Post by vallik on May 9, 2015 20:04:36 GMT -5
Ok here it is, I am sure there are people waiting for this one. There has been many complaints about how difficult Inktu'ta is for melee characters in general and for soloers however with a bit of preparation and a couple attempts I personally found those completely ungrounded. Inktu'ta I completed in about 4 hours all up, including multiple clears, attempts and strategy changes. It is definitely not on the scale of Ikkinz difficulty.
Remember: I do not have MQ2 and so no warp (and yes, I did the cursecallers event (twice in fact - it is very easy))
Class: Warrior
Level: 75
AA's: Everything important plus a bunch that probably aren't. 8-900 spent give or take.
HP: Just over 55,000 according to #mystats. Just over 46,000 shown in client (RoF2).
AC: Just over 11000 according to #mystats. Just over 11200 shown in client.
Gear: Vadd's everywhere except chest and legs. Qvic/Uqua non-vis. Pri: Aranini's rage/Blessed Shard/Bite of the dark serpent. Sec: Quark's/Fragment of Time/Get Out the Way. Blessed shards everywhere else.
Bots: Cleric, Shaman, Mage, Ranger all PoTime/Uqua/Kodtaz/Qvic geared. (no muramite armor for the bots yet, just drops - I'm cheap)
Clickies Needed: Ossein of Limitless Time (Engulfing Darkness), Zevfeer's Shroud of Despair (Splurt) - this would have been useful but I only just found out about it so I never had one haha.
Nijacka the Sourge
Didn't even realise this guy was in my trash pull until I looked at the name of the guy taking so damn long to die. No strategy needed, just a lot of time.
Kelekdrix
Bots are completely useless on this fight as they will die almost instantly to the aoe going down in the room. Just keep a cleric out but parked outside the room somewhere - I left her in the entry room to be honest. On the plus side, the damage is so ridiculously low that you don't even need a bot on this fight - taps will keep you up alone. The bot is only out so you can spam #bot cure disease/poison/curse (not sure which, i have them all on the same hotkey) to get rid of the slow. When you get banished to the pit just wait there and Kelekdrix will amble down, you can then just fight there. Takes a long long time solo but is not even a close fight - really made me think back to the 45+ minute fight that was Xegony on live back when PoP released. If/when Kelekdrix goes immune and respawns the ushers you are going to have to re-clear the hallway and fight back up (unless, of course, you use /warp).
Cursecallers
I honestly cannot fathom the amount of complaints about this event or the amount of people saying you NEED 2 people for this. It is pretty much the easiest fight in here if you approach it smartly and don't try to just rush through it. It is another fight that does not require a healer (so we go from Ikkinz where you needed 2 clerics to have a chance at staying up - to Inktu'ta where you can do 2 of the boss events with NO healer). Used Ranger + Mage combo on this one, make sure you have a #bot attack hotkey set up, you will need it. If this is the first time you have done the event you may want to just start it, look for where the mobs spawn and look for where the cursebearers appear and start to wander then zone out and reset.
Strategy: Start the event, stick yourself into melee range of one the cursecallers FURTHEST from where the bearers appear and start attacking. Send your ranged dps bots against one of the callers NEAREST to the where the bearers spawn. From what I can tell doing this twice, the bearers will never target your bots so just let them do their thing. As soon as you see a bearer appear target and look at it's name. If it is anything but *a mindless....* switch back to the cursecaller and continue to melee until the bearer is in cast range then smack it with the Ossein. After a tick or two it should have taken enough damage that the snare totally stops it, well out of range. A single round from the Ossein should also kill it, so no need to re-apply. If you see a mindless cursebearer appear (immune to snare), then you will want to immediately switch your bots on to it. They should take it down easily before it comes near you. If you have Zevfeer's Shroud you can throw that on as well just to help. As you get more comfortable you can move up and melee the guy in the middle of the row of 3, just be careful of those mindless ones you cant snare and make sure your bots switch targets correctly.
Once that row is dead, rinse and repeat for the other side. The event is extremely simple, there is next to no incoming damage it just requires you to think and be paying attention.
Noqufiel
This one takes a long time but again, is not overly difficult - just takes a long time to solo. I used cleric/mage on this one. There is a LOT of stuff going on in this fight, I found it a phenomenally awesome enounter and loved how much running around, thinking and close calls it gave me.
Strategy: Park bots in the fountain room, off the right hand side of the door leading to Noq's room. Pull and tank Noq on the left hand side of the door (the reasons will become apparent soon). Ok so there are a few things that are going to happen here and they are going to happen randomly for the duration of the fight so I will just list them and you will need to try and make it work, it's great fun though.
- Banish: Noq will banish you to just infront of the door. When this happens he aggro wipes. The reason we fought him on the left and parked our bots on the right is that when we get banished we are still standing between him and the bots, you will need to immediately taunt and pick him back up. Now hopefully he will stay where he is and just switch to the mage pet anyway but on some intances I had him barrel straight towards the cleric and insta-pop her so be quick. Just be careful about where you snare the cursebearers and don't snare one right next to the banish spot (like I did lol).
