The Enforcer Guide: Soloing

[Herkulease]

Head to head, self buffed, no mub. I dot pulled him then tanked till I died. Got his hp down 4 or 5 bubbles. I didnt have the proper reflect bracer, or my Ofab Helmet. My stims are some old dusty ones from when I was leveling, like 175 or something? There is a bit I can do to make it easier, not sure if I can do enough though. Which is why I mentioned the Alba stims, 300 towers that a end game omni might have access too. Ill try again here in a bit.

[Lumifly]

Hrm. If you don't switch a couple of items according to different situations, I think you should really try it to see how much it can increase your overall performance

Boots of dancing king, notocum, db legs, db sleeves. That's basically swapping out every piece of armor

At that point, you might as well be twinking to defeat that singular mob, in my opinion. "Contests of strength" are meaningless if you can't use something closer to normal.

Kinda like back in the day when people would try to see who could get the most HP...sure, you got a lot of HP, but they didn't actually USE that setup because they lose out on what makes their toon...their toon. If you can understand what I mean?

Don't get me wrong, it's cool if you kill it and all...I'm just saying it's no better than doing it with outside buffs. Sometimes it is a feat to kill something even with OBs. It's just my opinion

[kuznechik]

Boots of dancing king, notocum, db legs, db sleeves. That's basically swapping out every piece of armor

Hi, I'm engineer, I've resetted tradeskills, so now I need to carry only 3 bags of various armor/huds/deck items I'm swapping according to situation (hp/evades/as/damage/nanoskills setups). Swapping 4-5 items is nothing special.

[Herkulease]

If it can't be killed in the same gear your pvp, or run a mission with, you should be able to swap however much is needed. You aquired all those items for a reason, this is one of those reasons 8)

[Redbar]

Lumifly does mention the word "twink". I think I agree that if we're talking about armor bits you need a lot of work to put on (say 300 scout's on an atrox enforcer) just for soloing a specific mob, we have passed from what is reasonable and into the realm of silliness.

However, part of the reason I mentioned notucomm and DB sleeves+skirt was that they're quite easy to throw on whenever you want to. (btw, I forgot the classic wife beater when suggesting soloing armor.. That one is also a good reason to wear notucomm ).

[Lumifly]

There are things that are, in my opinion, meant to be swapped - your hud items page; and there are things that are meant to be kept the same as much as possible, your armor. Hud, rings, bracers are all swappable since that is basically the idea behind a lot of them.

It's not about easily swappable or not. I said it is no better than twinking.

If you are completely redefining your toon every encounter, then I think you have missed something important to the game. At that point, you are using your toon as nothing more than a tool that you hack apart to fit your need. That's fine, don't get me wrong - it's your toon. But I don't think it's applicable to any "self" feats because you are essentially twinking out to fit a very isolated case. It doesn't matter if your twink requires insane twinking or just hotswapping - it is still twinking towards an isolated case, which I don't think fits into the spirit of trying any feats.

Yes, it is completely subjective where the boundaries are. As I said, I think the hud/bracers/rings are all meant and even designed for multipurpose swapping. I don't believe that is the case for armor.

I guess what I am really getting at is this: a feat of strength is meant to test your skills as your profession. I am not interested in you managing to kill whatever mob if the reason for success is predominantly your equipment; that doesn't tell an interesting tale. I am interested in your skill, your ability to control your toon. That is where the spirit of tests of strengths lie.

It is silly to say "oh, I soloed this mob in this uber super duper evade setup that I will never ever use for anything else." There is no use to that.

[Mamman]

As long as it's something you don't spend ages with I think everything is fair game, I used to swap 6 pieces of armor just to cast ultra behe and the top proc before we got the new nanos. Spending one or 2 minutes to change your gear around before you go after a tough mob is strategy imo, not cheating
If you were to spend ages to reset all your perks into solo stuff or something like that like that I might agree with you.

For the record the only thing I changed when I tried scary spider was to a reflect bracer, but that turned out to not be enough

[Synre]

btw herk must have mad evades if that spider hits 50/50... he hitted me every time iirc.. maybe 1 or 2 misses.

[Herkulease]

Not 50/50, he hit more then that. But I think we can get to that level. And then he should be doable. What I meant earlier is that I won't need much more AAD for my evades to really count.

Edit: I did use a blind ring and he missed 5 in a row on me. Which was nice 8p lol I have 879 AAD with my current gear I believe. + Evades which are between 1400-1500. Throw a blind ring on the mob and its a pretty decent amount of evades. And if you time your troll form +AC buff for the down time. It makes things go a good bit smoother.

I am trying to get a hold of a reflect bracer atm. Should make a good differance but I know thats not all I will need.

[cacat]

Get CM or something and test it with the oven mittens please,i know i could solo a lot easier on the advy with it(read:No more CC swapping)

Reflect bracer/graft/oven mittens/3% from coon is a must imo
The difference between radiation and fire hits were sometimes up to 1k different ><

[Herkulease]

I have been trying for days now to get a Fire reflect bracer. No luck though 8(

[Mamman]

Try with a physic one, fire hits are a little more common than radiation but the nukes are also radiation damage.

[OfabRk2]

Don't know if anyone posted this yet but..

Shimka solo'd Hezak, so dunno if you should remove or not

[Herkulease]

The Solo list is very outdated last I checked. But yea, if they decide to update it (would be nice) Hezak should be ranked as medium or something. I had alot more trouble from Diamondine Trainee then Hezak last I tried. Biggest challenge vs Hezak is having him to yourself and convincing people to wait for you to kill it 8p

[Synre]

tried diamondline trainee, notum trainee, fiery trainee today.

I never done them before, it seems they raise in level.. first few tries were easy (lvl 247 ish) but got harder and harder.. ultimately (facing lvl 260 ish) i needed kiting. I didnt got to the "boss", cuz it wouldnt spawn and with 20 min respawn and like 15 min to kill one i got bored very quickly.

Tried Biodome hags also. Hags themselves are very easy, can stand there with just mongo outhealing the nuke, just the adds (possessed slimebathers) will make you start using cocoon a few times.

The boss (Searing Raskor etc) I couldnt stand head to toe with him but with kiting he is very easy to kill.

Yes I am 220 but I am by no means a twinked out toon so I hope this helps.

[Harios]

If you guys want.. could ask Kyai to update the list.
Otherwise I will try to update it when I got some spare time (and feel like it ).

[Wakizaka]

Tried Biodome hags also. Hags themselves are very easy, can stand there with just mongo outhealing the nuke, just the adds (possessed slimebathers) will make you start using cocoon a few times.

The boss (Searing Raskor etc) I couldnt stand head to toe with him but with kiting he is very easy to kill.

Those BioDome key bosses are annoyingly unpredictable... Sometimes you can just stand and tank cause they don't nuke for long stretches at a time, they really suck when they nuke several times back-to-back.

[Voyvovoy]

Did Peter Lee last night with rrfe - had to kite 2-3 times. Crush Bone helps alot.
Ris should be easyer

[Redbar]

Has anyone managed to solo the alappaa molokh? I got it maybe a third down before I died at the third add spawn today, but it felt like I could have done better with more skill. Mostly been playing my up-and-coming advy lately, and my enforcer reactions are noticeably dulled .

(to "solo" a team instance, I teamed an alt parked on RK).

[Tonberry]

When solo, we allow Outside buffs or is it self only?