Dealing with Caster mobs

[Philipangoo]

my friends tell me when i go LD i become a killing machine as a Shaman. Can solo even con mobs at 40 lol.

[SirAlvarex]

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

my friends tell me when i go LD i become a killing machine as a Shaman. Can solo even con mobs at 40 lol.

NPC'd players are bosses when they go LD.

My favorite moment came as a level 20 monk in Kurns tower. I was at half health and just running through some mobs. Usually it'd take a quarter health to kill a single blue mob, so I wasn't too worried (no regen items).

Then I went LD as I saw an add coming.

When I logged back in, I came back to a picture of my Monk at 5% health, and 6 skeleton corpses surrounding him.

I have similar stories about my Mage soloing in his 30's in Highkeep. Makes me wonder why I even play my characters lol.

[Sadre Spinegnawer]

Why would you think you "should" be able to solo? Your title should read "dealing with caster mobs when I am trying to solo." Then we could solve this little problem with two words. Stop soloing.

[Nordenwatch]

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

As far as the original topic is concerned: I'm soloing in HS now as a 58 Shaman. I occasionally run into undead oblations (wizard mobs) that cast magic- and fire-based nukes. They were basically a show-stopper without resist gear (I'm sitting at 42MR and 45FR unbuffed). I dragged some resist gear out from my bank, bought a couple of other pieces, and now I've got about 145 in each with buffs. I still take full damage now and then, but the majority of the time the nukes are partially or fully resisted. Now I can dot the hell out of them, root, and run around a corner without dying.

As a Monk, though, you're very limited in the resist gear you can wear, and obviously you can't buff yourself for that extra 40 points. I'm not sure I'd even bother as a solo Monk.

I solo in HS on my monk in the basement occasionally when there's nothing else to do, and oblations are my favourite targets. Most of the time the oblation will only cast ONE spell, from the initial pull, and then not be able to cast any of the other ones due to the insane monk melee push with epic fist / AC or SoS. The initial cast I can't do much about unless an AC proc goes off due to the wizard DS.

[eqravenprince]

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

Why would you think you "should" be able to solo? Your title should read "dealing with caster mobs when I am trying to solo." Then we could solve this little problem with two words. Stop soloing.

Thanks for your advice, you can have it back. This attitude is a good reason why I sometimes do not enjoy grouping. I run into someone as pleasant as you. And no, my title is just fine, I also deal with casters while grouping and the advice given by the other nice people still applies.

Soloing allows me the freedom to go at my own pace, go where I want to go, do what I want to do, enjoy a challenge of doing it completely on my own, and log out whenever. Besides, even if I didn't have those reasons, everyone is different and everyone finds different things enjoyable.

[August]

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

Thanks for your advice, you can have it back. This attitude is a good reason why I sometimes do not enjoy grouping. I run into someone as pleasant as you. And no, my title is just fine, I also deal with casters while grouping and the advice given by the other nice people still applies.

Soloing allows me the freedom to go at my own pace, go where I want to go, do what I want to do, enjoy a challenge of doing it completely on my own, and log out whenever. Besides, even if I didn't have those reasons, everyone is different and everyone finds different things enjoyable.

Ignore Sadre. He is a known troll from Fippy.