When I thought about recording my gaming, I wanted to make a video of Thaz soloing ee Impossible Demands. Why? Because I wanted to show people that you don’t need to be a multi-TR to solo stuff. And that even clerics, who a lot of people think of as only healers, can rule the scene. Well, I was excited and pleased with my video, so I shared it in the channels and with my friends. While I got a lot of good feedback, one friend of mine told me I should try something harder, because ID isn’t really impressive. The reason I picked ID was because it wasn’t really a challenge to me. It’s short and I knew I could solo it easily. The quest I really wanted to solo was Tracker’s Trap, the first quest in the Storms Horns chain. I had tried it a few times before, always getting stunned and dead. After 3 manning most of it the other day, and us doing really well with the right tactics, I was inspired to try and solo it again. Yes, I’m talking epic elite, because epic elite is where it hurts.. a lot.
With this run I proved to myself why I don’t enjoy soloing ee’s. It just takes too damn long. In Shiradi Thaz does a lot of dps (for a cleric), but because of build and gear, takes take a lot of damage, and the only way for me to survive, is to just keep on moving. I find fighting a lot easier when I don’t have aggro, and I can just shoot the mobs in the back. Well, to prove a point to myself and to others, I decided to bite my teeth and push myself through Tracker’s Trap ee solo. I can admit I did feel like giving up several times, but I didn’t because I wanted to be able to say “I did it”. The run took 180 minutes, 21 deaths, 10 re-entries, I used the 13 charges on my mana trinket, and 28 major mana pots. I have no plans on doing this again.
I have cut out a lot of running around and dying in the video, as well as my re-entering and running back to the end fight. The finished product is 39 min long. Enjoy.
Micki's Delirium 
Love your persistence. What recording software were you using?
🙂 Thank you. This is Bandicam, the same softw Klorox uses. I bought the licensed version before run to remove the 10 min recording limitation (didn’t want the video to get cut off at the wrong time). I like it because it’s simple, I can select my recording hot key, and it compresses the files a bit automatically, so you won’t have the gigas per minute like you get with fraps (although my 39 min video is 12GB).
Great! I’m hoping to add some videos to the Monk guide and to the blog. Very helpful. Have a great New Year!
🙂 Cool.
And Happy New Year to you too.
Ouch.
p.s. what mana trinket?
🙂
http://ddowiki.com/page/Item:Shard_Trinket_of_Mnemonic_Enhancement
I’m gonna say you’ve lost it but impressive
😀 haha. ty. Yup. Completely nuts.
You know, i can’t see this video because i have not the pack yet!! (if i see it then i ruin my surprise when i’ll get). You spent hours there but you made it!! \o/
Now it’s time to solo a raid too :]
🙂 ty Osi. And, I understand. You can watch it some other time, if you want.
i feel your pain. XD after listening to people say “bards can’t do this, bards can’t do that, bards can’t DPS bosses, etc” AND “you need to have X, Y, and Z to do EE quests, blah blah blah” i got fed up with it and went and soloed EE LoD on Pointless.
the answer i got? “oh, that’s an easy epic. and your crit for 5K sucks. oh yeah, and did we mention… any dingbat with an axe in Fury can DPS in EEs.”
sheesh. >.>
nice accomplishment. you have far more patience than i. i wouldn’t have kept re-entering so many times like that.
🙂 ty.
Not every re-entry was because of death, though. A few times I recalled to shrine outside, and twice I typed /death to go repair my gear.
U become quite famous on the vault because of your vids not always positive but haters hate so dont mind them XP
forgot the links xP
http://www.ddovault.com/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl?num=1388293472/0
Thank you. I have seen it. I have no plans to comment. 🙂 Stupid ppl making themself look stupid… well you know.
I think haters are just jealous probably they cant even solo any EE
🙂 it is human nature to complain and find flaws. In the end I think they are just very unhappy individuals. I have learned though, that you cannot heal stupid, and haters are gonna hate.
They complain about me being selective for ee Tor, then they complain that I spent 3h in ee Tor with a group that just wasn’t ready for it, and I refused to give up. There just isn’t any pleasing some people, so I’m just not gonna bother trying.
I finally got this: http://ddowiki.com/page/Item:Nether_Orb_(Level_28) with evo focus (ty Demon), and slotted +132 devotion on it. I then moved my +132 radiance from Tinah to Balizarde. The next step is to make Thaz some displacement clickies, since she doesn’t have a single on of those yet. Also, some of her gear needs upgrading.
Gtz, on your EE completion and your Necro Orb!! 🙂
Evo*
thx*
🙂 ty. It wasn’t the best run, since I had quite a bit of problems with the male assassins, they were getting on my nerves, and I didn’t care if I died. It also took me forever (I think 20 min?) to take out the giant with 270k hp. But I got lucky with the traps, only one pressure plate where you got stuck if you stepped on it.
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