Solo Everything Project
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Now that is hardcore. I thought my project was long and involved.
For the Dr. Kahn you only need to use the temp on the Reichsmen once. Its not like Dr. Aeon where he keeps putting up the force field, once and then pound on him.
Nice Bonker!!
I got a wild hair a couple years ago and went on a solo all the AV's in marias arc on my DM/SR scrapper and it was really fun.
Keep us posted I love seeing this stuff.
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That would take a lot of patiences, something you do have. GJ
Next on the list was the Kronos Class Titan. While I was running the Maria arc, I got Crimson as a contact, so I was good to go there, worked my way through all those malta to the wildflower mission. I knew that if I just exit the mish in founders, it will spawn there and I will likely get interrupted, so I base ported out of the comp'd mish, chose boomtown as the least likely spot to get interrupted and sallied forth. The encounter took about 10 seconds. Long enough for him to one shot both gremlins and both lore pets, then stomp my face. Stuck around dead fer a little bit to make sure he wouldnt run off, then I hosp'd and insp'd up and came back fer round two. I sat and watched him till lore pets came back up, then tried again with the same result. I called Crimson, abandoned the mission so I could reset wildflower and then call Kronos at a later date.
Next I figured I'd try Tin Mage Mark II. For that first fight outside, Warwalkers fall real easy to the Malta when you add in a few single target debuffs. Any that might have won their fight with the malta around them, I simply dragged to the next group. Destroyed all 8 without ever having to do any heavy lifting. Thanks Malta! (awful nice of em considering I just spent the last few hours running mish after mish clearing maps of Malta).
For the next part, I tried several times to figure out a path that would let me shut down all 8 comps in 30 seconds, resetting and re-Malta-ing warwalkers each time. I thought I had it at one point, but at best, only got Director 11 AND the ambushes at the same time. So I backed out, reset, re-Malta'd, and then entered the room, let the timer run out, owned the 3 ambushes then took my time getting each computer, leaving for last the one closest to director 11's spawn point (center of the wall, left side as you enter). Called all pets, put em on aggro, let out some rains and readied up the debuffs, then called him. He one shot me within seconds of showing. I shoulda used some insp to soak up that alpha, but again, I think I'm really gonna need to dip into the barrier incarnate to pull some of these more difficult ones off. Not to mention a different set of lore pets. I spent the next little while running tests on confusing the director till he had pwnt all his mob. I noticed that he spawns a crazy amount of landmines all over the room, even when he's not moving. I called my pets on them a couple times to see if they can survive a mine hit, and they could. Took abotu 25% of their health from a single mine. Takes about 10% of mine per mine hit. Multiple mine hits would really be bad. Clearly I gotta take this guy out fast. Oh, and to make matters even more fun, it seems he's resistant to end drain. Oh joy.
Decided to call it a night, and though I haven't quit the tf yet, I'm leaning toward incarnate grinding fer a bit before I attempt anything else.
J-man- noticed yer project before I posted cuz I searched to see if anyone had something similar to what I'm attempting. I would love to join you on yer runs if you ever need a hand, and yer welcome on mine to get yer screenies.
Dune- Yah, I've done the Maria arc with several different AT's and it was always fun. Solo'd some tf's before, but never on this scale. Never tried to solo a zone GM before, but saw in some thread that scraps and brutes were taking out rikti pylons and other things, so I wanted to try with something a lil squishier. Ended up taking out the pylon faster than many of the scraps in that thread, lmao.
Dulittle- Actually, I'm typically not a very patient person. But this appeals to me on a different level than just patience, or the lack thereof. I see it as more of a puzzle, or a matter of simply applying the correct strategy to win. Figuring out that strategy is the fun part of this, at least fer me.
For anyone that is interested, here's the build:
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That build is the one I solo'd most all the stuff I won on the first try with. I've since respec'd and dropped snow storm and picked up static field, so I could drop the sleep purp set in (5 slotted), but it hasnt worked out like I had hoped as a pure sleep power, so its more a set mule at the moment.
I took Musculature Alpha, Pyronic Judgement, Diamagnetic Interface, Storm Elemental Lore pets, and Rebirth Destiny.
As I've said, I'm probably going to go fer Barrier Destiny, and try a few different Lore pets. Considering a respec, and even some different Alpha, Judgement, and Interface choices as well.
Thought this toon has been able to accomplish quite a bit so far, I don't think he's gonna get it all done without some serious rethinking of some strategy/builds, and perhaps even thinking of specific builds for speific targets, which I am certainly not adverse to giving a go.
Any thoughts/advice/tricks on the build or any of the tf's I've not yet attempted, I'd love to hear it!
@Bonker Guide to Base Building for the Small SG
Present project: Solo Everything Project
Remaining: Lusca, Sewers, Eden, Kahn, States, HeroSpec2&3, Apex, Tin Mage, Moritmer Kal, Tesseract, Recluse, 'Cuda, Quarry, Stropharia, Thorn, Arachnos Flier, Deathsurge, Caleb, Seed of Hamidon (Villrespec2&3, Hami, CoP, Incarnates)
How can that be solo when you beg for pple to help you start?
