Solo Artist Challenge

[maurilax]

[S] Reanimated Plaguebone [54 Warrior, HS East] 12/23/2014

Well it has been quite a while. Been working on PLing some alts and cleaning up quest items and stuff for Velious. Even tried a couple nights of Red which was fun and something I will probably get back to soon.

Anyway, My first real excursion into east and barely at that. A couple months ago when I was doing south a lot I took a tour through east after getting the key one day. I made it all the way to the 4 golems outside Drusellas room and then had to cap out. So I kind of knew what to expect. Over the weekend Optic gave me an east key while I was chilling in the cubby in south. There was 2 living mobs in the room before the zone out/fake wall so I calmed those and went through. 1 living pather before the first 3 spawn, I did happen to use bind sight up to the nook to see Reanimated plaguebone up. I obviously didnt know there was a pather there and ended up having to cap out, great. next time down had to gate on a critical resist on the mob over the painting. next time critical resist on the mob in the last named room in south, and so it goes.

Went back down this morning and some of the living mobs were cleaned up, still had one on this side of the painting and one in the East key room. got down to the tunnel, crit resist on the bile in the key room and gate. 2nd time though I was able to grab a key and get back into east. Finally. I was not that worried that someone had killed the RP since he didnt have the shovel and all the same mobs after the east fake wall were there. I got back to the 4 spawn before the nook where the RP was and calmed the pathing caster skelly who had to be 52+ since I couldnt use allure on him that first day. there was a devourer in the 4pack which had caused me a cap charge the day before. got my cap finger ready and calmed him from around the corner and it stuck first shot. ivued up into the nook and realized I had no plan. I memed rapture (just watched the video, couldnt find the spell for like 30seconds hah) and mezzed the named. got him tashed and slowed while the 2 pathers were away. i tucked myself in the corner nice and tight so when the other pather came back he didnt agro. next time back i mezzed the pather tashed rooted and charmed. I made a few mistakes here clicking and mezzing the wrong shit etc etc but I was freaking out a little. would have been really annoying to die here. anyway I got my pet on the named and mezzed the other pather. got him dazzled and gave a torch and haste to the pet. got my runes back up and then charm broke. got the pet mezzed and recharmed but RP resisted so I had to tank a couple rounds. Was so bad with forlorn deeds. charm broke again while the pet was still mezzed so i stunned and recharmed and finally got him back on the named. had to redazzle the other pather at some point but the hasted 51 pet destroyed the slowed 54 named. memed gate and gtfo.

I really hope this isnt the place I have to fight the rest of the named. its super tight and sketchy and I hate going through south if I dont have to.

Gonna see if I can find somewhere else thats easier to get to through the east door. Might pop over and try a reaver still before going back.

Kill https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f7s6s0IsLOk

[maurilax]

[S] a Howling Spectre [54 Monk, HS East] 12/23/2014

Well right after I finished writing the last one up I went to check on the pop in that area and maybe clear out one of the living mobs. made it down way easier this time just calming the one living mob on the south painting and ivuing straight to the fake wall in the port out room in east. got back to the nook area and saw Howling Spectre through the wall. got my buffs good and made my way into the nook. had a couple scary non crit calm resists on the living mob in the 4 spawn but made it over safely. for some reason he didnt path all the way into the nook but i got impatient and raptured him anyway. ended up agroing both pathers and getting a shit ton of mez resists even with all three mobs being tashed and had to cap.

2nd time got to Howling Spectre got him raptured agroed the other 2 guys kept getting resists on aoe mez, didnt look at timer when i finally had them mezzed, cap when in a bag. dead. figuring out how to get the corpse was fun. Ended up getting a necro summon even though i made it all the way back i was just out of reach of my corpse and he logged in. had a coffin on my friends cleric got summoned and he rezzed me.

