Necro in lower guk

[Castamere]

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

I've spent SIGNIFICANT time charm soloing in Lguk on a Necro. Here are a few tips.

1. You will die learning.
2. You will die more learning.
3. Always have FD, Harmshield, and ST memmed.
4. Rest the Dead is a necessity. Also, LoS is neither necessary nor desired when casting it. You should be in a spot so that if you get a crit resist and aggro frogs you have time to FD, stand up (if it fails) and cast harmshield prior to even seeing frogs and wait for FD CD. If you get 2 FD fails in a row or a spell takes you out of FD the second time there is usually nothing you could have done about this and is an inherent risk charm soloing in Lguk.
5. Get used to spell swapping mid fight - quickly.
6. Go for very low dark blues. Level is by far the most influencing factor here when it comes to resists and charm/root breaks. If you have to lull a bunch of stuff, start from the low level stuff up.
7. I've found using root vice Hungry earth is sufficient. You don't have the spell bar space for 2 roots most of the time and HE has a cooldown so if you have to root multiple things or you get a resist/break during the CD you are completely fucked.
8. Learn to time FD with mob spell casts.
9. ALWAYS keep the mob your pet is fighting rooted, and if it is a caster, keep it out of LOS so when charm breaks it won't immediately start casting on you.
10. Your pet's ghoul root will overwrite your root and it will be impossible to tell when it breaks, necessitating another re-root by you - another reason to use your cheapest root. This will often be the limiting time on root, not full duration or early breaks.
11. Dar ghoul knights do not fuck around.
12. You need some item that resets GCD, be that goblin earring or something similar.
13. Circlet of Shadow is very helpful (although not necessary) for breaking charm.
14. You will die learning.
15. Diamondskin is clutch. Jasper (like 7g, right?) for several hundred hitpoints. The only time I used manaskin was during hard breaks such as on Arch Magus (he and the Jins/Kors nuke for 650-700) or during Ghoul Lord (who btw, IMO, is the hardest room to solo in Dead Side. The resists are insane and he has a lot of HP. Do not recommend until 56-57 at the earliest).
16. Charm soloing in Lguk is the most fun I've ever had in the game.

Thanks for the write up. Most of my deaths so far have been from fat fingering (on red) and having to take the damage while I wait for the wrong spell to finish channeling. Charming has been tough since I can't put a whole lot of distance between me and the two mobs and I have to recast root so dang often that I end up with two mobs running at me on charm break. Granted, I spent a good bit of time trying to break the frenzy camp and I know the bloodthirsty ghouls are tougher. Maybe I should stick to non-named for a level or two and retry.