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Currently working on:
Turtle Snapper - SD/MA/Ice Tanker
You need so many people to start a tf/trial. All you have to do is invite enough people to start it. Start it. And they can quit team.
LOL Kinji. Actually a lot of people have helped me so far on this project, Kinji being one of them. Usually everyone just quits the tf, and I leave my alt account in the tf but logged off. Sometimes, folks stick around to watch or get the badge, most times not.
Update: While running some trials, I happened on a kill-all LAM, so I was able to break off from the group, solo a couple of the turrets, then pop inside and had some extended time alone with that security team robot thingy. Turns out he was only an EB and went down purty easy, though I didnt get him all the way dead before everyone else started trickling in.
@Bonker Guide to Base Building for the Small SG
Present project: Solo Everything Project
Remaining: Lusca, Sewers, Eden, Kahn, States, HeroSpec2&3, Apex, Tin Mage, Moritmer Kal, Tesseract, Recluse, 'Cuda, Quarry, Stropharia, Thorn, Arachnos Flier, Deathsurge, Caleb, Seed of Hamidon (Villrespec2&3, Hami, CoP, Incarnates)
You do need to have at least 2 people at a time on the TF I think to be sure it stays alive is that still true? that requires having an alt account to "hold"
that 2nd position even if they are not in mission.
OP said he has an alt account. Just wonderin. I used to do this on positron farming for merits back before hero merits existed.
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Intra Venus 50 Mind/Psi Dom
Storm Claud lvl 50+ Elec/Dark Brute
I didn't need a second on the team when I solo'd the ITF.
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Did both the vill and hero 24-33 respecs today.
Vill respec: I was worried about not having enough dps to take vines down in time. Valid concern as it turns out, they regen quite fast. After a couple kill/regen/kill/regen rounds I used some strategy. I took out all the CoT in the map, then damaged each of the vines to a sliver, then ran around, one shotted em, and worked the Tree without incident. I used loads of insp, but no temps, just cuz I had nothing useful.
Hero Respec: I dunno who else knows this, but you no longer even have to get that key anymore on the last mish. That first group of 2 guards, once the mob was aggro'd, ran around the entire room and opened every door, even the one to the passageway. So I hightailed it to the end, cleared that mob, got bubs, picked up all the temp heals, and went into the reactor. I basically sat at the reactor with one of my pets targetted, buffed the reactor and my pets and put confuse on auto. I'd heal the reactor as necc, but it wasnt very often with the cold buffs on it. Just seemed like it was never going to end.
Don't think I'm going to bother with the remaining two vill respec's because it is essentially the exact same thing, and I will just have more powers. Poor tree.
Sorta the same thing with the hero respecs, except I can see how Freaks and Rikti would be more challenging. That last mish is just sooooooo boooooring though.
Updated list of remaining things to accomplish:
Admiral Sutter, Katie Hannon, Imperious, Dr. Quaterfield, Sara Moore, Justin Augustine, Faathim the Kind, Statesman, Lady Grey, Dr. Kahn, Apex, Tin Mage, Moritmer Kal, Tesseract, Lord Recluse, Barracuda, Karsis, Captain James Harlan, Marienn Macgregor, Woodsman, Major Richard Flagg, Cathedral of Pain, Trepsarciel, Racetespriel
Kronos Class Titan, Lusca, Lattice, Quarry, Stropharia, Thorn, Arachnos Flier, Deathsurge, Caleb, Seed of Hamidon
@Bonker Guide to Base Building for the Small SG
Present project: Solo Everything Project
Remaining: Lusca, Sewers, Eden, Kahn, States, HeroSpec2&3, Apex, Tin Mage, Moritmer Kal, Tesseract, Recluse, 'Cuda, Quarry, Stropharia, Thorn, Arachnos Flier, Deathsurge, Caleb, Seed of Hamidon (Villrespec2&3, Hami, CoP, Incarnates)
Bit the bullet and decided to work on a Doc Q. Got some good friends I knew would be on at least once a day to help me pad with promises to come back for the simo-click glowie mish when I needed it.
I died quite a few times on them frist few Rularuu missions, just not used to fighting them. Basically all my main strategic strengths were gone with them and I had to rethink. Confuse, stealth, holds, none of them very effective against those large mobs. Ended up having to sloooowww wwwwaaaaayyyy dooooooooowwwwnn.
I was really not looking frward to this tf just because of the length of it and my remembering it being very tedious and repetitive. The tedium and repetition hasn't really been a factor, though. Probably because each mission had its own challenges, and therefore tedium never really set in. It is long, but story was interesting enough. I felt like the character was doing something extraordinary and worthwhile.
At any rate, I got about half way through without needing any help with glowies, then took a nap.
Came back and saw unusual clockwork activity in King's event message. Popped over there real fast to see if I could prevent construction of the Paladin, who I've already beaten. I found the construction site, but it was nearly complete already. I tried anyhoo, but it was a losing proposition so late in the game and me with no temps/pets/incarnates, cuz i was mal'd down to 44 fer the tf. Oh well, project for another day.
