Solo Artist Challenge

[Tecmos Deception]

Originally Posted by Tecmos Deception [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

[S] Skeletal Procurator [52 Shadowknight, HS West]

Weeeeeee. This guy is quite a way down the solo master list compared to my usual fare! And, not surprisingly, the kill has QUITE a story to it. You TLDR people have been warned [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]


Yesterday Daire and I were in west to get some key corpses made for south. After some good luck popping procurator back to back, we called it a night. But after the time we spent in there, I figured I knew the lay of the land well enough that I could come back this morning to kill the Pro!

I lulled my way all the way back to the hallway by that ledge outside the Pro's room, mezzed and petted the first skele to walk down towards me, and instantly managed to aggro the entire boss room as a pather aggrod my pet. A couple of stuns, a couple of AE mezzes, and a bunch of fetters later, the situation was relatively stable. I finished all that stuff up by just suiciding whatever I charmed.

Unfortunately I had forgotten to pick up the key to Pro's room, so after recovering from that fight I had to lull and IVU back out, I got into a fight just outside the key room, finally got the key, and then lulled/IVUd back to the hallway by Pro. Spawn timers were ALL messed up because of how I cleared things before though, plus the fact that I didn't actually know how many mobs spawned in the room and how many were pathers (or where the pathers pathed). Next cycle I petted up a level 46 ghosty fella and decided I'd keep him and use him to clear out anything that aggrod into the Pro's room.

After two rather stressful hours (couldn't look away from the computer cause spawns were so wacky, so I was just keeping a fully buffed/weaponized pet charmed nonstop except for blur healing), Procurator popped: http://postimage.org/image/j8efgccqj/

Unfortunately I had a bile spawn as soon as I had him debuffed and put pet on him: http://postimage.org/image/5u6v6lktn/

Also unfortunately (seeing a theme here?), Pro resisted a stun and disease clouded my pet early in the fight. At this point I decided to go all in, and loaded up 4 stuns hoping I could just stunlock Pro and hope my pet didn't break. Things were looking promising in this screenshot: http://postimage.org/image/72uqs8crv/

About two seconds after that SS though, charm broke JUST as a new skeleton burst into the room. I got summoned, ate a HT, ate a round from Pro, and my pet went crazy on me. I was dead before I even thought to try to hat out.


So I asked Daire if he was free to chaperone me on my CR. He's a very gracious fellow, and was more than happy to come help out to get a break from going insane trying to get a braided cinch cord for his baby enchanter. The CR was... messy. We got past the drop in, and my brain farted and forgot that I can use air elemental to levitate, so I said "we gotta go the long way around." We promptly aggrod a feaster and a bile as they rounded the corner, lost IVU, aggrod like 4 skeletons from the drop-down room. Daire ate all the HTs I think, and I managed to get things under control enough for us to log out IVU and hope the biles were gone when we came back. THEN I remembered I could illusion to levitate.

When I got back in, Daire had gated from some trouble, but I managed to deal with a goo aggro and still lull the room (I thought he was still logged out at the time). I got up onto the ledge with air elemental, camped aggro, came back in, promptly aggrod a pather + the whole boss room and died again.

Daire hammered back over, we worked our way in again, I lulled the one living mob in the drop-down room and IVUd across to ledge to grab my corpses, only to be beset upon by a damn bile through the door. At least before I died this time I managed to dragged my 3 bodies to where Daire, safely medding by a patch we had cleared out, was able to grab them and rez up.


CR now over, I medded up while staring towards my quarry, beginning to understand just a little bit how Loraen was feeling about Dartain a few days ago: http://postimage.org/image/l4yr7m5kb/


I again made my way across to the ledge... a bit more vigilant watching for feasters and biles this time. I quickly, and successfully, dealt with the pathing mobs (4 of them I saw), lulled my old pet and pro and a feaster in the room, then went in and petted, buffed, medded a tad, relulled feaster, mezzed, debuffed pro, loaded up stuns, and sent pet in to do his job: http://postimage.org/image/dp81dlvpj/

My hands were getting a bit shaky by this point. I definitely wanted this guy dead, but I was also dreading the thought of another failure followed by CR ugliness!

