Malachani

Ok, let me start by explaining that my fury is my alt, and for the most part has auto-followed my main around, healing and doing what dps she can while I 2box. I have taken her out often on her own to heal groups, and I do well in that instance (I think... lol!) but due to circumstances, the last few days I've been playing only the fury and trying to solo.

I know Furies are good soloers, every fury I've ever known has been excellent at it. Either I suck at it or I just don't know WTF I'm doing, because I find it horrible, and I die, alot! This is to things that I could solo as an illusionist without much thought. But I'm having a really really tough time, and sadly I find it horribly boring.

So, what do you guys do when you solo? Are there spells that are "must cast" and some you just don't bother with? I have found myself spamming the same 4 spells over and over (this is while doing solo mobs, not heroic mobs) and feel like I'm missing something to the style of the class.

Any tips would be much appreciated!

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TheMixMonkey

Well firstly as you have boxed your fury most of the time, you should check to see your focus and defense skills are at, because if they are not maxed or close to maxed you'll probably struggle.

Assuming those are maxed, then I pretty much just cycle my DoTs and thunderbolt, then throw in a HoT if I need it. In RoK i have been keeping hibernation up too as the mobs are a bit tougher. I'll pretty much only use starnova on an encounter. Ring of fire is also useful if you're in a safe spot...keep it up a whenever it refreshes and pull to one spot.

There isnt really much to do it for a soloing fury imo, and not that much variety in tactics. Keep your dots up, nuke when its up, heal if you need it.

Of course is it always good to tag a buttload of greens, stack your heals then energy vortex, ring if fire, call of storms...but meh it's only fun for a few times.

TheMixMonkey

Also what AA lines have you taken?

Pretty much INT, Animal Form and Energy Vortex are a must for a soloing fury.

I also have full STA line (pvp reasons only). A fury doesnt get the full use of STR line with no crits or melee skill buffs, but the heal proc is quite nice for soloing.

Vegaxe

Get your subjugation up for your roots and snares. try to get highest level spell you can for the root.

IF you are running the quests in ROK... use charm and mez animal AA. This fun as hell, and their are a BAZILLION animals. Nothing like a meat shiled you can heal. When running kill blah blah, charm one, have it beat up another... uncharm and kill it to... two for one. My favorite so far is the wasp, it uses a swarm pet attack and rocks!

Those are just a few pointers i have used with solo stuff in rok so far.

oh, equipment... crown of enlightment... 7 sec stun on damage chance = awesome. Also, get some stifle target on hostile cast stuff.

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Butcherblock

Fijiram

Assuming your subjugation is maxed and you have aa's in root/snare ( this is like a must with the new 20aa's in eof tree) it should be pretty straight forward , open with a root , then a snare.. nuke it down.. dont use dots if the mob is hard enough for you to care , use em' if you dont.. enhance snare is 61% so you can re-root it before it gets to you , use cheetah if needed...

as far as charm animal go i dont like it that much.. meatshield? what kind of dps you're doing? I steal aggro and the mob ends up as a dps boost which I dont need because it will likely break my root and if the mob is weak enough that I dont root , it dies pretty darn quick. ( this is an opinion I know some are digging it , its just a personnal choice for me ).

Btw... soulfire staff.. fitz offhand.. heal procs on hostile = The win.. you barely have to heal yourself up and you can keep on nuking.

Edit : Anyone else been observing how you can finish casting something while moving when the spell is at like 95%? saved my ass a couple times on root/snares!

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Vegaxe

I used it as an example. you dont pull aggro by just throwing your dots on it. My god, charm animal is a joke... but it is fun as hell. It is fast as hell way to kill two animals... you ever seen two teradactor things fight each other... less than 10 seconds. Yes, I like to charm a chicken or rhino sometimes and have fun when I am playing... mostly after my 100th kill this type animal guest.

if i want to solo and fall asleep... I root, ev, tb, starnova, tempest... tb dead. then wake your self up.