Back to Doc Q. As I've said, I made sure I had people on stand by to help me with them computers we have to click at the same time, but it hasnt come up yet. I recall those comps being early in the tf, and noticed some computers I would get error messages on if i tried to click them, but the mission would complete once I had cleared all enemies, without worrying about them computers, so perhaps I won't need other folks to help? Guess we'll see.
I'm off to finish it up.
Edit-- Next two mish were the double simo-click comps, then the one after that was a 4 clicked. Used my alt account to knock out them two mish, then parked it at the end and swapped toons on my main account and ran some trials on a different project.
After a few hours a couple of the folks that helped me start (thnx Sin and Nan!) logged in and I was able to swap back and knock out that mish and the two following ones. My two friends waited at the door till I cleared the comps then helped me clickeroo. They hung around for final mish and the 122 merits as well.
All in all, it was a long tf, but not super tedious, still hate synapse more for pure frustration alone. Think the final counter was 39 something hours, but I think it was more like 8 hours playtime over the two days or so.
Anyhoo, Doc Q is dun dun and dun.
Admiral Sutter, Katie Hannon, Imperious, Sara Moore, Justin Augustine, Faathim the Kind, Statesman, Lady Grey, Dr. Kahn, Apex, Tin Mage, Moritmer Kal, Tesseract, Lord Recluse, Barracuda, Karsis, Captain James Harlan, Marienn Macgregor, Woodsman, Major Richard Flagg, Cathedral of Pain, Trepsarciel, Racetespriel Kronos Class Titan, Lusca, Lattice, Quarry, Stropharia, Thorn, Arachnos Flier, Deathsurge, Caleb, Seed of Hamidon |
@Bonker Guide to Base Building for the Small SG
Present project: Solo Everything Project
Remaining: Lusca, Sewers, Eden, Kahn, States, HeroSpec2&3, Apex, Tin Mage, Moritmer Kal, Tesseract, Recluse, 'Cuda, Quarry, Stropharia, Thorn, Arachnos Flier, Deathsurge, Caleb, Seed of Hamidon (Villrespec2&3, Hami, CoP, Incarnates)
Spent most of today's playtime on Beta server, testing different incarnate configurations and then fighting the Kronos.
Swapped in Ion judgement for the Pyronic I've been using.
For Interface, I've been using Preemptive to add to my end drain, but I've thought for a while that was overkill with this build. I ended up picking up and slotting Diagmagnetic, to help keep them from hitting me(-tohit), and -regen. Picked up Gravitic, Paralytic, and Reactive as well to test. I can see where each one might be more useful than others in certain upcoming fights. Doubt I'll get all this on live but, why not test em?
Also got a few different pets to test out, think I'm sticking with the storm radial, tho. Those electric attacks and -tohit debuff is very nice, plus the cool factor of how those things look tips the scales over any other pet.
Picked up Barrier over Rebirth as well.
Went on my hunt for Kronos. Did the Wildflower mish again, zoned out to sg base then to boomtown and there he was. I set up pets real fast, buff'd, barrier'd, then rushed in and had much better results. The pets held up much better with barrier and the -tohit. Once I saw I was gonna hold out for a while, I called a shivan and started pouring on the envenomed dagger as well. Ended up getting two shivans out at once for a short time before the Lore pets were gone. I think I could've held out and finished him up without cheating, but I used arena to instantly recharge lore pets and went at him again with him at less than half hp. Was all over but the shouting at that point. He went down without much fuss, really.
Now, I don't really count this, yet. Doesn't seem right unless I do it on live, I s'ppose, cuz I just instantly got all those incarnates to test out. Now I have to get the ones I really need on live and do it again.
That said, I swapped back over to live, ran a couple trials, made some progress toward each of the things I'm looking to get, then decided to go in search of another monster or tf.
Quick shout out to all the peeps in JADED channel/sg on freedom server. Simply no cooler people on the planet. They've helped me every step of the way with fillers, etc on this journey. Cant say thank you enough to Vel, Sin, Red, Mystic, Rune, Gem, Nan, Faero and many others I'm forgetting.
Anyhoo, got my alt account and 6 other kind folks from Jaded to the Cascades to start up the Sara Moore TF. Don't expect to make much progress on it tonight, sleep beckons, but shouldnt take too long to knock this out, me thinks. See ya when I have another notch on my belt.
Edit: Only did one mish before I had to lay down, but I only slept for a few hours. After a late night/early morning breakfast, I wrapped things up. Last fight was anti-climactic. I went in way over prepared. Had 5 fresh Shivans, brand new envenomed daggers, and had even farmed all three warburg nukes (for my earlier copy to test fight with Kronos). I cleared the whole map first, then pulled the lil ones out fo the room and finished em off. I called all 5 pets, buff'd, barrier'd, bio-nuked and rushed in. 3 debuffs, 2 rains, 2 warburg nukes, Judgement . . . and it was all over. Well, mostly. He put out one nicely timed pbaoe nuke that hurt, right as barrier was starting to wane, couple respites solved that and the pets finished things off handily. One of the fastest AV fights yet.
http://i168.photobucket.com/albums/u...araMooreTF.png
Dunno how to post pics right in the message so if I remember to snap a screenie after each one, I'll post a link if anyone is interested. Fer that matter, I'm always looking for fillers for these things, if anyone wants to tag along fer free badge/merits, the more the merrier!
