Attack Waves

Whether the numerous Thunder Crest attack wave quests, or the defending the virgin in Blackborg, I seem to have considerable trouble to solo these.

Not hugely impressive, I guess, but my ranger can hold his own.

Tried with Blue Essence, tried going considerably more defensive, and a few other variants. No go.

Any suggestions?

Did you all solo these? Or did you always do the mas a group?

Cheers

 

Without a good items ? Better be in Group

 

If you can't do it solo with blue essences, you need better items (or at least one partner).

 

Go on event with a friends,a mage is good,for vortex and light Good Luck

 

I have a pretty good DK. I can solo blackborg EXCEPT defend the virgin. The mobs are just to much. PLus the little spiders, when they attack you, it reduces armour by 80%, if I remember correctly.

Yes, I usually do events with atleast a good mage friend. I keep groups in guild only though.

 

They reduce the armor by 0% lols

 

The key to defend the virgin solo is area of effect attacks: Dragon Fury and Mighty Wild Swing for a DK. Placement is key here, too. Try to hit as many as possible with one attack (this usually means putting a Dragon Fury right on top of the virgin).

I've noticed that, at least when soloing, the mobs tend to attack me right when they reach 1/2 hit points. This includes the ice-guardian thing. At 1/2 hit points, it attacks me and stops attacking the virgin (which is good). This is how I solo the virgin without essences. Hope these tips are helpful to some.

p.s. I never noticed spiders taking away armor when they bite. I didn't look at the debuff icon, but it seems to affect movement speed. I don't feel any difference in armor. Next time I'm in there, I'll check the debuff icon.

 

I know for a fact the spiders do a debuff, Ethnic. It might not be armour. As I said, IF I remember correctly. But I know after they bite me and the mobs attack my hp drain drastically. Better pay attention to the little icon at the bottom after a bite.

 

They slow your Walking Speed by 5-10% i think.
and give you a poison DoT

 

Good advice from multi-sev. I solo blackborg with my DK as well, and can defend the virgin with her health bar 25% full after it's all said and done. One trick that I picked up on is knowing when and where the witches will spawn in each attack wave. Keep them from activating their buff on the mobs and you'll notice a big difference.

 

And if you can't do the attack waves, there are always bugs

Wait no, DSO has no bugs

 

Generally, it is hardest to solo the defense missions as a DK because they swarm the NPC and it is hard to agro the damage to yourself away from the weak NPC. The other characters have high enough damage and long enough range and crowd control skills that they can deal with the mobs before they even get to the NPC... Now if the Devs would just give DKs a skill to force agro to one's self, then it would be easy for a DK to solo all of those defense missions.

 

There's definitely a poison damage-over-time effect, as mentioned above, and a movement debuff. I haven't seen an armor debuff that doesn't cause the "broken shield" icon to appear over your head.

Most likely, your poison resistance (resistance in general) could use some work or your blocking rate is low/not applicable - or a combination of those things. Those would be my observations if spider poisoning is draining a lot of health.

+1 - Good point about killing the witches before they cast. Order of appearance in the clearing is - back, left, right on waves 1, 3, 5 (I think). As a DK, if you can jump on them and have enough rage for a couple of slams that usually takes them out quickly. Other classes should just have enough "juice" ready to shoot them down.