HOH

[nnigma]

Hi,
I read on 'hunting grounds' about soloing in HOH, by doin the Valarions.. I've only been to HOH once for trials,and never had a chance to absorb where stuff was..
I was just wondering what a lvl 64 necro can solo,and what strategies are there(i'll probably figure one out,but a little hint or two helps) for that zone....


*64th Warlock* Nnigma Morquendi of The Nameless

[chabeksis]

Here are my thoughts on this zone:

1. Go to one of the basements. Leave the GY for the droods ;)

2. While running to the basement be sure to con the mobs at the basement entrance b/c one or sometimes two might see invis

3. Go to the second room in the basement and kite Valorian guards

4. There will be an empty wall with crypts, that is where you should kite

5. beware valorian sentrys as they are immune to snare

6. Use Fd pull to split the guards

7. use your rogue pet

8. my spell lineup is embracing darkness, dark plague, EB, splurt, pyro, fpok and Saryn's kiss. The mob should die as all of these spells wear off

9. you will have to snare the mob twice (with 63 spell) during the fight. Give yourself time for a resist or two

10. Forceshield is your friend


Really HoH is simple at 64 IMO after you get your rhythym down. Good Luck

Edit: Yes Scaeffer I did mena Saryn's Kiss. Thanks for catching that :P

[Gondarionas]

yep and it's just that easy i used to go there till it would make me sick looking i would wipe the whole room clean and have like 10 min to sit around bored LOL and would start to pull from other room..

sneak along wall till you can see mob target.. then continue to sneak till you can cast but be ready to run if you argo you'll see a message saying something and you can do it right you can kill 8 of them easy befor repops

[FCseven]

If you can get a good group (druids,necros,or ragers)I would do GY over basement.When I was like 64 what I would do is pull like 5-15 guardians and have your group snare (I THINK druids have a 14min aoe snare could be ranger though).We made uber exp back in the day,like 20% AA from one pull.

[Schaeffer]

AoE snare? Never heard of that yet, but I do know their snare lasts a long ass time.

[Xislaben]

Originally posted by chabeksis@Apr 15 2005, 05:29 AM
8. my spell lineup is embracing darkness, dark plague, EB, splurt, pyro, fpok and SoS as needed. The mob should die as all of these spells wear off
What focuses are you using here? That lineup doesn't seem to be doing the damage needed to kill the mob casting each spell once with one recast of ED. Unfocused it looks like about 14k damage with 2 casts of ED, and I thought the mobs there had close to 40k? Is the pet really doing that much damage or am I off on the hp estimation?

EDIT:
ranger snare is 13.2+ min, I'm a bit envious, though none of my mobs last that long :)

[chabeksis]

Originally posted by Xislaben+Apr 15 2005, 02:50 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (Xislaben @ Apr 15 2005, 02:50 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> <!--QuoteBegin-chabeksis@Apr 15 2005, 05:29 AM
8. my spell lineup is embracing darkness, dark plague, EB, splurt, pyro, fpok and SoS as needed.* The mob should die as all of these spells wear off
What focuses are you using here? That lineup doesn't seem to be doing the damage needed to kill the mob casting each spell once with one recast of ED. Unfocused it looks like about 14k damage with 2 casts of ED, and I thought the mobs there had close to 40k? Is the pet really doing that much damage or am I off on the hp estimation?

EDIT:
ranger snare is 13.2+ min, I'm a bit envious, though none of my mobs last that long :) [/b][/quote]
At 64 I was casting Saryn's Kiss (Edit: Thanks Schaeffer) on almost every mob simply for the damage. This spell lineup did work for me 99.9% of the time when I was hunting Valorian guards. The other mobs outside of the basement do have more hp, that is why I prefer the basement.

The focuses that I had were BA4, Summoner's Boon, Extended Range, and a focus that saved mana on dots.

[Schaeffer]

Seduction of Saryrn is the 64 lich, you mean Saryrn's Kiss?

[nnigma]

thnks for repies,
I will try them out, see what happens. Whats the worse thing that could happen,die;and then summon to guild hall. I have cleric but shes not high enough lvl to enter HOH....(I solo'd POV caves, after 3-4 mobs, I was already bored of it,guess its all the grouping I've done there)..

[Xislaben]

Originally posted by chabeksis+Apr 15 2005, 03:04 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (chabeksis @ Apr 15 2005, 03:04 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> Originally posted by Xislaben@Apr 15 2005, 02:50 PM
<!--QuoteBegin-chabeksis@Apr 15 2005, 05:29 AM
8. my spell lineup is embracing darkness, dark plague, EB, splurt, pyro, fpok and SoS as needed. The mob should die as all of these spells wear off
What focuses are you using here? That lineup doesn't seem to be doing the damage needed to kill the mob casting each spell once with one recast of ED. Unfocused it looks like about 14k damage with 2 casts of ED, and I thought the mobs there had close to 40k? Is the pet really doing that much damage or am I off on the hp estimation?

EDIT:
ranger snare is 13.2+ min, I'm a bit envious, though none of my mobs last that long :)
At 64 I was casting Saryn's Kiss (Edit: Thanks Schaeffer) on almost every mob simply for the damage. This spell lineup did work for me 99.9% of the time when I was hunting Valorian guards. The other mobs outside of the basement do have more hp, that is why I prefer the basement.

The focuses that I had were BA4, Summoner's Boon, Extended Range, and a focus that saved mana on dots. [/b][/quote]
With kiss on a mob that's about 16k unfocussed, with ave 11% from BA4 you get to 17.75k. I wonder how much damage the focused rog pet's doing, and how much HP do these guys have in the basement? I didn't know they had lower hp there, I'll definitely have to try it. I wish I had the pet power aug or ba4, though I can get a mage summoned one and stick it in one of my crappy arm slots. I may go right to crit affliction after finishing scm3 for soloing.

[Soulrot]

At 63 - 65 I think I pulled with 63 Darkness of course, then cast Dark Plague (since it's the longest dot, get the most out of one cast), then splurt, then FPoK. I'd later cast Saryn's Kiss, and refresh FPoK once, and resnare around 50-40%. Actually I probably had another dot in there, but I forget. @ 65 I threw a single BoT along with the above, and that was all it took with 63 pet. And all dots would wear off usually so I wasn't wasting any tics.