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alcattle
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I want to know when you would start the new campaign. A 60 TR with some boons, 10k GS but no IWD. 1st day was ok, but Ghost Stories and Culling the Cultists were real tough. Should I wait and go through the first 3 campaigns then come back?
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I tried so many time to solo it... lvl 60 gs close to 12k.... still multiple deaths at the little side graveyard... and the top one by the bridge...
So many area with confined space... can't dodge anywhere...
Never made it to the end boss solo.. always had to wait for guildmate to assist me...
If that makes you feel better I die in Ghost Stories when playing normally.
I have to perma stealth in PVE SOLO too now to get the quest done. Rogue is in such a sorry state right now it's not even funny.
My SW on Preview didn't have too much trouble but I'm not even going to attempt it on my TR. She's not perma so will die. A lot.
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Otherwise as other people noted go in with more people, there are usually people posting in the LFG or Zone chat channels for GS (ghost stories) which threw me for a loop for awhile as I thought people where asking to group up but wanting to know your GS (gear score) first LOL.
I have had no trouble on my level 28 - 42 warlock on doing any of the ToD campaign stuff, my 60 CW of course has no issue, however my DC is the only one that tends to have issues and that is on ghost stories as well. I can solo it but its not as fast nor as smooth as my other classes.
Lots of this is knowing your powers and what mobs cause trouble, as always any AoE is helpful but not necessary. The right powers goes a long way to help making a tough lair/dungeon a bit more manageable.
At least that is my 2 cents.
The ToD campaign is nice because you can get a boon or two before you even start the Sharrandar, Dread Ring and IWD campaigns. Depending on how fast you level you might get 3 boons before you reach 60.
Only if you level slow. 30-60 doesn't take that long. I ran my tod quests, logged in the next day, ran them again and was 60 before I logged out. Someone a bit slower might get one or two more days in but no one is going to get three tod boons before 60 unless they only log in and level by doing the tod dailies.
A good occasion to duo I suppose.
My GF did not see much difficulties there and I do not have time to try the campaign with other characters at the moment. It must be interesting when leveling.
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My HR can solo it, but I usually die 2 or 3 times before I'm done. What's your strat?
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But it is better to team up as you can finish it sooner.
Strategy: Do not try to pull too many mobs. Just kill every group as you meet them. If you are taking too much damage, try using a healing companion. My DC and GF uses the AoP; I assume the normal healing companion should probably work as well.
1. Highest priority - KILL THE RANGERS. Use your hardest hitting encounter/daily to nuke the <font color="orange">HAMSTER</font> out of the rangers first.
-- For DC, I try to save Flamestrike for those groups that include the rangers and then unload it directly on top of the rangers and keep moving out of the ranger roots.
-- GWF - pop unstoppable and just keep swinging away.
-- GF - pop Villain's Menace if up and keep swinging away. I use Anvil to take big chunks out of the rangers.
-- HR - drop Rain of Arrows and Thorn Ward on top of the rangers and they go down real quick.
-- CW - do what you do best and just kill everything.
2. 2nd priority - KILL the spinning GWF
-- repeat the actions in step 1 on the GWF if it's still alive.
3. Kill any remaining mobs.
Yeah. basically, you need to get rid of either the rangers or the gwf as quickly as possible. The rangers go down quicker for me usually so that's why they are the highest priority for me.
Could solo all. No death.
I think its more depends on play style and how are you used to play it. I could not solo it while using Trapper - only melee or ranger.
Also I don't get iced or rooted in 90% of time.
Only problem I had sometimes - had to drink potions - was with last boss.
I'd advice
1. take care of all small ads - just spam some AoE on biggest group. for HR - thorn or Rain.
2. Get rid of archers - use rain on them - they can cc pretty good - but they are weak enough in health.
3. dodge or kite GWF till last. They are pretty slow if you move quickly.
3a you can also put dot on them at start of combat - and till the end they will be pretty dead.
I have all boons for the previous 3 campaigns.
Thats almost what i've been doing on my warlock, have not been in too much a hurry to level him, been wanting to savior all the level as I go goodies (MH/OH, belt and ring). I also like running low level dungeons for fun, cept right now everyone is a freaking warlock and finding a mix group is near impossible, so i've been doing some dungeon runs in almost full warlock groups, not exactly ideal but so far its working.
