Thread: The Great Captain Solo Thread

Hi,

I was wondering if I could get some tips on soloing. I seen people solo limlight Moria inis and i just wonder how. Basically I should be alright mostly on gear wise. got Menestaid complete, Tognir complete, draigoch complete working on draigoch, 3 pieces of Etten blue (Perservance) and working on dagor. come at tactical cap and still have around 20% crit and buffed with my morale standard 9-10k morale. Still using 2. Za emblem and weapon. I usually run blue -> improve banner, optimism, nfw and fear no darkness, yellow -> Defiance and tactical prowess and red -> expert attacks.

Now I tried stuff like fil gashan which usually goes fine untill the 2nd boss even managed to pull the entire kitchen at once and kill them due to rc every 6 seconds , the stairs got some hard spots what however annoys me most are the limlight creeps i mean they should be soloable, managed a spider today but not reliable jet that i manage it each time, however i would like to know if you manage stuff like those trolls the 140k spiders huorns and stuff and more over what tactics you use to do this.

Since i have mostly played my cappi in raid or group modus have done tanking with it including roots of fangorn and foundry t2 solo healed foundry and basically most of roots as well (dead healer) and in raids its all fine just the solo part i havent done to much outside of the basic leveling. thanks in advance.

Originally Posted by Anomaris

Hi,

I was wondering if I could get some tips on soloing. I seen people solo limlight Moria inis and i just wonder how. Basically I should be alright mostly on gear wise. got Menestaid complete, Tognir complete, draigoch complete working on draigoch, 3 pieces of Etten blue (Perservance) and working on dagor. come at tactical cap and still have around 20% crit and buffed with my morale standard 9-10k morale. Still using 2. Za emblem and weapon. I usually run blue -> improve banner, optimism, nfw and fear no darkness, yellow -> Defiance and tactical prowess and red -> expert attacks.

Now I tried stuff like fil gashan which usually goes fine untill the 2nd boss even managed to pull the entire kitchen at once and kill them due to rc every 6 seconds , the stairs got some hard spots what however annoys me most are the limlight creeps i mean they should be soloable, managed a spider today but not reliable jet that i manage it each time, however i would like to know if you manage stuff like those trolls the 140k spiders huorns and stuff and more over what tactics you use to do this.

Since i have mostly played my cappi in raid or group modus have done tanking with it including roots of fangorn and foundry t2 solo healed foundry and basically most of roots as well (dead healer) and in raids its all fine just the solo part i havent done to much outside of the basic leveling. thanks in advance.

When I solo Spiders and Tress in Lime Light I find ICMR to be a pretty important stat. A high ICMR teamed up with Revealing Mark does wonders for your surviability - so you may want to try that. I can often times take them out without ever dipping below 5k in morale for example, and can kill them very safely and reliably.

Now if you want to take on the trolls I'll let you talk to someone else. Me and Trolls dont' get along

^Just wondering, what gear do you use and what spec? and i heard beleriand damage doesnt work too well against the trees...

Originally Posted by Anomaris

^Just wondering, what gear do you use and what spec? and i heard beleriand damage doesnt work too well against the trees...

I use the Menestaid and Exemplar set and a lot of Fate/Vitality/Agility gear to fill in the holes Anomaris. My spec is Hands of Healing. I have Beleriand damage on my Great Sword and it doesn't prevent me from being able to kill them. I'm sure using a different and more appropriate damage-type would help, but no way I'm going to swap out scrolls on my LIs just so I can kill trees faster.

I"m sure my way isn't the only way to kill trees though. If you like a more offensive approach I'm sure that could work as well. I don't know what server you're on, but if you are on Nimrodel give me a ring and I'll show you how I take out trees and spiders if you like.

You guys managed to solo Limlight trolls? I just soloed one for the first time Too bad I don't have a pic, but as soon as I do it again I'll screenshot it and post here

Originally Posted by Neverwhere616

I thought someone had tried to start one of these before, but after browsing 10 pages deep I wasn't able to find it.

May be a bit old now but I found it. Don't know how up to date anything in it will be now. http://forums.lotro.com/showthread.php?411455-Captain-Solo-List

I know this has been done before ... nevertheless I want to share my video of soloing Barz. It was challenging and great fun

Hmmm, haven't tried a bunch of these instances, but I think it would be fun to try them for sure.

For my list, I know at 65 I soloed:
Garth Agarwen, every wing.
Fornost, the long version.

Then at 75 I've soloed:
Carn Dum
Urugath
Barad Gularan.

Don't belive I've tried the Moria/Mirkwood/Isengard instances. I'll have to give them a shot.

So far the soloing is getting fun with the Captain and I am now running through The School at Tham Mirdain at level 75 (All 3 bosses but can't put out books for the challenge). Have done several other things solo and am looking forward to trying the Fangorns Edge one today. Captain are awesome to play!

