Warsong video/tips

My friend and I had to teach one our archer friends to solo metal as an Archer. He's full s3 nirvana +5/6 armor and +7 bow. Metal no longer gives me grief, but I am assuming your gears to be somewhere in the s2 nirvana area. Depending on your squad, I know I prefer to have the cleric float just because its more beneficial to the squad to have buffs on call rather then having a cleric jump from defending to buff. But back to the point at hand, you need to kite A LOT and from your post you may not be kiting effectively. Can't really speculate too much, but here are some tips.

1. Knockback Arrow, needs and I repeat needs to almost ALWAYS be on cd. Why? That 12 meter knockback should be used on the head, and if its really close, use Wingspan then knockback.

2. Your Leaps, left and right use them to kite.

3. Aoe, if you kite away and there are a sizable group of mobs 10+ barrage them, cancel and kite away if they aren't dead.

I can't post a video of me soloing a metal defense because I don't have any old/worse gears and what I am using now clears it without an issue. I am remembering how I did metals when I still had my stage 1 r9 before NW came out. Feel free to pm me in game or on the forums. I will be more then happy to try and help you.

From what I heard metal have far more physical defense than fire mobs, plus they tend to pdef buff himself at times. It's a lie clerics have to be on fire, clerics just get along with lower gear or ish nubs and get the easier pav that way. They do hit lower on metal mobs too like an archer since they also have higher metal def/ or maybe the part its metal mobs.
Personally I don't any longer use the space for kite anymore, I just run back n forth, or in circles while killing. Stun w/e the head as u feel and find ur playstyle. you have the gear so just keep try and see what works for you.

I didn't meant that clerics are bad in fire, just that they aren't limited to do only fire.. Maybe one of the easiest classes to solo on too because of their heals.
Anyways *cough* yea earth could be a good option too if that pav aren't already taken too, just don't like how fast they run in range lol.. But that could be short range vs big pdef

I love doing metal. it's one of my favorite pavs to do. I learned the hard way to not bother shooting at the mob when they are close to the monkeys. Um I can try and post a video of me doing it. (no promises) I'm just a S3 Nirvana with +5 armour (+2 boots don't ask) and ornies/rings +3-5

Hm, I thought Earth mobs have absolutely no magic defence because I was hitting hard even the magic resistance ones. Also, I didn't quite know Metal mobs have low water defence; that explains why my Harpy pet can pretty much solo the pavilion by itself lol as long as I run the head.

Anyway, I think what's best is to try to find something that works for you. I'm not an Archer myself but back when I started doing WS there were hardly any videos and there was absolutely nothing about Venomancers defending/soloing so I had to figure things out myself (and even wrote the guide after).

I don't know much about Archers but as a Venomancer I used to run around a lot. I'd cast a skill, run back, cast a skill, run back, cast etc. and stun the head whenever I could. Not sure if this would work but you could give it a try I guess.

FistToDeath - Dreamweaver wrote: »

Earth mobs have no wood defense, that's why. They do have low (950) of each other m. def., though.

I should check the database more often b:surrender well, time to go correct my guide.

Fae_Harpy - Archosaur wrote: »

Sorry I probably should have included my gear when I made the original post, but didn't think of it.

Current Gear and since I'm too lazy to fill out all my adds on my r8r Actual Stats With barb buff I have over 11k hp, and as long as I can avoid the mobs exploding, their normal attacks don't do much damage even with 5+ attacking me at the same time. It's either the head hitting me or getting too close to the mobs when they go boom that causes me to die. Add to these, twice I aggro'd the the monkeys. First by shooting the dog when it must have been too close and then another time I must have ran too close to it.

Also from reading the posts, I currently do not have my leaps. I'm stuck in shroud until I get Blood Vow, then I'll switch to corona (almost at 5k prestige). I do have holy path, Elven Alacrity and always carry charger orbs.

I'm going to resist the urge to comment on your bow, but honestly you shouldn't really have any trouble soloing metal. Seems like you have the DD power like I said just gotta work on your kiting. Also Blood Vow is good but I rarely use it in PVE especially in squad settings because most bms override it with their HF's. Awaken is something you should definitely get like asap, same with those leaps.

Your resistances and survivability and DD would increase with full s3 nirvana armor, which I presume you're going after cuz warsongs.. I'd also suggest a Sign of Frost: Chaos or Skycover in the future whichever perks your fancy. That aps set bonus from the r8r doesn't really help you that much tbh.

You could also attempt wood. Mobs come rather slowly + more kite room than metal. Just spam metal attacks.

Sell your Warsoul bow and get the r9rr bow. Purge is amazing.

Fae_Harpy - Archosaur wrote: »

I watched your video and had to ask, is that video in real time or did you speed it up. Only reason I'm asking is you are going almost twice as fast as I was; you are using skills way faster.
Unfortunately I have no choice but to rely heavily on auto-attacking and as you stated in the video, in metal that doesn't work to well. Maybe once I +12 my bow (just need ocean orbs to go on sale, I refuse to buy them at $50 a pop) and can hit harder with regular attacks metal may be easier, but for now think it may be best I stick to fire.

gear showcase was regular speed, actual defense was 2X speed

Why can't you use metal skills lol? Your bow probably will 2-3 shot most of the regular mobs. Also note that if you're Demon then spam demon blazing arrow because the additional damage does a lot lol

if you need a +12 bow to do metal..............um...............b:bye

@ Qui metal: 7K pdef, 1K metal and wood def 0 rest

Metal isn't bad at all; I have defended 1 fire out of almost half a dozen warsongs I ran recently, because freaking clerics HAVE TO HAVE TO do fire...with barb... lol.....b:laugh

Press K to open hotkeys menu

Change hotkey bar setting to your new mouse buttons, unless game doesn't support that which I doubt

In the vid I have my metal skills set as shift 3, 4 and 5 and clicked sage frost. In fact I hardly clicked at all.

Fae_Harpy - Archosaur wrote: »

I wasn't originally going R9, I was going to use r8r for my end game gear. But after having many, many, many unsuccessful rerolls I've said enough, and am just getting R9. I know I've dumped well over 100 mil just in rerolls. And I'm not being overly picky for my stats either. But currently my stats are cringe-worthy they are so bad. If I was a cleric, they'd be fantastic, but for archer they suck.

Also I don't consider the money on my bow a waste at all. It's so pretty and sparkly. Plus it matches my wings perfectly. The rrr9 bow is uglier than a warthog's backside.

Even if the s3r9 bow is ugly as all hell, this I will not dispute. It still hits like a truck, and purges. The Warsoul bow only does 1/2 of that equation. Even if it has better aesthetics then the s3r9 bow it is still inferior.