Thread: new solo challenges?

or are we leery of the nerf bat? heard some talk about soloing the new isen 3 mans, but can't find any videos. Just looking for something to do till my friend gets on.

I have yet to try the 3-man with the troll, because I hate that instance more than anything else, but Pits and Fang are easy T1 solo's.

Also, I recently solo'd the Rift all the way up to the balrog (need at least 2 to complete him due to mechanics). That was a crazy fun challenge. Ironically enough I found I often fared better in my squishy DPS build with red traits than I did in a tanking setup.

If you want a more on level challenge, it's possible to solo Foundry Teir 1, but very time consuming and very costly.

I recently did a foundry run with 1 healing rk and 4 champs. On the last fight our healer died on the first fire and I healed myself all the way through, yes not even a cappy. Using stun immunity against Ghash's scripted stuns was the key and this was T2 challenge btw. Arguably I was also healing the champs due to the eye and aoe and penrith random hits, I had to keep conviction up all the time which is not as easy as it sounds when you're trying to keep agro off of 4 geared champs and self healing and timing shield tactics. Power was also tricky to manage. I was swapping out carvings for shield and fist gambits.

So next time I'm gonna go in with 5 champs on T2c so I can make it official. May be you could do the same. It's not exactly solo but it's just incredibly time consuming in determination all by yourself. It's a way to show that our tanking style actually works in on-level semi-hard instances. After this I'm thinking RoF t2 self healing, should be easy with the mega nerf on green spiders.

PS: Wish I had combat analysis to check my total heals, I shall record this next time.

Right on! I'm out of practice, so I'm gonna build up to them. Ran Darn's acid wing last night and I swear I coulda solo'd the Troll but I kept flubbing and over-building, not firing off the gambits I needed when I needed them. But took him from 70k ish to 45 or so when I got too far behind. My buddy hates it when I feel froggy lol. Thanks, guys.

I was doing Darknagh T2 and my healer died because they got too close to his rage on the second corner.
The hunter then died shortly after that.

I was able to solo the rest of the instance until the last few seconds of the fight. He stunned me as he went into a rage meaning I could not escape, when all that was left to do was run away :'(

I noticed that I took significantly less damage when I was the only one left, as he would usually randomly go hit something in the middle, he kind of just stopped attacking for a while. This allowed me to keep up with self heals.

When other people are alive, I cannot keep myself up with only self heals.

T1 this should be soloable.

So far I've soloed Pits of Isengard T1 Foundry to after second boss. Dargnach T1. Suprisingly easy but very time consuming lol.
Fangorns edge seem to be easy enough but i can't seem to rescue the ents :-( There's no dangerof me dying just that i can't manage to kerp them alive so they can kill the trolls. Will try again someday. Have seen vid of someone soloing isengard gate troll, will try that as next challange if I can get someone to get one of them away.

Tried School lvl 75, that was embarrasingly easy. Couldn't do challange tho with my poor dps.

The new 3-mans are decently easy. Mechanics of a couple of them make it hard to do the whole instance though. I have done the following so far (with the new content, that is):

Darknagh Unleasher- Tier 1- Completed entire instance.

Pits of Isengard- Tier 1 and Tier 2- Completed up to boss 1. Need 2 people to continue.

Fangorn's Edge- Tier 1 and Tier 2- Completed up to boss 1. Not enough DPS to kill trolls.

So yes, they are very doable. Tier 1 they are easy (Pits and Fangorns). Pits only takes about 25 minutes to do up to boss one on Tier 1. Darknagh is a long instance, not really worth doing except for the challenge once in a while.

For lower level wardens, a fun solo feat is to make a run through the Goblin Town throne room. This portion of goblin town is now reachable via the instance finder so you can visit it any time any place. Run from one end to the other and get the attention of every goblin you pass. You should have about 20 of the buggers when you reach the throne. Then have some fun while you wear them all down.

