Off the beaten path solo spots? (lvl 45+)

[Connecticut]

Put your enchanting skills to the test, and head to Kedge Keep

It has a higher skill requirement than any other zone at the level range.
It's hard, it's fun, and the exp is amazing.

[pijan]

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

Put your enchanting skills to the test, and head to Kedge Keep

It has a higher skill requirement than any other zone at the level range.
It's hard, it's fun, and the exp is amazing.

I don't think I've ever been in Kedge. Do you have a recommendation location within the zone?

[loramin]

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

I don't think I've ever been in Kedge. Do you have a recommendation location within the zone?

At your level I think the only/best camp is the fish in the area where you first zone in. For most classes it's a pain to split them (you have to agro a bunch, root one, zone, come back, kill the one you rooted, repeat) but that shouldn't be an issue as an Enchanter. Also there's a rare mob (Fierce Impaler) whose rare drop, Darksea Harpoon, is worth 500-1k plat (and his common drop sells for a few hundred).

Once you're too high for those fish you can explore almost the entire zone with invis to find your next spot: as long as you avoid the two named mermaids and Phinegal nothing else in the zone sees invis.

One warning though: whether you have a fishbone earring or just fish scales/enduring breath, when you die you will have neither of these things. This isn't a huge issue for the entry fish (they're close enough you can swim to them and loot your corpse before you run out of breath), but once you go deeper I'd recommend parking an alt with a few fish scales nearby, so that if you do have to make a corpse run you can drop/transfer a fish scale to your main (or alternatively leave a corpse with several fish scales, all separated in to different slots).

[JonyeGway]

Grobb guards are a pretty good chanter solo spot. 11p a drop and you can merchant and bank with illusion + benevolence. Way less camped than oggok.

[loramin]

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

Grobb guards are a pretty good chanter solo spot. 11p a drop and you can merchant and bank with illusion + benevolence. Way less camped than oggok.

I 100% agree, only ...

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

I've been soloing grobb guards since 43 and I'm ready for something new.

[pijan]

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

At your level I think the only/best camp is the fish in the area where you first zone in. For most classes it's a pain to split them (you have to agro a bunch, root one, zone, come back, kill the one you rooted, repeat) but that shouldn't be an issue as an Enchanter. Also there's a rare mob (Fierce Impaler) whose rare drop, Darksea Harpoon, is worth 500-1k plat (and his common drop sells for a few hundred).

Once you're too high for those fish you can explore almost the entire zone with invis to find your next spot: as long as you avoid the two named mermaids and Phinegal nothing else in the zone sees invis.

One warning though: whether you have a fishbone earring or just fish scales/enduring breath, when you die you will have neither of these things. This isn't a huge issue for the entry fish (they're close enough you can swim to them and loot your corpse before you run out of breath), but once you go deeper I'd recommend parking an alt with a few fish scales nearby, so that if you do have to make a corpse run you can drop/transfer a fish scale to your main (or alternatively leave a corpse with several fish scales, all separated in to different slots).

Can I just use water elemental illusions or does stuff dispelled?

[loramin]

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

Can I just use water elemental illusions or does stuff dispelled?

The seahorses can dispel, and possibly the mermaids also. However the fish and the sharks don't, and you can completely avoid seashorses/mermaids if you want.

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

Where are the TT keepers? Never heard of it.

I assume that refers to http://wiki.project1999.com/Spectral_Keepers, which are all over the ruins in TT.

[Tecmos Deception]

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

One warning though: whether you have a fishbone earring or just fish scales/enduring breath, when you die you will have neither of these things. This isn't a huge issue for the entry fish (they're close enough you can swim to them and loot your corpse before you run out of breath), but once you go deeper I'd recommend parking an alt with a few fish scales nearby, so that if you do have to make a corpse run you can drop/transfer a fish scale to your main (or alternatively leave a corpse with several fish scales, all separated in to different slots).

Water elemental illusion doesn't take scales. Handy for CRs or when you don't want a different illusion up.


Mid- and upper-40s seems like a dead spot to me in terms of "off the beaten path solo spots." That's the point where I ended up leaving dungeons when doing my solo chanter videos and visiting LOIO bloodgill goblins, DL, and CoM, IIRC. If kedge works for you, it'd be super off the beaten path, that's for sure. Lots of people swear by it. It always annoyed me... or maybe I just never spent enough time there to figure it out [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I think Kaesora is a bit too low to be really nice XP at 45 though. Xalgoz is 40 and pretty nasty, but everything else is right at the edge of being green IIRC. It's definitely doable down there, just not sure if it's worth it for the XP alone.

[loramin]

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

Water elemental illusion doesn't take scales. Handy for CRs or when you don't want a different illusion up.

After dying multiple times in Kedge recently and having to to either send alts over to Dagnor's with fish scales or try to make a SoW-powered swim through most of the dungeon on a single breath, I now have yet another reason to be insanely jealous of Enchanters.

Also, I have the sudden urge to go level mine.

EDIT:

On the plus side, all those deaths got me 7x Driftwood Treasure Chests, which may well be a server first as I'm not sure anyone else is stupid enough to do that camp for so long.