Solo Artist Challenge - Page 80

Juhstin · #**791** 03-05-2014, 03:43 PM

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Does anyone have any particular suggestions for how the solo artist challenge should be updated for Velious?

My only suggestion is to have a select few do what they're doing now and solo things and report back what they did to solo and gauge difficulty based off of what they were able to do using what they did.

baalzy · #**792** 03-05-2014, 03:59 PM

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Can two necros just use chain FD/pet summon to take out any mobs (granted that they don't do more dps than it takes to cast summon pet)?

Example - I summon pet, FD and send pet on mob (pet will die but I get no agro after standing since I was never on mob's agro list).

As pet gets low life, another necro does the same thing, at which point I stand, cast pet summon and repeat (obviously not the most optimal method, but essentially 0 risk since necro never even gets on any agro list).

If, at any point, both pets are dead. You will be get aggro as soon as you stand unless the mob resets.

tristantio · #**793** 03-05-2014, 04:16 PM

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If, at any point, both pets are dead. You will be get aggro as soon as you stand unless the mob resets.

Are you sure? I can FD, send pet on something like a guildmaster, and as soon as pet dies stand back up without any sort of agro.

Maybe since I'm not pulling them far from spawn point it is different?

Just to clarify, I don't mean to start summoning another (chain summoning) while the first is engaged, but rather to stay down in FD until pet is fully dead (then work on next pets summon when your partner is doing the same).

baalzy · #**794** 03-05-2014, 04:54 PM

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Are you sure? I can FD, send pet on something like a guildmaster, and as soon as pet dies stand back up without any sort of agro.

Maybe since I'm not pulling them far from spawn point it is different?

Just to clarify, I don't mean to start summoning another (chain summoning) while the first is engaged, but rather to stay down in FD until pet is fully dead (then work on next pets summon when your partner is doing the same).

If it's a static mob and you're doing it directly on their pop point, yeah that would work. Cause they'd be resetting almost instantly.

phobus · #**795** 03-05-2014, 05:20 PM

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Nice! I soloed Entariz last night - took about 25 minutes.

Okay now that is pretty impressive. I haven't tried any of the ones above level 54 (solo, anyway).

Triangle · #**796** 03-07-2014, 07:45 PM

Ayillish soloed last night. No puppet strings or any expendable clickies used at all. The fight took over about 35 minutes... 30 minutes until he started to run. I felt like his regen was significant... if I didn't have epic dot on him then he would regen 1% ever 24-30 seconds...

One thing to note is that I did not have Canni 4 during this fight which I think would have helped me tremendously. It is easily the best shammy spell in velious, and there is so much going on during these fights that to cast canni less would have been amazing.

I actually wiped the first time because I let slow run out, but the 2nd time i had a timer going.

Here are some screenies, but they aren't that great. TBH there wasn't a ton to see that could be captured in an instant, because the fight was so damn long... a video would have been better.

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You can see that it was a very close fight... note that my hp decreased a ton to get my CR as high as it was.

Triangle · #**797** 03-07-2014, 07:56 PM

This was from blue obviously, but figured I would give King Ak'anon a try. Back when I first started playing EQ I was obsessed with the fact that cities had rulers and you could take them out! Of course I was used to console games where most of those sorts of npcs were unattackable.

Anyway the fight was tough. I wiped the first time because I geared up for fire resist, when in actuality he casts his magic nuke a ton. The nuke is no joke as it hits for like 180....

It should be noted that king ak'anon is a lvl 60 mob, making him quite serious as far as resists go.

No puppet strings or other clickies were used during this fight.

You can see at the first screenshot I am insanely low mana and he is only at 94%! The reason for this is he was chain nuking me. However you can see here that he ran out of mana because he started trying to dispell... This was a huge help because I started to be able to gain mana back (shammy can gain mana even in tough fights by constant canni + regen + torpor). He does hit for 180... and I agro'd a damn light blue spider which was very annoying.

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Triangle · #**798** 03-09-2014, 11:48 AM

I figured I would give Entariz a shot. I could not believe how much easier he was than Ayillish. I think it was because he had significantly lower hp, regen or both. Also he did not seem to hit as hard. Here are some screenies.... you can see my mana was really really high. Also, canni 4 is just amazing. And finally you can see that he dropped absolutely nothing, wtf!

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Briscoe · #**799** 03-09-2014, 01:46 PM

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Does anyone have any particular suggestions for how the solo artist challenge should be updated for Velious?

I remember asking this question back in December 2012; it is finally a question worth thinking about! http://www.project1999.com/forums/sh...ad.php?t=91934

Handull · #**800** 03-09-2014, 02:17 PM

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Maybe a Fear golem with a shiverback pet if you used some OP clickies like SoulFire.

no clickies needed. i have done a fear golem charming a shiverback. somewhat luck reliant in that a pet break would likely be death, unless you had a very firm grasp on agro mechanics and cast spells accordingly. Even then you might not have time to cast charm again with two mobs coming at you and one summoning you.

breaking fear solo as a druid is rough, and takes a long time, but is doable without strong clickies.

any other harder druid soloing usually involves puppet strings to charm.

i'm looking forward to all the animals in various zones around kunark, it should be fun. might even be possible to solo some easier WW dragons with the velium hounds.