-Update-

I have gone through the school instance at level 75 settings 6 times now with no deaths and it is easy. Health never drops below half and power always good. Very fun solo run to do all 3 bosses, just wish I could save the books...lol!

I did do the Fangorns Edge 3 man level 75 instance solo through the first boss and saved the 4 Hurons with no deaths. On the final fight I managed to kill 2 of the 3 trolls but kept loosing the Ents so it would reset. Never died but didn't have enough DPS to take the Trolls down in time to win the entire instance. (note: the boss in the middle of the 4 hurons with 170,000+ morale was a fun fight solo)

Awesome thread! I have a question about screenshots.

How are some of you able to post screenshots directly to the forum, and others, (my self included), able to post
only LINKS of screenshots?

Thought I would revive this thread. I logged on late last night and was the only one of my kin online so I thought to try solo T1 Iobar Peak level 85. Was very surprised but managed to complete it. Got stunned during boss fight and let some addes get to the egg, otherwise they were pretty easy to kill on T1. Screenies below






Loot was pretty &&&& however, just a bunch of bounties.

What else have people being doing solo now that we are 85

I haven't been able to get in much solo action lately, alas. Going to have to try it, though.

If we can solo the new 3-mans (or at least Iorbar) on-level, I wonder if we can solo Foundry from ten levels back.

By the way, what was your solo set up? I understand that a lot of extreme soloers use HoH for the self-healing. Is that what you did as well?

Originally Posted by Branthil

Awesome thread! I have a question about screenshots.

How are some of you able to post screenshots directly to the forum, and others, (my self included), able to post
only LINKS of screenshots?

We're using img tags....
(img)http://location.of.image/here(/img)

Replace the () with []

Edit: and it thinks it's a url **facepalm**

Originally Posted by furtim

I haven't been able to get in much solo action lately, alas. Going to have to try it, though.

If we can solo the new 3-mans (or at least Iorbar) on-level, I wonder if we can solo Foundry from ten levels back.

By the way, what was your solo set up? I understand that a lot of extreme soloers use HoH for the self-healing. Is that what you did as well?

On my own cappy I have attempted soloing Foundry, thus far I've gotten through the trash right before the first boss, but the boss wasn't easy, maybe due to lack of extensive knowledge of the class (given that my cappy is only my tertiary toon) and lack of time, I couldn't beat him. I tried in both t1 and t2. Someone who is a cappy main might be able to solo foundry, I'm just not very good ^_^ but anyways I like seeing what cappies have soloed, and I think I'll give some of the 3mans a try as well

Hi there,

first of all, congrats to all of you soloing some instances.
What traits do you use? And what armor sets? With herald or standards?

Sorry for the questions, but I'm new to the topic and like to give it a try.

Thanks in advance!

Anyone completed Wargpens T1? Trash is pretty easy but I just can't manage all the stuns and fears of the first boss (especially at the beginning).

Had the same issues as you Dwarfthar, Managed to work my way thru the trash, got to the boss and that initial stun lock is too crippling. Gave it a couple of attempts before logging as i was getting way tired. Since than I have a couple of ideas to get through it. 1. Pop LS as soon as fight begins and that should get you through that initial stun and wound/fear dots. If they keep coming could be an issue and 2. use pet as sacifrical lamb sending it in to fight and hope like heck the pet gets all those debuffs. Will give that a try over next couple of nights.

I have tried some of the other 3 man scalable on level solo, but not having much success. Sword Halls Level 85 T1 I can kill the flame boss, but the merrival and her bats over whelms me.

I managed to work my way through Seat of the Great Goblin level 85 T1. Some of those trash pulls are challenging and there were times when the strat was just kill at least one trash mob out of the group before dying, so the next time round it was one less to kill. I killed the Troll boss no problems, When I got to the 3 goblin king wanabes. I can kill the first one, but get killed from the 2nd one due to the diseases. But I gave that one only one shot as it took me over 90mins just to get to that stage and by than I was tired.

To answer Aredo79 question. I have found using 2Yellow/5blue to work best for me. I have tried various combos and will trait rainbow when Im running with others, just soloing with HoH capstone is so helpful for the heals. I currently wear the Hybold HoH class set and have a second age 85 Halberd.

I've done Iorbar's Peak T1 (85) solo a few times now. It isn't bad at all -- the hardest part is a few of the trash pulls actually. Only death I took was due to game glitching (my display driver crashed, window minimized showing desktop, and by the time I managed to get it back I was almost dead). First boss isn't bad at all as long as you avoid boulders/clouds and kill adds quickly. Final boss is really straightforward if you know mechanics, and killing the max of 2 adds you get on T1 there isn't demanding. Did it with 5xLTC + Now for Wrath, SfW.

I've tried SH a few times. First boss is no problem, just stand there and beat on him -- revealing mark and inspire keep things OK morale-wise. But the bat stuns keep killing me. I've tried kiting around, etc. Anyone beat her? The third boss doesn't scare me, but I've not yet come close on 2nd.

