Odd AA question - Page 3

Talduke · 09-24-2008, 09:01 PM

could always see if anyone was willing to mentor/pl you. I have my lvl 69 bruiser in rok and i started at 66. im now in fens, i for one wouldnt have wanted to try and solo all they way through yellow and orange mobs but it didnt matter bc i pl'ed with my 80 pali. (aoe 12 mobs for updates FTW) i know not everyone has this option but there might be sombody in your guild bored enough to do it here and there.

LightCC · 09-25-2008, 01:25 PM

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Originally Posted by dakkota

2. Why shouldn't a sorc solo yellow? we do it better than most =(

It's not that we can't... I've just found it less efficient. Unless there are just not enough mobs to keep killing, the extra care you need to take, and extra time licking your wounds (from being hit harder) just isn't worth it.

I found fighting yellows that pulling an add or two often ended in my death, I had to stick religiously to rooting, etc. etc. Blue and green single up arrows are no issue, kind of like yellow non-arrow mobs, but yellow up-arrow is a fight I better have all cylinders firing and not pull more than maybe one add... Plus yellow means more resists, especially for subjugation skills (debuffs, root, and aura for warlocks).

Right around low blues I think is the sweet spot - in terms of progess for time spent, but your mileage may very.

30DaysInTheHole · 09-25-2008, 02:00 PM

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Originally Posted by LightCC

Anyway, your #1 bonehead problem isn't that your casting skills are too low, it's that you are trying to solo yellows. Get over yourself and get back to blues and greens. I.E. go back to EoF. Either way your survivability with battlemage spec will increase your kill rate even though your dps is a bit lower, because half the time on greens you could care less if they are beating on you in groups, and singles blue or white... (i.e. no worrying about rooting and all that crap, just tank em)

you are a gigantic walking VAGINA
I teabag orange heroics...Hell from the sounds of it I'd demolish your 80 with my 65 wizzy.

Good point Stivan I'm just saying its possible to level just as, or almost as quickly as...but considering AA its probably better just to quest through everything in EoF first...i guess...i fucking hate concessions...

Arialeova · 09-26-2008, 11:55 AM

Curious. If you are at ~70 entering Fens, did you skip alot of questing, and if so, how many AAs do you have at this point? If you're having fun at what you're doing it doesn't matter what anyone in here says, really. Just wondering how you will end up at 80 (ie having to go back and do grey quests for AA is the suck).

Talduke · 09-26-2008, 06:38 PM

My bruiser has 88aa i think, i did skip alot of the eof quests, i did a good portion of the zones up to LF and like 5 total in LP. Im not leveling him to do anything but farm shinies. Normally i know you would want to be max aa and all for that but our guild has been crushing a ton of brawler loot so i figured i may as well haul ass to 80 so we dont have to do that so much. dru likes dropping the lava gi almost every time :-(. going back to your question i did a good amount of the quests in kos and then got sick of it and wanted to move on. Ive done almost every quest in kylong and plan on doing them all in rok.

luminal · 09-26-2008, 09:00 PM

increasing your subjugation is great for a soloing wizard. less resists on roots= less deaths which=more xp. for anything solo in this game a wizard has PLENTY of damage to kill the mob. you do not need any more damage than what you get off the rip. more damge is good though of course. the way i look at soloing is first off increase your subjugation for sure. if you can't keep a mob from getting to you then as a wizard you pretty much can't kill it. or it will be a close fight. so subjugation comes first. next i would say hp regen and wards of some sort. unglued alchemist is a soloing wizards best friend. you already have mana regen and essentialy the more hp you can save and or regen the more mana you can regen as well. then i would say damage would come third. more damage the faster you can kill and the quicker you can get your xp. this is all assuming though btw that you are adpt III in atleast both your roots and your bigest nukes/stuns....such as fission/fussion..bolt of ice...magma chamber...and ball of magma i use as well even though there is not a stun....once you get those spells down you can incorperate more into your soloing spell order but i would start there. anyhow i hope this helps you lol

Abstract · 10-17-2008, 05:38 AM

Bah- @ 72 I have 102 AA... Thanks Luminal /wink

~~~Abstract

Khryll · 10-19-2008, 06:32 PM

I believe I first went into RoK at 65, solo'd for a little while on mobs and what not, then actually started question in KP around 68. I was in Fens at 70 (didn't skip any quests, for the most part).

It's not that bad. RoK just took a little bit of getting used to before I was completely comfortable with soloing there. Hell, I'm 80 now and it's STILL a pain in the ass to kill most of those mobs.

God help us if root breaks >_<