- Cursebearer: Noq will randomly summon a cursebearer back in his room who will take quite a long time to amble down to the fountain room. Due to there being only Noq/Mirror Noq on your extended target window you should be able to easily see which type of bearer it is. Same as the previous encounter - if you see a mindless one you will need to send the mage after it and just move the boss away from it if it gets too close (no root this encounter). If it is any of the others you can wait until they are in the fountain room then hit them with the Ossein.
- Split into True Image/Mirror Image: As most of you will already know, when the mirror image takes damage it is going to explode which will pretty much wipe out your bots. I did not have any issues with the bots targetting the mirror image because I left them on guard and told them when and who to attack. The problem comes from the huge amount of gear that inherently has damage shield on it - there is no way that it is not going to explode. Just accept it and figure out a way to deal with it. What I did was immediately smack Mirror image a few times and then run straight south along the wall to the corner (AWAY FROM THE BOTS) dragging Mirror image with me until he exploded. If done right your bots should never get hit by the explosion and I probably had a 50/50 success rate of completely avoiding it myself. Then just go grab True Image (if he spawned back in his room) and return to your spot on the left hand side of the door.
Rinse and repeat the above 3 things over and over until Noq is dead. At 50% he will start to summon which just add's yet another mechanic making the fight extremely hectic and fun. You will end up getting summoned to his room, kiting cursebearers, trying to get down to the fountain and having a Mirror image on you all at once. It is awesome, I cannot stress that enough. The sense of accomplishment finishing this fight solo is incredible, I was shaking from adrenaline after dropping him. I actually lost my cleric when Noq was at 7%, I was at 40% health so I had to let the mage pet tank a bit. The mage got him to 3% before I hit Furious and ran in and basically riposted him to death.
Inktu'ta is, unfortunately, as far as I will likely take this solo thing. I have tried a few bosses in Txevu and while they hit for considerably less than Ikky4 bosses they have around the 3 million hp mark. You only need a single healer for them but the fights just take so damn long, along the lines of 15 minutes when I solo'd the gladiator pit event (wiped at 3% because of an unlucky knockback into respawns - thats how long it took). I grouped up with Adonhiram to get revenge and we dropped that boss in a minute flat. Unfortunately, at least as a warrior, the dps just isn't there to continue soloing and keep your sanity at the appropriate gear level. Maybe I will buy some abyss weapons and come back and see but for now I am flagging up my Wizard, gearing some dps bots and will bring them along.
Remember: I do not have MQ2 and so no warp (and yes, I did the cursecallers event (twice in fact - it is very easy))
Class: Warrior
Level: 75
AA's: Everything important plus a bunch that probably aren't. 8-900 spent give or take.
HP: Just over 55,000 according to #mystats. Just over 46,000 shown in client (RoF2).
AC: Just over 11000 according to #mystats. Just over 11200 shown in client.
Gear: Vadd's everywhere except chest and legs. Qvic/Uqua non-vis. Pri: Aranini's rage/Blessed Shard/Bite of the dark serpent. Sec: Quark's/Fragment of Time/Get Out the Way. Blessed shards everywhere else.
Bots: Cleric, Shaman, Mage, Ranger all PoTime/Uqua/Kodtaz/Qvic geared. (no muramite armor for the bots yet, just drops - I'm cheap)
Clickies Needed: Ossein of Limitless Time (Engulfing Darkness), Zevfeer's Shroud of Despair (Splurt) - this would have been useful but I only just found out about it so I never had one haha.
Nijacka the Sourge
Didn't even realise this guy was in my trash pull until I looked at the name of the guy taking so damn long to die. No strategy needed, just a lot of time.
Kelekdrix
Bots are completely useless on this fight as they will die almost instantly to the aoe going down in the room. Just keep a cleric out but parked outside the room somewhere - I left her in the entry room to be honest. On the plus side, the damage is so ridiculously low that you don't even need a bot on this fight - taps will keep you up alone. The bot is only out so you can spam #bot cure disease/poison/curse (not sure which, i have them all on the same hotkey) to get rid of the slow. When you get banished to the pit just wait there and Kelekdrix will amble down, you can then just fight there. Takes a long long time solo but is not even a close fight - really made me think back to the 45+ minute fight that was Xegony on live back when PoP released. If/when Kelekdrix goes immune and respawns the ushers you are going to have to re-clear the hallway and fight back up (unless, of course, you use /warp).
