Efficient corp soloing (goliaths)

[Powerfrog]

So I'm going to unlock goliath gloves today, maybe tomorrow if I'm feeling lazy, and I'm interested in their special effect for corping.

 

What I'd like to ask is what would the ideal gear/inventory set up be to get the fastest kills at the cheapest price, with low/no chance of death.

 

Note that i do not have any dungeoneering shields or enough money for ely/divine. I can use defender/dfs/bss...

 

My current understanding is that i punch corp till he's on about half hp, and the core comes out, at this point i stun the core and switch to spear, and happily stab away on the weakened Corp until he falls over and drops a sigil.

 

By efficient i mean NOT using 25 sara brew flasks a kill, but using something a lot cheaper/a lot less brews.

 

Same question for duo, should that happen to be faster than solo.

[Quyneax]

Bgs, mithril crossbow, zspear, dreadnips, 1 ovl, 3 restores, 1-2 special recover, rest brews. You won't use all brews especially if you ss flash.

[Octarine]

I tend to wait either until the core comes out, or if you hit a nice BGS spec you should switch to ZS a bit earlier. Dominion marker might be useful to take along but I'd assume its benefit is minimal

[Quyneax]

Marker helps restore stats but it doesn't boost. If you find you brew a lot, it's nice, the more you heal with vampirism/soul split the less important it gets.

[Kabbage5]

Probably being stupid here, but...

 

People use a mithril crossbow to stun core because of it's lower accuracy, right?

So why not use bronze, since bolt activation doesn't depend on if the shot hit?

 

:mellow:

 

*Missing something*

[Cheefoo]

Probably being stupid here, but...

 

People use a mithril crossbow to stun core because of it's lower accuracy, right?

So why not use bronze, since bolt activation doesn't depend on if the shot hit?

 

:mellow:

 

*Missing something*

 

You need a mithril crossbow or better to fire enchanted emerald bolts.

[Kabbage5]

Probably being stupid here, but...

 

People use a mithril crossbow to stun core because of it's lower accuracy, right?

So why not use bronze, since bolt activation doesn't depend on if the shot hit?

 

:mellow:

 

*Missing something*

 

You need a mithril crossbow or better to fire enchanted emerald bolts.

 

Hot damn, I knew I was missing somethings, thanks :thumbup:

I'll be doing something like this when I get around to soloing the corp, so thankee, kind sir :shock:

[Powerfrog]

So. Brews are completely necessary for a kill? I was hoping i could use sharks and actually make a profit from none-sigils.

 

Is there ANY idea on how common sigils are? I honestly can't tell if it's 1/100 or 1/10000. (I've killed less than 100 but witnessed 1 sigil, i guess that's just intense luck)

 

I just wanna try get a rough idea on how much i should be willing to waste to speed up kills.

[Quyneax]

1/1k for arcane/spectral, 1/2k for elysian/divine is a common estimate but I have no clue on its accuracy.

 

You don't so much 'need' brews but especially without eeks/ely/divine you may not be able to out-heal corp on a roll, and you lose a lot less offensive power when you heal with brews.

[Powerfrog]

1/1k for arcane/spectral, 1/2k for elysian/divine is a common estimate but I have no clue on its accuracy.

 

You don't so much 'need' brews but especially without eeks/ely/divine you may not be able to out-heal corp on a roll, and you lose a lot less offensive power when you heal with brews.

I'd definitely still take a few emergency brews to outheal the unlucky combos, but i don't see how all brews could possibly be cost effective.

 

Assuming your sigil rates are accurate, you'd average roughly 425000 coins per corp from sigils, lets say regular drops average 75k for a nice even 500k corp.

 

While that seems like quite a lot, all brews would bite a huge chunk out of it for their actual use in terms of speeding up the kill.

 

Of course that's just based off those speculated rates, the truth could be way more/less.

[Powerfrog]

So i just solo'd corp for the first time in my life... I brought 9 rocktails, 10 brew flasks. (1 spec rest flask, 1 ovl)

 

I used 9 rocktails and 2 brews! :D (Kill was 9 minutes... All 3 bgs specs missed and I gloved for way too long, i think)

 

So i think I'm gonna replace flasks with vials and continue this. The idea is to only eat the fish but the brews are there just in case.

[sants5]

watch my vid, hope it helps

[Powerfrog]

watch my vid, hope it helps

Yeah i know you can just reduce his stats and then take him on in another trip, but isn't that just the same thing but slower?

 

For example, after you're finished draining his stats, why go to the effort of banking, when you can just pull the spear out and not use any food? Not to mention the corp will already be half dead from the stat draining.

[AKwaspRS]

[Powerfrog]

...I hate corp.

 

I dunno if he randomly "resets" the defense drains or something, but i tried the drain then fight mehtod and he just utterly destroyed me 3 times in a row lol (I figured I'll get him next as I've added lots of bgs specs into the mix, but nope.)

 

Think I'll just stick to trios.

[sants5]

Actually he does regain its stats slowly as do all monsters, but the increase shouldnt be notable if you bank fast. I have started to use goliaths for weakening and then switching to spear. The vid just showed how to do corp without armour.