Solo Artist Challenge

[Splorf22]

So after about a week of trying I finally got the myconid spore king solo. I had been thinking a while about how to pull him and finally I came up with a cute trick: I could Dictate him, hit him with a Bracer of the Hidden, invis myself and zone out, and then when I came back I could facepull him normally (if you were stalking my WTB thread you could see I suddenly wanted a ton of see invis items).

Anyway, the spore king himself isn't actually that hard solo but I had an amazing combination of bad luck and stupidity.

1st attempt: got him to 20%, charm broke and for some reason i was ducking and couldn't use the strings

2nd attempt: came down with a group on the theory that they could kill it if I wiped, but Trysa pulled him before i had a pet. Then when I was running back from firepotting the tunic to an EC mule he spawned again.

3rd attempt: screwed up the pull (you have to break charm on him really fast or he will try and 'save' you from his guardians, get injured, and summon you)

4th attempt: pulled him and lagged out immediately afterwards (see screenshot above)

5th attempt: I forgot he dispelled after all this BS and he poofed charm twice

6th attempt: calm failed on the room of three where i was pulling my pet, I got 3 stun resists and nuked for 800 and died.

7th attempt: I got disgusted and called Svenn down. We invis pulled him normally, but he fell into the water near NG and summoned my pet under the world.

8th attempt: success. Technically this is cheating, but whatever, its my thread and I got tired of all the BS. Pulling him is easy; you can get a 60 enc and verify it yourself. Svenn pulled with some mini strength debuff that didn't affect the fight. A few screenies:

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This time I gave the pet a few trash debuffs (mostly I just clicked the bracer of the hidden when the king dispelled). It gave me great pleasure to see 'froglok krup knight looks stupid'.

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I had to heal the pet with a reaper of the dead. Normally even with a L48 pet that shouldn't be necessary but it ate quite a few rounds of melee while i was backing him up trying to get him out of the water. The other problem is that when the spore king runs through the jail he gets hasted by the illis shamans which really increases the degree of difficulty. I may try and clear them out at some point.

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King about to die. Its quite possible to do him without clickies I think; I didn't have a single charm break and plenty of mana for another rapture/allure if I needed it. I'm so traumatized by this experience it may be a while.