Edit #2: Jazzed by my victory, I decided to try Kronos again for round three! Zipped over to Founders, swept up some malta, then fergot to go to base to get to a less populated zone than Founders. When I got outside he was right on top of me, and I died before I could react. I waited till he retreated toward the wall and used [Return to Battle]. Pets, buffs, off we go. Huuuuuge difference with just Barrier alone swapped out for Rebirth. Was able to get in and let pets and my debuffs really get their hooks in, and it was all over. Shivan recharged and I was able to pop another one out just before Kronos /ragequit.
http://i168.photobucket.com/albums/u...luz/Kronos.png
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@Bonker Guide to Base Building for the Small SG
Present project: Solo Everything Project
Remaining: Lusca, Sewers, Eden, Kahn, States, HeroSpec2&3, Apex, Tin Mage, Moritmer Kal, Tesseract, Recluse, 'Cuda, Quarry, Stropharia, Thorn, Arachnos Flier, Deathsurge, Caleb, Seed of Hamidon (Villrespec2&3, Hami, CoP, Incarnates)
Nice!!
I must point out though that you are really not soloing anything. You can't call it soloing if you bring an army with you. Im a scrapper at heart and to say you soloed an AV you had to do it with no temp powers and no insp's.
That being said I still think what you are doing is awesome and if you ever need a filler just send me a tell and ill fill so you can start one.
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Nice!!
I must point out though that you are really not soloing anything. You can't call it soloing if you bring an army with you. Im a scrapper at heart and to say you soloed an AV you had to do it with no temp powers and no insp's. That being said I still think what you are doing is awesome and if you ever need a filler just send me a tell and ill fill so you can start one. @scataloni |
I started this doubting I would truly be able to accomplish it all, and I'm still not sure I'm going to be able to knock out some of the remaining tasks. The cards are already inherently stacked against me getting all this done, no sense in putting further limitations on myself, is the way I see it.
Here's the real point, though: Whether I do this with or without temps, or with or without travel powers, or restrict myself to only certain inspirations, or only play with my left hand, the reward is exactly the same. That trophy I'm goin to give myself won't take up hardly any space at all on the mantel. In fact, it won't take up any space, cuz there isn't one. And I'm going to give it to myself whether or not I actually finish everything on this list.
The only enduring thing that will remain from all this will be this silly thread, and let's be honest here, this is more a testament to having way too much time on my hands than anything else.
Put it this way: I'm the first person to attempt this, as far as I know, and I think I've set the bar sufficiently low enough that practically anyone should be able to repeat and improve upon my results. If anyone ever catches on to my particular brand of lunacy and tries to duplicate/improve upon my results here, I fully accept and approve of them doing it however they want. They can make up any pretendy-fun-time rules they want for their own sense of accomplishment/enjoyment.
Personally, I doubt anyone else will attempt this. Not because its too difficult, or that I'm exceptionally and uniquely suited for this, or that the toon I'm using is OP, just because its an empty, silly thing to do in the first place, lmao.
I sent a global add request, mine is @bonker. Yer welcome on any run, mate.
@Bonker Guide to Base Building for the Small SG
Present project: Solo Everything Project
Remaining: Lusca, Sewers, Eden, Kahn, States, HeroSpec2&3, Apex, Tin Mage, Moritmer Kal, Tesseract, Recluse, 'Cuda, Quarry, Stropharia, Thorn, Arachnos Flier, Deathsurge, Caleb, Seed of Hamidon (Villrespec2&3, Hami, CoP, Incarnates)
Happened across a MSR in RWZ. Got enough Vmerits fer the Psi shield and the Vanguard HVAS. Went and restocked shvans and warburg nukes (got this process down to where it takes about a half hour for all three nukes and the shivan temp, depending on PvP diversions).
Decided to test out some stuff on RSF again. Will post when I have made some progress.
@Bonker Guide to Base Building for the Small SG
Present project: Solo Everything Project
Remaining: Lusca, Sewers, Eden, Kahn, States, HeroSpec2&3, Apex, Tin Mage, Moritmer Kal, Tesseract, Recluse, 'Cuda, Quarry, Stropharia, Thorn, Arachnos Flier, Deathsurge, Caleb, Seed of Hamidon (Villrespec2&3, Hami, CoP, Incarnates)
I totally get what yer saying, m'man. But my *army* is *mine*, you see. I am the only *player* present and playing. That's my definition of solo. I said in my first post that I wasn't going to confine or limit myself to any other rules besides simply getting all this done on my own. This is *my* pretendy-fun-time-game, after all. I also acknowledged in my first post that a scrap/brute/tank and likely twenty other toons could do what I'm doing here probably ten times easier and without having to dip into temps. My goal here was to accomplish all this with a toon that at first glance would not seem suitable for the task, and I am fully prepared to use all tools at my disposal within the game to accomplish what I set out to do. Far as I know, nobody else has even attempted what I'm doing, even with the lack of *rules*.
