Angels of Torment + HER

mike.

sorry I just saw this post for the first time.

fighting baddies is kinda like a dance. and it goes like this.

Party encounters Uber. Hopefully you have some idea what you are facing. (IE darkness is sort of a guessing game)  Is there a box? 
If there is no box, just keep on moving. It is totally not worth taking on ubers without a box.

-Leader X's out of the room. Hopefully everyone makes it. If someone dies, and they stay in the room, Don't extract them unless you need them to clear the encounter.
Leave them there, they will keep the encounter from REPOP-ing. Sometimes the char dies in the process of exiting the room, then the body falls outside the room. Raise them.
-assess party's damage, heal. THEN decide who goes back in. Keep the re-enter party small. You have to make an attack and exit quickly.
-usually I "K" off everyone from the seeker, then track the sorc to the seeker, and just the two chars go back into the room.
-sorc blasts, seeker X's out.
-heal damage if any recieved.
-repeat until the baddies are gone.
-- if needed then I kick off the Sorc, track warrior/ninja/nomad to seeker and go in swinging on everyone except the seeker. He X's out as soon as the swings are in. (assuming anything is still standing)

The KEY is-- don't stand toe to toe with the baddies. If the baddie is something the sorc can't work against-- take the healer. If it is a fighting encounter and it is tough-- maybe just take the warrior and do the single swing/X out dance. It is easier to manage and much quicker. My mage rarely goes back in. My thief never goes back in until the monsters are all dead. (see final note below)

There are some uber encounters where you need fire against one, cold against another and word of death against a third. I have tried taking sorc and healer in at the same time to fire spells from both and X out. It is hard to do, AND when the timing is poor, the monsters tend to kill both chars at once. A better way-- dance in and out with the sorc until the monsters the sorc is working against are dead. then switch the sorc and the healer and repeat.
 
Extracting a dead char from the room (when needed to take out the baddies)
-track a not so important char to the seeker.  I usually use the ninja -- seeker enters, ninja picks up dead char, seeker X's out. repeat as needed.  if the seeker and ninja both die, I usually lead with the thief and pick up with someone else.

A final note.

IF someone else is actively playing... and you are trying to take down a tough encounter-- IF it takes you long enough to do so, the encounter is going to repop and you will lose the box. This is when I suicide my nomad. Run him in solo and press F. He usually dies and holds the encounter against repop. This is so much better than losing the box. I have used the thief for this function when not running the nomad. Then you raise the thief to open the box when the whole thing is over.

I hope this helps you. BITD we use to call this the STUD dance. Or bopping the studs.

-billy