Solo Artist Challenge

[maurilax]

[S] Crypt Caretaker [53 Warrior, Sebilis Crypt] 10/17/2014
Finally got Crypt to myself this morning. Baron was up, who I have already got but collected a Tolans helm using the heiro ph. then killed off the hiero ph against a guardian. cleared the other phs using the dar knight pather, and suicided him after. next round caretaker spawned. I just killed the harb ph with the duke ph. I reset duke ph and used it to take down the caretaker, pretty easy a couple charm breaks. I kept the guardian mezzed the whole time to ToT and keep him from healing. Hopefully I can get some more named popped before work.

Kill https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2WsdTux-gTA

[maurilax]

[S] Harbinger Freglor [55 Necromancer, Sebilis Crypt] 10/18/2014
There was a Monk and Shaman camping hiero and they let me have the other spawns. I killed harb and duke phs against each other and camped out to wait. Harb popped. Petted up dar pather and sent him in. took me a little while to get harb slowed and his dots or something were raping. anyway pet died at around 30% so i mezzed and totted to keep agro and then charmed duke ph to finish him off. 2 more to go in here then Ill start cleaning up kedge, solb and the hole i guess.

Kill https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qHw3ppSIbQM

[maurilax]

[S] Hierophant Prime Grekal [55 Shaman, Sebilis Crypt] 10/18/2014
Finally got this scrub to spawn. There was another group in Crypt even though I called the cc (yea yea i was only killing duke and hiero phs). anyway he pops, i see sword so i didnt freak out to much. I had been keeping a pet rooted so the group didnt kill it since he was all setup. petted pather. hasted and mezed hiero before he could buff up. tash slow and root, send pet and loaded 3rd stun. chain stunned him the whole way down just in case he tried to blow me or the pet up. Way easier than i expected. Just Duke left down here.

Kill https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IOuCB4ljqWI

[maurilax]

[S] Arch Duke Iatol [55 Shadowknight, Sebilis Crypt] 10/19/2014
Might as well make the last kill pretty dramatic after spending all this time in Crypt. I was just killing Hiero and Duke phs after having some trouble trying to suicide duke ph on a golem (bad idea) i finally got regrouped and took the ph down. next cycle he spawned. I was FM and ready to go. I mezzed the golem on that side as always and setup the dar pather. I loaded a 3rd stun the same way I did with Hiero. I guess I got really unlucky but I ended up getting 2 charm breaks and on the first one I forgot I was going to need to have Boltrans up because of the dots on pet. You can see at 2:45 im trying to mem boltrans while hasted pet is beating on me. after getting pet recharmed i got summoned and bashed then got a root resist. on the next pet break at about 30% hp on named, duke resisted a stun and I was in the middle of swapping spells so pet beat me up some more. then I kept getting summoned, ended up with blood boil on me which i never realized. looted up and camped with 7% hp and very little mana. Ended up dying when I came back into the dot cause I didnt see it. Not sure whats next, Probably will keep an eye on Kedge but work on Efreeti during the week.

Kill https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F5Mg4KjL-0E

[maurilax]

[S] Efreeti Lord Djarn [50 Wizard, Nagafen's Lair] 10/22/2014
Welllll sheeeeit, this was a really fun and frustrating experience. I busted out a map and made my way to efreeti, not realizing invis didnt work and then calming blurring and agroing my way there. I finally made it and cleared the spawn for 6phs before i had to go to work with no pop. I camped in the room behind the wall thinking there would only be 1 roamer and found out there was 2 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]. I logged in and cleared the camp and Ph and spread it out a bit. During a cc while I was clearing a group called freeti, and i was like wtf! anyway i stayed there for a few more phs and finally he popped. I knew that group was close by so if i failed they would take it. For some reason this made me rush and i sent in pet at 80% with no real strategy. anyway the pet died, i learned its really fucking hard to slow this guy and hes not mezzable. great. I capped out and the group killed him.

killed 1 or 2 more phs then called it quits. This morning i logged in and killed the ph and Freeti popped! While I was still clearing the two pathers I somehow agroed 3 mobs outside and they backstabbed me, i got the situation under control with 10% hp and should have just gated. i tried to be the hero and charm broke and I died. I then tried to calm my way back up with no gear and created 5 corpses and lost 60. that was a lot of fun. My guildie Ralanov came and helped me drag all the corpses back to the entrance and I rezzed and buffed up. Ralanov helped calm our way to the big lava outside efreeti and I took over and started calming to clear outside the room, I got a crit resist on the first one and ended up having to clear everything.

In the end that probably helped out with the fight later as everything was still down when i finally got efreeti. Anyway Ralanov was there still but just filming and taking screenshots [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]. I petted up the pather in the room when it came out torch and sos. I calmed to 2 guards which was the scariest part. with 3 mins on calm i started figuring out my strat. after a charm break and at 60% mana I didnt want to risk calming the guards again so I bedlam and runed the pet and face pulled efreeti. after getting my self rebedlamed after he nuked me and hit me a few times i finally got the pet on him. I didnt bother trying to slow or root after the first root broke in 1 tick. I loaded up boltran in case of a charm break and just kept rune and bedlaming the pet. I got a ToT on efreeti which prob saved the day and kept me and pet runed. pet was winning and doing a good job until efreeti decided not to run for some reason at 20%....that last 15% felt like it took forever. you can see in the video I was duck casting boltrans in case of a charm break. but in the end he went down and i got some boots for an alt. Glad its over, glad i did it cause I had never killed this guy before. Def not coming back without a cleric [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Fail1 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CqJ5_LlkHW8
Fail2 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5IBHnNjD9UU
Kill https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cyZlsxJ9gss

[Erati]

^ he wont run if there are imps/lava guardians in the vicinity

this is why enchanters who solo always leave one up in the room....if he runs you fail as most the time the ramp up is not cleared when ur soloing

Grats on these kills

[maurilax]

interesting, when I killed him we were behind the wall. that still counts? they werent agroed at the time

[Man0warr]

Mobs don't have to be aggroed to prevent fleeing, just have to be within a certain distance.

[Daldaen]

Originally Posted by Man0warr [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Mobs don't have to be aggroed to prevent fleeing, just have to be within a certain distance.

Classic confirmation pending.

I'm skeptical non-aggro/LoS friendlies in a close radius would prevent fleeing.

[Poid]

Sounds like you were making efreeti harder than it needs to be. Hasted/torched imp will win a straight up manfight vs efreeti as long as you use stuns to try and interrupt efreeti's casts. Most of the stuns will get resisted, but even one or two interrupts buys you plenty of time to burn through his fairly low hp.