Using Blind & Confuse

Mages uses the spells Blind and Confuse to effectively move creatures away from him. It works on nearly every creature, sparing only on mythic bosses. It makes it much simpler and requires no killing along the way, something which can be tiring and takes up time one does not have.

If you paralyze a creature, unparalyze it, and confuse it, you will realize that if it is not touching another creature, it will move away from you - for a split second, and then return to attack you. This was not always this case, for in olden days, a confused creature remained confused for a much longer time. Due to perhaps the higher intelligence of our antagonists, it is now more difficult.

The first use of this technique is the most common - you are travelling through a cave and find yourself stuck in front of a creature. You are not strong enough to kill it quickly, but it has to get out of the way.

  a 
  x

x=Mage a=Creature

In this case, the Mage would only have to blind the creature first and then cast confuse on it repeatedly. After casting it for awhile (when it moves is random), the creature will move out of your way, and since it is blind it will not move back to attack you. You are now free to pass.

The second use of the technique is when you have to move a creature, but there are other creatures in the way as well.

  c
  ab
  x

Unpara c and b so they move away 1 space from the creature you want to move. Then you can cast blind and confuse until it moves. Or it would attack the creature.

The third instance that this comes into use is when you have to kill a boss creature that you intend to use the confuse technique on. With what you already know about using confusion, moving creatures towards a boss should be simple. The only time it comes into use with boss soloing, though, is if for some reason confuse wears off and it moves away from the boss while still blinded. You can then use confuse again to move it back. Creatures, which have been confused, tend to move in the direction they are facing, but this is not always the case.

Creatures always have a priority for what they will attack when they are under confusion. This has both ups and downs, but you should do your best to take advantage of the knowledge of exactly what a creature will hit when it is confused.

If a creature is surrounded by four others, it will *always* attack the creature above it. If there is no creature above it, it will *always* attack the creature to the right, and it continues to move clockwise. This means that if you want a creature to attack the creature on its left, you must make sure there are no other enemies above, to the right of, or below it.

This should give you the general idea. Creatures will always attack up, if nothing is up, they will attack right, if nothing is right, then will attack down, if nothing is down, they will attack left.