing you until then."
Me: "There's a Bear Tank and I don't want to start a brawl."
Kyle: "That Druid is 106." (There was so much bullshit going on, I couldn't even target said Druid).
: Down to 50% HP:
Me: "Man.. fuck it."
:Soul Cleave, Sigil of Flame, Immolation Aura, FEL DEVASTATION:
:Kyle starts throwing his AOEs:
:HK Scout x4, All eleventy billion of the Horde Hunters pets die and he takes off running:
Me: Hey Kyle, looks like they..... Kyle... looks like they... WEREN'T PREPARED."
Kyle: ::Groan:: "Oh yea, that Druid was 110."
Me: "Ha! You asshole... I recommend we port now before the Royal Rumble starts."