What is kite?

Texas Flood

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Oct 2005

Wiltwangsons legionnaires

W/N

topic

and sorry the search is to busy and is not working

Witchblade

Witchblade

Polar Bear Attendant

Join Date: May 2005

is it just me or we have too much clues about what he's asking ?

Tsunami Rain

Tsunami Rain

mmmmmmmm pie.

Join Date: Aug 2005

Honolulu, Hawaii

Favorable Winds [Gust]

Mo/

Definition provided by The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition. Copyright © 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company.

kite:

Noun
1. A light framework covered with cloth, plastic, or paper, designed to be flown in the wind at the end of a long string. 2. Any of the light sails of a ship that are used only in a light wind. 3. Any of various predatory birds of the hawk family Accipitridae, having a long, often forked tail and long pointed wings. 4. a. A piece of negotiable paper representing a fictitious financial transaction and used temporarily to sustain credit or raise money. b. A bank check drawn on insufficient funds to take advantage of the time interval required for collection. c. A bank check that has been fraudulently altered to show a larger amount.
Verb
Inflected forms: kit·ed, kit·ing, kites
Verb
intr. 1. To fly like a kite; soar or glide. 2. To get money or credit with a kite.

Texas Flood

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Oct 2005

Wiltwangsons legionnaires

W/N

Like when you hear about a monk kiteing. I always hear people in other forums saying kite kite kite.

Witchblade

Witchblade

Polar Bear Attendant

Join Date: May 2005

i learned a new word
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heist23

Journeyman

Join Date: Jul 2005

R/Mo

Kiting:

a defense used by player classes with low AL to decrease the amount of damage that they are taking from a melee fighter, most notably warriors.

chris_nin00

chris_nin00

Dun dun dun

Join Date: Aug 2005

Reddit Guild

R/

In other words...

Running away from baddies

Minus Sign

Minus Sign

Jungle Guide

Join Date: Feb 2006

Mo/N

Also see: side-stepping: the art of pressing the "Q" and "E" buttons to step to one side, dodging ranged attacks. Not to be confused with "running" and "RED ENGINE GORED ENGINE GORED ENGINE GORED ENGINE GOing runners!"

chris_nin00

chris_nin00

Dun dun dun

Join Date: Aug 2005

Reddit Guild

R/

The correct, kick butt term would be strafing.

I don't know who termed the technique kite. Kiting is like flying a kite.

CartmanPT

Academy Page

Join Date: Oct 2005

W/Mo

I know what is KITT




After the stupid and not funny joke i have searched and found this:

Kite and not Kitt

Solberg the Exiled

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Mar 2006

Xen of Onslaught

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Kiting means to run away from warriors that are beating on you as it will decrease their dps significantly.

castanaveras

castanaveras

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Aug 2005

geeeez....I learned another new word from an online game.
When I first playing GW, I don't know what "noob" is....lol, it tooks me a while to figure that out.

Transluecent51

Transluecent51

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Jun 2005

Guilds Are For Woosies Who Need Help

Its simply strafe running which is usually best for dodging attacks while still getting away at a decent speed. Strafing is just moving side to side without moving your body direction mostly. As said earlier best for low AL classes to avoid damage.

Sereng Amaranth

Sereng Amaranth

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Jun 2005

The Amazon Basin [AB]

Kiting is great for rangers where you run a bit, turn around and shoot, run some more, etc.

NatalieD

NatalieD

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Aug 2005

Kiting means running away from an attacker that's chasing you. It's because they trail along behind you like you're flying a kite, except it's a kite with an axe that wants to kill you.

It's not the same thing as strafing, not at all. The confusion arises because in Guild Wars, the best way to kite is by strafing (running sideways), because getting hit in the back while you're running is an automatic crit. Although, if a warrior is coming towards you but is still some distance away, then you want to run as fast as you can to prolong the time when he's not touching you, and that means turning your back. (This is sometimes called pre-kiting.)

You can sometimes dodge arrows and other projectiles by changing directions while running. Strafing back and forth is the easiest way to do this. This isn't really kiting, though.