My experience "soloing" fb19 at lvl 19

Poiss - Sanctuary

It's nothing spectacular, but I haven't seen that anyone's done this before:

I wanted to run through fb19 by myself using multiple computers to play a squad of level 19 characters. I briefly tried four computers, but it was too much to handle, so I ended up just using three. In preparation I leveled several classes to 19 (been spending a few hours a week on this project for a month or so).

SQUAD CONFIGURATION:
So the squad consisted of one cleric (full MAG build), one barb (heavy armor VIT build), and one veno (full MAG build). The veno did the pulling with a magmite and served as the damage dealer, the barb tanked in tiger form, and the cleric's only function was to heal the tank.

ATTACK METHOD:
This is what I found to be manageable. It's quite clumsy to use three keyboards at the same time, so it has to be kept pretty simple.
Before pulling a new mob, make sure that:
1) veno targets mob
2) have the tank target the veno and then assist
3) verify that the cleric has the tank targeted
4) make sure none of the characters are meditating
5) make sure all characters are in position

Then the veno pulls and resummons the pet as quickly as possible. As the mob nears the tank:
1) cleric heals (with ironheart) once or twice
2) tank attacks with flesh ream
3) veno casts ironwood

Then cycle as follows:
1) cleric spams ironheart
2) tank occasionally uses flesh ream
3) veno spams venomous scarab

DURATION:
It took me four hours to reach the end boss. If I hadn't been watching youtube at the same time, it probably could have been done in 3 hours.

PROBLEMS:
I was in the untamed dungeon, and on the way to the boss, the veno died once because I had forgotten to have the barb properly target the mob, and the barb died once because the cleric was meditating. Also, the pet died twice when it took aggro and I hadn't noticed.
The barb's weapon and some armor didn't hold out. So once we got to the boss, I teleported him to Lost City to repair everything, then made the trip back.

MOB DROPS AND EXP:
I was hoping for darkness stamps. Didn't get any. As far as coin goes, it brought in about 200k after selling drops to NPCs. The EXP gain amounted to 50% of level 19 prior to the end boss.

END BOSS:
Here's the disappointing part: I couldn't take him. The cleric just didn't have enough MP to keep healing the tank long enough. But I think it might really be doable with an HP charm for the tank and an MP charm for the cleric.
So I brought in a level 50 character to replace the cleric, and the boss dropped 20 items (many of them were coin).

If I do manage to kill the end boss with just low level characters, I'll add that information to this post. If you have any good suggestions that don't involve using an MP charm on the cleric, I'd be glad to hear them.

Soho - Lost City

It seems like an awful lot of effort when there are people world-chatting everyday offering help.

Poiss - Sanctuary

Soho - Lost City wrote: »

It seems like an awful lot of effort when there are people world-chatting everyday offering help.

*grin* Yeah, it was a lot of effort, and I'm certainly not recommending this to anyone!

However, I enjoy reading about people's experiments in the game, such as with pets, builds, and shards. So this is just meant as a contribution to the topic of "what's possible and how does it work".