Comments on: The Classics Never Die…

By: Aspect of the Hare » Meme Me

Aspect of the Hare » Meme Me — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 18:53:57 +0000

[...] Working on Solo’ing Deadmines with Tux. I believe I mentioned how I used to attempt this every couple of levels until I finally cleared it at 41. Since then my personal record has been lowered to 36. [...]

By: Kattrinsaa

Kattrinsaa — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 14:08:08 +0000

I never tried to gorilla on my huntr, My dwarf hunter’s first real favorite pet was a loch modan crock, unfortunately noisy.. but a low profile so the dwarf could see over it..

I ran VC solo so many times trying to grind up greens/ore/cash for my hunter’s first mount that I can’t bear to even go there in a level appropriate group anymore.

As far as that irradiated hole in the ground, I generally treat anyone that says it’s name like they just swore at me over an open mic. I hate that place with a passion. Incidentally, did you know that an irradiated cat has 18 half lives?

One of my guild mates (a hunter) has a habit of farming BRD for runecloth solo.. for hours on end. To me that would be excessively dull, I just couldn’t do it.

By: Indigo Haze

Indigo Haze — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 06:45:04 +0000

At 60 a friend’s Disc Priest and my Arcane Mage did a 3 pull to Smite. I got the bubble, he went one way, I went the other, met at a Boss and bammo… I did all the aggro (Arcane Explosion) and he did the healing.

Highly enjoyable listening to the noobs behind us cursing that they couldn’t loot fast enough.

By: Cryptography

Cryptography — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 11:52:42 +0000

I’m currently trying to clear every single monster in all of RFC in a single pull.
Not a chance on my Rogue.

I’ve got it down to 2 and a half pulls on my Unholy DK at 65 but the orc melee types in the second half shield-slam too often.

I’m told there is youtube vids of mages doing it. Their AOE of course would be strong enough but I expect they would be too fragile.

My mage, Lock and Pally are all too low to attempt this.

By: Capn John

Capn John — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 21:00:29 +0000

When I was leveling my Rogues I used to solo Instances, particularly Gnomeregan. Yes, Gnomeregan. I was one of the few players that actually loved that Instance. Sure, I was usually a couple of levels higher than I could have been, but there’s a lot of fun in Stealthing through an Instance and taking down the Bosses. With a Combat Sword Rogue popping Evasion, Blade Flurry and Riposte on a hot-key, you can often take down a couple of Elites, including a Boss, as long as they’re a couple of levels lower than you.

On my Druid I solo’d all of the RFK quests, including The Crone (or is it The Krone?) when I was barely level 30. I think I was just a level or two higher than The Crone at the time and I had to shift, repeatedly, to keep myself healed, but still trying to keep up the DPS. IIRC I finished that fight with less than 100 health. It was intense, but a huge rush.

I don’t play WoW any more but I would often set challenges for myself like these. As a more casual (solo) player, this was one part of WoW that I really enjoyed.

By: Indigo Haze

Indigo Haze — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 03:05:06 +0000

Sadly… Warlock, level 32. Rogue, level 32. Original BM spec Hunter (pre-BC, before first BM Hunter Nerf), level 30. Arcane Mage, 30.

Of course I’m also one of those sick people who does throw out Explosive Trap for more DPS in “polite groups”. My job is to kill things. If the Tank is insane enough to pull 4 or 5 targets in a Heroic, who am I to resist the urge to do something equally insane?

And yeah, Gorilla would be cheating, but I’d bet you could do it lower than 30 with one (if there were one available). Going in with a Bear, Cat or Wolf should be the ‘standard’ (when I did it years ago it was with a Wolf)

By: Corrazad

Corrazad — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 14:02:47 +0000

I soloed almost all of Wailing caverns with my level 26 Rogue, he was heavily twinked and buffed from pots and scrolls but it was really fun, I also ran Blackfathom Depths Solo to get to the first boss trying to get her bow and gloves for my rogue. Granted I stealthed past all ofthe mobs except for her, it was a heck of a fight let me tell you

By: Jezrael

Jezrael — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 11:38:54 +0000

It’s so true what you say about doing things that get you to dig deep into your class or try/learn things that you would never normally do. I think it makes you a much more well rounded player. I think doing PUGs helps with this too – both in a opportunity to learn from players other than your regular buddies, and also having to be on your toes when those puggers turn out to be terribad and you have to pull out every trick in the book to get through the instance. Personally I like to do PvP – it makes me think about the hunter class in a different way, I need to use a whole different set of skills from PvE and you really really have to be on the ball with your situational awareness. Great post Pike

By: Bristal

Bristal — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 21:07:20 +0000

I was leveling mining/enchanting on my 58 DK last weekend and stumbled on the Deadmines which I had never done. So I went on in to try to pick up some more nodes and greens to DE. Not challenging, obviously, but a really nice instance (other than the annoying maze trying to find the entrance) and FUN! I’ve decided to try soloing all the instances I come across as I level mining, which is painfully sloooooow.

By: Alii

Alii — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 17:40:31 +0000

I love doing this! I don’t remember the last time I tried it.

I do remember going to the first boss that drops Leggings of the Fang for my druid at level 30ish. There’s only two pulls you need to take care of if you’re clever with stealth and the boss isn’t too hard.

I’ve also made her solo bits of Gnomer to get that underwater breathing staff. That one you can do as soon as you can equip the staff.

I did Deadmines once, but I don’t remember what level that was. XD

Also – there’s a pally quest for SFK at level… 20, I think? I’ve soloed my pallies through the courtyard at least twice (Terrifying!, but I get better each time) so I don’t have to waste the same amount of time it took me to get it myself trying to _find_ a group for that dratted instance.

Soloing baby dungeons at low levels is one of my favorite things to do.