Solo Artist Challenge

[Tecmos Deception]

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

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

Check another of the HS east nameds off my list! It wasn't special though. I got bored of south after tidying up a bit from the XP group who was in there last night so I ran into east to see if anything was up in the nook. It was just a PH, but I cleared a random bile that was up since the last server reset and snagged the bile PH also. The golem in my hallway is only 51, so he works pretty nice as a pet.

A bit too well though, because after killing the bile PH he resisted a stun and was through bedlam, a partial rune 5, and 50% of my hp before my spell gems were refreshed... so I hatted out. When I got back in after recharging though, Petros saw the howling spectre pop up on track just as I ran around the corner and saw him myself too! No weapon in his hand, but at least he is something for me to kill since it's been so long since I updated my sheet at all!

Textbook fight, very boring. Even the pull was easy cause the pathers were all perfectly positioned the instant I ran back to the named, so I just nabbed him right away and took him back to the hallway of death. Then charm didn't break at all, and go figure a quadding, hasted level 51 eats up a slowed level 54 pretty darn quick.

Loot: http://s23.postimg.org/etx62h0ez/EQ000470.png


Aww. I'd be a grandmaster if I hadn't killed the crypt excavator with cleric buffs when I saw him up last! Maybe I'll get him or the undertaker lord to pop in the next hour or two [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

[Tecmos Deception]

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

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

Man, I love killing these living mobs in HS. Makes the pulls so much less stressful when I can just run up next to them for a second, then straferun away without getting hit, rapture (or tash+stun+mez maybe if I'm feeling like it!), and get things rolling! Even though it eats up a lot of bedlams and runes getting them mezzed once I get them next to my pet-to-be, it sure is better than trying to time pathers or lull 3+ mobs.

And that's exactly what I did to start this one off: http://s15.postimg.org/4bijkbfp7/EQ000472.png

The named was down to 75% or so already by the time he decided to stay rooted and I slowed him, and here I am reapplying bedlam and rune before taking a seat to enjoy the show: http://s12.postimg.org/rs9fskdyl/EQ000476.png

With named down under 20% though, fetter and charm wore off just about simultaneously. A quick stun buys me a bit of time to get things under control again: http://s12.postimg.org/6di281qct/EQ000480.png

... except that these damn living mobs, while easy to pull, have an annoying habit of running away from my rooted pet. And I don't think that he would have summoned the named as it fled... although I can't remember how that works for certain cause I don't have 51 pets very often, and I didn't give him the chance anyways. I quickly ae mezzed, rerooted named and pet, recharmed pet, and single-target mezzed the feaster so pet would have time to engage him and keep me from getting summoned: http://s21.postimg.org/wds4y3vwn/EQ000482.png

That finished him off. Unfortunately, just like last time, he pooped out his belt instead of the helm. Oh well, at least this time I killed him without extra buffs so I can mark him as [S]: http://s21.postimg.org/rdza3wfnr/EQ000484.png

[Tecmos Deception]

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

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

And the trifecta for the day, meaning I've now solod all of the HS nameds [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Granted, I needed a wand of allure charge to pull off this kill, but I'm still pleased with how far I've come from xping in HS ent to soloing the likes of DS and UL!


UL popped right after my excavator kill, and I ivu pulled the golem that was pathing east-west at the north end of the hallway I fight in so that I would be able to los the UL's spells as he came far enough down the hall that I could hop out and start casting without him getting the mobs on the south end of the hall to assist. Unfortunately, things didn't quite go as planned. My rune apparently wasn't fresh on the pull, and he HTed me and got off 1 round of combat before my first rapture hit. I ivu'd to the end of my hallway just fine, but then when UL was positioned to hit him with another rapture near my pet, I botched the cast by starting it too soon, it got interrupted, he landed a dot on me and got me with another round of melee... so I hatted and got healed up in WC by a divinity druid [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

After recharging and heading back in, I pulled the same way as last time (an undead had repopped as the east-west pather I had killed last time). This time I didn't botch the rapture: http://s21.postimg.org/6me7ifkg7/EQ000485.png

