I can easily solo anything else in the game , but when it comes to bosses I get creamed. Is there any build tips you might have for soloing them?

I am a level 31 mage all my equipment evenly splits int and endurance. I put all my stats in int.

My skills:
Firebolt
FireRing
Gaseous Blast
Heal Self
Average BMI
Gym Freak
Couch Patato
The 2 major mage skills for mana and damage
Shadow lightning

Right now I am on Rotgut and he slaughters me in 1 second...

I am also not a member.

Edited by RedBirdChaos (10/20/07 01:20 PM)

i wouldnt mind some help on this either. when exping i dont get hit more than 2x per group of mobs but when it comes to bosses im creamed before i can spam health pots.

add the blue shiled it is your first level of protection for hard hits. after that on boss's your main handy weapon is ice bolt .you can kill any of them with it it just takes longer. I am not sure that the new critical hitwill help any

Personally, I prefer Shadow Bolt to Fire Bolt. While it seems like Fire Bolt has a higher damage, Shadow Bolt has a much higher minimum damage, and on average it is more powerful than Fire Bolt. It also deals damage in three shots, so the chances of a spell not doing any damage is low. Heal Self, Not Other doesn't seem useful outside of PvP, since you can simply use potions, and the spell is interrupted easily by attacks. Shadow Lightning isn't much use when you are fighting a single target. Toxic Talent boosts the damage dished out by Gaseous Blast by a hefty amount, so I bring that along as well. Ice Bolt is, like someone said, very important. Blue Screen of Life is a personal preference, some people like it and some don't. I personally think it's useful, mainly because I lose HP and MP at the same rate when I use it.

Well in my case equipment buffs boosst fire bolt way up there .so for me it makes sense to use that

for one thing you are a mage and trying to solo a boss is highly not recommended.. rotgut i dont i could of soloed till almost 50 or so but then i think about it now i never tried till 50 either.. i went all endurance and used the rotgut reset trick..

I finally soloed him at level 35. The only thing I changed was to use Icebolt. Which worked wonders in slowing him down.

I also used Icebolt against Abaddon at level 39 to solo him. Took me 2 inventories of health potion though and about 7 lives. Most of those were used in killing his guards.

It is possible to solo Rotgut at a level 30+ as a mage, but personally I don't think it is worth it. Compared to other methods of farming.

I disagree rotgut has always been a favorite to farm for me.although low thirties is bit low for the fight

Oh, Rotgut is both fun and rewarding when you farm in a group. For a mage, however, I find it inefficient to solo him compared to soloing easier bosses, or to farm in groups.

I wasn't trying to farm him. I don't farm bosses. I was just trying to solo him to get to the next stage. Since you can't get their until you defeat him. Or at least you couldn't prior to patch .95.

can always ask somebody with all the obseliks points to run ya through em.. but wheres the fun in that

First, dump heal self. It's not really useful outside PvP, because you can just spam pots. Use Mana Shield instead, as it will protect you from the hard hits. Second, add hardheadedness. This will enable you to avoid being stunned so often by Rotgut's attacks. Third, if you're putting all your points into INT, make sure your equipments gives you enough END. Finally, try and get equipment that focuses your damage bonuses on one element, and blast away with that.



Edited by CaptJack (10/25/07 11:04 AM)