Solo Artist Challenge

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So before I get back into it I need to mention that for some reason my logs shut off on April 5th, and I didn't notice it until after killing Drusella a few days ago, I am just guessing, but I assume it happened at the same time I stopped running EQ as an administrator. Honestly I didn't remember switching between admin/not, but I do remember my UI completely resetting on me at one point and having to redo the entire thing, and when I finally figured out that I needed to run EQ as an admin for the log to work a couple of days ago, my UI changed on me, apparently reverting to how it was in my next image.
Basically, I have screenshots, but don't have any logs of my kills between Apr 5 and May 22nd.
[S] The Crypt Feaster [52 Warrior, HS South]

This is a very old screenshot, maybe my first when I started keeping track of kills, I didn't even have a goblin skull earring at this point. I had been killing in HS south since probably Feb/March, but I think this is in fact my first SSed kill.

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[S] Embalming Fluid [52 Warrior, HS South]

So I'd killed a few EF's before this one, but I'd never gotten an earring, I can actually still remember how this whole thing played out. I logged in one morning and saw EF up in the cave, the fight was pretty rough but I managed to bring him down, got my first hoop, and had a look around the rest of south.

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Now here was where it got interesting, 20 minutes later EF is up again, and the only person in the zone is a necro who isn't 60 yet, so I immediately cap, drop the FBH to an alt, recharge, gate back, and set up to kill him again.

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The second fight went more smoothly than the first, and I was very glad that I offloaded that first FBH to an alt, that is of course until it took me nearly a month to turn both of them into actual plat.

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[S] The Spectre Spiritualist [53 Monk, HS South]

I do believe this was actually the same day as my double FBH out of EF, I remember both of these pretty well, but separately. This was my second time actually killing the Spiritualist, and until today when I did again, it was the last time I killed him. I don't know why, but this fight always seems to go badly for me, pet breaks, summons, root/mez/stun/slow resists, the Spiritualist tends to fuck me up even when the pull goes fine.

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I actually ended up leaving HS right after this kill to join a fungi group with the guy I was talking to here. Didn't even wait to check the respawn.

[S] The Crypt Excavator [54 Warrior, HS East]

This was my first kill in east, and one of my oldest shots as well, and it just reminded me, I actually owned a goblin skull earring well before I started using it for casting. It was just for a junk buff back then.

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The important thing about this fight though was that I discovered that by just running in YOLO and stunning all 3 pathers, nothing else actually agroed in the Southeast spawn spot, a fact that very recently got me the last couple east spawns I needed. I honestly expected to die going into this fight and probably should have, but somehow it worked out and I managed to take him down. I've made major adjustments to the process of fighting in that hallway since then, and discovered all sorts of ways to make the rooms on either side agro, but I may never have even tried to kill down there if it weren't for this fight.

[S] Mortiferous Protector [54 Warrior, HS East]

I believe this was actually my second GM kill. For the longest time I was under the impression that Drusella spawned all the way in the back in that pad room at the end of HS east, and I was planning to set up a kill on her eventually but had no idea how people pulled her all the way through that 7 spawn room, this lead me to try some really dumb stuff and need a few corpse summons, until I finally realized that I had Drusellas location completely wrong.

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My very first time sneaking through the locked door this guy was up, and I believe I managed the fight on my first try and it didn't feel as difficult as these shots make it seem.

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I would not end up killing that particular Undertaker Lord that you see casting, I think I took a shot or 2 at him, but failed miserably.
With that I'm at 10 images again and this post is done, cliff golem and whatever else fits next.

[Splorf22]

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

Grats on recharging clickies

to slightly modify super troopers, jealousy is a stinky cologne

[Castigate]

[S] A cliff golem [58 Warrior, The Overthere]

This fight was dumb, and probably should have been even easier than it was, luckily for you all I managed to make things more interesting than they had any right to be.

