Soloing FB89

Nerruse - Lost City

Hey could any1 post which of fb89 bosses (both heaven and hell) are soloable and at what lvl. Also I heard one of the bosses require godly channeling gear.

Tisa - Dreamweaver

All bosses are soloable.

I'm guessing you mean Phlebo (last Eden boss) when you said high channeling.
At some point he says something like ''Behold the greatness of the knight'' or something like that, that's when he puts some amplify debuff on herc.
With low channeling your herc will definitely get killed, i barely, barely make it through with 30% channeling.
Simple trick: call herc back when he debuffs. This way you only have to deal with his special ranged attack instead of his melee + special attack. You should be able to heal with low or no channeling as well if you do that.

Watch out for Ethereal Abonimation's (Brimstone 2nd boss) random aggro switch. I avoid it by standing at max range in a straight line with the boss and herc.

Other bosses are pretty straightforward, melee close range with 1 special attack they use in melee range and long range, nothing you can't handle.

Sidenote: i suggest you get some channeling just for the DD you can provide while fighting bosses instead of just spam healing most of the time. Really speeds things up and prevents falling asleep due to boredom b:chuckle

Brael - Dreamweaver

All of them. They're doable at 83, that was the first time I tried (I think) so I couldn't tell you for lower levels. When you're that low though, the chambermaids in 89 are going to really suck (when I solo them, I do them unwined usually... atleast for brimstone, eden I can go either way on). Overall, the hardest part you'll run into is pulling the guys on the spire thing that phlebo/fats are on (brimstone being the harder one for an arcane). Just be careful on abomionation, and be ready for a very long fight. On phlebo you need to pay attention from 95% to 80% so the pet doesn't die, and the other 4 are all really straightforward.

tweakz

I think I needed an alt to help get past the chambermaids in Brimstone at 83.

Brael - Dreamweaver

I didn't but they certainly took awhile.

Lyra_Rose - Lost City

if u time it right u can cast lucky scarub and cancel their hp drain btw

Brael - Dreamweaver

They drain non stop. The way I handled them at 83 was to let my pet tank for a long time, just healing it. After aggro was sufficient I would amp, hit extreme poison, then double spark and start casting ironwood/lucky/venomous non stop, getting a break from myriad would help too. If I remember right, that would take it to about 40%. At that point I would alternate blazing/lucky/venomous/heal until 2 sparks were built up (it would go up to about 50% hp after that), then do it again and it would die. Long kills.

Now I just use triple spark and tree. They never run far enough away from me, and they die in 15 seconds.

IceJazmin - Heavens Tear

In Brimstone you will get way more problems with the Rangers than with any other mob.... Unless you have high Pdef or high HP, you will get one-shotted by their AOE (you can position yourself to not get hit, but in a run, you will get hit a couple of times, since sometimes you really have no way to avoid the AOE). They also love to run away, so if you want to place herc in perfct spot to hit them from behind, there is a good chance you will get hit once by the mob, since you will have to summon herc and tell him to stay, instead of being able to run as soon as you stow.

Nerruse - Lost City

Whats the avg time to clear fb89 with wine (solo)? And is it profitable?

IceJazmin - Heavens Tear

Nerruse - Lost City wrote: »

Whats the avg time to clear fb89 with wine (solo)? And is it profitable?

Brim wined seems to have as many mobs as Eden unwined..... So it will take you quite awhile. The profitability will depend on how lucky you are, but I would guess if you were to average the time it takes, to what you get over 10 runs, you would probably be able to grind the same amount, or make more by just doing TT runs.

The experience you get in 89 though, is pretty decent, so you actualy will get a few % of exp by running it.

tweakz

IceJazmin - Heavens Tear wrote: »

In Brimstone you will get way more problems with the Rangers than with any other mob.... Unless you have high Pdef or high HP, you will get one-shotted by their AOE (you can position yourself to not get hit, but in a run, you will get hit a couple of times, since sometimes you really have no way to avoid the AOE). They also love to run away, so if you want to place herc in perfct spot to hit them from behind, there is a good chance you will get hit once by the mob, since you will have to summon herc and tell him to stay, instead of being able to run as soon as you stow.

They can be done without getting hit. I lure with slow, and send Herc to meet them as I back off. They'll kite once or so, but stop kiting as long as you don't stun them. Once positioned, they go down fast. You could probably also lure with Bramble -> Fox -> Tame Beast.

Brael - Dreamweaver

Whats the avg time to clear fb89 with wine (solo)? And is it profitable?

Brimstone: 5 hours no wine, 2? hours with wine.
Eden: 4 hours no wine, 30-45 minutes with wine.

When you wine Brimstone, the narrow passages remain full spawn, it's the room areas that get cleared out. Of the rooms, the only troublesome spot that's really eliminated is the passage between fats and abomination (actually, I'm doing Brimstone as I type this, it might be faster to avoid that passage and do the east/west ones instead... I'll check that this run). Most archers and rangers remain when wined, so you really don't get all that much for your money. You do cut the time down of course, but I don't see it as being very useful as the dangerous mobs remain alive. What gets killed are the things that are easy page dropping kills. At 6k per wine mat, and a loss of around 3 apocalypse pages per clear (average from what I've seen) between wine and unwined, you're talking about 1.2 million to save 3 hours. Maybe that's worth it to you, but I don't think it is myself, since those mobs give me exp and I would probably just be off grinding anyways.

One thing I don't do though, wine or not which could speed the run up if speed is your concern, is using tame to kill mobs. In Brimstone a lot of the mobs which are left alive can be tamed (the horse riding guys aren't killed, this includes rangers) in order to get rid of them. In Eden far more can be tamed. Again though, this is only something that you can start doing at 88+ due to level limits.

They can be done without getting hit. I lure with slow, and send Herc to meet them as I back off. They'll kite once or so, but stop kiting as long as you don't stun them. Once positioned, they go down fast. You could probably also lure with Bramble -> Fox -> Tame Beast.

That's what I do on rangers. I put my physical gear on, go in fox, and use tame. I do the same thing on the archers. I don't bother with bramble though. We get 67200 free genie stamina a day (more if you do what I do and sell the perfect stones, then buy yiyuan from others at a better coin:stamina ratio, it pushes me up to about 85k a day), I might as well make use of it and hit tree/second wind.

Edit: Just cleared to fats, it's a significant difference in clear time to clear to him from the north/south path than to use the east/west path between him and abomination. Much fewer mobs, and almost no rangers/archers to deal with (2 proles 4 rangers it seems).