Kiting Daily Guide

Kiting- Killing a monster, player, elite monster, etc. from a distance using ranged attacks and not allowing the monster to touch you.

Kiting allows you to take on threats that would make shreds out of you in seconds with relative ease. Kiting will take a short bit of practice to perform efficently and there is no better way to create a guide on this than to just show you how to do it, and explain a bit about what I am doing.


For this Video Tutorial I used a Level 15 Priest/Scout to take on a Level 19 normal mob. Basically all you do is hit the mob from a distance with a ranged attack and then circle strafe while keeping this mob at range. Notice I used ranged attacks on the mob that are instant casts that dont require me to stop and cast. Damage over time spells (DoTs) are perfect for this. Couple DoTs with whatever spammable instant cast ranged attack you have and you have a kiting combo.
My Basic attacks in the video are:
Vampire Arrow->Bone Chill->Shot

I attempt to pay close attention the mobs portrait in the top middle of the screen. I know I am trying to keep my 2 different DoTs afflicting the mob at all times. If one of the DoTs misses like the Vampire Arrow did on my first shot I make a mental note to use that spell again the second it is available to me.

Another Kiting Video I would like to post to show you just how powerful kiting can be:


I do want to make aware that not every class can kite. I am pretty sure the warrior has no kiting abilites same with the knight. Classes with ranged attacks like the Scout/Mage/Priest are your bread and butter kiting classes. Notice the method I used isn't the only method. For instance the Mages Lightning spell can chain enemies to the ground a short period and can be used in conjunction with a combo. Another thing I do to kite better is to take click to move and turn it off in the options of Runes of Magic, just a preference though. Good Luck and know kiting will take a bit of practice to perfect.

If you have a video to donate to show other ways to kite please feel free to share a link to them. I may even put them up with this guide as well.