Solo Artist Challenge - Page 7

Splorf22 · #61 08-17-2012, 10:57 PM

So I realized I was really close to GM status, and decided to pay the cliff golem a visit in OT. Really nice not to have to worry about spawning mobs and so on.

I mezzed the foreman, invised myself, and ran to the East golem because Save decided to weaponize the other one. I turned around and saw Rottgrime and the Marine crew. Deciding discretion was the better part of valor I hopped over to Warsliks and back for round two. This time I got the foreman solo, gave him two yaks and epic haste, slowed the cliff golem (he resisted about 2/3 slow spells after tash) and blurred and watched the fight. Things were going well until I missed the second reslow and the golem killed my pet with 10% hp left.

So I hit him with rapture, memmed my pet spell, equipped my Rod of Annihilation, and tanked him the rest of the way.

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It seems I forgot to haste myself [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.] Sadly there is a dragoon in that picture and after he owned my pet I had to cap.

In other news, I'm adjusting the GM requirements. Any mob from HS south will do provided you pull it with your own spells, i.e. no rune (unless you happen to have a Bladestopper). This means Orruar and I both qualify for GM status. Hooray! I'm sure Svenn and Save won't be far behind.

Triangle · #62 08-17-2012, 11:19 PM

Black Reaver down today. Wasn't so bad of a fight. I got some screenies of that as well, can anyone give me some pro-tips on posting them? In any case tomorrow I will be doing Drusella without Rune and perhaps without strings.

Triangle · #63 08-17-2012, 11:29 PM

Pics from Dartain (these suck btw, I just decided to take a couple because its an odd mob... the second one you can see his "has been slain msg" and me holding the book
http://s14.postimage.org/puvksw22p/dartain1.png
http://s15.postimage.org/ivw81b1iz/dartain2.png

You can see that the fight wasnt so bad, ended it with 41% mana and

Triangle · #64 08-17-2012, 11:50 PM

Pics from Black Reaver: these are a bit better. He hits for 190 and is magic resist/unslowable. the first pic shows the fight just beginning, as you can see he is tearing my pet to shreds.
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I tried using superior heal on my pet to offset the damage he was taking but this was a mistake because it ate up my mana real quick.
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I soon step in to torpor-tank as my pet is at 25-30% and my mana is low from sup healing pet.
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Reaver at 0, me getting beat up and @ 10 mana.
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Reaver loots!
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Triangle · #65 08-18-2012, 03:26 AM

Took my first shot at tolapumj today. Took me awhile to get him single, had a charmed pet on him with tash stick.. landed malo, then had 3 resists on slow. he owned me soon after that. Was really hoping slow would stick with tash + malo. I have a golem metal wand which I will be using on him next time around as soon as he gets in camp, and hopefully i get lucky and stick slow... that is my only plan. But I can at least confirm he is not easy. Hit in upper 200's and super high resists... I am hoping the golem wand dispells an MR buff or some shit.

Another issue with him is he super-slows your pet... This will be the biggest problem for chanties who try to solo him, he must be tanked or he neutralizes your dps.

From a Shaman perspective, I cannot rule him impossible to solo until i land slow. Will try this coming week

Triangle · #66 08-18-2012, 08:59 PM

DS down without Rune. It is mostly about luck, have to outrun her pet and hope she doesnt cast a long spell so that she is out of her room by the time your invis breaks. I believe that qualifies me for Grandmaster! more to come though, going to focus on godmode mobs next!

Will post some screenshots from this, although there aren't many, but at least 1 that proves I did not have rune before fight began

Handull · #67 08-18-2012, 11:40 PM

Loraen, if you're a solo GM, aren't you a duo master by default? (anyone could just stand there and watch you kill it and call it a duo). I realized I've duo'd crypt with Save before, though I can't remember which named we got to pop and which we didn't, but it almost feels like cheating to even list those, since he can solo them himself. Duoing just lets us kill more mobs and do it safer with less risk :P

Grats on DS without rune. Definitely a safer and more reliable method to rune pull tho, but watch out you are buffed maxed and she lands a spell on you.

I'll have to get my ass over to seb/KC this week, knock out disciple, and think about working on master. I'm pretty sure I could do the crypt, but the fact that they have to be spawned and the door has to be unlocked makes it a bit harder since i pretty much have to puppet string kill anything that summon. or i can just skip right for GM rank, since I have DS in the bag.

for the black reaver, you just have to kill him once, or kill the repops until he stops spawning on you? if you have to kill the pops, is it cheating to zone out between pops and come back in? thanks

also, I'm assuming it would be against the rules to log to another one of my toons, debuff a mob, then log back to my main to kill him? just trying to think of outside the box ways to kill things [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Triangle · #68 08-19-2012, 12:11 AM

Pics from DS w/out rune (these pics suck sadly, had a lot of charm breaks so very few pics).

1st pic: shows my buffs, no rune is there.. all self buffed. You can see drusella's pet barely through the door.
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2nd pic: I pull her with invis, she got plague on me but she didnt seem to cast it until she was already in the hall, so I got away with no adds. I had the hexbone rooted and malo'd.... soon I will try her without charming but for now I didn't have the patience =P.
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Had a ton of charm breaks from here on out so no more screenies of her alive, but here is the result in the final SS:
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Splorf22 · #69 08-19-2012, 12:15 AM

Well I feel like solo and duo are separate things. I mean it shouldn't be hard for me to get the duo master title, but hey, you never know. I'd rather work on Duo GM [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

It's actually possible to kill the crypt named without strings as a druid I think based on Taelara's SS.

And finally I would say using two of your own characters is not really solo.

Handull · #70 08-19-2012, 02:29 AM

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It's actually possible to kill the crypt named without strings as a druid I think based on Taelara's SS.

I'll have to think about that a bit. The method of rooting and taking hits when summoned works, but crypt is a bit harder than the armsman, no? Casters also make that a much harder thing to pull off. the robe clickie is a 12 sec cast time, dont most mobs summon on 8 second intervals? Could probably burn through the PH's that way, but i wouldn't think the named are that easy.