I missed out on swarming as I came back as it was getting nerfed..., but from reading evilgamer and other forums my understanding was that the crucial bit was procing heals(from epic or mortal coil or leechcurse) from ripostes which is nerfed now.
Getting healed by ripostes would mean that you would not care at a certain level how many weak light blue mobs were on you, as long as the dmg they could do was less than dmg healed by ripostes to each one.
So swarming meant get train -> click epic -> get healed from ripostes -> get MC from killing -> keep killing forever as MC should be refreshing from kills
Nowadays I understand, you do not get heals from ripostes when MC/Epic is running. This would mean, that adding more mobs -> death at some point.
Sidenote:This is different from old warrior earthshaker AOE groups, where it was crucial to get as many mobs as possible so earthshaker could proc as much as possible from ripostes while evasive or some other evasion disc was running. Of course that was nerfed a long time ago.
For example, I am half raid geared for 90 (Elegant Soulrender) and half raid geared for 95 (Gelid Soulrender) and have 8k AA now at 95. I usually fight at around 9k-9500AC. With epic or MC I can take on 10-15 light blues in HOT zones. More than that and I am dead meat.
Am I missing something? Should I be trying Kaesora Lib, Zeka or Beza or MG? Is there some disc that can still make it feasible to handle 40+ mobs?
Evilgamer guys with 100, 10k AA, 100k hp/10k AC were saying that they could handle 40-50 in Kaesora Lib just by forcing it, but that it was not working as before. Of course, maybe they were trying to hide something.. :P
EDIT: doh did not realize this was Level 1