After soloing all of HS North and all of West a couple times, I've been trying South wing when it's not camped (which is rarely i'm finding!). As Tecmos said, even though there's a lot of help going around, there is still a huge learning curve. First thing I've found is when there's a see invis mob (usually a bile or two, or three) up between dropoff and the cave cubby, you can ivu to edge of painting, target mobs, use shifting sight as needed and one by one lull the see invis mobs so you can run though. Another thing I've learned the hard way is to keep 1 or 2 stalking probes in the bank so you dont have to rely on a necro or rog to get back to your corpse that's stuck in south wing!
First time in cubby Crypt Feaster was up. I lulled the roamer and the first cubby mob, then charmed pet (which of course aggroed Feaster), ran back to get away from the pather that was coming back, rooted Feaster and he went down easily. 1 or 2 summons maybe and no charm breaks. Bloodpoint.
Second time, Embalming Fluid was up so i tried same strat (lull pather, lull 1 of the cave mobs, charm pet, run back to spot and root). But this time, the fucking Fluid is so massive that i didnt pull it back far enough, roamer added, charm broke, summoned, dead. Ouch...had to CR and log for the night.
Third time, PH was up so i lulled pather, lulled 1 cave mob, charmed a sperm which aggroed the PH (sepulcher). I knew I would take the HT here, so that was no surprise, I ran my pet and PH back to my spot, rooted sepulcher, bedlamed, runed back up. But the sepulcher kept breaking fetter and summoned me 2 or 3 times, each time requiring me to re-bedlam. So mana was getting low and i was about 50% HP. Finally got it under control, he was going down (SLOWLY), and root and charm broke at the same time. I slanted, recharmed with Boltrans, and while trying to re-root sepulcher i caught another HT and couldn't cap out in time.
I'm gathering that (some?) sepulchers break fetter more frequently than others? Maybe I should have charmed PH (sepulcher) instead and let him and sperm fight it out. Also I'm trying to learn what's best when you get summoned + charm break at the same time (seems to happen regularly for me). I've been slanting, boltrans, then trying to root while getting beat on. Need to try something different...
On charming, I know a lot use Allure and surely that's better than what I've been doing since it has a much lower mana cost than Boltrans. The only reason I typically use Boltrans is that you can Slant and re-charm without getting hit. I think I need to working Allure into my strat.
KingofPain
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