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So I charmed the foreman because why not, and forgot to give him weapons before sending him in. I had to mash back him off after rooting the golem to give him weapons between summons, and also get the golem slowed. Once I had that done the fight was kind of a joke, I just SoSed/Runed/Bedlamed my pet and he demolished the golem. Gave up on cripple/weaken after 1 shot though since neither landed.
So smooth sailing right, my pets still at almost 40%, I'll even take a few seconds tabbed out not paying attention to paste my screenshot.

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By the time I tabbed back in this was what I was greeted with.

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gg, Well at least enrage was already done with I guess, so I just finished it off easy enough.

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I ended up giving this charcoal to some bard that played healing or mana song for me after the fight.

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Anyways the fight was an utter disappointment for me as far as a challenge was concerned, I assume had charm broke things would be different, but it didn't. Last little thing, just need to break my pet, and what the heck I'll kill it I was thinking, but at the exact moment I hide off my pet, General fucking V'Deers agros me.

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I managed to run away and gated back to my spawn, but survived his DoTs anyway.

I just noticed I moved on to East while completely forgetting possibly my favorite screenshot of them all.

[S] a Crypt Spectre [50 Shadowknight, HS South]

I mean really, I hadn't even been hit yet here, its just perfect.

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Anyways my pet didn't even break through my Rune, and the rest of the fight was easy.

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Only 4 more mobs on my list, depending on what screenshots I think are relevant it'll be 1-2 more posts.

[SamwiseRed]

u can use rechargeable clickies for solo artist challenge? soulfires too?

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[Castigate]

If you bothered reading, I didn't actually use clickies for these fights. Holy fuck.

[Lojik]

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

If you bothered reading, I didn't actually use clickies for these fights. Holy fuck.

Confirmed people from red can't readcharge.

[Colgate]

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

u can use rechargeable clickies for solo artist challenge? soulfires too?

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wow, if you're using soulfires, why even post this?

could solo this stuff on my monk with soulfire and no1 would think it's impressive

[Castigate]

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

wow, if you're using soulfires, why even post this?

could solo this stuff on my monk with soulfire and no1 would think it's impressive

Do it, any of you, put your money where your mouth is. I didn't use Soulfire charges for any of these.

[Castigate]

[S] Drusella Sathir [55 Necromancer, HS East]

I actually died on both of my first 2 attempts at her. The first attempt should have been a success but I made a ton of little errors, and also had decided to clear the room ahead of her spawn and when she actually did pop I was only at about 35% mana. Maybe I should have medded up more, but I was feeling the pressure from a bunch of other people wanting shots at her and I didn't want someone else to go in claiming I wasn't engaging fast enough. The fight was still looking fine and I had her all the way down to 18% and slowed, and I was even nuking her because I got overconfident, completely forgetting that with only slant and Boltrans up I needed 525 mana to recharm if it broke. Well it broke and I was 75 mana short on redoing Boltrans, so i died. Second attempt a day later I decided to just calm the whole room and pull her since I didn't really know how to indirect agro pull and was taking too long trying to figure it out. Calming the 4 golems + waiting for her to path away from the 5th spawn took too long and I ended up getting 1 of the golems with her, and died. Anyways there was a cleric there and I was given basically as many chances as I wanted at her this time, probably because she was holding a rod [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.] but on the 3rd try I took her down. That 4th shield icon was actually GMR, for a second I actually thought I had a cleric buff on me from the rez, but my HP total and MR make me sure that the kill was legit.

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Unfortunately this was the only shot that I took of the fight itself. Also, I did have a witness for this one. [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

[S] a Howling Spectre [54 Monk, HS East]

This was actually the last mob I killed to complete GM level, but The Undertaker Lord was easily the biggest challenge of the group.

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The fight wasn't that bad, I was still killing both N/S pathers at this point which made the fight easier than ones I've been doing in the last couple days.

[S] Reanimated Plaguebone [54 Warrior, HS East]

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I had changed tactics for the room and stopped trying to hold a pet after managing to agro the entire north room when one of the pathers respawned and walked out, but since this guy was undead like everything else in the area, I could just walk up to him and say hi.

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Last up is The Undertaker Lord, was going to include it in this post but added a couple extra images since I'm pretty tired and don't want to write the whole mess up tonight.

[pasi]

Well done, pal.