I opened this instance the other day when I was looking at all the things I could get via Instance Finder. Its actually quite a good farming location for wardens, because you can kill all the goblins in about 3 sweeps of the instance (once on the left, once on the right, once all the stragglers). This will net you all the silver, crafting mats, and rep items they are carrying. In addtion, a clean sweep yields about 7-10 platinum anniversary tokens. Those tokens can be turned in for 25 marks each. So a full clear will get you 200-250 marks in about 10 minutes! That's about the biggest solo return on marks I can think of.

--Harper

I've been basically running through all the old SOA instance no problem. And like Harp said you can get a tonne of anniversary tokens by doing so.

Originally Posted by Earengast

Dargnach T1. Suprisingly easy but very time consuming lol.

Are you kidding? How is Dargnakh easy? I did this prior to getting super-DC and it was pretty damn hard.

It took me two attempts per boss (huva & dargnakh).

Bad luck on Huva with stuns while having the fear dot and no pots (you should really have those with you).

Some wierd things happening at Dargnakh destroying the last pillar, getting him killed but me as well >>> reset.

Of course this gets easyier with NS available, probably a lot easier with legacied DC.

DC + NS + Fangorn dmg bubble + Man heal >>> Extreme survivability, as long as everything is available...

Using all of the above I solo'd the first pull at roots of fangorn (t1).

Maybe you could even solo the first boss, although he hits really hard, as far as I remember.

Up to now I did all Isen 3s T1 solo without DC and with exception of fangorn I wouldn't say they are easy.

Fangorn is a walk in the park, really. Even the boss fight isn't that hard.

Just get the trolls on you, so the don't hit the ents. On T1 ents and trolls are roughly equal in DPS and morale.

If trolls (and favourably uruks, too) are on you, it's no problem to save them.

Remember warden are tanks Tank, and you'll be fine.

Advice on anyone attempting roots t1 solo: get stun immunity at the start of the pulls and take some wound pots with you.

With DC alle those dots don't hurt that much, but every wound potted (or resisted) is less damage, allowing you to focus on damage.

@Harperelle:
Did you ever try all the goblins (without boss) in one pull? Sooooo many mobs, soo many dots.

Thanks for all the ideas guys! got a little one coming up that'll need the currency for gears. Loove my warden again. Ty Orion.

I am very curious to know how can you solo Rift (up to the last fight). Is it really that easy?

Can Wardens solo the Turtle? I know that patient Minstrels can, but I have not heard of any other doing so.

i too would love some info on the rift solo, i want the rift cosmetic on my warden

The Rift instance in Angmar can be solo'd up until the Balrog, yes. The mechanics of the fight require more then one player though. Still fun if you want to collect some cosmetic items.

Originally Posted by Mithlindar

I am very curious to know how can you solo Rift (up to the last fight). Is it really that easy?

It is, after all, a level 50 instance. Stuff should be glancing off of your Warden left right and center in there. It may take a while, but there aren't really that many big pulls to worry about. I imagine it would take quite a while.

A better challenge would be DN in Moria.

So back on topic.

I have done this myself for 20 minutes or so and quite frankly got bored with it but I would love to see some warden with more patience than I have, solo phase 3 of Draigoch. Bring six friends in with you and solo the head up top for the first two phases and then once you are into phase three solo it the rest of the way.

I know it can be done because I have soloed the head no problem and then soloed phase three when the other 6 died. But they all wanted to go again and I was getting bored.

If I were to try to do this again I would slot the trait that lowers my cool down on my javelin skills by 15 sec and make sure I had the max range legacy on my weapon. You can swap stance between assailment and determination but I think the javelins would be the way to go for the rear claws especially.

Just make sure you bring a sandwich and a pee bottle.

Firstly,
thanks for all the ideas and responses. I'm currently working on my gambit speed lol.
Secondly,
I'm sorry for any offense, and So Sorry that this has happened.


thank you Knightlock, I am again reminded why I keep my children away from intolerant people. I wasn't trying to start a fight, I have been using that sig line for years on different games. Get off of your high horse.

