Solo Artist Challenge

[Splorf22]

The Reanimated Plaguebone went down hard today. He's only GM mode and I had to use the strings, but I'm still pretty happy because he popped in the big room in east, which is a minor nightmare (named + 4 guards + 2 roamers). However, I had one thing in my favor which was that two of the guards were biles. After getting an ivu from Gadwin I went in. Lull crit. Cap. Round 2! I tried mezzing the guard which roams above the room. Somehow this aggroed the guard on the other side of the plaguebone and nothing else, so I killed both using Drusella's roamer. This time I was able to successfully lull the remaining undead guard and use regular invis to facepull him.

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Also: Ploktor talking about charming Sky (and me replying about the sadly nonclassic state of that zone).

[Handull]

Finally solo'd efreeti. He was up and the path to him was fairly clear (but hey, i've gotten to him solo before and killed ph's a few rounds). his room and the 2 pathers were up, killed the pathers, buffed, and got full mana. i was worried with only two string charges, but i ran in, clicked the dark blue imp, put him on efreeti, snared the other imp off to the side and rooted, moved pet, and hasted/DS'd pet. Tried to tash a bit and resisted a few nukes, but then just chain healed my pet and won some GEBs. easier fight then i was expecting, but I guess thats just cause a full ice comet can be nearly a KO.

[Sinadin]

can the efreeti actually be camped or is it more a 'kill, loot and gate out' thing?

I haven't killed him yet - still working on the strategy - but to reach his room, isn't a big challenge anymore (even I learned it [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.] )

60 chanter here btw

[Splorf22]

I'm getting pretty close to finishing the challenge after almost a year, so I thought I'd go clean up some KC mobs that somehow I just haven't managed to find up (damn druids).

The Construct of Sathir was pretty straightfoward:
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also: Nordenwatch gradually realizing enchanters >> necros

So after a few rounds I got the warlord to spawn and I prepared to unleash charmed bodyguard fury. It did not go as planned.
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OK, I'll just use Boltrans and cancel the root.
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At this point I decided to just wait for the next repop in the hope that it wouldn't be an annoyingly high level one. It spawns, I mez it, and it resists . . . which is a very bad sign. I decide to use Boltrans on it just in case and, yep, its L52 as well.
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Despite being weaponized, hasted, and only one level lower than the Warlord, my pet is unable to finish him before another one pops, although that might be because he broke charm once or twice.
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I didn't recast bedlam on myself because I had so little mana I wanted to be able to recharm with Boltrans at least once (usually I'd get bailed out by my puppet strings here, but they were out of charges and wouldn't work on L52 stuff anyway). Fortunately this charm lasted just long enough to kill the warlord . . .
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and not a second longer. Drained of both hitpoints and mana, our hero beat a hasty retreat, not wishing to have matching supple scale armbands.
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So I "just" need to get down to the hole and pay Dartain a visit. Unfortunately someone has been camping him pretty hard lately.

Also, to answer your question Sinadin Djarn isn't too bad; the big problem is he's very resistant. When I killed him I tanked on Loraen with a backstabbing imp and a lot of runes. Supposedly the best way to kill him is to get them to fight through the wall in his lair, but that seems a bit dubious. The nice thing about Djarn is that even with his MR he's still only L50, so you have some reasonable chance to evade his nukes/melee. Still, he's no pushover - there is a reason he's on the master list.

[Shinko]

Warmup:
[ ] the froglok king [48 paladin, Ruins of Old Guk]
[ ] Frenzied Pox Scarab [50 Warrior, Sebilis Disco]
[ ] Froglok Ostiary [50 Warrior, Sebilis Disco]
[ ] The Golem Master [50 Warrior, HS North]
[ ] Sentient Bile [50 Warrior, HS North]
[ ] Crypt Wurm [50 Warrior, HS North]
[ ] The Spectre Sepulcher [50 Monk, HS North]

Solo Disciple: any 7
[ ] Gangrenous Scarab [51 Warrior, Sebilis]
[ ] Knight of Sathir [51 Warrior, Karnors]
[ ] Construct of Sathir [52 Shadowknight, Karnors]
[ ] A Drolvarg warlord [53 Warrior, Karnors]
[ ] a necrosis scarab [53 Warrior, Sebilis]
[ ] Crypt Caretaker [53 Warrior, Sebilis Crypt]
[ ] Estrella of Gloomwater [51 Druid, Kedge]
[ ] The Crypt Keeper [50 Necromancer, HS North]
[ ] Froglok Pickler [52 Warrior, Sebilis Disco]
[ ] Froggy [52 Warrior, Sebilis Chef/Bar]
[ ] Froglok Armorer [52 Warrior, Sebilis Chef/Bar]
[ ] Froglok Armsman [52 Warrior, Sebilis Chef/Bar]
[ ] Froglok Chef [52 Warrior, Sebilis Chef/Bar]
[ ] Froglok Repairer [52 Warrior, Sebilis Chef/Bar]
[ ] Gruplinort [53 Wizard, Sebilis Disco]

