solo tt

Blackula__ - Archosaur wrote: »

So I was wondering how does solo'ing tt work? Is it just about interval for the most part? Do you have to be demon to do it? I don't mean to over simplify but it almost seems like build archer, restat to "good" fists and then collect interval.....hit spark....repeat?

Normally archers are all about killing other things before they get hit. And if you have optimized your build for that kind of thing, you will probably kind of suck for "soloing TT", unless you have truly amazing gear (if you have +10..+12 gear, and the right kinds of gear, you could solo TT with pretty much any kind of build that allows you to wear them).

If you optimize your build for "soloing TT" or other such things, you will not do quite so well for regular archer combat situations.

So... soloing TT requires you have enough self healing available to survive combat. The better your defenses, the less self healing you need. To some degree, really good self healing will drive your costs up, so economics becomes another issue. If you wear a guardian charm, you only need enough self healing to survive for 10 seconds. (None of the TT bosses have the psychic debuff that slows down healing.)

So here's a brief list of kinds of ways of healing and defending yourself, for soloing:
* buffs -- the big three are cleric, blademaster, barbarian -- support your neighborhood buffers!
* armor
* ornaments
* ornament refines
* guardian charms
* crab meat
* defensive charms
* genie
* apothecaries
* kiting
* wings of grace
* demon spark (heals, temporary invulnerability, might or might not increase your chi gain rate)
* sage spark (heals, temporary invulnerability and gives you defensive buff from wings of grace)
* winged shell
* wings of protection (this does help, not much but economically its nice)
* blessing of the condor (this one hurts, but can be a one time "save me" button)
* defense levels (yes, that schoolteacher blessing might keep you alive in a marginal setting where jones would not, though jones might end the battle and keep your safe where school teacher defense would not)

Also, you need enough health for your healing methods to work, and increased health increases the rate of some of your heals, so also:
* vitality
* armor refines
* citrine shards

And, about fists...

Fists increase your chi generation rate, and chi via triple spark gives a healing boosts, gives you temporary invulnerability and which lets your healing catch up, and remove any debuffs on you, but they also expose you to melee attacks and short range attacks which on some bosses are much worse than anything you would face if you were using a bow. This depends on the bosses. (And I have yet to find a really good guide for bosses. The pwpedia seems like an ideal place for that, but it needs a lot of work, I think, before it becomes a useful reference for bosses.)

So, in other words: if you have the best gear on the server, you can solo TT with few issues, but mostly it involves tradeoffs and economics and some careful planning.

Elenacostel - Heavens Tear wrote: »

It needs to be clarified that an archer without interval gear can solo TT in SINGLE mode, not Squad mode.

Here's some info:
Link: TT1-3
Link: TT2-2
Link: TT2-3

Again, these are all in Single/Solo mode, not Squad mode.

Been wondering and some people here might know the answer to this:

I ve heard that with the latest TT changes solo mode got changed in a way that u dont get ANY drops if u have someone else coming along with u. Can anyone confirm this? Or maybe tell me it s not true :P

VlLKASS - Sanctuary wrote: »

For soloing I'd go sage 5aps (with rank fairly cheap now 5 aps ain't so hard anymore) for sage spark b:dirty.

Um, you can only be 5 aps with fists. That or having every single piece of -interval in the game and using Wind Shield. And even that only allows you to permaspark, not perma-5aps.

VlLKASS - Sanctuary wrote: »

Why would I be refering to a ranged weap o.o


+ /~100 archers don't use bows, only fists b:chuckle

Oh wait... this is the Archer forum.

I'll just be in the corner cultivating my mushrooms.

b:cute

Archers can solo every TT if they have enough gear for it.
The catch is once get good enough gear for farming you no longer need the coins.