Early fight: http://postimage.org/image/48w0c7g07/
Mid fight: http://postimage.org/image/992vfczfx/
Late fight: http://postimage.org/image/f19buyngh/
Loot: http://postimage.org/image/nh32u7qnf/

Thank God this one went better, lol. Daire later commented that I had good luck, but I attribute this kill more to the more-careful timing of kills of the Pro's pathing guards than to charm lasting the whole fight. I kept him from sticking any dots on my pet, and that feaster was easily dealt with via lulls and later fetter, so I'm quite confident that 1 or 2 charm breaks would have been handled without trouble. Again, my experience with chanter soloing in this challenge is that taking things a bit slower and thinking a little ahead works infinitely better than trying to do something like squeeze in a kill quick before mobs respawn!


Boy, it was satisfying to kill him. Definitely pleased with myself (and my super awesome cleric buddy Daire!) for getting this kill today [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

[Tecmos Deception]

Originally Posted by Tecmos Deception [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

[S] Froglok Pickler [52 Warrior, Sebilis Disco]
[S] Froglok Commander [55 Warrior, Sebilis Disco]
[S] Brogg [55 Warrior, Sebilis Disco]

Started off the morning by running back into disco. No see invis up, no nameds up. I lulled the pickler room while the ilis ph was pathing away, petted a level 49 krup knight, then proceeded to kill the pickler ph, the commander ph, and the other frog in the pickler room, each spread out 5 minutes or so apart.

2 cycles later, pickler was up. Mez, tash, slow, root, pet, cripple, no charm breaks: http://postimage.org/image/rdv3se1ln/

A few minutes later, commander was up. Same process, same result: http://postimage.org/image/6qd1k3025/


I figured I might as well see if I can keep my good streak going, so I lulled a few see invis mobs in the library and explored my way back towards Brogg. I like this area back here! Tucked away, I thought the whole hallway was a safe area (but twice over the 90 minutes or so I was back here I logged in from camping off a pet to have a frog beating on me... not sure where it goes/came from/whatever), fun torture devices and a scarab swimming in a pool of blood. Cool!

Brogg wasn't up though. I petted a bok knight, who turned out to be level 48, and proceeded to kill Brogg's PH, the frog in there, and the scarab a few minutes apart. 3rd or 4th cycle, Brogg popped for me! This fight was somewhat more interesting, thanks in part to the scarab in the pool having a different timer than everything else around, so it was up and ended up aggroing during the fight, and also thanks in part to my pet breaking charm once. Still, though, it was not bad at all!

Fight just started: http://postimage.org/image/htgnv9kvp/
Re-bedlam after scarab add: http://postimage.org/image/i25khxud3/
Pet soundly thumping Brogg: http://postimage.org/image/ob5tnlitv/
Charm break and summoned: http://postimage.org/image/to49p37wx/
Loot: http://postimage.org/image/u9dwd8po7/


My favorite part of this fight was right before I took the screenshot of me recasting bedlam, because I thought to myself "hey, I should turn my view to my right so that I can catch the rooted scarab in the shot along with everything else!" ... lol. I'm pretty fond of the shot of me standing between Brogg and my pet after the charm break too though. Good times! If I can scramble around and get some stuff done IRL, I might see if I can get Gruppy to pop for me too.

[Tecmos Deception]

Originally Posted by Tecmos Deception [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

[S] Gruplinort [53 Wizard, Sebilis Disco]

A group was in disco tonight slaughtering everything, but they moved to crypt so I postponed going to bed for a few minutes to see if Grup would spawn... and he did! The only other mobs up in basically all of disco, though, were the 3 frogs who had popped right next to Grup. I lulled the two on the outer edge, both lower-level shamans, and targetted an AE mez on a dar knight standing next to Grup, figuring I'd hit them both with tash then pull them back into the still-empty pox scarab room.

But AE mez has a bigger area than I expected, and I caught all 4 frogs. After trying to decide if I could salvage this somehow, I decided to tash everything, root everything, and camp them off while hidden around the corner.

When I came back on, Grup was missing and a couple frogs were filtering down from up above... so I thought he had been pulled out. But while I was waiting for Culprit to log on to sell him a donal's bracer, Grup somehow ended up back at his spawn point.


