Solo Artist Challenge

[kank]

Nice screens, good write up. Thanks Neryn!

[Tecmos Deception]

Really wish more people would work on the challenge. Just because you can't manage solo legend or any of the god-mode kills with whatever class you have doesn't mean we wouldn't all love to see your stories of warmup/disciple kills!

This really is a LOT of fun. I mean, I leveled an enchanter up from 1 just for this challenge. I wondered if I could manage warmup kills as a rogue, between sneak pulls and slow poisons and stuff, but getting my ass kicked by level 47-ish mobs on the ramparts in KC really put me over the edge... lol. I guess maybe not everyone is totally ignorant of the layout of the zones and types of mobs you can find in hs, seb, etc, like I was before I got Tecmos to 55+... but seriously... SO MUCH FUN!!!

I mean, if nothing else, there is quite a lack of duo writeups/screenshots in this thread!

[astuce999]

One of the reasons I started playing my bard again after a year hiatus was to do some of these challenges. I was 54 now halfway through 59, Ive done a couple of the warm ups just by being there for xp but I really want 60 before doing any of this seriously and it's partly because of some tricks that are available to bards only at 60 because of DA song and 1 minute slow song.

cheers,

Astuce

[Mappo Runt]

I am bringing up a Mage and was wondering how they fair doing these challenges. I can see who has done the challenges and only see a few mages is why I ask.

[Skope]

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

I am bringing up a Mage and was wondering how they fair doing these challenges. I can see who has done the challenges and only see a few mages is why I ask.

Likely not all that well. The issue is that you lack root, though woolly spider nets can take care of that you'll likely burn through an entire pack really quickly.

I have an epic mage, and while the pet can solo pretty well (spend a bit of time in chardok and sebilis), the combo shines with a cleric -- or to a lesser extent a shaman. Imo, it's the most potent combo right after sham/monk. If a mob can't be slowed then it's the most potent combo period.

For solo mages aren't that great. For duo they are pretty damn awesome

[webrunner5]

Skope is right. Duo or group they are OP. I know in groups if 2 mobs come the Mage can take out the second one as fast or faster than the rest of the group on the other. Pretty scary. [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.] But no real CC solo.

[Skope]

Originally Posted by webrunner5 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Skope is right. Duo or group they are OP. I know in groups if 2 mobs come the Mage can take out the second one as fast or faster than the rest of the group on the other. Pretty scary. [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.] But no real CC solo.

I haven't parsed the damage, but when the pet is tanking it's roughly in the area of a raid-geared rogue. I've seen the pet drop a mob on its own faster than the rest of the group has killed theirs =P If you're not lazy and malosini the mobs the DPS is even better due to the pet's relatively low level. Those stuns and nukes add up.

You can get creative with the weapons, like giving Fluffy a whip of ensnaring or ykesha weps to help with soloing indoors, but it's a pain to keep those stocked.

[Tecmos Deception]

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

[S] A Black Reaver [51 Warrior, City of Mist]

Wow. This is a fun one!

I scouted out the reaver down by the moat and decided that I didn't want to try him. All the potential pets down near him were light blue and I'd have to lev from on top of the goo house to get around behind him without aggroing him and I'd have to lull like 4 mobs right next to him to get him solo and the hallways are even more cramped than the ramps above.

So I went back up to the final platform (and on that note, why did I never think of levving up onto this doorframe before so that it was a sure thing to get across? http://postimg.org/image/n3yd21np7/), Wraith of Jaxion was up, so I figured "cool, a level 45 mob, he should be as good as anything!" and I charmed him up, umbra, rune, bedlam, feedback, shissar... get myself fully buffed and medded up, etc: http://postimg.org/image/ii7w33exx/

I make sure bedlams are fresh, then I aggro the inside with pet and figure I'll just root the golem and brute force my way to an S- with CH clickies on wraith. I get the reaver and the fog golem he's with, root the golem as Wraith is getting pounded, back him off a few steps ... and yeah, pathing fail. Next thing I know this is the scene: http://postimg.org/image/bfrwcpqfx/

Wraith was dead a second later and I hatted out, recharged, and gated back up to the platform.