I started this doubting I would truly be able to accomplish it all, and I'm still not sure I'm going to be able to knock out some of the remaining tasks. The cards are already inherently stacked against me getting all this done, no sense in putting further limitations on myself, is the way I see it. Here's the real point, though: Whether I do this with or without temps, or with or without travel powers, or restrict myself to only certain inspirations, or only play with my left hand, the reward is exactly the same. That trophy I'm goin to give myself won't take up hardly any space at all on the mantel. In fact, it won't take up any space, cuz there isn't one. And I'm going to give it to myself whether or not I actually finish everything on this list. The only enduring thing that will remain from all this will be this silly thread, and let's be honest here, this is more a testament to having way too much time on my hands than anything else. Put it this way: I'm the first person to attempt this, as far as I know, and I think I've set the bar sufficiently low enough that practically anyone should be able to repeat and improve upon my results. If anyone ever catches on to my particular brand of lunacy and tries to duplicate/improve upon my results here, I fully accept and approve of them doing it however they want. They can make up any pretendy-fun-time rules they want for their own sense of accomplishment/enjoyment. Personally, I doubt anyone else will attempt this. Not because its too difficult, or that I'm exceptionally and uniquely suited for this, or that the toon I'm using is OP, just because its an empty, silly thing to do in the first place, lmao. I sent a global add request, mine is @bonker. Yer welcome on any run, mate. |
I was just messing with ya, I give my friends grief when they say that they solo stuff on there master minds so I just couldn't resist lol
Sure send me an invite and ill watch and try to pick up some tips on my ill/cold troller. Im waiting to see how you did on the RSF.
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Was mostly for some strategy testing, honestly. Last time, I stalled on the future phalanx mish, so that was really my main goal goin in, was to work out how to get past the four grouped heros.
Anyhoo, I won't bore you with the multiple failed strats, needless to say, I died multiple times, and reset the mish at least ten times over the two nights I was messing with it.
What ended up working was pulling Numina to the top of that ruined globe. I ate a couple purps and oranges, jetpack'd down and nem staff pulled her. Sister came with immediately. I hit that phase temp (ethereal?) and called gremlins and lores and a shivan, then buff'd and barrier'd and went to work on Numi. By the time I had her about half, BaB's showed up, but Manti cannot get up there. I found I could chain immob BaB's, so I just made sure I had him seperated from Numi and Sis, so me pets would stay on the two purty ladies, and out of melee range of me, so all he was tossing was hurl which mostly missed. Numi went down purty fast, but Sister eventually got some good shots in on me when she was down to about 10% and I died.
Used return to battle, waited on lore pets then repeated the pull to top of globe and took out Sis and BaBs. At this point, I'm a lil concerned I've used too many shivans, and have none left over for the later missions, but I'll cross that bridge when I come to it I guess. I don't know for sure if I will get booted or nto if I go to BB for more shivans, but I guess we'll see. If I have to do this again, I think I can take this mish out without using them.
Manti fell easily with just lores and gremlins.
Edit: Got to the vindicators mish and tried confusing different targets to see who could take out who (whom? herm? wha?) easiest. With Synaptic Overload 6 slotted with coercive persuasion, I can pretty reliably keep one of them chain confused outside of purple triangles, and the rest will go nuts about every three applications. Valk and Mynx seemed like the biggest damagers, so I concentrated on them. But while I was doing this, I noticed I wasn't holding that temp for Ms. Lib. Power says it expires in 5 hours, did not know that. This might suck.
I may have to repeat this, no matter what. Bummer.
Edit 2: http://i168.photobucket.com/albums/u...uz/lumided.png
Looks like Lumi is the fat kid at dodge ball.
lol ded nub™
Edit 3: Turns out, the rest of em weren't so keen to do all my killing for me. Their HP stalled so I got bored/impatient and called lores and gremlins and even that silly vanguard heavy pet and tried a pull to door fer maximum grouping, cuz I'm so clever and stuff. Valk, and I swear this is true, put on the walk emote, came straight around the corner, stood there for a second staring at me, then one shot me. Then I got the following tell:
[Tell]Valkyrie: What're ya, stoopid?
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@Bonker Guide to Base Building for the Small SG
Present project: Solo Everything Project
Remaining: Lusca, Sewers, Eden, Kahn, States, HeroSpec2&3, Apex, Tin Mage, Moritmer Kal, Tesseract, Recluse, 'Cuda, Quarry, Stropharia, Thorn, Arachnos Flier, Deathsurge, Caleb, Seed of Hamidon (Villrespec2&3, Hami, CoP, Incarnates)
First off good job Bonker.
Second I suppose you've never looked at the link in my sig. I've been doing the same thing for awhile now on my elec/cold. I've been really lazy about doing more with him and updating the thread but you are making me want to dig him back out and solo more stuff. I'm attempting to do everything sans temps, lore pets and inspis if I can get away with it.
