Solo Artist Challenge

[Tecmos Deception]

Nice stuff, cast. I'll read thoroughly when I'm not on my phone from a campground!

[webrunner5]

Wow, great stuff. No easy set of mobs to solo. I envy some of you with the talent you have on here. I am just blown away by some of the kills you guys can do.

My son makes me look like a noob doing some of this same stuff. I am too old I guess anymore to be top dog. [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

[Splorf22]

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

Well done, pal.

Also did you fill out a sheet somewhere?

[Orruar]

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

Solo HS south with your monk with soulfire. Do it. I'd think it's impressive.

[Tecmos Deception]

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

Solo HS south with your monk with soulfire. Do it. I'd think it's impressive.

No shit. He'd need 20 soulfires just for south's nameds, and that's not even enough to be a 'master'.

Red just trolling really. Most of that server doesn't even have hs keys. They're too busy grinding in lcy for tstaffs to mess with the 'easy' 15-year-old elf sim ai.

[HeallunRumblebelly]

I still want to see the first solo of a DT'ing mob. Make it happen solo artists!

[Castigate]

[S] The Undertaker Lord [56 Shadowknight, HS East]

This fight is a 2 parter, since I had regrowth on me for the first kill and by the time I finally did the pull the way I should have from the start I really wasn't paying attention to buffs anymore.

I actually spent a lot of time thinking that there was an easier way to do this pull, the final room has weird agro and none of the golems below will agro if you stay out of direct vision and pull only mobs up top. After figuring this out I spent way too much time trying to fight him in there with only calming 1 of the 2 top floor mobs. It went pretty horribly, I can only assume because the mobs in the room are higher level than the pather in the hall that I would eventually charm to kill him, but in theory if you could get a lower level mob to spawn in that room you could pull him with only having to calm 1 mob and wait for the hall pather not to be in the room. Also during this period I became painfully aware that even though I could hit him with my color stuns, they didn't actually do anything since he's level 56.

A few days and a few corpse summons later, with a now completely depleted Soulfire just from trying to figure that out I finally decided to just calm everything. It had failed in the past, but on this attempt I got him to come solo. Notice that I had forgotten to even give my pet weapons before this pull.

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I was pretty drained at this point and not really thinking straight, for some reason I believed that his SK DoTs were a lot more dangerous than they are and rather than just runeing my pet up and letting it do all the work, I tried to win the race by DoTing and nukeing him myself.

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I ended up winning, and celebrating for a while, but then I went back to look at the screenshots I realized that I had fucked up and still had regrowth for the fight and found myself wondering if I'd need to spawn and kill him again. Luckily for me he spawned again 20 mins later. Even luckier I was able to pull him without any issue.
I decided to blank the chat on this one, it was just a conversation that I was having.

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At this point I was still going at it with the nukes, and this fight should have been a lot smoother than the first, but about half way through he hit me with fear and I spent a good 20-30 seconds sitting there stunned.

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I managed to drop him, but unfortunately my pet died from the DoTs while I was looting. That hamal was probably the best pet possible in that hallway. I used boltran's for the fights, but know it could be allured, and I don't even think that it could summon. Most importantly though, it never broke during either fight.

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Some time between the previous fight and this one I realized that there wasn't really any point in even having my Mystic Cloak out in the inventory as for a fight like this it wouldn't even last me a single round of getting hit, and trying to equip it while getting beat on then spamming its shield really wouldnt do much. Since my objective on this kill was to get the solo credit anyways I just put it away and had basically nothing besides the cap available if things went south.

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Part of it may have been my own bad tactics, and part was probably how long it took for me to finally get him, but both fights were actually a lot of fun, and probably the best time I've had working on the solo challenge so far. Actually I think for me it was the stun immunity and nearly 23k HP, it added a whole new level of fear to the fight.

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With that I've knocked out everything in HS. I think in the next few days I'll probably move on to Sebilis since that's where the bulk of the remaining mobs in the challenge are, but I still might decide to hit the more out of the way stuff first. I'll also post a proper challenge card here at some point.

[Orruar]

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

No shit. He'd need 20 soulfires just for south's nameds, and that's not even enough to be a 'master'.

Red just trolling really. Most of that server doesn't even have hs keys. They're too busy grinding in lcy for tstaffs to mess with the 'easy' 15-year-old elf sim ai.

I think maybe like 5 soulfires would be enough to kill a named, but breaking in and clearing ph might take the other 15, so 20 sounds about right.

[Supaskillz]

Duo Emperor Chottal

Posting this mostly b/c I doubt many Rogue/Sham duos in this thread lol. 60 sham 60 rogue, Supaskillz and Myer on the kill. Didn't take any screen shots or have any proof other than a sweet Nathsar great sword and Spell: Entrapping roots because wasn't thinking about this thread when we did it but posting anyway for fun.

Someone was camping crypt when we zoned in but said they were not doing blood/emp so we decided to give it a shot b/c duoing emp seemed fun. We got down and broke camp with just the two of us and camped it for several hours.
(Aside: In fact while we were there the crypt group mostly left and a shaman just stayed camping the hiero only so while waiting for emp to spawn we also got an Arch Duke Latol kill and bunch of the garbage named phs, but just a yak club to show for it. )

The emp spawed while we were killing some of the trash so he was able to pet and buff before we could engage. Strat was basically simultaneous pull with rogue dispelling Emp and shaman rooting pet. Rogue tanked entire fight shaman quickly dispelled again then malo and slow and proceed to heal rogue and canni/torpor self as well while rogue, pet and shaman epic take it down. Since chottal spends alot of time casting its easy for rogue to backstab while tanking.

Unfortunately I was unable to resist any of Chottals spells other than an annul magic with around 140 mr and around 100 pr/dr (totally forgot to use potions to up this a little higher ... and they were even in my bags... and next time I will wear more resist gear than I did) and was forced to burn 9 stinging wort charges and a couple of frantic sup heals thrown on top of torpor to survive until the poison dot wore off, but once we made it through that one then shaman could keep up with torpor. Once emp ran out of mana he obviously was super easy.

Pretty limited playtime, but hoping to do some more fun duos and next time hopefully I will remember this thread and take some screen shots and stuff.

Rogue pullertanks ftw... also you know 60 shaman

[Splorf22]

Nice to see some rogue action! Now you just need some puppet strings so you can solo Drusella.