Cursecallers
I honestly cannot fathom the amount of complaints about this event or the amount of people saying you NEED 2 people for this. It is pretty much the easiest fight in here if you approach it smartly and don't try to just rush through it. It is another fight that does not require a healer (so we go from Ikkinz where you needed 2 clerics to have a chance at staying up - to Inktu'ta where you can do 2 of the boss events with NO healer). Used Ranger + Mage combo on this one, make sure you have a #bot attack hotkey set up, you will need it. If this is the first time you have done the event you may want to just start it, look for where the mobs spawn and look for where the cursebearers appear and start to wander then zone out and reset.
Strategy: Start the event, stick yourself into melee range of one the cursecallers FURTHEST from where the bearers appear and start attacking. Send your ranged dps bots against one of the callers NEAREST to the where the bearers spawn. From what I can tell doing this twice, the bearers will never target your bots so just let them do their thing. As soon as you see a bearer appear target and look at it's name. If it is anything but *a mindless....* switch back to the cursecaller and continue to melee until the bearer is in cast range then smack it with the Ossein. After a tick or two it should have taken enough damage that the snare totally stops it, well out of range. A single round from the Ossein should also kill it, so no need to re-apply. If you see a mindless cursebearer appear (immune to snare), then you will want to immediately switch your bots on to it. They should take it down easily before it comes near you. If you have Zevfeer's Shroud you can throw that on as well just to help. As you get more comfortable you can move up and melee the guy in the middle of the row of 3, just be careful of those mindless ones you cant snare and make sure your bots switch targets correctly.
Once that row is dead, rinse and repeat for the other side. The event is extremely simple, there is next to no incoming damage it just requires you to think and be paying attention.
Noqufiel
This one takes a long time but again, is not overly difficult - just takes a long time to solo. I used cleric/mage on this one. There is a LOT of stuff going on in this fight, I found it a phenomenally awesome enounter and loved how much running around, thinking and close calls it gave me.
Strategy: Park bots in the fountain room, off the right hand side of the door leading to Noq's room. Pull and tank Noq on the left hand side of the door (the reasons will become apparent soon). Ok so there are a few things that are going to happen here and they are going to happen randomly for the duration of the fight so I will just list them and you will need to try and make it work, it's great fun though.
- Banish: Noq will banish you to just infront of the door. When this happens he aggro wipes. The reason we fought him on the left and parked our bots on the right is that when we get banished we are still standing between him and the bots, you will need to immediately taunt and pick him back up. Now hopefully he will stay where he is and just switch to the mage pet anyway but on some intances I had him barrel straight towards the cleric and insta-pop her so be quick. Just be careful about where you snare the cursebearers and don't snare one right next to the banish spot (like I did lol).
- Cursebearer: Noq will randomly summon a cursebearer back in his room who will take quite a long time to amble down to the fountain room. Due to there being only Noq/Mirror Noq on your extended target window you should be able to easily see which type of bearer it is. Same as the previous encounter - if you see a mindless one you will need to send the mage after it and just move the boss away from it if it gets too close (no root this encounter). If it is any of the others you can wait until they are in the fountain room then hit them with the Ossein.
- Split into True Image/Mirror Image: As most of you will already know, when the mirror image takes damage it is going to explode which will pretty much wipe out your bots. I did not have any issues with the bots targetting the mirror image because I left them on guard and told them when and who to attack. The problem comes from the huge amount of gear that inherently has damage shield on it - there is no way that it is not going to explode. Just accept it and figure out a way to deal with it. What I did was immediately smack Mirror image a few times and then run straight south along the wall to the corner (AWAY FROM THE BOTS) dragging Mirror image with me until he exploded. If done right your bots should never get hit by the explosion and I probably had a 50/50 success rate of completely avoiding it myself. Then just go grab True Image (if he spawned back in his room) and return to your spot on the left hand side of the door.
Rinse and repeat the above 3 things over and over until Noq is dead. At 50% he will start to summon which just add's yet another mechanic making the fight extremely hectic and fun. You will end up getting summoned to his room, kiting cursebearers, trying to get down to the fountain and having a Mirror image on you all at once. It is awesome, I cannot stress that enough. The sense of accomplishment finishing this fight solo is incredible, I was shaking from adrenaline after dropping him. I actually lost my cleric when Noq was at 7%, I was at 40% health so I had to let the mage pet tank a bit. The mage got him to 3% before I hit Furious and ran in and basically riposted him to death.
Inktu'ta is, unfortunately, as far as I will likely take this solo thing. I have tried a few bosses in Txevu and while they hit for considerably less than Ikky4 bosses they have around the 3 million hp mark. You only need a single healer for them but the fights just take so damn long, along the lines of 15 minutes when I solo'd the gladiator pit event (wiped at 3% because of an unlucky knockback into respawns - thats how long it took). I grouped up with Adonhiram to get revenge and we dropped that boss in a minute flat. Unfortunately, at least as a warrior, the dps just isn't there to continue soloing and keep your sanity at the appropriate gear level. Maybe I will buy some abyss weapons and come back and see but for now I am flagging up my Wizard, gearing some dps bots and will bring them along.