It's kind of a blur what happened in the next 20-ish seconds. I know I started to go through the process of tashing, slowing (got a resist), rooting UL and recharming my pet. I believe that as soon as rapture faded on UL, my charm wore off. I ate some melee from my pet (I still had some bedlam+rune this time because of not eating a HT on the pull though), blew a wand of allure charge, caught a dot from UL as he sat there rooted casting on me, then my pet was back into take the hits and I tried a second (and successful) slow: http://s24.postimg.org/9jz6ov78l/EQ000486.png

My pet knocking off bedlam was fortuitous, because it let me click off see invis (I'm bad about keeping my top slot open against casters, oh well) and dispel boil blood: http://s12.postimg.org/wqybt7wkt/EQ000487.png

I finally clicked haste on my pet and tossed him a bedlam, since I figured he'd have a run for his money surviving against a level 56 melee + dots even with the UL slowed: http://s16.postimg.org/y207dekv9/EQ000489.png

The rest of the fight consisted of me medding and tossing another bedlam to my pet, who finished off the UL without further incident. Loot: http://s11.postimg.org/rnvv7msj7/EQ000493.png


Done with HS nameds (unless I feel like trying UL again to get him without using a strong clicky... which I don't, at the moment!)! Woo!

[Splorf22]

Nice job Tecmos. And yes like catherin I am kinda curious what someone would bid for Loraen. Time to reroll as a DE with max cha [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.] No matter how many alts I try, enchanter just always seems the most fun for me. The only class that has really come close has been bard.

[Tecmos Deception]

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

[S] blood of chottal [55 Monk, Sebilis Crypt]

I ran down into crypt earlier today to check things out, then moved down to blood/emp area after the small group in crypt said they weren't going down that far. Blood PH was up along with a handful of noncasters. This area is actually a lot easier than I thought it was. I never realized there were only 3 pathers + 2 static mobs between hiero/duke area and emp/blood area (that I saw/ran into, anyway), or that the mobs down here were almost totally sub-51.

I think I cleared 3-4 rounds of PH by aggroing the mobs through the door with my pet standing near it before named popped. A level 55 monk is no joke. Even slowed, my pet needed some bedlams and a bunch of stuns (especially since about half resisted) to get the job done... though my pet was a bit low I think. I can never really tell with these weird skele mobs who don't hit for normal intervals.

Anyway, lame loot, but another mob off my list: http://postimg.org/image/tgvgmz241/


I'm going to try to make a point of making the two kills I need in the hole more interesting than most of my writeups have been. I'll see if I can get some screenshots of the areas I go through and consider to fight in and such instead of just pictures of me tash/root/slow/stunning my way to victory. I'm not setting foot in there without a cleric buddy along for the ride though, so not sure when exactly I'll get around to trying it [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

[Mandalore93]

Are bards allowed to be buffed, or are they considered a special exemption to the melee rule?

I'd be really interested in seeing what a bard with Howling Cutlass/Harmonic Dagger would be able to do. Pretty sure most of the mobs on this list (outside of the FGs?) are stunnable. Granted I'm not sure if on this server the Bard breastplate is the 100-150 point heal it is on live, and what the recast on it is.

[Stibe]

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 [58 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]
[ ] Drusella Sathir [55 Necromancer, HS East]
[ ] The Undertaker Lord [56 Shadowknight, HS East]
[ ] Dartain the Lost [55 Necromancer, The Hole]

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)]
[ ] Myconid Spore King [56 Paladin, Sebilis Catacombs]
[ ] Fear/Dread/Terror [55 Warrior, Plane of Fear. Includes break.]
[ ] Emperor Chottal [60 Necromancer, Sebilis Crypt]
[ ] sebilite protector [60 Warrior, Sebilis Catacombs]
[ ] Tolapumj [60 Enchanter, Sebilis Catacombs]
[D] Phinigel Autropos [53 Wizard, Kedge]
[ ] Korocust [61 Warrior, Chardok]
[ ] Protector of Sky [55 Rogue, Plane of Sky]

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]

[Tecmos Deception]

Classes, partners, etc? Inquiring minds need to know!

[Metallikus]

and what clickies were used since you put a D on ragefire instead of a D-. I figure I am the only one brave enough to beat ragefire duo with zero clickies.

[Metallikus]

wtb logs of the overking / queen trio as well. that's pretty amazing to me.