I tried Warg Pens T1 as well. As discussed below, the trash isn't bad at all. But the first boss stuns you, and I died on the second stun having made little progress. Hmm. Seems to be a theme, repeated stuns are an issue. Wish Stun pots worked outside the moors... Anyone beat the WP first boss solo on a Capt? If so, what did you do?

STH T1 wasnt that much harder at 85 than it was at 65
still working on the first boss for t2

Originally Posted by Dinge

STH T1 wasnt that much harder at 85 than it was at 65
still working on the first boss for t2

Just did STH T1, blitzed through in LtC, no deaths. Hardest part is trash, and worst peril was that the darned wolves woke up (which they rarely do when I walk through). Final boss reset on me once, I must have gotten him near the gate? Rewards are eh for the time, 3 T5 relics and a decent purple earring.

Given ridiculous rewards for T1 raids, probably won't do so much soloing for a bit though.

Originally Posted by DelgonTheWise

Just did STH T1, blitzed through in LtC, no deaths. Hardest part is trash, and worst peril was that the darned wolves woke up (which they rarely do when I walk through). Final boss reset on me once, I must have gotten him near the gate? Rewards are eh for the time, 3 T5 relics and a decent purple earring.

Given ridiculous rewards for T1 raids, probably won't do so much soloing for a bit though.

The reason to NOT solo (other than to do it once for bragging rights - although it wasn't very tough so prob not worth too many anyway), is that the rewards are individual. Soloing the old Stoneheight made sense since you got ALL the t4 relics and the IXP runes. There were a fixed amount. With the new loot system, you get them, and so do the others with you. So by soloing it now, you're just lengthening the process without increasing the reward.

Originally Posted by Caffeinatedlife

The reason to NOT solo (other than to do it once for bragging rights - although it wasn't very tough so prob not worth too many anyway), is that the rewards are individual. Soloing the old Stoneheight made sense since you got ALL the t4 relics and the IXP runes. There were a fixed amount. With the new loot system, you get them, and so do the others with you. So by soloing it now, you're just lengthening the process without increasing the reward.

They also scaled down dramatically the rewards Stoneheight gives you. You used to get a ton of relics and runes, now you barely get any. That's going to hurt when it comes to building relics, as I relied on it as my primary source for shards. But oh well. It was way too good to be honest, and this was a deserved change I think.

But I agree with your post. Soloing instances is really only worth doing if you can't find a group, and that's the way it should be in my opinion. I feel there should always be an incentive to group up on any MMO, else what is the point really.

Just soloed webs T1. both by abusing boss pulls, so that the adds are out of agro range when the boss reaches the health point were waves of adds spam. The firs boss is pulled to the base of the stair, the second a few steps before the torch guy.

The spider was tought : not only it killed my hope herald aroung 120K, but also knocked me out and reset the first time. I believe T1 has no autowipe countdown, as i was ( mistankenly) using 4 Hytbold leader + 2 perseverance with DPS jewellery and my damage output was quite low even with the usual 5r2b build.

1- I would try it the other way around- 4 Hytbold charg+ tank jewellery to exploit the 5% revealing mark
2- the 2 blues were hope banner and SfW. looking back to it, i run it power issues even in adds pulls, and i forgot to use SfW along both bosses. With NfW and SfW things could have gone considerably faster.



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Soloed WP T1. Had failed last time I tried on first boss with LtC, gave it a go with HOH and herald of hope. Worked fine this time, took one death due to carelessness on last boss. Last boss got some heals, took forever (16 minutes), but got through it. Won't do it again, was just to see if I could.

I also managed to solo IP t1. It wasn't difficult at all - I rarely needed to use Valiant Strike, and the hardest part was when Helf one-shot my archer so I couldn't self-sustain with Inspire. I had to conserve on power after that, but with a bit of lucky power regen from Defensive Strike, I was able to keep up long enough to kill all the adds and finally Helf. In retrospect, I might've done slightly better on power if I'd just taken a banner of victory and parked the herald somewhere safe.

I'll be trying SotGG t1 next. Those little lickspittles will probably hurt a fair bit, but there should be enough in the way of self-heals to keep myself up.

EDIT: I forgot to take a pic as Helf fell, but here's one of me standing in there.

http://postimg.org/image/i50vfvaer/

EDIT: Just did GG. I failed on the last of the three Great Goblins and had to leave right afterwards, but probably could have done it with Last Stand traited for another ten seconds of immunity. It's almost impossible to get past his ridiculous wounds. Here's a pic of me fighting him:

http://postimg.org/image/ycjuo7nhp/

I would still like to do many things in and out of game before i start to solo some instances but i look forward to it.

For now, i would like captains to know they can easily take a neutral OP in moors. I killed the wood troll in 2m 33s.