Other people believe different, and I would never jump your case for putting scripture in your signature line.
You called me ignorant by saying I never picked up a science book (fisheries and wildlife double major)

You called me a fool-One sure mark of a fool is anyone who deems anything past thier experience as impossible. I've been to church. Went for the first 15 years of my life. And the worst people I have met have been upper level church goers (ahem-politicians for the church)

You called me illogical. "learn how to use logic properly." Your logic fails in that you think calling people names on a video game forum will make them do what you say.

I didn't call anyone anything.

Please remember, this is a PUBLIC forum, where people discuss things you may not agree with. Sorry I offended you, but I do believe there is a certain freedom of expression involved here.
I used the lower case "god". I don't hate religion. I hate religious people.

I'm not changing my signature line. Unless I put my warden back here.
edit- also...http://i.imgur.com/1KrVI.jpg

Ok! Back again to the interesting main topic, I decided to give Rift a try after learning the dynamics of the trash pulls and Bosses (that's right, I am a F2P generation) and I found it so entertaining and challenging that it was exciting enough for 2 nights at work while on break.

I have to say that the biggest challenge was Fruz with all the waves of mobs and his many stun/knockdowns. But I managed it pretty well after a couple of tries. It was hard to dps, heal, apply stun immunity just before add waves and kill all adds fast /FLEX

The rest of the instance was no big deal, mainly just tank-n-spank. As stated before in the post, I don't find possible to do Thaurlach alone due to the mechanics. But oh well, I don't mind getting a couple of friends to finish it up.

I feel like doing it a couple of more times to get more class cosmetics and why not get the full set for my cappy to have the extra phys. mit. on motivation speech.

I challenge my friend to do some of BG and DN solo, so far he has managed to solo all trash pulls in DN and he's done the gauntlet in BG. He couldn't solo the two armors before it due to their distributed damage of like 11K per hit but he did take 16K off one :P

Originally Posted by Thorebane

I challenge my friend to do some of BG and DN solo, so far he has managed to solo all trash pulls in DN and he's done the gauntlet in BG. He couldn't solo the two armors before it due to their distributed damage of like 11K per hit but he did take 16K off one :P

So he's done all the trash pulls in DN but not the bosses? What happened after trash pulls... kin mates just came to help? I am just curious. Sounds like a fun challenge.

can you barter for other classes armor? if thats the case, ima hop on this rift stuff on my warden to get my cappy some nice cosmetics

Originally Posted by Snoman73

can you barter for other classes armor? if thats the case, ima hop on this rift stuff on my warden to get my cappy some nice cosmetics

Hmm. Good question. I don't see why not with all the new bind to account changes and what not. I used to use the shared storage and cosmetic feature to send my Warden my Hunter's high level armor when my Warden was still levelling. It would confuse people every so often. He he.

lol i know! one of the great things about having alts, dress your cappy as a hunter, hunter as a warden etc. makes people do a double take!

Originally Posted by Snoman73

can you barter for other classes armor? if thats the case, ima hop on this rift stuff on my warden to get my cappy some nice cosmetics

Yes it is possible. All the barter items for class sets are BtA and show up in your wallet with green letters (Note that I have the improved wallet, so can't tell for sure if it also adds to the regular wallet).

Originally Posted by Regero

If you want a more on level challenge, it's possible to solo Foundry Teir 1, but very time consuming and very costly.

VERY time consuming brother. took like half hour from start to kill first boss and i just gave up. 2nd boss would be easier to solo but i think last boss fight would be very challanging to outheal those damages

how long does it take to do first couple bosses in rift?

Originally Posted by Snoman73

how long does it take to do first couple bosses in rift?

It took me like 30mins to 1 hour to get both Troll bosses I believe

Originally Posted by Snoman73

lol i know! one of the great things about having alts, dress your cappy as a hunter, hunter as a warden etc. makes people do a double take!