Just so you know the -tohit and -regen is useless on av/gm's.
Elec/Cold Troller AV/Pylon/GM/TF/SF Soloing Antics
everytime...he gets me everytime.... DAMN U BOOMIE -- _Ilr_
Take the Magic: The Gathering 'What Color Are You?' Quiz.
First off good job Bonker.
Second I suppose you've never looked at the link in my sig. I've been doing the same thing for awhile now on my elec/cold. I've been really lazy about doing more with him and updating the thread but you are making me want to dig him back out and solo more stuff. I'm attempting to do everything sans temps, lore pets and inspis if I can get away with it. Just so you know the -tohit and -regen is useless on av/gm's. |
@Bonker Guide to Base Building for the Small SG
Present project: Solo Everything Project
Remaining: Lusca, Sewers, Eden, Kahn, States, HeroSpec2&3, Apex, Tin Mage, Moritmer Kal, Tesseract, Recluse, 'Cuda, Quarry, Stropharia, Thorn, Arachnos Flier, Deathsurge, Caleb, Seed of Hamidon (Villrespec2&3, Hami, CoP, Incarnates)
Oh I will. I need to update the thread. I've downed more stuff here and there but I haven't done as many tfs as you. I've come down with altitis and haven't been cured yet. As soon as I finish my solo MoLG I'm going to respec, pick up agility alpha and try more stuff. Soloing hami is hard without seismic smash.
Elec/Cold Troller AV/Pylon/GM/TF/SF Soloing Antics
everytime...he gets me everytime.... DAMN U BOOMIE -- _Ilr_
Take the Magic: The Gathering 'What Color Are You?' Quiz.
Oh I will. I need to update the thread. I've downed more stuff here and there but I haven't done as many tfs as you. I've come down with altitis and haven't been cured yet. As soon as I finish my solo MoLG I'm going to respec, pick up agility alpha and try more stuff. Soloing hami is hard without seismic smash.
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By the way:
Just so you know the -tohit and -regen is useless on av/gm's. |
Back to the RSF. I logged off last night after Valk pwnt me. Came back knowing I would likely not be able to complete anyway, due to my temp power ignorance, so I was just gonna test more stuff with them 5 Vindicators. After last night's Valk PwNaGe, I decided I didnt want to face her at the end unless I had to. I wanted to use Mynx, but I couldn't consistently keep her confuzzled, and she would randomly aggro on me at times. Also, inspired by Lumi's being the first voted off the island on the first go around, I decided Lumi would be perfect to keep round fer the jury vote. So I wanna use Valk to take out Swan and Malaise, then tag team Mynx and Lumi to whittle down Valk . . . twice. Lumi>Mynx. Me>Lumi.
That's was the plan anyhoo. How it actually went was:
Valkyrie has defeated Swan
Valkyrie has defeated Luminary
Valkyrie has defeated Malaise
Got bored and just called lores and gremlins and rushed in fer final two. Mynx, first so I only had to kill Valk once. After Mynx fell, I called a shivan to speed things up. Both had no protection against immob, so was purty easy to keep them btwn pets and myself and just outta melee but within my aura.
Now to see if that temp powa is the make or break moment.
I went into this mish today not really expecting to be able to do it, and in fact having to repeat the whole tf without ever reaching the last fight, all because of a temp power I knuckleheaded away. I considered petitioning to see if I could find a sympathetic GM, but figured I should at least try a couple times first.
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Turns out, that temp power? Not so important. Yay!
Onward!
So, I guess my plan going in is to *encourage* certain fights to take out Numi, Sis, States and Posi out first. We'll see how that works out.
@Bonker Guide to Base Building for the Small SG
Present project: Solo Everything Project
Remaining: Lusca, Sewers, Eden, Kahn, States, HeroSpec2&3, Apex, Tin Mage, Moritmer Kal, Tesseract, Recluse, 'Cuda, Quarry, Stropharia, Thorn, Arachnos Flier, Deathsurge, Caleb, Seed of Hamidon (Villrespec2&3, Hami, CoP, Incarnates)
Elec/Cold Troller AV/Pylon/GM/TF/SF Soloing Antics
everytime...he gets me everytime.... DAMN U BOOMIE -- _Ilr_
Take the Magic: The Gathering 'What Color Are You?' Quiz.
Diamagnetic Interface, its debuffs are useless on an AV/GM. Since they resist debuffs 85%, that little 10% debuff gets reduced to what 1.5%? Reactive is still the best since it debuffs resist and gives fire dot. Any of the other ones that adds a dmg proc will help too.
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@Bonker Guide to Base Building for the Small SG
Present project: Solo Everything Project
Remaining: Lusca, Sewers, Eden, Kahn, States, HeroSpec2&3, Apex, Tin Mage, Moritmer Kal, Tesseract, Recluse, 'Cuda, Quarry, Stropharia, Thorn, Arachnos Flier, Deathsurge, Caleb, Seed of Hamidon (Villrespec2&3, Hami, CoP, Incarnates)
Whew! Power has been out since Thursday morning so no CoH Back to the final mish on RSF.
