Solo Artist Challenge

[Triangle]

DS down without Rune. It is mostly about luck, have to outrun her pet and hope she doesnt cast a long spell so that she is out of her room by the time your invis breaks. I believe that qualifies me for Grandmaster! more to come though, going to focus on godmode mobs next!

Will post some screenshots from this, although there aren't many, but at least 1 that proves I did not have rune before fight began

[Handull]

Loraen, if you're a solo GM, aren't you a duo master by default? (anyone could just stand there and watch you kill it and call it a duo). I realized I've duo'd crypt with Save before, though I can't remember which named we got to pop and which we didn't, but it almost feels like cheating to even list those, since he can solo them himself. Duoing just lets us kill more mobs and do it safer with less risk :P


Grats on DS without rune. Definitely a safer and more reliable method to rune pull tho, but watch out you are buffed maxed and she lands a spell on you.

I'll have to get my ass over to seb/KC this week, knock out disciple, and think about working on master. I'm pretty sure I could do the crypt, but the fact that they have to be spawned and the door has to be unlocked makes it a bit harder since i pretty much have to puppet string kill anything that summon. or i can just skip right for GM rank, since I have DS in the bag.

for the black reaver, you just have to kill him once, or kill the repops until he stops spawning on you? if you have to kill the pops, is it cheating to zone out between pops and come back in? thanks

also, I'm assuming it would be against the rules to log to another one of my toons, debuff a mob, then log back to my main to kill him? just trying to think of outside the box ways to kill things [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

[Triangle]

Pics from DS w/out rune (these pics suck sadly, had a lot of charm breaks so very few pics).

1st pic: shows my buffs, no rune is there.. all self buffed. You can see drusella's pet barely through the door.
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2nd pic: I pull her with invis, she got plague on me but she didnt seem to cast it until she was already in the hall, so I got away with no adds. I had the hexbone rooted and malo'd.... soon I will try her without charming but for now I didn't have the patience =P.
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Had a ton of charm breaks from here on out so no more screenies of her alive, but here is the result in the final SS:
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[Splorf22]

Well I feel like solo and duo are separate things. I mean it shouldn't be hard for me to get the duo master title, but hey, you never know. I'd rather work on Duo GM [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

It's actually possible to kill the crypt named without strings as a druid I think based on Taelara's SS.

And finally I would say using two of your own characters is not really solo.

[Handull]

Originally Posted by Splorf22 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

It's actually possible to kill the crypt named without strings as a druid I think based on Taelara's SS.

I'll have to think about that a bit. The method of rooting and taking hits when summoned works, but crypt is a bit harder than the armsman, no? Casters also make that a much harder thing to pull off. the robe clickie is a 12 sec cast time, dont most mobs summon on 8 second intervals? Could probably burn through the PH's that way, but i wouldn't think the named are that easy.

[Triangle]

Loraen and I just duo'd jumpy and protector! Jumpy was an easy fight as he can be raptured, so we got slow before the fight actually started so to speak... jumpy hit for 290, but slowed that is no biggie.

Protector on the other hand cannot be raptured, and he triples for 451! We had 2 charmed pets, and one of them died to him while we were trying to land slow.. Finally while the second pet was tanking, after the first one died, I landed slow. I then tanked him while loraen bedlam'd me and I torpor'd, we got him down. Loraen will likely update with screenshots.

Ton of fun.

[Triangle]

Tola:

Firstly we brought some pets down, gave them weapons etc. Then Loraen rune/bedlam'd me and I prox pulled Tola, as none of his guards saw invis but he did. The pull was a pain because he stopped to cast 3-4 times before he got to our camp.. Luckily I resisted 1-2 and the rune took care of the rest. Loraen then raptured him, I cast malo, he cast tash, and we both cast slow.. It took maybe 4-5 slows combined until it landed.

In the first pic, you can see that this is after rapture+slow had been done. I am tanking him and our 2 pets are beating him up.
http://s18.postimage.org/ro5qry1tz/EQ000031.png

The fight was relatively straightforward, our stun whips caused problems when charm broke, and I had to patch heal loraen a couple times as tola had tashed us both which caused the stun whips to land. Other than that though there were few problems on my end.

