MuffinPirate

Well, I'm almost to 80! I have solo'ed lots of tough things in my levels and had a lot of fun (and frustration) doing so. I enjoy the challenge, but it's not something I do all the time because as you all know..it can get daunting.

The hardest thing I have done in Kunark is to solo some of the quests in City of Mist. A couple of hours and a couple of deaths later I had a decent batch of quests done.

Will I be able to solo even harder stuff at 80, just to say I did it?

Firesys

I can pretty much solo all of Chardok =)

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MuffinPirate

Nice!

Any tips for someone interested in trying to do that soon? = P

Harowen

Lots and lots of practice. (read: lots and lots of dying)

Carry a high subj gearset, wis line can be handy for this (daydream is useful too).

Stuns are your friend, have at fastest possible reuse times. I use deep focus and relic legs instead of intense focus for the 3s faster reuse timer.

To rapidly clear through to somewhere you want to go, charm a mob and sick it on it's nearby buddy. Root the target, when your pet dies, charm the target and sick it on it's nearby buddy.

When you get to the thing you want to kill, you need to be able to prevent it from killing you. Usually this means stunlocking it.

In simple forms this will typically involve mezzing the mob on pull. Whether you have a clear area and can just pull with mez, or not so clear and you body pull or pet pull it back to you and mez when it arrives.

Once mezzed, root it, root is your friend.

Cycle through single target stun, encounter stun, pbae stun. If you have really high reuse you can single target stun again. Refresh root when last stun is going, back off and cancel dots, and mez it. Back your pet out early.

Wait for stuff to cycle around again and repeat.

If it is mezzable and stunable, it is killable. You may have to wear pow proc gear though cause some fights can clear 7-10 mins if you're alone. I find it much much easier to bring a warlock or an assassin along with me and do little ninja strikes than to solo it.

Oh yeah, and be prepared to spend 45 mins getting somewhere and then dying and having to start over.

Harowen

Oh but to answer your question about what can be solo'd.

Most of chardok

The first 4 of the 5 named mobs that will be up in chelsith. No leviathans. (2 random of 5 nameds, baron and mucus)

All the karnor's names except last guy in bottom room you have to push buttons on.

Your entire fabled-epic except for the drusella kill.

MuffinPirate

Ahh, cool! Thanks for the advice! I'm looking forward to seeing what I can do.

sommarnatt

What kind of mobs do you use as pets in KC and Chelsith?

Cenarius

ask in our ww coercer channel... written in any forum is just for pointing the devs which pet will get nerved as soon as possible or even our class.... because we are so uber

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Revel

Maybe I solo differently than most, but my pet choice doesn't matter. In KC/Chelsith, majority of my damage is from me, and less than 25% of the damage is from my pet, and I just grab one that is in my way.

Pet selection makes a noteable difference in Chardok, though.


You might want to try soloing Sebilis quests, that was probably the most entertaining thing I've done, maybe not the hardest, though.

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MuffinPirate

Well I managed to solo two nameds in Chelsith last night. One was Somebody-the-Defeater..he wasn't too bad.

Then I explored around a bit and tried The Blue Baron. Wow, he took forever to kill. About a 20 minute fight! I did not use a pet on this guy, and I probably should have, but I was already down there by him and figured I'd just go as-is.

Well I hope they wouldn't nerf our ability to do things like this. It really is a saving grace to the coercer, and it's not like it's easy or quick. It's time consuming and painful, which is the right mix to achieve rewards in the game, right? = P