3rd time Got rezzed up and medded up back past the fake wall in the port out room in south. this time I had a key corpse with east key and an eye to get into south. I also know where not to die if im going to again. calmed the living mob and moved into the nook. this time i tried to dazzle instead of rapture the spectre which was a huge mistake, he resisted both stuns even with a tash and the mez ended up agroing all 3 and capping

4th time
ive gotten it down to where i can get to the nook in less than 5mins now, only requires the calm at the painting calm right on the other side of the fake wall then calm at the nook. moved into the nook and raptured Howling Spectre while the other 2 were away. got him tashed and dazzled and slowed before they came back. dazzled the pather that goes to the room and agroed the mob I was using as a pet, mezed him and rooted him and named and charmed/hasted him up. keep the other pather dazzled the whole time and used him to ToT. had one charm break that I got under control with a stun + mez + boltrans (i wasnt sure if anything was dotted) got some runes back up and didnt even have time to reslow before pet raped him….didnt think loot was gonna be any good but got a bedlam for the trouble. I really hope another named doesnt pop here I am sick of it already!



Fail 1-3
1 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e86mcPKayc8
2 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xB4EZC9UxBo
3 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bezsPVHYxts

Kill with getting to east https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W7iVDawRBYU

[maurilax]

Ended up spawning Undertaker Lord on the next one. first 3 or 4 shots I didnt realize i couldnt mez or stun him. I really dont know how im gonna do this without blowing some clickies....thinking about it. hopefully no one kills him, he has no loot [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

[Raev]

My only problem with the new, stronger, NPCs is that I feel the solo artist challenge is a bit more "I better hope this rapetrain pet does its thing, because if it breaks I'm going to get destroyed".

Also for the Undertaker Lord I just suggest ignoring him. You can recharm with 6s stun/clicky/boltrans; it isn't like he is going to destroy you while slowed in that period. He's just pretty resisty as befits a L56 mob. I think he used to be the hardest mob on the GM tier before Dartain got buffed to fuck.

[maurilax]

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

My only problem with the new, stronger, NPCs is that I feel the solo artist challenge is a bit more "I better hope this rapetrain pet does its thing, because if it breaks I'm going to get destroyed".

Also for the Undertaker Lord I just suggest ignoring him. You can recharm with 6s stun/clicky/boltrans; it isn't like he is going to destroy you while slowed in that period. He's just pretty resisty as befits a L56 mob. I think he used to be the hardest mob on the GM tier before Dartain got buffed to fuck.

Yea kinda what I was thinking. Biggest issue is timing mezzes so I don't eat 3 harmtouches. Other options include calming 4 mobs or killing some trash which is hard enough.

[Danth]

I've never consciously tried to work on this listing but have gradually accomplished modest amounts of it just during the normal course of Everquest'ing. My relevant character is a 60 Shadow Knight; mostly I duo with the wife (60 Shaman). We've been 60 on these characters for two years or so, now. I'm not going to bother posting screenshots since we've done nothing particularly interesting, but maybe our experience can serve as a "control" example of what ordinary no-name folks with no super-clickies or puppet strings and just mediocre gear (my SK wields a Noct blade) might accomplish during routine gameplay.

Skipping the first couple tiers for brevity.
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Solo Master/Duo Disciple: any 8 including at least one each from HS South and Sebilis Crypt
[D] Froglok Commander [55 Warrior, Sebilis Disco]
[ ] Brogg [55 Warrior, Sebilis Disco]
[D] Baron Yosig [55 Warrior, Sebilis Crypt]
[D] Arch Duke Iatol [55 Shadowknight, Sebilis Crypt]
[D] blood of chottal [55 Monk, Sebilis Crypt]
[D] Harbinger Freglor [55 Necromancer, Sebilis Crypt]
[D] Hierophant Prime Grekal [55 Shaman, Sebilis Crypt]
[D] the Skeleton Sepulcher [50 Warrior, HS South]
[ ] a Crypt Spectre [50 Shadowknight, HS South]
[D] Efreeti Lord Djarn [50 Wizard, Nagafen's Lair]
[D] Slizik the Mighty [54 Warrior, The Hole]
[ ] Skeletal Procurator [52 Shadowknight, HS West]
[ ] The Crypt Feaster [52 Warrior, HS South]
[ ] Embalming Fluid [52 Warrior, HS South]
[ ] The Spectre Spiritualist [53 Monk, HS South]

As a general rule the clears to a given named are far more difficult than the named themselves. The other hard part is finding this stuff open and available; since the wife and I mostly log on during EST primetime and don't have the time to wait around for camps to come free, we just don't get many opportunities for places like Sebilis Crypt. HS south and east is a little more open but the serious nuisance from death causes us not to particularly want to go there. I think we also killed some minor named bitey-thing in HS south but can't remember it dropping anything so maybe not.

