Pulling fcc

A few things to make sure you have before pulling FCC:

1) Crab Meats
2) Holy path on your genie, and able to use it twice in a row
3) Unfetter maxed
4) Blade affinity maxed

Now you will die. Alot. But learn from each death, and learn how many mobs you can deal with at once. With BP on you should be able to solo most of the pulls by about 90+ I'd say, I can't remember exactly when. The magic hallway can be a bit hairy so until you are comfortable only do a half pull.

Watch out for the mobs that slow you - the little critters at the start, and particularly the ice bishop looking things. Always try to have a HP ready to speed away from them cause they hurt. Sage unfetter is also nice for the stun and slow immunity, get that when you can.

Another occasionally tricky pull for the inexperienced is the big mobs pull before the slash boss. I start by Holy pathing twice down the hall, unfetter when I turn. By the time my genie has regenerated energy to HP again I am just coming up to the boss room, HP away to the corner for a bit of breathing space and pop blade affinity + vortex. And keep pumping crab meats.

If you are having a tough time with the big room pull then either do half, or kill the captains first.

It will get much easier at 90 with the TT90/rank gear which all have good defenses and HP/vit bonuses, definitely worth getting those.

From my experience, the most important thing to do to be able to pull successfully is to manage your distance from the mobs you are pulling. Make sure you are well ahead of them at a point where you are not being hit while casting vortex by all the mobs you are pulling. This reduces the chance of vortex being interrupted or you being killed before you can set up vortex. Max your unfetter, & set ur genie up for 2 holypaths, its not really just about gears, 5-6k and your fine with bp.


Magic Mobs Hall - these is a very tricky pull as a seeker, if u don't manage the distance between your vortex and the mobs , you could be dead in a matter of seconds even if u killled some of them.

Big Hall Pull - here's how i do this pull,make sure genie is full and unfetter is ready, first i run down the hall w.o using any speed skill (or holypath). Once i reach the last group of mobs at end of hall i use unfetter and run back to the door heading to the boss. After Unfetters effect finishes, i use holypath, to set some distance from me and the mobs i am pulling. Use 2 holy path if need to. BP prbbly is not enough to save u here even in vortex, spam crab meat or hope for the cleric to put BB up before u get killed xD


We are not barbs, seekers do not have reduce damage skills or agro skills like them.. so yah XD Run Fast, Get Vortex UP, then the mobs will come to you..Dont let them Catch u without vortex up :O b:shocked

^^ that's all XD

You have way more HP than I did when I started pulling at level 85 or so. I learned a lot as I failed a lot in the beginning trying to do every amazing full pull like a barb. xD

So I learned how many mobs I can handle at once and steadily grabbed more & more. Magic hallway is still intense, I still don't pull that fully unless there's both a BB cleric and BM with HF in the squad.

The important things are spamming crab meat, and using Holy path and Unfetter effectively as everyone has said. I cannot stress enough how much easier it is having enough health in your genie to be able to cast Holy path twice in a row. At 9x or so it becomes easier to hold your HP with BP + Vortex.

To do pulls like a barb as a seeker you need better gear and lvl 90+ to not be too risky... Till then why not just do seeker pulls? If you can't grab the whole pull, just take half and start vortex in a doorway... Tell to that person to grab the other mobs (as a bm/sin clawric whatever you just have to run into vortex with mobs).

If you still want to do those pulls you need to use unfetter at the right time, always at the end and use only 1 holy path only at magic pull(I never use two) because having wind shield ready comes really handy (33% dmg reduction) aswell as having absolute domain when you didn't use HolyPath, together with a low lvl ironguard from 8 secs right after AD (tranquilizing orb). 10-12 secs inmune enough to pass the magic pull easily

It's funny because every seeker I saw goes holypathing in all the pulls, and when they arrive to the big exp room they only unfetter at the end, so I ask them, why the hell you used holy path so many times at the phy melee pulls instead of saving energy for surviving genie skills?? The reply is always kinda dumb...

