Phinny Down

[Doomfir]

Welp, I finally got to solo phinegal last night. Once you get him out from amidst his seahorse guards he isn't any trouble. My Lost Soul pet tanked him with no issues.

Here are some tips if you are going to try him.

1) Get Gangrenous hand of zammul. to lifetap with. Our regular magic based taps get resisted almost 100% with the rare connection. It is a waste of mana. GHoZ hits everytime.

2) Do not kill the small walker fish in that travel back and forth in phinny's lair and head out the tunnel you come in on. You can use them to lay a Sarynn's kiss on them when you can't on Phinny.

3) Kill all the seahorse guards one at a time on the star edges in phinny's pit. Now, you have a limited time to seperate phinny from the rest of the seahorse that are in his pit. If you get more than the 2 in pit with him then you will have to start over killing and this time you need to kill faster.

4) Now you have to seperate him from any seahorse guards that come with him when you go down to pull him. The way I do it (since I couldn't land a snare on him), was tell my pet to hold, and go down to phinny and pull up the the bunch of them. I then run over the edge of the ledge to the tunnel out and FD at the edge and immediately go to third person view. Sometimes he waits for his guards to go back first... if they do, you got him. Sick the pet on him while still FD. I had to work him some.. He would start smacking pet up a bit but then I would FD the pet a sec.. just to bide the time for the seahorses to forget me.. then once I sat up I Layd hands on my pet and the fight was on. :-)

Phinny is a major puss without his seahorse guards. I will however, tell you that you should have at least pet FD 3, Pet hold, Gangrenous lifetap, Virtue or higher (make sure you got junk buffs before it because the seahorses will dispell it if not.)

[aeriform]

Phinny is easily soloable pre level 61.

You want some form of permanent Enduring Breath (item/tribute).
You want fairly high resists via gear (your pet shares your resists) or bard song is nice if you 2box or bring a friend.

1) park level 49 pet at the corner of (between sea horses) the of the opening where the 4 sea horses are using pet guard
2) target phinny using "/target phinigel" type command (phinny floats up and down in his lair, just wait for him, when he floats up he'll be targetable)
3) move up to one of the top corners of the ledge above the seahorses and FD
4) change views to 3D so you can see your pet
5) spam pet attack until pet moves (pet will move to engage phini when phini moves up from his lair)
6) hit pet follow before pet engages
7) once pet engages spam pet back off or pet hold and back off if you have that AA
8) phinny will follow your pet solo to you

The first time I did this I had my level 61 PoP pet suspended, I never pulled him out... My level 49 pet pulled phinny solo and beat him down to 80% before I got impatient and decided to speed up the kill. Phinny annuls buffs often, but your pet uses your resists which can't be debuffed if phinny is concentrated on your pet. I had over 200 in fire/cold/magic resists which is easily obtainable via bazaar gear.

You do not need any AA, you do not need anything other than self buffs as if you get agro, much of them will likely be stripped anyways. If your resists are high you will not need to lifetap. You do not need any PoP spells. Phinny is easily soloable by several classes pre-PoP.

[Azrioth]

Tha cap'n wuz gonna say "doom ye can pet pull 'im!" but too late =/

[Doomfir]

Originally posted by aeriform@Nov 15 2004, 08:53 PM
Phinny is easily soloable pre level 61.

You want some form of permanent Enduring Breath (item/tribute).
You want fairly high resists via gear (your pet shares your resists) or bard song is nice if you 2box or bring a friend.

1) park level 49 pet at the corner of (between sea horses) the of the opening where the 4 sea horses are using pet guard
2) target phinny using "/target phinigel" type command (phinny floats up and down in his lair, just wait for him, when he floats up he'll be targetable)
3) move up to one of the top corners of the ledge above the seahorses and FD
4) change views to 3D so you can see your pet
5) spam pet attack until pet moves (pet will move to engage phini when phini moves up from his lair)
6) hit pet follow before pet engages
7) once pet engages spam pet back off or pet hold and back off if you have that AA
8) phinny will follow your pet solo to you

The first time I did this I had my level 61 PoP pet suspended, I never pulled him out... My level 49 pet pulled phinny solo and beat him down to 80% before I got impatient and decided to speed up the kill. Phinny annuls buffs often, but your pet uses your resists which can't be debuffed if phinny is concentrated on your pet. I had over 200 in fire/cold/magic resists which is easily obtainable via bazaar gear.

You do not need any AA, you do not need anything other than self buffs as if you get agro, much of them will likely be stripped anyways. If your resists are high you will not need to lifetap. You do not need any PoP spells. Phinny is easily soloable by several classes pre-PoP.
Hmm.. As the saying goes, "there is many ways to skin a cat". I use pet pulling or "fishing" quite often, but some times I hate the 49 pet because frankly he just out and out sux at tanking. What pet suspend should be more like is if you have a pet up, and cast suspend pet, it rotates the pet with the one you have in your pocket rather than having to kill the one before pulling out the other.

Good tactic aeriform. I wish we could solo Venril as easy as Phinny. At 67 I still cannot solo him.