Solo Master/Duo Disciple: any 8 including at least one each from HS South and Sebilis Crypt
[ ] Froglok Commander [55 Warrior, Sebilis Disco]
[ ] Brogg [55 Warrior, Sebilis Disco]
[ ] Baron Yosig [55 Warrior, Sebilis Crypt]
[ ] Arch Duke Iatol [55 Shadowknight, Sebilis Crypt]
[ ] blood of chottal [55 Monk, Sebilis Crypt]
[ ] Harbinger Freglor [55 Necromancer, Sebilis Crypt]
[ ] Hierophant Prime Grekal [55 Shaman, Sebilis Crypt]
[ ] the Skeleton Sepulcher [50 Warrior, HS South]
[ ] a Crypt Spectre [50 Shadowknight, HS South]
[ ] Efreeti Lord Djarn [50 Wizard, Nagafen's Lair]
[ ] 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]

Solo Grandmaster/Duo Master: any 6 including one L56+ and one from HS East
[ ] King Tranix [52 Shadowknight, Nagafen's Lair]
[ ] Magi Rokyll [52 Wizard, Nagafen's Lair]
[ ] Warlord Skarlon [53 Warrior, Nagafen's Lair]
[ ] A Black Reaver [51 Warrior, City of Mist]
[ ] A cliff golem [57 Warrior, The Overthere]
[ ] The Crypt Excavator [54 Warrior, HS East]
[ ] Reanimated Plaguebone [54 Warrior, HS East]
[ ] Mortiferous Protector [54 Warrior, HS East]
[ ] a Howling Spectre [54 Monk, HS East]
[ ] Dartain the Lost [55 Necromancer, The Hole]
[ ] Drusella Sathir [55 Necromancer, HS East]
[ ] The Undertaker Lord [56 Shadowknight, HS East]

Solo God Mode/Duo Grandmaster: any 5
[ ] Neh'Ashiir [54 Enchanter, City of Mist (help with the golems/pull is OK)]
[ ] Lord Rak'Ashiir [54 Wizard, City of Mist (help with the golems/pull is OK)]
[ ] Tolapumj [60 Enchanter, Sebilis Catacombs]
[ ] Myconid Spore King [56 Paladin, Sebilis Catacombs]
[ ] Emperor Chottal [60 Necromancer, Sebilis Crypt]
[ ] sebilite protector [60 Warrior, Sebilis Catacombs]
[ ] Fear/Dread/Terror [55 Warrior, Plane of Fear. Includes break.]
[ ] Korocust [61 Warrior, Chardok]
[ ] Protector of Sky [55 Rogue, Plane of Sky]
[ ] Phinigel Autropos [53 Wizard, Kedge]

Duo God Mode: any 5
[ ] Zordakalicus Ragefire [54 Warrior, Nagafen's Lair]
[ ] a dracoliche [53 Warrior, Plane of Fear]
[ ] Maestro of Rancor [53 Warrior, Plane of Hate]
[ ] Ixiblat Fer [61 Warrior, Burning Woods]
[ ] Gorgalosk [60 Warrior, Plane of Sky]
[ ] General V'ghera [65 Shadowknight, Kithicor Forest]
[ ] Prince Selrach Di'Zok [61 Warrior, Chardok]
[ ] Overking Bathezid [63 Cleric, Chardok]
[ ] Queen Velazul Di'Zok [62 Shaman, Chardok]
[ ] Noble Dojorn [60 Paladin, Plane of Sky]
[ ] The Spiroc Guardian [60 Shaman, Plane of Sky]

[Frytard]

can add yiam to the solo master list and every rank thats easier to that

[Briscoe]

This thread really shines with the detailed updates complete with screenshots, annotations, and side remarks...really enjoyable to read. I'll be hoping to add similar quality posts once I summon the courage to actually try something challenging. Kudos to Loraen, Ploktor, Tecmos, and everyone else!

[Tecmos Deception]

Yay shoutout! I'm about THIS close to having the energy to play some more to make 58 then do disciple tier [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

[Splorf22]

Tecmos: credit for screenshots only!

Yiam: post your sheet!

[pasi]

I should probably update this sometime, done most of the grandmasters minus Drus/Dartain/Undertaker/Mort Protector. I don't kill in HS East much other than to check for non-existent Drusella or other nameds left up for Maurice scraps.

Got Spore King too w/o strings, but did have help with pull because I didn't spawn him solo and my camping partners never want to wait on dictate when a mob a contested as King pops.

Still haven't been bold enough to attempt Neh/Rak.