Alertness won't fire if serpent is ghost, hidden and shrouded.
You can see a serpent just fine on alertness no matter what defenses they have up (exception being phase, obviously). The only time you -can't- see them on alertness is when they are evading, and Kiba was definitely evading, so it wouldn't have done you much good in this situation apart from knowing that since he didn't hit alertness he must have evaded, and thus you should lunge to run him down.
I was too lazy to chase as bard. That's where you just start prepping legs.
Though, if paralysis is really the only affliction you're missing, lunge/auralbless/epic is a great lock finish after evade. If you do it quick enough, you should easily get them paralysed before they regain balance.
Auralbless has an EQ balance timer longer than lunge though. Most of the time, they'll probably be undeaf already so you can just lunge/sing epic -> jab
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As opposed to staring at text, which would be doing useless things with my life.
Though, if paralysis is really the only affliction you're missing, lunge/auralbless/epic is a great lock finish after evade. If you do it quick enough, you should easily get them paralysed before they regain balance.
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