Solo Grandmaster/Duo Master: any 6 including one L56+ and one from HS East
[D] King Tranix [52 Shadowknight, Nagafen's Lair]
[D] Magi Rokyll [52 Wizard, Nagafen's Lair]
[D] Warlord Skarlon [53 Warrior, Nagafen's Lair]
[D] A Black Reaver [51 Warrior, City of Mist]
[D] A cliff golem [58 Warrior, The Overthere]
[ ] The Crypt Excavator [54 Warrior, HS East]
[D?] Reanimated Plaguebone [54 Warrior, HS East]
[ ] Mortiferous Protector [54 Warrior, HS East]
[ ] a Howling Spectre [54 Monk, HS East]
[ ] Drusella Sathir [55 Necromancer, HS East]
[ ] The Undertaker Lord [56 Shadowknight, HS East]
[ ] Dartain the Lost [55 Necromancer, The Hole]

Reanimated Plaguebone gets a ? because I'm not positive he's the one we killed; I remember killing a single named skeleton in HS east a long time ago that dropped some insultingly terrible ring so I think it was him. We haven't been back to East since. As with the previous tier, it's exceedingly rare to even get the opportunity to do the named fire giants or such since that area's always camped. I've never even seen Dartain the Lost up, much less ever fought him.

We haven't duo'd any of the Duo Grandmaster level, although we've trio'd the two in City of Mist. Most the rest are either always camped or just not realistic for us. The Godmode tier, as appropriate for the name, is far beyond the capabilities of us mere mortals.

Also just wanted to keep the thread bumped. I like reading how far folks can push the limits of what's possible.

[maurilax]

[S] A Black Reaver [51 Warrior, City of Mist] 01/02/2015

Ding Grandmaster!!
I had been putting this off for a while mostly because I didnt want to bind out in CoM. The time has come with Velious looming to at least finish the teir so I could make a couple God Attempts before SoV is released.

I bound outside com, and then leved up to 2nd floor and rebound at the pyramid in the middle, a place where I spent a lot of time in the low 50s. I then levd over to the invis ramps and invised up past the goos. killed some random wraith to grab a wu stick and then calmed my way over to the locked doors. I remember when I was working on my epic that I had figured out how to get across but I couldn't for the life of me remember. after falling off 3 or 4 times and recalming invising back up i finally used troll illusion to jump on the door frame and then lev over (without jboots like a dummy) made it across and calmed/blurred the stuff i agroed. after dropping agro i moved across to where the reaver is and conned a pathing goo. it was blue and I remembered from reading tecmos story that he had a goo that held up pretty well. I charmed and tossed bedlam and rune on the pet and checked my buffs. I looked through the door and rooted the golem inside and saw the reaver coming down. I pulled him over to my rooted pet and let him go to town. after 10s i realized i never hasted the pet. and halfway through haste casting charm dropped. I freaked out a little and stunned and just tried to channel a cajoling whispers through the reaver beating on me. finally got the pet back and the Reaver on the pet with about 70% hp. I hasted the pet and got runes and bedlams back up on myself and the pet. the rest of the fight was uneventful. I tossed a could more runes/bedlams on the pet while making sure i had enough mana. killed and looted then gated to the middle and ran out while the pet died.

Probably taking a break from this challenge for a bit unless I get some free time to work on Emperor.

Kill https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y6HAuhdnslU

[Videri]

Is this thread locked at 100 pages? Where's the new thread? I beg to hear your wondrous stories!

[Fobbon]

bump to save from locking

[kb2005]

This is cool! Definitely gonna give this a shot when I get back into the game in a few months.