Soloing on an Assassin...

Vuetee · 06-20-2009, 06:06 PM

Firstly a quick introduction to my play type:
I'm a dirge at heart, I enjoy making other people parse high and being able to put out mediocre dps (sometimes high when I'm with heroic instance group players as I'm raid geared), and so I am used to being able to just do most of my dps by casting and attacking (50% of our DPS comes from autoattack).

My first toon was a ranger (boo), but got to lv 48 and betrayed, deleted @ 62, and recently revived him through /petition... And I have been playing him a bit and even though I'm in MC gear with decent spells, I'm finding it tough to solo.

Are there any tricks to soloing? One that I have picked up is putting up Concealment and then Cheap shot so that I daze the target, go invis at start of daze, quick nip around back and assassinate/deathly blade etc until the stun wares off.

The main problem I'm finding is my dps comes from back attacks so soloing isn't all that good for me, and I would really like to continue with my assassin as I have seen instance geared assassins putting out really nice numbers... and raid assassins getting up to 20k (may be more in more HC guilds, I'm a casual raider as are the assassins I know).

Any tips/hints? A specific solo spec? I have ~40AA but that's increasing at about 6 points per level atm, and I can always cap my xp/mentor etc to get what I need AA wise np.

Thanks guys

Vuetee/Valdoartus

Zerr · 06-20-2009, 06:29 PM

Uhhh I usually just used all my dots on the mobs, cheap shotted, hit masked strike then what ever highest damage stealth ability was up. Stuff died fairly quickly.

As for AAs, because I had raided with an 80 assassin for quite a while, but then rolled a new one, I just used my lvl 80 raid spec while leveling the new assassin cause I was too lazy to respec once I hit 80 lol...(Str, Agi, Int) hope I could help somewhat

Edit: remove- the part telling you to upgrade spells/gear lol, totally read over that :/

add- make sure to use Vitality Breach poisons and stupefying poisons, should help a lot when soloing.

Hoss · 06-20-2009, 06:49 PM

http://www.eq2flames.com/assassins/4...lo-levels.html

I don't think this is an important enough topic to have two active threads about it.

If cochy ever read these boards (since he is supposedly our moderator) I would ask him to combine the threads.

Vuetee · 06-20-2009, 06:54 PM

Aye was trying to find stupefying poisons but couldn't! :/

Gear is MC and spells are all ad3/M1.

Will take a look at that hoss, thanks - I didn't wanna read through an entire thread for a simple question cause im a lazy dirge :P but question's pretty much answered now.

EDIT - why no evasive maneouvers? It's a nice single hit for soloing...