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Trickster Rogue, solo vs Captain Kayliss on Pirate's Hold. Impossible?
lordfuzun
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Has anyone beat Captain Kayliss solo with a Trickster Rogue? The adds are insane. I tried mutliple times using every thing I could think of. Even with some movement gear, I couldn't keep ahead of the DPS. I kept being peppered with ranged attacks. Bait and Switch Decoy was useless. It's just melted.
If anyone with a Trickster Rogue beat Kayliss. If so how? What abilities do you use? What companion? What tactics? I really don't want to admit defeat, but I'm out of ideas and I'm nearly an invalid due to so many injures. (OK I may be exaggerating on that last bit.).
If anyone with a Trickster Rogue beat Kayliss. If so how? What abilities do you use? What companion? What tactics? I really don't want to admit defeat, but I'm out of ideas and I'm nearly an invalid due to so many injures. (OK I may be exaggerating on that last bit.).
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I used cleric companion (the white one, she dies really fast but you can rez her when you got time and she will toss a heal before she dies again..most of the time), was kind of hard but I never died on it. What daily powers do you use? I used lurkers assault to get longer time in stealth and killed the larger adds first.
I think a golem at level 30 has enough self-healing to keep boss busy while you chase around the ads. Range ads are annoying fast.
I had a tank companion, but being common quality (level 15 max) he went down really fast.
I can kill him but I die too before the adds and stuff, and it resets him. I am using my level 13 tank pet and I run in and kill the first 4 adds really fast. Then I try to get my 10 stacks of Flurry on the boss. I think its around now that my tank dies.
When the boss turns to me I try to renew my Flurry on him, then do Lurkers Assault and Stealth + potion. When my stealth is just about up I try to use Bait and Switch.
By then he is usually around 10 or 15% left. I can kill the boss with my bleed but I can't handle the adds after, so he'll just die and reset again.
Btw, I defeated her for a 2nd try, she being a troll boss I had to use an old troll method, which was luring her away into the caverns after killing the first easy adds, the in the cave, it have a slight turn, which allows me to kill her adds one ore wo at a time, and not being shot from ranged adds,using stealth, the 'flurry' at will and dazing strike, (i trying to bulid a massive dps build now on sabotage paragon since respec have insane costs, like 70k ad, at least i can dodge more with it ) and finnally bloodbath whe she have the least adds close. And the adds she spawns later are back a bit, so again and take some time to get where i am and notice me, so i have the time to nuke her with flurry, dazing stire and the blink which put you behind her back ,bloodbath and lashing strike if I remeber the name of it correct. So the plus stuns also prevent her from lifestela and slowing the spawning process.
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I used the following.
At-Will
Sly Flourish (So good for clearing trash when other AoE skills aren't available)
Duelist Flurry (High Health Shredding Ability, keep 10 stacks up)
Encounters
Dazing Strike
Lashing Blade
Path Of The Blade (Can you say AOE dmg?)
Daily's
Lurkers Assault
Blood Bath
Hope this helps you guys out!
And I don't even run a Cleric pet (Dire Wolf all the way).
Being a Rogue is all about stealth. Be in stealth as much as absolutely possible. Mobs (including bosses) just stand there and let you stab them to death if you're stealthed. Period.
Yh I had a little trouble the first time with my rogue, think I just underestimated her. But the second time i just potted up, restoration pots help rather a lot.
I found just saving aoe daily plus abilities for when the adds spawn and just burst them quickly then just auto her is the best way, just so you don't get surrounded because 1 on 1 shes really easy, just have to dodge one skill really which you can just roll away from.
Hope this helps
For your daily equip the Iron whirlwind (can't recall the name).
Then again I smoked more herb than someone with chronic glaucoma, so that could be why I was so easily confused.... for solo, I use dazing strike, lashing strike and blitz. passives are whatever I feel like putting in, the AoE daily and the one that gives you stealth. Like someone posted earlier, cloud of steel works pretty good, specially solo.
Keep an eye on your HP, chug pots, use cleric, you should be alright.
The strategy will be to kill the boss as fast as possible, killing off some weak adds when you can, and survive. And I also had my companion unsummoned for this fight, so it won't be provoking area attacks while I'm trying to pull off some stealth hits.
At-Wills:
- Sly Flourish: Solid hits against adds.
- Duelist's Fury: Everyone knows how incredible the damage can be when you pull out a complete Fury against a boss. It also has a bleed effect. It will be our main source of damage for this fight.
