Solo Artist Challenge

[Poid]

[S] Arch Duke Iatol [55 Shadowknight, Sebilis Crypt]

After a couple rounds of killing phs in crypt, Duke spawned, wielding nothing.

Attempt 1: Charm break, used slant + AE mez, pet was dotted so broke mez, killed me before I could hat. Ran all the way from Seb zonein to Cabilis (almost dying along the way to see-invis frogloks in TT), grabbed my spare stalking probe, gated back, and lulled my way down to crypt. Died at crypt door; didn't think the two frogs would aggro the probe. Rebuffed, zoned back in, and lulled my way down once more and made it through the door just to have a crit lull resist on the first pack. Was able to AE mez, but was low HP so I decided to make a run for it after rooting the mobs. Got aggro from the dar roamer + one friend he decided to bring with him, channeled another AE mez + roots, invised into safe spot in crypt and logged off, with a Fetter break with 5 seconds left.

I logged back in, grabbed my corpse, buffed up and prepped for attempt #2

Attempt 2: Decided not to haste the pet (harbinger ph) so that I could handle charm breaks better. Stun resist on charm break ended with me eating a dot before I could regain control, then a second charm break forced me to hat out with 10% hp left. Fortunately there were two druids at the WC rings, so naturally I pleaded for a heal. The first druid, Shaston from Taken, started casting a heal, then ducked to interrupt it and sat down. Thanks buddy! Fortunately the other one, Shabuffya, wasn't a sociopath so she hit me with a heal when I was at 1% and I was able to survive. I recharged my hat, gated back to Seb, and lulled my way back down again.

Attempt 3:

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Third time's the charm. Allure held throughout the fight, but I'm confident I could have handled a break just fine.

Solo master!

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[Tecmos Deception]

Good work! Necro mobs are no joke when they are high enough to resist stuns, and HS is no cakewalk without invis pulls. Imo there is an eaiser way to handle HS named kills than in the spot you are using though, thanks to the way assist aggro works [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

[Poid]

Summon + charm break happens at the same time because your former pet is no longer on the mob's aggro list, so you instantly become the highest aggro target and if you are out of melee range you will be summoned. I actually take being summoned as a great indicator that charm broke. If you keep the mob you're trying to kill rooted you will never be summoned by the mob you're killing unless your pet's charm breaks.

Best way to deal with it I've found is to immediately stun + AE mez then recover from there. This only works if your pet doesn't have a dot on it...the best way in that scenario is to use color slant + clicky + allure on your pet, and it's much less reliable this way. There is definitely time to slant + allure if you use a clicky to reset global time and start casting allure immediately. I've had to do that several times.

[maurilax]

In most cases as stated qbove youll want to stun then ae mez. If you get a stun resist use clicky then the other stun you should have loaded. I only use boltrans when I know my pet is dotted and 51+ or the target is dotted.

For hs I keep a key corpse at the drop in which lasts 7 days and another with a probe just in case. Also if you die near the broken wall before the cubb you can pull corpse through the door. Lastly if there is a group in west and you die in the cave you can be pulled out through the area where the boss key is in west.

Dying in the tunel near the zone out is necro summon if you dont have a backup key/probe

Im curious what tecmos is referring to with assist agro?

[mrmop520]

Allure is a great way to find a manageable 49-51 pet. If the mob resists it, its higher and will break a lot more frequently. Saves 150 mana or so per cast I believe. And yeah always AE mez after slant imo.

[Poid]

Decided to do some crypt today:

[S] Harbinger Freglor [55 Necromancer, Sebilis Crypt]

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[S] blood of chottal [55 Monk, Sebilis Crypt]

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[S] Baron Yosig [55 Warrior, Sebilis Crypt]

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And last but definitely not least...

[S] Hierophant Prime Grekal [55 Shaman, Sebilis Crypt]

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Afterwards I spent about 3-4 hours failing to kill Drusella Sathir in HS East. I have a strategy that will work, I just need a bit of luck and a lot of patience...but who knows when she'll be up again. She's my first real failure while doing this list! Hopefully I get another shot at her sometime soon, but of course I'll have to redevelop a strategy because the nearby mobs will be different levels. Maybe I'll get lucky and the pather outside her room will be level 50!

[Clark]

Motion to remove all shaman solo artist challenges before the dual wield was removed for shaman pets.

[iruinedyourday]

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Motion to remove all shaman solo artist challenges before the dual wield was removed for shaman pets.

all those shamans have 3x puppet strings now tho

[Poid]

If at first you don't succeed:

[S] Drusella Sathir [55 Necromancer, HS East]

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80-90% of the fight is the setup. Once you get a solo pull she's easier than any of the crypt casters.

[iruinedyourday]

I am impressed, I didnt know u could solo DS, well done!