How to solo twink a rogue?

[Cecily]

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

I noticed this earlier, he's asking "How to solo twink a rogue" and I read it as "How to solo a twink rogue"

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

To which the simple answer is...

You don't

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Do.. do you know what twinking is?

[Jimjam]

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

To which the simple answer is...

You don't

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whaaa?

You don't solo on the mage, druid or monk to twink a rogue?

Are you saying just get some mates and get proper twinkage? or are you saying farm pp and buy the twinkage? I am confused.

[kjs86z2]

someone needs to use his pp on another twink?

[Vexenu]

OP, I know you said you don't like to buy things and prefer to camp items yourself, but with access to a 60 Mage you can easily farm up several thousand plat through cash camps in just a few days of casual play. This is enough to buy a Frozen Shard/Seb Croaking Dirk combo, FBSS/SCHW, and you can basically fill the rest of the slots with a mix of STR, AC and HP gear. Very cheap and easy gearing that will carry you until you get your epic and Velious quest armor. You will get much better twink gear much quicker just farming the plat with your Mage than attempting to camp stuff yourself.

[WarpathEQ]

I'm saying its a complete waste of time and nothing that OP is self-found farming with the toons he has is going to make any meaningful difference in the journey that the rogue he wants to start will have. That the gear requirements to twink a rogue to actually give it additional utility is way beyond self-found gear. He's going to end up grouping 100% of the time from lvl 1 on so instead of wasting weeks or months filling a couple slots with what will prove to be meaningless gear just roll the rogue and start accruing exp now, or better yet start working on your monk which for all intents and purposes can do everything the rogue will be able to and more.

[Duik]

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

To which the simple answer is...

I don't

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There. I fixed it for you.

[Vivitron]

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

It seems to me that much of this project is an exuse to camp items, rather than it strictly being about the rogue?

I'd suggest to find SCHW a much easier camp than FBSS. Perhaps you may find it easier to back and forth between your characters to split the camp, but the parts are there and I think you'd be able to take the boss. I'm sure you can think of the best strategy for you with your own characters.

I find the ceremonial iksar chestplate is good until about 30-40. I've seen plenty of druids do the camp. There are other nice loots from the camp too. Maybe have your rogue parked there in case you have a hangman's noose drop (17% no drop head/waist haste)?

Mobs which cast can be pretty decent for rogues if you have a decent dmg stabber - while they cast it is much easier to position to the rear to get in back stab.

Speaking of backstab, it is based off DMG. I think you want to find a more damaging main hander than the burning rapier if you want to xp on things more serious than greens and the lowest blues. Immediately the Harpoon of the Depths jumps out to me 8/25 (Loio from Bloodgill goblins - green xp for the druid, a bit more tricky for the monk). If you can get in on some platehouse I think you can find the Frozen Shard (13 26) or maybe you may find one of your toons can haul loot from skyshrine for Lath Drinor (and other stuff).

I'll add that there's also a kael factioned quest for the frozen shard that would be trivial on the druid except for the turn in faction. Not sure about the turn in without kael faction, though. The wiki page talks about sneak turn in with an unfactioned character so it might be viable to loot the letter on the monk or rogue and figure out a way to turn in.

[Snaggles]

A Druid can do the TT cycle at 57. Id still push to 60 first because it’s a worthwhile upgrade. That said…you can xp off the cycle. It’s a good way to get an Iksar mask and regen tunic.

Skip the burning rapier and go get a seb dirk. I’d rather farm HG’s than run around questing the BR.

[Keebz]

Hunter Forager cycle alone can get you haste, a piercer, ikky bp and a few random other pieces, which is not great, but something if you really insist on the self-found aspect.

[TheBlob]

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

It seems to me that much of this project is an exuse to camp items, rather than it strictly being about the rogue?

This guy gets it! I am indeed looking for an excuse to farm items. It’s my favorite part of the game 😊

For the SCHW, I believe my best bet would be my druid root rotting? Never went far in the zone, but my magician cannot take more than one mob at a time…

Also, didn’t think of Skyshrine loots! I camped them for some time but they are very rare lol. Might be a camp for me. Vivitron, I didn’t know about the Frozen Shard quest either. I might give it a go! Thanks Snaggles and Keebz for your input on the Forager cycle 😊

To kjs86z2 and WarpathEQ, who say it isn’t worth it (I especially love your detailed answer, WarpathEQ), you might be right… I never leveled a melee very high because I mostly solo and Monk seems to be the most viable option for solo (with Mend and DPS). Perhaps I will do all of this and realize non-fungi rogues cannot significantly solo, and “waste” all this time. I will keep it in mind. As for leveling my monk instead, this might be what I will do, but we recently had difficulty in a raid because we lacked DPS. I figured more people with rogues might have helped, plus I love the idea of being able to Sneak/Hide for corpse recovery, Pick Pocket gems in abandoned dungeons and opening locked doors to help me in my adventures with my RL friends. Maybe the solo leveling is too painful compared to the advantages of a rogue and monk might be a better class for me.

Vexenu and Snaggles, I don’t know why, but I really don’t want to buy any piece of gear. Maybe I want to hoard all my plat to give me the illusion that I might be able to buy Legacy items at some point hahaha

sammoHung, it indeed seems you gave me tips on how to solo play a rogue. Thanks for the tips 😊

Cheers everyone and thanks for the input!