OK, so after exhaustive testing, I got bored and frustrated, so I decided to shelf RSF. I could reliably get numi and sis defeated, but then would stall. May have to just bite the bullet and try to take on the other five at once with temps etc. We'll see. In the meantime, I have other *more fun* projects I can knock out.
Edit: Decided it was time fer an easy one, so Hi Ho, Hi Ho, off to ITF I go! Took a couple resets on final mish to get Rommie and the Nictus' seperated, but once that was done, was all e-z-p-z.
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Admiral Sutter, Katie Hannon, Justin Augustine, Faathim the Kind, Statesman, Lady Grey, Dr. Kahn, Apex, Tin Mage, Moritmer Kal, Tesseract, Lord Recluse, Barracuda, Karsis, Captain James Harlan, Marienn Macgregor, Woodsman, Major Richard Flagg, Cathedral of Pain, Trepsarciel, Racetespriel Lusca, Lattice, Quarry, Stropharia, Thorn, Arachnos Flier, Deathsurge, Caleb, Seed of Hamidon |
@Bonker Guide to Base Building for the Small SG
Present project: Solo Everything Project
Remaining: Lusca, Sewers, Eden, Kahn, States, HeroSpec2&3, Apex, Tin Mage, Moritmer Kal, Tesseract, Recluse, 'Cuda, Quarry, Stropharia, Thorn, Arachnos Flier, Deathsurge, Caleb, Seed of Hamidon (Villrespec2&3, Hami, CoP, Incarnates)
This started off as just wanting to see if I could solo the TF commander accolade, then morphed when that went so well. Started this a couple weeks back, finally deciding to post about it.
I realize people have probably done similar things in the past, but I wanted to do it with a toon that probably hasn't been tried. So that ruled out my mind/fire dom, and any of my scraps/brutes/tanks cuz I thought they would be too easy/less impressive. I settled on a level 50 elec/cold controller I had stripped and shelved prior to incarnates. I ran him through all the trials and got tier 4 everything, and IO'd him with a first draft build and saw what he could do.
First things first. I ain't goin fer times on these, dun care how long it takes. I'll get whatever my project is started then afk or log different toons etc. I don't put any artificial rules on myself, either. I'll use the eff outta temps, will base buff, don't mind taking double trays worth of large medium insp via email. If there's a glitch in a map, I use it. If there's a trick, I abuse it. If there's something you might call an *exploit* I will exploit the eff outta it. The only rule I have is that I'm solo and I win.
Posi 1 and 2: Only thing difficult about this was the lack of powers, really. Doc Vahz at the end was a bit rough. Used a couple shivans.
Synapse: NEVER.AGAIN. Wasn't hard, just tedious as f***. Even farted around with Babbage in Skyway for a little while before I just pulled him to the train drone (this is when it occurred to me to try and solo other things besides just the tf commander tf's). Kept a full tray full of half purps, half blues through the entire tf, purty much. Final fight I loaded up on purps and oranges, even kept a my email full of the same and would replenish my tray while I had the King chain held. Don't recall if I used a shivan or not, don't think I did.
Sister Psyche: Nothing difficult at all here. Was essentially tedium until the av, and even then, purty easy. Didn't need any temps, did use lots of insp.
Moonfire: Very straightforward, no problems. I used shivan and daggers cuz i had em, but i think that simply hurried things along, could've easily done it without them.
Citadel: More council please? No problems here. Again, used shivans and daggers cuz I had em.
Hess: Had to oro the previous contact to unlock him. Was really looking forward to this tf cuz its one of my favorites in the game. I expected it to be difficult and approached that last mission very carefully, killing everything including all the turrets in that final room, lmao. When it came down to it, it went real easy: pulled him to the lava and chain immob'd him in it=win.
Did all the oro tf's, but they are designed for a single player to be able to do them, so wont go into em here. Will say that one of the funnest missions for a solo'er is in the oro tf's where you lead the entire freedom phalanx around pwning everything and then beat up that giant spider, lmao, love that mish.
Manticore: I've always thought the Manticore tf to be one of the lamest story-wise, just for the fact that at the end we beat up a *bodyguard*. The whole tf is easy/boring, and the av fight reflects that, I think. I used a shivan to hurry things along.
Numina: Another tf I was looking forward to. I've always liked it because it takes coordination and strategy to do efficiently as a team, and I've always thought Jurrasik AV/Monster as purty epic as far as the tf end fights go. That said, almost as painful as synapse to solo because of all those hunts. Still got it done, and over-prepared for the final av fight. 2 whole trays of insp via email, shivans and daggers. With all that he went down really fast and I was never in danger.
Tarikoss (cap sf): Took a couple tries to make sure infernal won the fight, but once Bat'zul fell, Infernal was less than a minute behind him in HELL!
Silver Mantis: Was looking forward to this one as well, that last map and fight is pretty epic. Prep'd fer the fight with a full compliment of shivs/dagggers/insp and it went ezpz.
