Solo Artist Challenge - Page 59

Splorf22 · #**581** 04-27-2013, 11:22 AM

I'm curious if anyone has any changes to suggest in the light of the removal of invis pulling. I just looked at the list and the mobs up to solo GM seem ok, but some of the god mode mobs are just going to be impossible now: the spore king, Korocust, and Tolapumj. Does anyone have good suggestions to replace them?

Iznog · #**582** 04-27-2013, 11:39 AM

I'm pretty sure even with the direct/indirect agro change you could still invis pull the king with a trio. So you could get help single pulling him and still solo him. With tola and korocust I don't think you could get either of those though

But untill the change is intact I don't know if my tactic to invis pull him will work 100%

Triangle · #**583** 04-30-2013, 08:42 PM

Took out Myconid Spore King today.

Sometimes spore king sees invis now, unfortunately during the crack I had at him he did not, so I had help in pulling him to camp via an invis and therefore I am not sure this counts as an official kill and because of that I didn't bother to take screenshots.

I had pulled a frog from upstairs to use as my pet and used puppet strings before the fight to haste it and weaponize it. Slow landed on king after 4-5 tries, but my pet had such good agro that there wasn't an issue with him aggroing me..

After slow landed I tanked. Strings broke once at around 70% but i was high in HPs at the time. He hits for high 200's which when slowed is not that bad and I didn't run into any other issues.

I pulled him and pet to ledge at around 30% to prevent him from running and he rooted my pet in the water which really prolonged the fight. Strings broke again at 17% but he was already running. I didn't attempt to charm the pet again and just finished king off with jbb/epic/bane of nife.

Altogether it was a fun fight, especially because its so hard to get king solo as he is an amazingly contested mob, so much so that when I have had the camp in the past I didn't even want to risk attempting it when he popped because of the risk of losing it.

Special thanks to Vitus and Bazrag who had the camp at the time and very kindly allowed me the chance to solo him.

Finally, if this king did see invis like he does sometimes, I would not have had any issues killing him just like I did here, but I will be trying to find a see invis one so I can solo pull him... but time is running out!

P.S. for all that trouble he dropped a robe! oh well =)

Tecmos Deception · #**584** 04-30-2013, 08:58 PM

Nice work Svenn!

Neryn · #**585** 05-16-2013, 04:13 PM

Back in business :

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[S] The Golem Master [50 Warrior, HS North]

After scouting HS North the other night while Jndt was clearing it, I decided to try it solo. So I got myself a double invis, headed to that first room and I had the nice surprise to see the Golem Master up.

So I standed there, outside his room, and started disintegrating a first roamer (the one that comes in and out of that first room). It went alright. I sat down, but another roamer came by and aggroed me. And to my surprise, the Golem Master ran out of his room and aggroed me two, along with 2 more skeletons.

I tanked it like a gnome, root-parked these fine folks and checked my hp and mana bar : 31% hp and 65% mana. Not so bad. I refreshed my rune and throw a small nuke at the Golem Master to check his HP. It took him 9% of his HP (731 dmg) : totally soloable.

http://i.imgur.com/C8vAW98.jpg

I decided to med some more until I had enough mana. I had to refresh Fetter twice on all these adds and finally I could start nuking him down.

http://i.imgur.com/ZFaQRId.jpg

Last nuke :
http://i.imgur.com/1Z7h5Db.jpg

And loot :
http://i.imgur.com/ntLEW4M.jpg

For the record, I then camped my aggro and came back to a skelly roamer who instantly aggroed me and brought 3 skellies from the room nearby. 3 HT, instant death [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

webrunner5 · #**586** 05-16-2013, 05:55 PM

Nice job, and great screenshots also.

Splorf22 · #**587** 05-16-2013, 06:59 PM

Very nice Neryn, maybe you can use the money from those Kylong boots to buy a hiero cloak! Just kidding [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

P.S. GNOME!

Tecmos Deception · #**588** 05-16-2013, 07:29 PM

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I sat down, but another roamer came by and aggroed me. And to my surprise, the Golem Master ran out of his room and aggroed me two, along with 2 more skeletons.

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3 HT, instant death [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Sounds like HS to me!

Good times [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Sounds like you need some ivu pots [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

kank · #**589** 05-16-2013, 07:54 PM

Nice screens, good write up. Thanks Neryn!

Tecmos Deception · #**590** 05-16-2013, 08:21 PM

Really wish more people would work on the challenge. Just because you can't manage solo legend or any of the god-mode kills with whatever class you have doesn't mean we wouldn't all love to see your stories of warmup/disciple kills!

This really is a LOT of fun. I mean, I leveled an enchanter up from 1 just for this challenge. I wondered if I could manage warmup kills as a rogue, between sneak pulls and slow poisons and stuff, but getting my ass kicked by level 47-ish mobs on the ramparts in KC really put me over the edge... lol. I guess maybe not everyone is totally ignorant of the layout of the zones and types of mobs you can find in hs, seb, etc, like I was before I got Tecmos to 55+... but seriously... SO MUCH FUN!!!

I mean, if nothing else, there is quite a lack of duo writeups/screenshots in this thread!