Myconid Spore King - Monk Solo

[Stryker85]

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

Hmm. Doesn't appear to be a solo kill. Player had a shaman, cleric, and enchanter out of group buffing them.

It was a fully solo kill, I had just gotten buffed by a group from under NG. I also keep my own sham / cleric / chanter parked in tube room, and have a friend log them in to buff me when a king spawns, but they log right back out and I'm on my own after that.

[Samoht]

Originally Posted by Stryker85 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

It was a fully solo kill, I had just gotten buffed by a group from under NG. I also keep my own sham / cleric / chanter parked in tube room, and have a friend log them in to buff me when a king spawns, but they log right back out and I'm on my own after that.

No, you clearly have aego, focus, and VoG in the video.

100% not solo.

[Stryker85]

Mmm'kay dude, whatever you say. [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

[Samoht]

Pretty sure you couldn't do this without the outside help

[Solist]

Of course he could, you just click more pots. Pots are cheap. Plat is worthless anyway.

Adding buffs just means you use a few less clicks. I've probably solo'd fungi king 3 or 4 times on my monk when partners have been LD, killed their toon or killed my cleric they were using.

Doing so right now the hardest thing about fungi king solo is the RNG of the pull, as you can see in the vid. You can chew up 3-4minutes very easily with poor RNG on blurs, pathers etc.

Good work man.

[Stryker85]

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

Pretty sure you couldn't do this without the outside help

Pretty positive it's not even remotely possible without buffs, so I don't really know what point it is that you're trying to make. Way to shit on other people's accomplishments though. Sorry this wasn't good enough for your standards.

[Solist]

Originally Posted by Stryker85 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Pretty positive it's not even remotely possible without buffs, so I don't really know what point it is that you're trying to make. Way to shit on other people's accomplishments though. Sorry this wasn't good enough for your standards.

Sure it is. Click more pots. Throw dps and clickies at anything and if you have the bagspace for the mob to die, it will die. To post it like 8 years after it was first solo'd on a monk is a bit weird as im sure after kelz a fair few have probably solo'd it for the lulz. But it's great to see people doing it anyway.

I hope you maybe turn it into a bit of a solo adventure for more cool shit.

Fairly sure vazdeline solo'd a fungi king 'questionably legitimately' back in like 2012 even on his mage excluding the pull when I went LD at the start of a duo fight, (so..."solo") with a couple of soulfire clicks on his epic pet. We'd pull it to under NG back in those days with a crit pac/invis pull into a mage pet and donals bp click it to death. Zero effort, zero danger, 120k fungi's ftw.

[Stryker85]

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

Sure it is. Click more pots. Throw dps and clickies at anything and if you have the bagspace for the mob to die, it will die. To post it like 8 years after it was first solo'd on a monk is a bit weird as im sure after kelz a fair few have probably solo'd it for the lulz. But it's great to see people doing it anyway.

I hope you maybe turn it into a bit of a solo adventure for more cool shit.

Oh ya, I'm definitely well aware that Kelzaraz did this years ago already, but his strat is no longer viable. Kelz used puppet strings to charm a pet-kitted krup knight. He also used Slowstone Amber before the clicky nerf when it was still instant cast time, and landed a lucky slow (hard to do without malo).

I am trying to set my attempts apart by using a more streamlined approach for the pull and setup, with the goal of making it sustainable indefinitely by not using any consumable charges like Wort Pots, Reapers, Slowstone, etc. Obviously I'm not quite there yet, but I still have quite a bit of room for improvement on the attempts that I've made thus far.

https://youtu.be/2z7V4OdJk9I?si=XBt6dTEU3cn7iQmm

Here's a video of my 2nd attempt where I was able to down him with only 7 wort charges used, and no reaper. Probably could have lived with just 5 worts too. No charge kill coming soon!

[WarpathEQ]

Originally Posted by Stryker85 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

It was a fully solo kill, I had just gotten buffed by a group from under NG. I also keep my own sham / cleric / chanter parked in tube room, and have a friend log them in to buff me when a king spawns, but they log right back out and I'm on my own after that.

I think the point was that its not a solo kill if it requires the leveling and parking and logging in of 4 different classes to achieve the outcome. Would be more impressive if it was truly the toon using nothing but their own means to accomplish something. Even if it was just 1 toon on the encounter log, otherwise we're basically saying that Vindi is soloable.

[loramin]

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

Potions are cheat. They deserve to have interruptabe activation times.

People on P99 have been doing the Solo Artist Challenge for years here, and have long debated the merits of soloing with or without clickies. So, they came up with ranks:

[S] -> Soloed with self buffs only

[S-] -> Soloed but used strong item clickies

[S*] -> Soloed without pull (or invis pulled)

[S*-] -> Soloed without pull and used strong item clickies

[D] -> Duoed

[D-] -> Duoed but used strong item clickies

[D*] -> Duoed without pull (or invis pulled)

[D*-] -> Duoed without pull and used strong item clickies

[T] -> Trioed

However, that only counts "strong item clickies":

Strong item clickies include Puppet Strings, Donal's Chestplate of Mourning, Manastone, SoulFire, Reaper of the Dead, Wooly Spider Silk Net, etc., but not shaman potions or stuff like a Shrunken Goblin Skull Earring. Use your judgement, and remember: solo is solo for the purposes of ranks, no matter what you items you use.

In other words, over a decade of soloers here have all agreed that the use of Shaman potions or a Shrunken Goblin Skull Earring is not only viable for soloing, but in fact it's still the lowest/hardest level of soloing.