2nd pic you can see we beat him.. sadly I took no screenshots of this fight and I don't remember how much mana I had at the end, which is usually a gauge of how tough the fight was... Overall this fight was much easier than protector simply because rapture allowed us to slow him ahead of time and secondly because he hit for 290 which seems like a lot but is not so bad once slowed.
http://s12.postimage.org/dwh6twpuj/EQ000034.png

Edit: Tola dropped cap, mistletoe powder, and 60 necro banishment.

[Triangle]

Protector:

We cleared the jugg that paths with protector first, which ended up being a smart move as it allowed us to send pets directly on protector to initiate the fight.

Protector max hits for 451 and cannot be raptured. Secondly he resisted slows like mad... Anyway we sent our two pets in, I cast malo immediately and Loraen tashed soon after. We began to try to slow but I must have had 6-7 resists and Loraen must have had around the same amount. Loraen's pet had agro and I noticed it was at 10% life and protector was still unslowed. I stepped in to try and tank and got my ass beat, had to step out and let his pet die.

Luckily I landed slow very soon after his pet died, as my pet was at about 50% life. I stepped in to tank at this point, and allure only broke once which was very nice. Tanking him slowed was not trivial, but I basically chaincasted torpor and had my finger on puppet strings in case of break. Also I believe Loraen was casting bedlam on me during the fight.

1st pic shows Loraen's pet is dead and prot at less than half health. My pet had significantly less HP than it showed on Loraen's group screen, must not have registered with his client at that point.
http://s16.postimage.org/egz7kpkgz/EQ000037.png

2nd pic is my one and only SS. Shows protector's slain message. Also shows my mana is at 19% and my pet is at about 40%. You can confirm his max hit in this pic as well.
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All in all the protector fight was extremely tough because we couldn't land slow... but it was very doable with 2 pets.

Edit: Protector dropped bracer and 60 mage banishment.

[Splorf22]

This was really, really close actually.

[Sun Aug 19 00:57:01 2012] You have been summoned!
[Sun Aug 19 00:57:01 2012] sebilite protector says 'You will not evade me Loraen!'
[Sun Aug 19 00:57:02 2012] Your spell is interrupted.
[Sun Aug 19 00:57:03 2012] Your bedlam fades.
[Sun Aug 19 00:57:03 2012] Sebilite protector tries to hit YOU, but YOUR magical skin absorbs the blow!
[Sun Aug 19 00:57:03 2012] Sebilite protector tries to hit YOU, but YOUR magical skin absorbs the blow!
[Sun Aug 19 00:57:03 2012] Sebilite protector tries to hit YOU, but YOUR magical skin absorbs the blow!
[Sun Aug 19 00:57:05 2012] Sebilite protector hits YOU for 354 points of damage.
[Sun Aug 19 00:57:05 2012] Sebilite protector hits YOU for 351 points of damage.
[Sun Aug 19 00:57:05 2012] Sebilite protector tries to hit YOU, but misses!
[Sun Aug 19 00:57:07 2012] Sebilite protector hits YOU for 71 points of damage.
[Sun Aug 19 00:57:07 2012] Sebilite protector hits YOU for 251 points of damage.
[Sun Aug 19 00:57:07 2012] Sebilite protector hits YOU for 191 points of damage.
[Sun Aug 19 00:57:09 2012] You regain your concentration and continue your casting.
[Sun Aug 19 00:57:09 2012] Your target resisted the Forlorn Deeds spell.
[Sun Aug 19 00:57:09 2012] Sebilite protector hits YOU for 311 points of damage.
[Sun Aug 19 00:57:10 2012] Sebilite protector yawns.
[Sun Aug 19 00:57:11 2012] Sebilite protector tries to hit YOU, but misses!
[Sun Aug 19 00:57:11 2012] Sebilite protector tries to bash YOU, but misses!
[Sun Aug 19 00:57:15 2012] You have been summoned!
[Sun Aug 19 00:57:15 2012] sebilite protector says 'You will not evade me Loraen!'
[Sun Aug 19 00:57:17 2012] Svenn has healed you for 524 points of damage.
[Sun Aug 19 00:57:17 2012] You feel much better.

best part was probably pandora suggesting 'dick in a box' on the ac-dc channel.

[Fazlazen]

grats on the prot kill ! wow