higbi
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Post by higbi on Feb 26, 2015 10:43:10 GMT -8
Yes. Higbi is my druid, and only character at the moment. Right now I'm sitting at about 336 wisdom with all my gear. My best nuke hits for about 3.5k and my best dot is at 325 a tic. I can get up to about 700 a tic when I stack them. The Reavers don't resist any of my dots or my nukes. The difficulty is mostly due to the fact that I have to boost my MR to 175 with gear which cuts down on my DPS, and the summoning means I'm in melee, but with Heirophants Crook I get procs near 700 so that helps. Kunark is very soloable in my opinion. It's not without some challenge, and that makes it fun. I'm working on my epic right now which will help boost my damage considerably. I also lack some significant upgrades which I can get from the planes. I expect with epic and a few significant item slots my Wis will be closer to 550 and Kunark will be a bit more trivial but by that point I'll be close to moving to Velious. For Kunark having a partner with equal era gear may trivialize encounters a bit, but would still be hella fun. Velious is where the real testing will begin when I'm strategizing how to deal with mobs that have 10x the hitpoints.
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Post by sunbeam on Feb 26, 2015 11:05:15 GMT -8
I don't think parts of Velious are going to be soloable when you get to things that get hp's in the hundreds of thousands. Vindicator, Avatar, Tormaxx, and above all Vulak.
On my mage I didn't have time to do anything hardly but heal my pet. It got better with some of the mobs like Tormaxx when I get the higher level pet focus. But against mobs like the Avatar and Vulak I had to chain heal from the beginning.
And no way you are tanking as good as a pet. And if you heal yourself you really aren't doing damage.
Trak has what, like 35,000 hp's? Vulak has like 750,000. Avatar might have a million. In Velious the raid encounters start to get a lot harder than they were before.
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Post by higbi on Feb 26, 2015 11:32:30 GMT -8
I'm fully expecting to hit the wall with Velious. I hope that my updates are helpful in giving Osiris some thought on how he might adjust later content. Does he want end-game mobs to remain soloable, or does he want it to be small group focused? I'll worry about the specifics as I get closer to Velious. I'm not in much of a hurry, just testing the limits as I go.
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Post by higbi on Mar 9, 2015 5:39:45 GMT -8
Update:
I'm super close to maxing all of my slots for Original and Kunark era. Now that I completed the druid epic my wisdom score is pretty high. I want to complete the VP key and kill at least one VP dragon before I disembark for Velious.
So far I'm able to tackle the planes pretty easily. I've been farming Fear for druid planar drops and while it takes 3-4 nukes to kill a mob, (2 DoT cycles with Drifting Death, Ro's, and Epic) it's been smooth. I don't anticipate problems from dungeons like Sebilis at all now that I can navigate Fear pretty easily. I still need to burn my Infusion AA to be able to take on what are considered raid targets. I used it to kill Terror, I'm not sure I would have been able to without it. The only limitation of that is that I have to choose one end-game target per day if I'm soloing. I'm in the process of leveling up my warrior Seridan so that may change.
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Post by higbi on Mar 20, 2015 23:00:49 GMT -8
Pre-Velious Update:
With the help of my warrior I've been able to clear out just about all of Kunark. Everything has been pretty smooth with a few exceptions.
Trakanon - This guy still has his pesky banish. I attempted to kill him without infusion and my warrior was promptly banished, which makes killing him near impossible.
Venril Sathir - VS is rough! His 1500 point lifetap and unresistable 15 second stun make it impossible to kill without infusion.
Veeshan's Peak - This is the revamped zone. The good news is that the named trash mobs drop much of the original gear and are all pretty easy to duo. My only complaint is that Elder Ekron has items on Phara Dar's loot table and they are SUPER rare drops. It would be nice if they were more than 1% chance.
Spell Drops - This is my final missing piece. Spell drops happen pretty frequently from Juggs, but it takes a long time to get all your level 52+ spells. I don't know if I will complete it on Higbi, but that's ok. The only remedy I could suggest would be to have a dedicated vendor to sell Kunark spells to that others could go to in order to purchase them.
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Post by sunbeam on Mar 21, 2015 4:32:50 GMT -8
Hmmm I tried Lord Bob last night using infusion. Think I died in about 20 seconds or so.
Obviously he isn't the top of the food chain in Velious, and my gear could have some improvement with respect to AC/Hp's.
But you are not going to have much time to do anything other than spam heals when someone takes him on. He hits for a max of like 700, but I only have around 7-8000 hp's with buffs. His two buddies didn't help matters.
I dunno, maybe your warrior could pull him and hit defensive until that truncheon procs. But I don't really have any tricks in the Paladin toolkit other than getting more gear and AA. That would probably work if someone peels the adds off of your warrior. Then again warriors tank better than paladins anyway, even without defensive, so you might have more time to dot him than you would with me.
I don't really like boxing, but I'm starting to think I need another char to go with my melee char. With a pet you can stand back and heal. I have a 41 shaman, but he is on same account as my paladin. I guess I could level up my cleric on another account, but seems like a shaman or druid would be better to put with him.