However I am at level 42 as of today and frankly i'm about to that point where you just want to go ahead and hit 60. I'll drag my feet til about 55 and then i'll start popping all my xp boosters and such.
My priorities are the Spinning Strike Spammer, then the Rangers, followed by the Ghost things. Pretty much what everyone here has described.
For the boss, don't rush in. After you come down the stairs and kill the 4 Drakes inch closer until one of the Adds 'detects' you. Once they become aware of you, turn around and go back to the foot of the stairs. You'll have to avoid the Rangers rooting of course. The Boss won't join them, he'll stay down at the end. Deal with the two Rangers first, then the GF thing. Once you've killed them all the Boss one-on-one is a breeze. His attacks are easily telegraphed and thus easily avoided.
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I've found the boss from the ebon downs dungeon pretty hard too, even if it's a solo fight, he has a lot of HP and teleports right next to me. (I'm mostly ranged to I spend quite some rolls to get away from him) and he hits prety hard when he actually gets to do it.
Found out a funny little thing though, I skipped the mob in the lower cemetery when working threw outside, went and killed the boss (tornnomar's tactics for the boss fight are correct, makes it pretty easy). Went back and killed the mob in the lower cemetery and when I went back to the boss encounter area to open the chest, guess who's back? The boss re-spawned but w/o the other mobs so it went real quick. Kind of a nice surprise, I got to kill him twice.
Question for you all though, how tough was the optional multi-golem fight in the temple, I skipped it this time.
Really easy. There's just 2 of them and they're slow and easy to dodge.
Poor soul didnt have time to log out.
On my ranged characters, I've used ranged attacks to pull the boss adds first and it works most of the time if careful. Just walk forward hitting the attack button, aimed at a mob farthest from the boss until you're in range, then withdraw immediately.
I haven't found the boss of the second lair to be at all difficult on my TR though. No control immunity makes him a sitting duck for Dazing and Smoke Bomb. This is with 15.7k GS, full Swash, FF weapons and perfect vorpal, so it doesn't take that long to go through his HP. Lesser geared TRs would need to time their CC pretty well and probably have to spend some time kiting him. He's pretty slow with his attacks and it's easy to just move when he teleports.
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Nearly the same for me and my DC. But I did Ghost stories just twice so far. First time I went in solo and was very happy for my PVP gear
Funny to say it felt a lot worse in some of the IWD stuff, especially when I would sometimes accidentally agro a bunch of trolls (like 15 at once).
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My toons are around 15-16k generally speaking except for my SW. With really no generally planning my CW can blow things up, though I might get down to 10% hps due to me not really trying to avoid damage.. which I then can replace in a matter of a seconds on life steal. This is with my purposely not using storm or orb atm , just because.. well to be contrary I guess =P .
GWF, destroyer has no issue either at this gear score and flies through.
Combat HR, has no issues either.. literally can stand there in middle of group , hit one At will and have my health points replaced via life steal and wild medicine, also using combat profound. Those three , plus deflect between 18-30 % most of the time make this class pretty hard to kill.
DC however, at 15.5k is much harder than those three... I havent died, but its so much of running around, dodging, over and over and over and over and over.. eating pots, self healing ect.. I can see a 12k dc just having ridiculous amount of issue with this. This IS ac spec with tons of armor 3k defense, 2k deflect 1.5k regen 6.5k power ... Its like all of these stats are worthless on the DC. Its just time for the update on this class.
SW at 11k is also VERY hard, using the fury line, the archers can one shot you and I have 27k hits points already. Low level doesn't seem to be conducive to do these.. its ok though, I get it done, just may take a few injury kits. Even though the SW does decent damage at low gs , it wont make up for the lack of CC and or damage mitagation, until you get to the point you can really blow things up with this class, its just going to be harder with it.
That said, I think any class around the 12k mark can solo this, just will take time, maybe a couple injury kits and some pots..
Watch the Zone chat and join a group. Maybe take care the other ppl in the group are lvl 60 as you, maybe if other ppl are level 20 or 30 thay would not be of much help. Not sure how the foes scale, but just in case join a group of your level.