Solo Artist Challenge

[Handull]

i guess my point with KC is that its so so easy to run to the zone out and live. even if LCY is camped, unless you pull half the zone, they'll probably think of it more as you pulling for them, rather than you training them. i usually just run out and jump off the walls into the water. this buys me just enough time to run/swim to the zone out

i need some new stories :P really gotta try my hand at the crypt. see if i can kill the ph's without strings (i think i can). but it'll be a fun challenge. maybe try FGs with a bat+midnight mallet, etc

[Tecmos Deception]

Here's a good (and by good I mean TERRIBLE) story:

I'm in seb now, mainly looking for gangrenous scarab at the moment. This morning I ran back into the area behind there and was exploring a bit though, and ended up in what I thought was the room where the froglok bartender can spawn. Ilis wizard (I KNOW what ilis wizards are, but wtf it didn't cross my mind when I started the fight is beyond me) and a 45-ish shaman in the room. I charmed the sham, figuring I'd just suicide him and sit him to interrupt dots, and then suicide the wizard into the next room and camp aggro or something.

Lulled, petted, etc. Then when mez was still on pet, I tried to mez the ilis. Resist. Oh look, he's casting some ice nuke. Ran over to him but the stun was a bit slow, so I'm already down berserker strength and rune 5 and 40% of my hit points.

Pet got on him, rooted him near pet. Charm broke, got things back under control easily enough without losing BS again. Charm broke again before I could put rune back on. Ilis resisted stun. I misclicked my next spell and he landed another ice comet on me.


Oh well. There are clerics in zone and no see invis up between ent and my body. By the way, it turns out I was not in the room I thought I was. I was in a nothing room, NOT a room a named can spawn in.

Anyway, I go drag myself over to the top of the stairs right by where gangrenous can spawn and figure I'll loot my gear and re-clear the PH (stupid PH bug has popped like 8 times) while I look for a rez. But apparently, while playing in third person and invisible without see invis on myself, I was standing a bit too far back and I managed to aggro the two iksar necros there. Stunned them, thought there was only ONE of them on me so I single-target mezzed... then I got punched in the back for 136 a couple more times and was dead again.


So I invis back in there again, drag both my bodies to the room (it's a safe room, I think) at the entrance to the jail area and right click my geared body to loot up while I look for a rez... except it looted my naked body instead.

So now I'm not only asking for a rez, but I'm trying to find a cleric who will come to me to rez, and quickly too, since if I stood up from looting my naked corpse, it would poof and I'd be out a couple blues of xp.


Fortunately I did get a friendly cleric who got an invis from his group and came over and rezzed me. The name escapes me at the moment, but omfg thank you.



I would feel like a failure who is just lucking his way to these kills, but it really is pretty tricky to do these fights sitting at a kitchen counter on a crappy laptop with my wife and son distracting me all the time. Lol. Most of my deaths don't come from things just being tough, really, but from me not being careful enough in all of these places that I've never explored before while only 3/4 paying attention in the first place! [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

[Splorf22]

The ilis in upper seb are PH. The stationary one in the disco is Gruplinort; the moving one further back is the commander.

[Triangle]

I would feel like a failure who is just lucking his way to these kills, but it really is pretty tricky to do these fights sitting at a kitchen counter on a crappy laptop with my wife and son distracting me all the time. Lol. Most of my deaths don't come from things just being tough, really, but from me not being careful enough in all of these places that I've never explored before while only 3/4 paying attention in the first place!

Funny you mention that. I have died some ridiculous deaths even though I have done some cool fights as well. Accidentally falling from HS ent to HS basement and getting owned by the mobs comes to mind. The things I plan out and think through I usually beat, but carelessness and overconfidence has owned me more times than I would like to admit.

[Randarn]

bump for awesome idea and for future reference on something of Trys'

[Tecmos Deception]

Now I know that it gets to be like a broken record with how I keep saying "I've never been to any of these places" ... but if it weren't true, I wouldn't end up with fun (I think it's fun, anyway) stories like this to share:

I figured I'd go check out the froglok pickler, see if he is up or if I can get him to pop. After dealing with some see invis frogs on the way in, plus a poorly-timed, accidental right-click on a PC corpse, I find the room. Krup shaman, krup knight, dar knight. I figure I'll just suicide the shaman on the other two then see what I need to do from there to get the other two deaded.

Just about the time I get stuff rooted where I want, debuffed, etc., the krup shaman breaks charm. And at the same time, guess who comes hopping around the corner as a surprise guest? The commander.

I think I got lucky, cause my first mez stuck on him so he never even got to me before I locked everything down and gated out. But yeah. Was QUITE a surprise to see a level 55 from the next tier come into view as I'm trying to clear out for the pickler. Fountree had /ooced earlier that he was up, now that I think about it, but I didn't think he'd be pathing around to other named spawns, so I just forgot about it.

Good times!



Aren't you guys glad you encouraged me to share my stories? [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]



Edit - and on a related note, it IS remarkable how an enchanter can just galavant around in the depths of the nastiest dungeons in the game with almost total impunity. I find myself wishing I had a necromancer or a shaman also, so that I could do the challenge with another class to see how it plays out differently.

[phobus]

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

Now I know that it gets to be like a broken record with how I keep saying "I've never been to any of these places" ... but if it weren't true, I wouldn't end up with fun (I think it's fun, anyway) stories like this to share:

As someone who's interested in this and is still leveling (59 shaman for now), I enjoy reading your posts, so don't stop! This whole challenge is about pushing the envelope of what is possible, and doing more with less. So seeing people under 60 kill even low-tier stuff is pretty cool, I think.

Personally, I've only checked off a couple of mobs on the list, and I haven't even played much in the past month. But learning to survive in HS north has been pretty fun, and it's a lot different for a Shaman than an Enchanter. [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

[Handull]

Solo'd Efreeti twice now with a bat pet, no clickies =D

Thanks Greame and Kindadar for tips, chatting, and a reason to keep trying new things.

The fight itself isn't terrible if things go your way. The second time a fizzle on my root hurt me, since I can sneak pull him out like halflings, and efreeti landing a nuke on me while I was CCing his guards brought me to 45%, where I stayed the whole fight. Kept the bat up easily even while despelling him twice and rerooting the guards later. Thought about healing myself toward the end and then my bat dropped low so I healed him instead, bat got to 15%, but efreeti was under 10% at that point anyway.

Finally got a ring the second time, so that was a nice bonus. Gotta try FGs now I think.

[Tecmos Deception]

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

Solo'd Efreeti twice now with a bat pet, no clickies =D

Thanks Greame and Kindadar for tips, chatting, and a reason to keep trying new things.

The fight itself isn't terrible if things go your way. The second time a fizzle on my root hurt me, since I can sneak pull him out like halflings, and efreeti landing a nuke on me while I was CCing his guards brought me to 45%, where I stayed the whole fight. Kept the bat up easily even while despelling him twice and rerooting the guards later. Thought about healing myself toward the end and then my bat dropped low so I healed him instead, bat got to 15%, but efreeti was under 10% at that point anyway.

Finally got a ring the second time, so that was a nice bonus. Gotta try FGs now I think.

Very nice.

How resistant are djarn and his guards for you at 60? What weapons did you give your pet?

[Phinger]

Nice job soloing efreeti. I've duoed him with a necro a few times and nearly died both times. He is a resistant bastard. Curious if the bats land stun on him? I've always used imps as pets, and they backstab. If the bats actually land stuns on him, then that might change things.