Soloing Nex

[godwisper]

read many guides but never tried soloing Nex though did some trips already with my clan.

 

I want to make the easiest kills possible and am ready to invest and make some income back from drops before nex items crash more :)

 

so what will work better ?

 

atm I have only superior sea singer hood and legs, ragefire and static gloves. Pennance aura and scrimshaw of vampirisym. Portent of Life and attuned portent of restoration.

 

I was thinking as weapons to either use: seismic wand and vbook. I cannot afford both seismics and they told me that vwand + singularity don`t work any much better than vwand and book.

 

Since as yet I dont have the superior sea singer chest should I get the tradable one ? or get the virtus or tectonic ?

 

thanks to all for any suggestions :)

[Ambler]

Invest in a tectonic set. It'll easily pay itself back over time.

Seis wand + vbook is a ton better than seis wand+orb, and orb really isn't worth it unless you REALLY care about dps.

 

For the first few kills:

Portent of life

Seis wand/ vbook

Tectonic set, virt boots/gloves

Bring vulnerability runes, along with air surge. (Normal spell book)

Stuff like vampirism will help you a ton

 

Overload, Renewal, Adren Pot, Royal xbow (for minions)

3 sup restore/1sanfew serum flask

4-8 brew flasks (I'd say 4 when starting out)

shield, food, wealth switch for when you make the kill.

 

I assume you already know the mechanics, though if you don't/are unsure on something, just ask. I'll reply a bit later when I get home from college. :p

[godwisper]

Thanks for the info especially from an expert like you :)

 

forgot to mention that I have as well scrimshaw of the elements and runic accuracy aura......

 

Finally on which phase is the shield used as most solo`s I saw on youtube and guides don't refer to a shield.....

[Ambler]

Shields are not needed at all once you get the hang on things, though you might want to use one on Zaros for the first few kills, as it can really eat you food.

When using a shield, try to cycle (revenge) -> debilitate -> reflect -> resonsance/anticipation, this will save you a ton of food, and most likely make you use none every kill if you get the hang of tanking/lucky with mage hits.

There's also ice phase, if you know you can get to 100% adrenaline for every ice prison, use a shield then too, though I prefer to just use sunlight as soon as the prison hits, and ability spam when eating up. Seriously cuts the food needed.

[godwisper]

ok so today I tried some solo`s but I was surely doing something wrong as I was only giving few amounts of damage and for example my last fight I did took me arnd 4 minutes to pass the first phase. 

 

My armour is as follows:

 

full tectonic, virtus boots and gloves, arcane necklace, seer`s ring, magic cape, swans and book using as range switch royal chow with sac bolts.

 

Had penance or runic acc auras with either vampirism or elements scrimshaw.

 

Now its either I was using wrong abilities or something is totally wrong ......

 

UPDATE: Ok found my damage problem as I forgot to set the offhand spell..... now am stuck a bit in blood phase but will look that up

[Quyneax]

Vampirism scrimshaw doesn't work for magic or ranged, by the way. For the blood phase, damage output is key, so I'm guessing you want a Sunshine > adrenaline potion > Concentrated blast > Impact > Concentrated Blast > Dragon Breath/Wrack > Asphyxiate combo or something similar.

[godwisper]

Sunshine as yet I dont have...I can go with scrimshaw of the elements instead of vamp

[Quyneax]

Sunshine is probably worth getting, it lasts longer than Metamorphosis and deals a bit of damage by itself as well. I believe Nex will come into melee range and you can keep standing there, though I don't know whether Sunshine will heal her on a siphon.

[Ambler]

Sunshine does heal on siphon sadly, but if you use it a bit earlier (preferable a second before reavers spawn) you can kill 1 or both reavers, and have 65% adrenaline for wild magic -> ashpxiate on Nex. Remember to use the escape ability to avoid blood sacrifice. :P

[godwisper]

Managed to get sunshine but still am stuck in blood phase

[Wa Ve]

I don't really want to jack your thread, but does anyone have any information on the seis orb+vwand being bad? I recall a friend telling me that it was actually very good. 

[Th e Doctor]

I don't really want to jack your thread, but does anyone have any information on the seis orb+vwand being bad? I recall a friend telling me that it was actually very good.

No one said it was bad. They said its bad compared to seismic wand/virtus book because the offhand contributes so little to DPS that its not worth paying the extra bail gp vs 60ish mil gp.

[V O R K]

Runic aura is useful for low level monsters, it doesn't seem to help one bit at higher levels. Vamp/pray aura's are more useful.

 

Spells are capped on your weapon. So wind wave beats ice barrage now DPS-wise. sigh

[Levells]

Runic aura is useful for low level monsters, it doesn't seem to help one bit at higher levels. Vamp/pray aura's are more useful.

 

Spells are capped on your weapon. So wind wave beats ice barrage now DPS-wise. sigh

Lvl 60 Spell > lvl 90 Spell? What? If you used grifolic, they would be the same. Any higher and barrage wins. Yes, there was some crazy issue a few weeks ago w/ offhand damage, but that was fixed like 2 weeks or more ago.

 

Friend used runic accuracy at nex yesterday with me. We had some record blood phases, he was still flaming from meta into the start of ice. Sure, we've had no siphon bloods before,but not that fast.

[Ambler]

http://www.twitch.tv/fumbrars/c/3282124 If you have seismics, and a ton of luck, blood phase is stupidly easy. :p

(Oops can't embed twitch videos). :wall:

 

Vwand + Seis Orb has t80 accuracy and damage, with t90 offhand damage

Vwand+ Vbook has t80 accuracy, t80 offhand damage

Seis Wand + vbook has T90 accuracy + mainhand damage, t80 offhand damage

Seis Wand + Seis orb has t90 accuracy, t90 damage in both hands.

 

Jagex really needs to fix accuracy, make it average out from both weapons, or be 75% mainhand 25% offhand, something like that.