You gotta use useful apothecary instead of the crappy useless pots from divine orders xD
50 % dmg reduction pills, absorb xxxx dmg, tidal wafers... OH and apothecary always used BEFORE starting vortex.

Alsiadorra - Sanctuary wrote: »

For magic halls I don't use vortex, I use Edged Blur+Ion Spike+Blade Affinity+Gemini Slash, all dead. And I try to bunch them up in a way(I use void for this and jump to a specific mob) where they will only melee me.

Kinda hard to use 4 sparks for a magic pull with lvl 87... so much trouble

you can do most big pulls by timing meds and crabs.

either sutra when you stop and then vortex and if that kills you

use dew of protection med when you stop, then vortex.

I find that alot of pple forget that the lesser level meds can also be very useful when you want to thin out a bit of damage for a longer period of time.

when i leveled seeker it was mostly with grinding and i had a constant supply of the apothecary "dew" series.

@Hazumi:

I pretty much leveled 90-100 with my wife in Frost. She is a seeker.

She also doesn't let me pull anything except for BR, she prefers to. (Still to this day at 100 I'm not allowed if shes there.)

She used to use Divine Order Pots, Crab, and would sometimes use a Turtle Pot.

All the pulls were straight to Shade/Boss room, except the magic hall, which she'd pull everything to door, then the rest to shade. No charm ticks either.

BR strategy was I pull everything, and she grabs a mob while Im pulling to setup Vortex. By the time HF went off everything died.

Zerk Blade vs Lamp: She said that Zerk is preferred in a group, but would often tick her charm if BP was her only source of heal, and has killed her a few times (especially solo) without a charm. She used Lamp otherwise.

Armor:
After arguing with my wife for a while (I'm kinda crazy about gear), I really feel that Mountaincrasher is your best setup. I played with multiple builds in PWCalc for her, and every time Mountaincrasher came up on top.

She ended up going with mold armor mostly (Because shes stubborn and bought it Scribe Shoes and etc), but I got her to finally go with Mountaincrasher pants. Prior she was using rank gear which is very meh.

Warsoul of Earth Helmet of course is your best bet for hat, Cape is kinda...meh, whatever gives HP and whatever else you really want. On the cheapish, I'd highly suggest something similar to this, unless you really need an interval bracer due to chi issues:

http://pwcalc.com/6b42d35ce3a1ea05

Mountaincrasher refines really well, +3-+5 will give you a lot of HP. I really suggest the MDef ornies, however we found the PDef ornies worked fine too. Rank belt is also okay.


She was able to solo Frost at 92+, it just took a while and a couple bosses would tick her charm. I think her record solo was just under an hour prior to 100. Im not sure shes tried at 100 with her full skills and R8 blade yet.

The reason that I go for the rank top is mainly because I have the reputation for it, however I don't have the ability and time to farm the boss that drops GBA. I'm also a vit-build so I won't mis the hp as much.

I'll most likely look for the helmet later, atm I rather work on lvling up skills. I agree though that the helmet certainly won't be a waste of coin ^^

I hope to be 90 soon, will see then how bad the zerk will hurt xD

Edit: wrong avatar lol xD guess you can figure by textcolor though.. ^^'

Yea my wife complained about that thing firing a lot during Vortex, but my buddy Waya doesn't, and Turtle says its not bad either (Seeker Faction Mates).

Currently my wife (100 Seeker) solos to BR buffed with BP and Cleric buffs in about 30-45 minutes without charm. She does use her sin on shocktrooper to take a bubble sometimes though. [Of note she's second cast nirrvy +7, R8 Sword]. So yea, not as fast as a BM, Sins cheat with stealth, but it's definitely reasonable to solo it as a Seeker.

i have made a How to solo pulling in FC at 80+ guide thread with a video on how i do it unbuffed for everyone interested b:cute