Encounter
- Dazing Strike: Solid control skill for us rogues. If adds are all huddled up together, you can hit multiple dazes as well. It sometimes works on the boss as well.
- Bait and Switch: Our main source of AP regeneration and it creates a sort of tank for us in solo play which allows us to run away from enemies while we wait for our stealth bar to refill. It also refills our stealth bar if we are at stealth. When paired up with Tactics, you'll be able to gain one full AP bar if enough adds attack it. I used up 3 points for this.
- Deft Strike: I chose Deft Strike over Lashing Blade because of its utility purposes. It can help you escape being ganked too much by targeting one of the furthest adds in the boss room. Then attempt to kite them while waiting for the stealth bar to refill. Dodge helps escape damage a lot which causes our unrefilled stealth bar to deplete.
Class Feature:
- Tactics: When paired with with our AP feats, you'll be able to pop 1 Lurker's Assault out of every rotation. It's a must have for soloing.
- Skillful Infiltrator: It adds 3% Deflect and Critical Chance, but what we really want here is the 15% movement speed bonus. It helps a lot when kiting opponents so you don't get hit.
Dailies:
- Lurker's Assault: At rank 3, it gives us a +60% damage boost and makes our stealth bar replenish at crazy rates for 10 seconds. When used while currently at stealth, that's more than 10 seconds worth of hard hitting Duelist's Fury. You get to shave off tons of the boss's HP with this Daily, and with Bait and Switch + Tactics and AP feats, you'll be able to pull this one off as often as possible.
- Bloodbath: A life saver at times since you are invulnerable while using this. You can use a potion while the animation is still on.
Important feats to have for this build.
- Improved Cunning Sneak: 20% increased stealth. More time to not get hit by unaware monsters and bosses. The few seconds you get from this feat can be a lifesaver.
- Action Advantage: 10% increased AP gain while in combat advantage (something we get from stealth) is crucial for drawn out boss fights like this in solo.
- Cunning Stalker: 20% more action points while in stealth. Yes please.
This build allows you to use stealth for as long as possible and to gain the necessary AP for Lurker's Assault as quickly as you can. Lurker's Assault is a godsend and gives us the ability to kill quest bosses as quickly as possible. People who do not use it will often find themselves overwhelmed by adds in solo. We rogues have really bad AoE's, so it's best to just dispatch the target the way we know best; and that would be to kill things one at a time. But it's always better to just kill the boss as soon as possible so the adds don't get any bigger than they are.
I use a cleric companion.
One boss was really hard, forget which. I think he killed me twice? If it was *that* guy, he is tough.
ATM there are 2 boss fights for the TR, at least as far as I can tell:
Boss first --- boss is dangerous, so you try to kill it while avoiding the adds (decoy really helps on those adds...)
Adds first --- boss is big and slow.
For boss first, I hit lurk, stealth, teleport behind and lay into him. If he does an aoe, roll out and throw.
For adds first, decoy and cull the herd one by one, stealth to run away then pick off one by thrown, casters die first.
Before a boss fight I use all the junk potions I loot, whatever they do, power, crit, defense, etc pots. I also use a rejuv potion if I have one beforehand.
After level 40, just accept that some boss fights may kill you a time or 2 solo.
What I did was when I was about to fight a boss I lured him a good way away from the area he was in and fought him out there.
When the adds spawn they spawn in the boss room and not around you.
Unless you're fighting a boss that summons his own adds, follow the same tactic so you aren't swarmed. instead the only adds you need to take care of are the ones he/she/it spawns.
flop show.
I give up.
Just wanted to say that she fell to her death while chasing me. I was running back into the previous room to deal with adds one-on-one. Unintended and cheezy, but this is a cheezy boss. Unfortunately it looks like there's loads more cheese to come.
Without adds the bosses are generally pretty easy. Avoid the obvious big hits and burn them down.
That's it. No specific powers are needed, though some powers (lashing strike, stalker, etc) are clearly stronger than others.
Appreciated advice. Although it doesn't make the boss fights seem any less cheezy.
well, seeing as this is a MMO, and has "group" content, did you seriously think you were going to solo "everything?" ahahahaahahaha, thats rich. of course bosses get harder as the game progresses. did you expect them to get easier? again, that is just rich. you should prolly put this game down and try Skyrim or some other rpg meant for solo/offline play. just try not to give up next time.
Oh geez another wanna be trying to say daggers op... let me guess your third dagger killed him too?