>I have a binding thief up to level 40. I have bindlegs and
>bindhands at 95% and 93% and truss at 89%. I was walking
>around trying to truss up some mobs to try sleeping disarm and
>practice it a bit. Well, it took me 18 mobs before I finally
>got one trussed and sleeping. I even missed truss 10 times in
>a row on one mob. And,of course he woke up before I finally
>got truss on him and could not sleeping disarm it. WTF? Is
>binding supposed to be next to impossible to get? If you miss
>a bind hands or a bind legs you cannot even try it again.

On a normal jack, you usually get a second try, but you have to wait for it and you won't have much time left to truss. Risky, but hey, that's the life of a rogue, eh?

>Must I get bind hands and bind legs to 100% first? Both of
>those are VERY VERY slow and hard to learn and I have been
>practicing alot to get them up to where they are. Just
>getting a little frustrated with the whole binding thing...

Bindings are very frustrating, but really only because of one reason: bind hands and bind legs fail WAY too much. My thinking is that this is because of the fact that bindings, as a path, are insanely powerful, and the imms haven't figured out a better way of balancing them yet. IMHO it's likely this will be tweaked once other things are set somehow. It is unfortunate that as things stand, the power, insane or not, is severely hobbled. Now, for the good news...

You can practice sleeping disarm on any sleeping and wielding mob, they'll just wake up every time you try, fail or not. Fortunately, the skill overall is pretty reliable, unlike the bindings, and is a skill I am very fond of. It's a very viable tactic to sleeping disarm someone even when they're not trussed, especially if it leaves them unarmed. Just be careful of what they can still do while you're lagged. Also, blindfold and gag are pretty reliable, gag especially is incredibly useful in the right situations.

I know that it may seem lame to have to just make the best of the non-rope related skills in the path, but they're pretty good honestly.