My Loreden looks great in BG gear

Originally Posted by Elrendos

So he's done all the trash pulls in DN but not the bosses? What happened after trash pulls... kin mates just came to help? I am just curious. Sounds like a fun challenge.

Aye pretty much, he had a go on the bosses before asking for the kinnies but yeah.

HE did say it might be possible to solo the second boss, the one where you wait for the rune stones to change colour however he was anxious to continue with the rest of the raid hehe

Originally Posted by Thorebane

Aye pretty much, he had a go on the bosses before asking for the kinnies but yeah.

HE did say it might be possible to solo the second boss, the one where you wait for the rune stones to change colour however he was anxious to continue with the rest of the raid hehe

Nice! Ya I could see a couple of them being soloable. Some of them not likely though. Like the Mistress with all those World Eaters at the start. Not sure how good that would go. He he. Worth a shot though!

Originally Posted by drfacts

Can Wardens solo the Turtle? I know that patient Minstrels can, but I have not heard of any other doing so.

I have tried to solo turtle on my warden. It could be possible duo but solo my dot got to much to heal through without someone else to swap aggro with. IIRC my dot was up to 10k a tic but I did manage to knock off 150k of damage. Would be curious to see it done solo.

Originally Posted by j2thedubb

I have tried to solo turtle on my warden. It could be possible duo but solo my dot got to much to heal through without someone else to swap aggro with. IIRC my dot was up to 10k a tic but I did manage to knock off 150k of damage. Would be curious to see it done solo.

Been ages since I've done a Turtle run. Can the DOT ticks be Resisted? My resistance is at about 10k right now. Gives me just over 25% chance to resist effects. If it can be resisted then I'd say it would almost be worth stacking resistance and giving it another shot.

That was my solo challenge for the day. Not hard at all. No pots/DC/Martyr buble clicky/NS. Just gambits the whole way through.

prob has been done already but i can solo dargnahk last boss t2 but i guess that boss is easy now.

Originally Posted by Protoss360

prob has been done already but i can solo dargnahk last boss t2 but i guess that boss is easy now.

Yes. Heal through the first three scaffolds, then save Never Surrender for the final one. Put it up during the third one if you don't feel safe.

EDIT: Actually now that I think about it... if you could time exactly when he goes into his rampage, you could just kite him using conviction until he is about to rampage, then just lead him to the scaffold. May take some of the need to heal away if you're kiting him. May be worth a shot.

Originally Posted by Elrendos

Yes. Heal through the first three scaffolds, then save Never Surrender for the final one. Put it up during the third one if you don't feel safe.

EDIT: Actually now that I think about it... if you could time exactly when he goes into his rampage, you could just kite him using conviction until he is about to rampage, then just lead him to the scaffold. May take some of the need to heal away if you're kiting him. May be worth a shot.

shoot, this encounter should be super cake now, with NS and the new DC, not to mention the clicky bubble from jewellry set, wardens are BEASTS

T2 Foundry first boss, walked in and as I was establishing aggro the entire group dies to a double steam + fire puddle. I solod the boss down as they released and were sitting at the gate waiting That impressed a few, but I still enjoyed tanking the dragon the most (my main is a healer, I have never been a raid MT before).

Originally Posted by stratospaly

That impressed a few, but I still enjoyed tanking the dragon the most (my main is a healer, I have never been a raid MT before).

Draigoch is actually quite fun to tank now, without healer ofc, and I think this could actually be a fun challenge for newly 75-dinged Wardens. Having good gear, 2nd age LI's with good relics makes it really easy, but for someone with just quest/crafted gear and 3rd agers I think it could be a nice challenge.

Has anyone manage to solo SG? Probably has been done, I got stuck on the first boss, my dps just wasn't fast enough and i got caught in the fire. But I can imagine better wardens being able to balance out their survivability/DPS better to make it in time...