This time I lulled and pulled him solo back into pox room, which was still empty. Knowing that my tactics were going to result in a messy, ugly fight, I still decided I would keep Grup mezzed in there until something spawned for me to make a pet of. I was a bit worried he'd get pulled off or something if I tried to be more careful by waiting for the room to pop and clearing it THEN killing Grup: http://postimage.org/image/iuma7yk8r/

The pox scarab and a frog popped within seconds of each other, putting me in the tricky-ish spot of getting the scarab charmed, hasted, weaponized, while making sure I didn't eat a nuke or anything: http://postimage.org/image/bhahepep3/

I managed it though. Pet set upon Grup with a vengeance, and Grup seemed like he was easier to stun than ilis wizards/shamans I've fought: http://postimage.org/image/4fu9zvndv/

By now, the other frog in the room had popped and was caught up in the mess of stuns and mezzes, but charm was holding and Grup was going down: http://postimage.org/image/oylom6a3r/

I got beat up a bit trying to squeeze in to get the loot, but the fight was over: http://postimage.org/image/ig5iji3vn/

[Handull]

grats man, you're on a roll!

[Splorf22]

Originally Posted by Handull [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

grats man, you're on a roll!

Yep. Time to head to South IMO [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

[Tecmos Deception]

Originally Posted by Tecmos Deception [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

[S] A cliff golem [57 Warrior, The Overthere]

After Daire and I duod him, I knew I could solo him if I could get a charm to last for the whole fight. As it turns out, charm did NOT last the whole fight, and I still got him. In fact, charm broke TWICE during the fight and I still got him.

I started things off with umbra, WR, normal weapons, bedlam, and feedback on the undead foreman. I timed the buffing and the final charm before the pull so buffs would all last, but so that I'd also be full mana starting off. I started things by rapturing the cliff golem when he was away from the dragoon, tashed him, stuck slow on the second try, rooted him, and sent pet. Pet broke almost instantly, but fortuitously it broke when he had only done 2% damage to the golem. I ran them towards SF a ways, mezzed pet, rooted golem, and am seen here recharming the foreman: http://postimage.org/image/pi66ee8jv/

Fetter wasn't holding too well early on, so I got summoned a time or two before pet had enough aggro to hold without fetter. I was applying bedlams early, not being sure how much damage the golem was going to do to my pet over the whole fight: http://postimage.org/image/d90xsysi3/

Because of the charm break shenanigans earlier, I wasn't sure how long was left on slow, so I re-did it at 64% and hoped it would last to the finish. And then charm broke again. I had thought about how to deal with this beforehand and my plan was to stun pet, mez pet, rapture golem, recharm pet... but when it actually happened the golem was swinging so slowly (I'm still not used to using forlorn instead of tepid on stuff!), I stunned pet, mezzed pet, and allured him while golem took a swing at me. I lost bedlam and rune though, tanking the golem for a few ticks while mez wore off: http://postimage.org/image/r9zv7vr2r/

After that, fetter was breaking frequently again and my pet had lost his built-up aggro, so I swapped in memory blur for allure (since I was too lom to survive another charm break anyway) and hit him with a blur, but not before I had lost bedlam again and taken a number of hits from the golem: http://postimage.org/image/820sbtvb1/

A sarnak wandered near my pet and I stood up, hoping it wouldn't aggro unless I was sitting or something I guess, but it did anyway. Oh well. Golem was low now and pet was still pretty well off. I figured I was all set barring a third charm break. Then I remembered the golem enrages. I thought that I would turn him around and tank him while pet finished him off, except that forlorn deeds just wore off: http://postimage.org/image/4ckzngnj9/

I soaked up a couple rounds and narrowly avoided going below 20%, then decided I'd just hope my pet could bedlamtank + back off spam to survive the enrage. It worked out, and here is pet finishing off golem after enrage: http://postimage.org/image/d2i2ob50l/

Loot was better than the 1 jasper Daire and I saw, but not quite a high-level spell: http://postimage.org/image/47rproj4j/

Hurrah my first solo grandmaster kill!

[Slave]

That Bedlam sure seems useful! I'm glad I didn't let that go too cheaply. AND that you were the one to get it. Win-win.

[Tecmos Deception]

Originally Posted by Slave [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

That Bedlam sure seems useful! I'm glad I didn't let that go too cheaply. AND that you were the one to get it. Win-win.

Yeah, I still owe you a couple hours worth of favors. Haha [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

[Slave]

Originally Posted by Tecmos Deception [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Yeah, I still owe you a couple hours worth of favors. Haha [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

2! Though I'm not sure how I'm going to match getting the Epic. Might have to let you off the hook if I can't think of anything in a few days.

[Aule]

He was hunting me through OT after i hammered.
So i stopped to give it a try - i was unbuffed but made it, was very close though.