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Post by Osiris on Mar 21, 2015 9:16:58 GMT -8
Pre-Velious Update: With the help of my warrior I've been able to clear out just about all of Kunark. Everything has been pretty smooth with a few exceptions. Trakanon - This guy still has his pesky banish. I attempted to kill him without infusion and my warrior was promptly banished, which makes killing him near impossible. Venril Sathir - VS is rough! His 1500 point lifetap and unresistable 15 second stun make it impossible to kill without infusion. Veeshan's Peak - This is the revamped zone. The good news is that the named trash mobs drop much of the original gear and are all pretty easy to duo. My only complaint is that Elder Ekron has items on Phara Dar's loot table and they are SUPER rare drops. It would be nice if they were more than 1% chance. Spell Drops - This is my final missing piece. Spell drops happen pretty frequently from Juggs, but it takes a long time to get all your level 52+ spells. I don't know if I will complete it on Higbi, but that's ok. The only remedy I could suggest would be to have a dedicated vendor to sell Kunark spells to that others could go to in order to purchase them. Trakanon/Venril Sathir - this is something I need to consider because it kinda goes against what my original idea for the server. Veeshan's Peak - hmmm...yeah. I did a server update and it changed VP. This was not my intent at all. So I can take responsibility for screwing this up. I'll look at the Ekron loot/drop issue Spell Drops - Venon will now scribe spells/discs up to level 56 - no change to the auto-scribing spells/discs, it still stops at 52
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Post by higbi on Mar 30, 2015 18:39:58 GMT -8
Update Velious:
I've moved away from soloing and am now duoing with my 60 warrior Seridan. So far Velious is proving a big leap up in difficulty from Kunark, (that was expected). Right now I'm still working on some of the lower tier targets like Zlandicar and Wuoshi. I've only been able to take on Zlandicar with Sunbeam and his Paladin who is a few eras ahead in gear. My goal is to duo the targets if I can.
The biggest challenge right now seems to be resists. I have pretty good resist gear for both classes but Zlandicar and Wuoshi both lands spells pretty easily. Wuoshi is particularly difficult because his breath is a stun and his fear lands when my MR is at about 150. I don't want the targets to be trivial but I feel like resists could use a boost on the charm. Maybe 75 instead of 50? 100? I have anywhere from 75-100 with full resist gear and buffs, but it's still not enough to overcome lacking a bard.
The second biggest challenge is mob hitpoints. I'm able to successfully kill Vindicator and Statue but I have to burn infusion for both characters to overcome their huge hitpoint pools. I think Vindi and Statue have about 300k. I'm thinking of starting a 3rd character to see if a 3 man force would be more sufficient.
Lastly, mob resists. I'm able to overcome some of the mob resists but I have to use my tash stick on the warrior before I can land slows from his weapon. It's not a huge ordeal right now but I can see how someone who wants to solo without any form of debuff (i.e. druid) would have a tough time.
So far so good. I haven't entered ToV yet but plan on working on HoT (yikes Dozekar), and Aary soon, but still trying to optimize what I can do with a 2 man crew.
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Post by sunbeam on Mar 30, 2015 19:06:34 GMT -8
Update Velious: I've moved away from soloing and am now duoing with my 60 warrior Seridan. So far Velious is proving a big leap up in difficulty from Kunark, (that was expected). Right now I'm still working on some of the lower tier targets like Zlandicar and Wuoshi. I've only been able to take on Zlandicar with Sunbeam and his Paladin who is a few eras ahead in gear. My goal is to duo the targets if I can. Actually most of my gear is from Kunark with some from Velious. I had the Blackened Acrylia Greatsword thing from Acrylia Caverns that someone gave, but replaced it when I got the epic. Looking back on that, I actually spent more time healing with my quick heal and the hot than anything else. So not sure how much damage I actually added. Honestly I think a cleric would help more than I did. You could just spam the HOT and keep him up for... a long time. That would leave you free to stack Winged Death and the Fire Dot (well after you debuff). But on my mage I have to continually spam heals, particularly when the raid type mobs enrage. I can't see how you are going to be able to do much on druid other than spam heals from the get go. Actually I am kind of surprised you got Vindicator even with Infusion. It's not so much the damage you do, it's the fact that it can spike very easily. Of course I haven't been fortunate enough to be in a situation where someone could slow him. But I have mala and malosinied these kinds of mobs and had poor results with nuking them. So I really don't bother much anymore.
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Post by higbi on Mar 31, 2015 11:46:10 GMT -8
Warrior disciplines make all the difference when taking on mobs like Vindicator. Another issue I'm running into now is splitting. I forgot that some of these targets have buddies and necessitate splitting. Velketor has two golem friends and Ikatiar has 3 friends in his chamber. There's no way I can take on these mobs with all of their friends. I feel like I have to add a third character so I can split and have added DPS so I don't have to burn infusion all the time just to kill mobs.
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