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Originally Posted by Tecmos Deception
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Ah ha!
So apparently, as any of you who are familiar with Dartain already knew by looking at my retarded SS, I was looking in the wrong spot for this fella. After yelling in guildchat about a locked boulderdoor keeping me from killing Dartain though, I got advice to /tar him and send a pet in.
So I charmed the named ghost fella down here after seeing he's supposed to be level 50, cleared fallen erudites, and proceeded to ensure my pet and I were fully buffed. Hit pet with a couple junk buffs, umbra, shissar, bedlam, rune 5, and feedback. I even gave him a couple lariats for the aggro, since I didn't want to be trying to root or blur Dartain (I think this is the first fight I've ever actually used REAL pet weapons for, heh). I sent him in through the boulder then backed him off before he put Dartain in summoning range and then the real fight started out in the open:
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I ended up just putting tepid deeds on Dartain; I figured he would probably resist a couple times, and between wanting to get him slowed quickly, not wanting to OOM or aggro trying to slow him, and assuming he would spend a lot of his melee timers casting anyway... yeah. Well slow stuck immediately, so I was kinda just sitting there for the early fight. As you can see in this SS, pet is already down to the same HP % as Dartain even though pet started the fight with 1k+ rune, is quadding and hasted, and Dartain was slowed almost immediately:
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For the next minute or so I was hitting pet with bedlam and rune, but whatever dots he had eaten to this point were working him over even without taking much melee damage. The lariats were working wonders on aggro; 5 runes during an eye of veeshan fight pulled aggro off of eabon (who probably dumped a mallet into the eye), but a few bedlams and a rune didn't pull off of my pet. Dartain was really messing the pet up bad at this point, even though pet is only 10% below him in this shot:
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So, not wanting to have to try this again down the road, I used a reaper on my pet:
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I guess... what's cheesier in a solo challenge? Using a strong clicky and succeeding on the first attempt, or failing for not using the strong clicky and then calling in people to summon my corpse/help me CR/etc? Lol
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Anyway. I couldn't have survived the fight without the - anyway, because my pet broke charm shortly after the CH and needed a wand of allure charge. I got him back just as I lost bedlam+rune and fetter stuck on Dartain right away so my pet could get some aggro built up again:
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That root didn't last long, and I got a few resists after that too, but pet eventually peeled him off of me after I stuck a blur:
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Pet whittled him the rest of the way down without further incident:
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Phew! Thanks to Drumas for making the busywork of moving around down there 100x easier (plus I had a legitimate blast crawling through the dungeon)!