Renault: Almost gave up on this one in the last map, that eyeball kept kicking my butt. I reset it a buncha different times, and tried different strategies and locations. Finally found this spot at the upper part of the eyeball where there is a map glitch between the eye and the rock above it. I called pets inside there, and the eye could not target them, and it couldnt target me either, though i could still target it and drain/dmg it. cheat? mebbe. win? YES!
Ice Mistral: Final map is a cool one. I died when he called that first ambush cuz I forgot all about it and was fighting him in the center of the room. Came back from hosp with a fresh batch of insp then fought him from in that alcove and all went as per plan. Used a single shivan, but had no daggers.
I then went on a kick to kill all zone GM's:
Adamastor Solo'd. Took 6 minutes, but no temps. Did use lore pets, they were dead before he was, but not by much.
Babbage PwNt3d. Took two cycles of lore pets. So about a 20 min fight.
Ghost of Scrappy MrKd. Two cycles of lores, no temps.
Paladin BONK'd. Two cycles of Lores again, no temps
Kraken farmed. Actually, he killed me twice before i got him. I cheated and used insta-recharge arena sploit to recall lore pets soon as they dropped.
Jurassik fell like a bob. Died before lore pets did.
Eochai stood there and took it like a man. My lore pets stood around for a full two minutes after the fight was over looking purty and stuff. Even got a fella in zone a badge while he stood there and watched me kill.
Jack tried to run, but only died tired. Same dude watched me kill him as Eochai.
Rikti War Zone Pylon, just over 3 mins.
Then I went back and did Maria's arc with settings at AV, just to make sure.
Which leaves the following:
Admiral Sutter, Katie Hannon, Imperious, Dr. Quaterfield, Sara Moore, Justin Augustine, Faathim the Kind, Statesman, Lady Grey, Dr. Kahn, Apex, Tin Mage, Moritmer Kal, Tesseract, Lord Recluse, Barracuda Karsis, Jane Hallaway, Captain James Harlan, Marienn Macgregor, Woodsman, Major Richard Flagg, Cathedral of Pain, Sparcetriel, Trepsarciel, Racetespriel
Kronos Class Titan, Lusca, Lattice, Quarry, Stropharia, Thorn, Arachnos Flier, Deathsurge, Caleb, Seed of Hamidon
Of these, I've tried and had an initial failure on the following:
Admiral Sutter: Impatience mostly caused me to abandon on the last mish. I got the Duray's seperated but would stall on either one. They couldnt kill me, but I couldn't keep pets up enough to consistently whittle down hp. Finally decided I needed to go get shivans or daggers, and couldnt be stuffed to do it at the time. Will reattempt later.
Katie Hannon: For true solo'ing purposes, I failed this one. I had forgotten if everyone leaves that first map to go to hosp, or base or oro, it resets . . . (sigh). I died on the 8th av mob went to hosp to get some insp, and it reset, grrr. Started over, died again with one of the later AV's, loaded up my alt account and parked it at door, went to hosp, got insp came back and died again on the 10th av. Decided I need to dip into temps again, but was too frustrated to bother. Will attempt later fully temp stocked.
Dr. Quaterfield, Sara Moore, Justin Augustine, Faathim the Kind: Most of the Shard tf's have multiple mish where you need to simo-click several glowies at once, so I would need more than a single alt account to accomplish. Not ruling out attempting them with help for those particular missions, but logistically a PITA, so prolly not any time soon.
I haven't tried any of the respec's yet, but the only problem I see is with the lower level ones and pure dps.
I ran some tests on Eden, got through the gm's and both walls, then cleared a few mobs on the bridges for some ambrosia. Cleared enough of the final room to have an extended time with the av and started whittling him down. Again, couldnt keep pets up for very long, but was consistently whittling him down until I got overrun by adds and ran outta ambrosia. Figured I would need to probably start the tf once to farm ambrosia, then restart again to rush to av and clear most of final room. Would probably need dagger and shivans, too. Again, a project for another day.
Statesman: Got to final mish, could not figure out how to take down towers and hold LR off. Will attempt later, perhaps with different incarnates, different temps.
Dr. Kahn: Honestly didn't know what I was doign here with the temp, kept using it when i didnt need to early in the fight. I pulled the other av's as they spawned out into the hall and beat em up, then came back to him etc. Ran outta temps. Sigh. This won't be difficult next time I try.
Lord Recluse: Actually stalled on the future phalanx mish. My confuse/sleep combo strategy I thought was sure fire going in didnt pan out like I had hoped so I shelved it for a later day.
@Bonker Guide to Base Building for the Small SG
Present project: Solo Everything Project
Remaining: Lusca, Sewers, Eden, Kahn, States, HeroSpec2&3, Apex, Tin Mage, Moritmer Kal, Tesseract, Recluse, 'Cuda, Quarry, Stropharia, Thorn, Arachnos Flier, Deathsurge, Caleb, Seed of Hamidon (Villrespec2&3, Hami, CoP, Incarnates)