New Wiki Feature: Track Your Solo Artist Challenge Achievements

[loramin]

Ever since I moved the Solo Artist Challenge to the wiki I've been wanting to add a way to track your personal solo artist achievements, and today I finally did it.

To track your own solo artist accomplishments, just go to the solo artist challenge page in the wiki, http://wiki.project1999.com/Solo_Artist_Challenge. Then, find a section with a mob you've defeated, and edit it. Next to each mob's HTML there will be a "span" tag with a style of "display:none"; add your wiki name (not your character's name, but whatever it says in the upper-right corner) into that span tag. If there are other names already there, just add a comma.

For instance, I've soloed a Drovalg Warlord. If you have too you can edit the page, find this section:

<span style="font-size:21px">☐</span>
[[ A Drolvarg warlord ]][53 Warrior, Karnors]
<span id="A-Drolvarg-warlord" style="display: none">Loramin</span>

and then add your name to it, with a comma:

<span style="font-size:21px">☐</span>
[[ A Drolvarg warlord ]][53 Warrior, Karnors]
<span id="A-Drolvarg-warlord" style="display: none">Loramin, YourNameHere</span>

Once you do this you should see an X next to that mob's name whenever you visit the page.

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Enjoy.

P.S. Since this is new there might be bugs; if anything doesn't work just post it here.

[khanable]

nice

tho dracholiche isn't really feasible since revamp, might apply to a few more things on the list too

[loramin]

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

nice

tho dracholiche isn't really feasible since revamp, might apply to a few more things on the list too

Ah yeah, revamping the challenge for the Velious era is a whole separate project. We had a thread going for it awhile back, but it sort of fell off the map, so if anyone else wants to make tweaks to the list, feel free to do so (it's just a wiki page now, and as long as you copy existing entries to make new ones everything should work fine).

[zodium]

These would be more exciting if they weren't so specific to shamans, enchanters, Puppet String owners and people like Kelzaraz tbh. Like, the challenge isn't in killing them so much as leveling/gearing those classes and/or buying Strings/corpsing Soulfires. :3

[Qtip]

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

These would be more exciting if they weren't so specific to shamans, enchanters, Puppet String owners and people like Kelzaraz tbh. Like, the challenge isn't in killing them so much as leveling/gearing those classes and/or buying Strings/corpsing Soulfires. :3

I agree. Everyone should get a trophy for showing up.

[loramin]

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

These would be more exciting if they weren't so specific to shamans, enchanters, Puppet String owners and people like Kelzaraz tbh. Like, the challenge isn't in killing them so much as leveling/gearing those classes and/or buying Strings/corpsing Soulfires. :3

In my opinion there should be two "tiers" of the solo artist challenge: with or without charged/disposable items. Soloing something without sting wort potions, soulfires, puppet strings, etc. is almost a completely different challenge.

[zodium]

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

In my opinion there should be two "tiers" of the solo artist challenge: with or without charged/disposable items. Soloing something without sting wort potions, soulfires, puppet strings, etc. is almost a completely different challenge.

I mean, okay, sure, I guess, but .. the challenge then is just "level and gear enchanter/shaman/insert viable class". Lodizal is a "solo god mode" (lol) mob I've soloed quite a number of times on Gatmanno, and by orders of magnitude, the hardest thing about that kill besides owning the clickies or being a viable class is getting the FTE. Bing bong. That's all there is to it.

There's no art, challenge or achieving involved here. Maybe it's just time to let this fade away, yanno. [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

[skarlorn]

I agree with Gatmanno. When I prepped to fight Llandris I had about 60k of clickable healing in my inventory plus the ability to give myself a large array of buffs. Realizing how much you can abuse these items really took away a lot of the impressive nature of the "solo artist challenge" idea.

Maybe it would be cool to do a 1 group on raid mobs challenge idk

[loramin]

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

There's no art, challenge or achieving involved here. Maybe it's just time to let this fade away, yanno. [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

/shrug

Since it got created years ago the Solo Artist Challenge has always been a personal goal thing; if it's not fun for you then that's fine, it's just not for you.

However I think you're throwing the baby out with the bath water when you say there's no "art, challenge, or achieving involved", especially if you limit yourself to "no charges".

Just speaking for me personally there are tons of mobs on that list that I have no idea how to solo, and if I tried to right now I'd just die. But I'm sure if I took the time to learn how each mob works and how to solo it properly, and then practiced enough times on them, I could learn to solo them and add another checkmark to my personal list.

To me that's the definition of "art, challenge or achieving".

[loramin]

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

I agree with Gatmanno. When I prepped to fight Llandris I had about 60k of clickable healing in my inventory plus the ability to give myself a large array of buffs. Realizing how much you can abuse these items really took away a lot of the impressive nature of the "solo artist challenge" idea.

I do think there's some element of ... something ... challenge I guess(?) to acquiring a whole bunch of clickies and then using them in a way that let's you kill something you normally couldn't. So if someone has fun doing the challenge that way, more power to them.

But personally I 100% agree, and I plan to do the challenge with a self-imposed "no charged items" restriction.

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

Maybe it would be cool to do a 1 group on raid mobs challenge idk

This could definitely be a fun challenge. Sort of the next tier up from Duo God Mode. I started a section for it in the wiki and added Vindi.