Solo Artist Challenge

[Splorf22]

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

you don't get a snare line, do you? if so you could also charm a frog, tash/snare the hell out of the scarelings, and let the frog pet fear kite him to victory. sounds like a solid plan for a druid/enc fear duo tho! (there is frog that paths to south of the portal that would be easy enough to snag)

I can always buy some of those darkness daggers, I'm just wondering if there is enough room to fearkite scarelings. Of course if they don't summon I can always aggrokite them.

Also Plok what is your opinion on the best way to move? It seems like the SE corner is the place to fight golems, so either its west and then around the wall or kind of east through the towers (apparently what Svenn did).

[Handull]

going east from port up is safe enough, then you can drop to the south wall after you pass the towers. just gotta watch/wait for all the pathers. sometimes they are easy to single pull, othertimes they can be so bunched up that its a death sentence to agro them. going west means you have to deal with even more scarelings. to the east there really aren't that many, and you start to find caster mobs that you can tap (i'm assuming frogs have mana, and a few other mobs). stonechill spiders have mana you can tap? they do cast a spell.

[Tecmos Deception]

Yesterday I died in crypt fighting a prot who just refused to be stunned on the proxyaggro pull, and while asking if there was any rez in the zone, Sinadin /telled me with "So you CAN die after all? [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]"

So in that vein, I'll post a story of my failure instead of success, as I currently have little else to do while I head to HS from my bind in TT.


When I got on this morning, I was in HS to check for nameds before I was hoping to head over to Crypt again. But 14 people were unanon/unrp in Seb, and Bigswurve told me they were in Crypt, so I figured I'd just stay in south where I was already.

Ok hold on. I got lost in TT. Wasn't heading quite as "west" as sense heading claimed.

Anyway. There were no nameds up, so I petted a level 50 skele someone had given weapons yesterday and cleared my little spot and pulled the small cave PH, then went and pulled the bile that was up over by the door to east also. That one repopped as The Crypt Feaster! Cool, right? The last guy I need from HS South + a chance at some decent loot.

Unfortunately the pull was off to a rocky start immediately, when I got stuck trying to duck through that broken wall near where he spawned. I detoured immediately (having been stuck there for 15-20 seconds earlier and not wanting a repeat), knowing there was nothing to see IVU up in any of the halls. I got back to my pet with feaster in tow, but I tried to time my first stun and it ended up being early so I missed the feaster, and then THIS stun got resisted: http://postimage.org/image/fk6f6rwob/

The next 30 seconds or so consisted of stuns and mezzes getting interrupted and resisted, until we end up with the next screenshot where I spammed off 3 charges of that net to root named and then finally got a mez to stick: http://postimage.org/image/xsxo7eahp/

So there goes the [S] kill, assuming I can still pull it off at all. I was pretty skeptical, because this pet was 50 and had given me fits already killing PHs. Slizowing: http://postimage.org/image/4oe7p7703/

Feaster was down to about 60% now, and I took the opportunity to try bandaging myself. Then charm broke and I got summoned and you can see me stunning things back into order here: http://postimage.org/image/tm1r7fdl1/

And then tash on my pet wears off: http://postimage.org/image/ywv93hz3r/

And, not surprisingly, charm breaks AGAIN. I stun both and am at 7% hp, but somewhere in the process of noticing my extremely low hp and taking this screenshot (http://postimage.org/image/ogvmfi2hb/) I took too long to start casting my mez, and stun wore off and I got summoned and killed by my quarry.


So yeah. I definitely can and do die! My WC hat probably saved me from 3/4 of my would-be deaths while doing my early work in the SAC, but since I maxed 60 I don't tend to use it as often. It is just quicker and easier for me to die and pop out at my bind right outside than hat and run to town to recharge and then gate back and have to rebuff by then and all. Unfortunately this time I was bound by seb. Oh well. My CR is almost over already. Hopefully I'll have success screenshots shortly [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

[qelen]

Xenevorash 3 manned 2 clerics + mag. Details are scarce. Think it could be done with 2.

[Slave]

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

Xenevorash 3 manned 2 clerics + mag. Details are scarce. Think it could be done with 2.

Gee I wonder if Donals were involved at all.

[qelen]

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

Gee I wonder if Donals were involved at all.

One was.

[Briscoe]

Everyone following this thread is fully capable of weighing each participant's level, class, and gear versus the target they kill. For example, Tecmos did a lot of his work before he was level 60 and he received some praise for that. In your case, if you posted a recap and screenshots of breaking the Froglok King room and ultimately solo killing him as a level 50 druid, you would surely receive high praise.

[Erati]

Obviously I struck a nerve with my post. I did not mean to flame you nor belittle your accomplishments nor the others who have mastered some of these challenges. If you read my first sentence, I said I enjoy your stories and SS's which compelled me to try to see how far you can take your skills as you obviously enjoy doing it and seemed like the competitive type that would look at any mob and plan/scheme a way to take it down even if its never been done solo before.

That was at the core of my post, I wanted to see how far you would take things and if you had any plans to prove your skills with another unlikely solo class. Understand all your comments, and I don't disagree with anything, especially taking the challenge up through the tiers instead of skipping ahead.

Again, I enjoy reading your stuff, and you don't have to prove anything to anyone as you stated you are doing this for you. I was just sparking a conversation that I was curious if any of the "non enchanter" readers who are fans of your stuff was interested in hearing.

[Tecmos Deception]

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

That was at the core of my post, I wanted to see how far you would take things and if you had any plans to prove your skills with another unlikely solo class.

I'll take your word for it, then. You sure did go about asking a simple question in a funny way, though. Next time, a "hey, what do you think of these things?" post might be more appropriate than the post you chose to make instead.

[Tecmos Deception]

Here we go, Erati. I've got a story I'll work on right now that's not just the same, old stuff. Part of reason a lot of my kills themselves are boring, and a part that I've neglected to mention in the past, is that I spend a lot of time "cultivating" (I like to use that word) the area I'm in.

Right now HS South is a HUGE fucking mess. I blame TMO [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

There is a patrolling feaster just around the corner from the drop down. There was a feaster by the western cave pathing. There is a feaster in the central room pathing. There is a bile PH up in the middle. There is a feaster pather in the western, north-south hallway. There is a bile in the room with the key to east. There is a bile in the central cave. There are two biles in the eastern named room. There is a bile PH in the southern room.

You know how hard it would be to try to kill nameds in south solo right now? Lol. But most of my named kills in South are very simple, because I spend hours before I'm doing most of those pulls getting the right trash mobs up so that I can pull the named as safely as possible. And even then, I still often need to lull 3-4 level 51-53 monsters... and that leads to at least a couple of deaths or hats in a 4-hour stay down here. To a lesser extent in other zones (and in HS), I also will kill of higher-level trash mobs to get them to repop as something that is easier to lull.

When South is a mess like it is right now, it's very risky just trying to get into the wing let alone trying to clear out the stuff that sees IVU let alone trying to single pull a named.


Ahh! I only managed to clear 1 devourer and 2 biles out before my cave repopped. And my efforts are going to be rewarded already: http://postimage.org/image/3xn1gaou1/

I'm low on HP cause my charm broke the instant I hit my pet with it again, and he interrupted 3 stuns before it landed [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]