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Butcherblock

Fijiram

It's pimp for harvesting... thats for sure..

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AricaJade

root, dot, dot, tbolt, root. repeat till dead.

insert hibernate & bloodflow as needed

ive been experimentin with the root in the wis line too. <3 it. it's actually a melee attack, but it's a fast cast, so if ur root breaks before it's back up or is resisted, hierophant root. gives JUST enough time to back away quick & cast another elddar's on it.

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Sotan

I was fully mastered and raid-geared before RoK, so I was used to being able to pretty much wade in and tank all but heroics named. Learned real fast that that wasn't going to fly against anything but the weakest mobs, so I've had to adjust my tactics. I started treating almost everything the way I used to treat ^^^ heroics, and it's worked very well so far.

First of all, AA lines are critical. Max out the Energy AAs for all four of your dots and nukes, and get EV. If you have the AA to spare, max Ring of Fire, and branch out to max your root and snare AAs. Max Predator for the run speed. The rest of the Fury lines aren't critical; they help, but that's about it. Before RoK I never touched those, but now that the AA cap has lifted you can put points into them without harming your group/raid abilities.

INT line. Max spell crits and focus, get Infusion. After that it's all gravy. We don't benefit a lot from the STR line, but having a few points in the first level for extra STR helps with carrying around all the crap that you'll loot, since based on the gear SOE apparently doesn't think that druids need STR anymore. The poster who mentioned the WIS line defensive root is right; it's situationally useful, especially if /you/ get rooted.

Single mob tactics: I get just within max root range, and cast my root first. Then I layer on my snare. At this point I own the mob. How I nuke it down from there depends on how fast it can kick my ass if the root breaks, and how likely the root is to break (ie how much higher the mob is than me). If I'm at real risk, I stick to Tbolt and Starshower (and master strike, if applicable) until the mob is in the red, then start layering on the dots. Yes, Starshower is inefficient when you're not fighting an encounter, but it's also one of only two big nukes we have, and when fighting a really dangerous mob you don't want to risk the root breaking. If the mob isn't in immediate danger of killing me if it gets in my face, I'll cast my nukes and dots every time they're up, and get Feast on the mob when none of them are up. I generally save EV for the really hard mobs, to nuke them down faster.

When the root breaks--and it eventually will, especially if you're fighting a mob much higher than you--the snare should have the mob slowed to a crawl, especially if you have AAs into it. If you see the snare drop, immediately reapply it before anything else. This is even more important than the root, as you can easily outrun any snared mob. Re-root a snared mob unless it's almost dead, in which case don't bother, just nuke it down. Kite it if necessary; with the snare AA maxed you can very easily get to max root range and finish casting it before the mob gets to you.

Assuming you can keep the mob ranged, the only thing you have to worry about are casters, archers, and roamer adds. Casters and archers can still put some hurt on you, but generally not enough at range to really pose a danger. Just insert your HOT while waiting for your nukes to come back up if you go yellow.

I have used this to solo level the level 82 mobs in Skyfire at 77. I was soloing in the plains area of Jarsath at 75. Just remember:

- Choose the right AA setup.
- Keep the mob rooted and snared.
- After the battle starts, snare is your 100% first priority.
- Unload everything if you can kill it before it kills you, otherwise stick to your two nukes.
- Watch for adds, especially when kiting.
- You can't die if the mob can't touch you.

Good luck!

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Sotanyavejin
OWG Fury

Mojitin

Charm animal is pretty much totally awesome in RoK. The sabrecats in any zone hit hard and with Agitate they're even better. I don't do the whole root/nuke soloing thing unless i have to, I kill far faster when I stand in on a mob. I can't remember the last time I used Energy Vortex while solo since with this expansion a mob can hit you for more than 50% of your health in a single attack. Anyway, that's my 2 cents, seems I solo alot different than most.

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