Chatting with guildies a bit, it sounds like Wraith has lower-than-normal hp for a level 45... either that or he just got spanked with some melee rng bad luck. I mean, he did tank a level 42ish mob, the reaver, and then a level 45ish monk mob on and of there. Oh well.

I read up on Lor's comment about how he chain-petted a few things and then began preparing to do that myself. Below is me taking like 30 minutes to hit 3 mobs with weapons (I didn't have enough lariats but was hoping I wouldn't end up needing the light-blue skele), umbra, rune 5, and VoG:

http://postimg.org/image/gwf5ku97h/
http://postimg.org/image/fdoctls0t/
http://postimg.org/image/nx7qrd0d9/
http://postimg.org/image/b4cil1q67/

Finally I got the goo on the platform charmed and buffed up, brought him across the chasm of ultimate doom, and gnomed it up to go peak through the door and attempt my pull, which I was hoping would consist of me rooting the pathing golem inside and aggroing the reaver so I could drag him across to my waiting pet death squad: http://postimg.org/image/ko2x87vgz/

And it worked, actually. Reaver came right across the gap that has given me oh, so many troubles up to this point: http://postimg.org/image/j1ib0q8sz/

Oh hey. Check that out. This goo is actually HOLDING FUCKING EVEN with the reaver that tends to annihilate anything I charm in no time at all: http://postimg.org/image/x32r35e1x/

Still going strong! Wtf?! I didn't even help the pet along at all because my plan was to do as little as possible to aggro the reaver, figuring that would make it easier for my subsequent pets to pull him off of me: http://postimg.org/image/4ff5wijlr/

And then the chasm of ultimate doom struck again. The damn reaver and pet weren't even moving at all, they seemed to be sitting still with no push one way or the other, and then suddenly they disappeared. So I turned to the mobs behind me and re-rooted them (I think they had about 30 seconds left on fetter) as quickly as I could: http://postimg.org/image/od1wm6503/

I ran off the edge and started spiraling down as quickly as I could. It looked like the reaver was getting the better of my pet finally, and not wanting to fail on this attempt I started trying to click my reaper on my way down. Out of range out of range out of range... out of charges. WHAT THE HELL?! I KNOW that thing was charged, I just recharged all 3 of my reapers last night after I used my last charged one on Dartain. Unfortunately I didn't catch any screenshots right here because of my franticness to pull this out. I got down to the ground with my pet at ~10% though, stepped into melee and actually ate like 4 rounds without the reaver getting all the way through my rune.

And then it was dead: http://postimg.org/image/5ue7sg6d7/

Sulfur crystals loot and I hatted out as my pet started on the second reaver. Hmm. I wonder if that thing will stay standing there and cause havoc for all the people leveling in the zone. Sure sure, I didn't train them with my pet death squad (plus all the other mobs in the zone), but now this guy is sitting right here until... who knows? Lol [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]



So yeah! Turns out I ended up doing the fight without strong clickies because of some bug where my charge got used because of z-axis or something, and even ended up doing him with just 1 (very badass) goo pet! Yay!

Too bad all the giants have been down nonstop for like 2 days now. I keep logging on my little druid to check on them and I haven't seen them up at all [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

[Splorf22]

I am playing a mage (Kazmeir if you are hanging around KC!). I was extremely frustrated with the lack of root so I gave him Sakuragi's root nets. It makes a big difference.

I am pretty sure an epic mage with a full bag of root nets could solo a lot of the stuff on this list (you can split most camps by just rooting everything but your target, then running around the corner and cohing yourself). Sadly I don't think Kaz will ever get his epic to find out [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Also you can check out Liia/Arae's sheet: that's an epic mage/donal's cleric that have duoed pretty much everything.

[pasi]

Long due in posting this.

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

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

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

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

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

Not that they are on the list, but also solo'd:
The Tangrin
Wraith of a Shissar