Lyme Blues

[jezer]

Ecko has just reached Lyme, and well to be honest, I've probably spent less than an hour playing on Lyme. (Between Jezer and Ecko)

I'm looking for solo xp on Lyme, but it seems like the whole area is either group or areas that are... "Splork or be splorked"

Someone said last night something like "Lyme is an area in which you are always dying to reach, only to figure out you can get more xp solo on other contients faster."

So here is my little arsenal... If some of the big tards could give me a little Lyme advice...

+18grip
-8ac
Wraithform/Sanct/3 Wraiths/Deathgrip/Wraithtouch/Gods of War

[Ditheca]

You should be able to get 100 mil an hour once you learn your way around ecko.

There's a nice learning curve as you learn the best ways to kill in the various areas. In some you'll be singing gods of war and leading with followers, other's you'll grip and order them to assist.

The best way to learn your way around is #1 experiment and die or #@ follow someone around who knows what they're doing.

I used method #1 myself, but feel free to use method #2 if you see me running xp some day.

Areas you should consider exploring are olympus, CK, Irapuete, lost cross, CG, tony's temple/pronghorns, necropolis, and pagoda.

And yes, prepare to kill or be killed Again, I suggest the kill option *waves*

[12345]

Lyme is basically divided up into 3 types of areas.

Desert - Not very different from most areas on other conts, but with much, much bigger mobs to kill. NoTemp zone.

Splorkish - Hit hard, pray they don't hit back.

Choppish - Mobs that you can only reasonably kill with specs. Trying to kill them without them is suicide.

Most of these are mixed up some. For instance, there's some splork xp in either of the other two and the other two have splork mobs in them.

The fun part of the equation is that in order to run chop, you need to get specs from splork mobs. Generally, these will be the militias and nymph followers in Tony's temple and the elite guards you find around lyme town. These are also some of the weaker splork mobs and so are good practice. It's also not too hard to get your corpse back if you die. Adding the prongs to this run makes it fairly decent for new Lymers. On the downside, its fairly common to bump into someone who's running the area when you want to be.

Irap has some nice splork mobs, but they range indifficulty. Generally stay away from any named mob and don't hit the fire ants or rocs, because they're all chop. The weaker ones tend to be close to the boat launch, though they're all kind of mixed up and you'll have to learn which ones you like hitting on your own. I personally don't like to solo that area because its dangerous and most stuff loots like crazy. Running with a blaster 2man style has away been more my style... but I'm not a hardcore gripper either. The matriarchs also pop Macus, which are pretty much the best choppers on Lyme.

Once you've got that much figured out, you can start working on some other areas.

[jezer]

Can I one man chop with a spec weapon?

Will I behead my followers/myself?
Are there good rewards in doing this?
Can reasonable xp be done this way?

[12345]

Simple answer? No.

Technically, I suppose you could if you were very brave and stupid. First, you'd have to run at -10. You'd have to damn the mob, web it, then disengage/blind until it's blinded. Assuming that you're not dead yet, work in a few heals. You'll need a long enough aegis for the battle to last long enough for at least 6 procs to go off. That's assuming you're using a Macu. Since Macus are dangerously fatal if you chop self, you'd probably want to go with something weaker like a claw or spec. Then you'd have to keep the battle going for 12 procs though. You'll have to keep plenty of healing power since a self chop with a spec will almost, but not quite, kill you if you're sanced. Then, if by some miracle you manage to kill the mob, you have to figure out why you killed a 30+ mil mob when the cap on Lyme is 5mil, even when it's a nocap day.

So... I'll let you decide. If you do it, let me know, I want to invite all my friends to watch.

[Weasel]

Ditheca - you said 100mil / hour.. solo?
I'd be lucky to get that in a group let alone solo... at least for my classo.

[Guinex]

I can do 200-300mil an hour afking......*smoke*

[12345]

[quote="Weasel":2prbtltg]Ditheca - you said 100mil / hour.. solo?
I'd be lucky to get that in a group let alone solo... at least for my classo.[/quote:2prbtltg]

Not an unrealistic number, but risky. Its actually safer and more profitable to run 2man. I think the record I've heard so far (believable) is 300mil each an hour.

If I remember correctly Weasel, you've a wa/ma/cl/th, you should be able to team up with a thief or mage for some insane xp totals. There's a couple kinda risky areas that you could run as well for pretty decent xp solo.

[blackmore]

[quote="jezer":22axmca1]Can I one man chop with a spec weapon?[/quote:22axmca1]
Yes, for some mobs it can be effective, assuming you have enough attacks to chop occasionally. If it takes 7 chops to kill a mob, even if you have to flee and regen a couple times, the mobs don't regen THAT fast that you don't ever drop them.

[quote="jezer":22axmca1]Will I behead my followers/myself?[/quote:22axmca1]
Eventually, yeah. Having someone within range of saving you is helpful.

[quote="jezer":22axmca1]Are there good rewards in doing this?[/quote:22axmca1]
For some mobs, it's easier than waiting for a group to form.

[quote="jezer":22axmca1]Can reasonable xp be done this way?[/quote:22axmca1]
No, not really. There's a few SBs and items that can be obtained pretty easily that way, but you do it mostly to say you did it.

[Roadrunr]

At +18 grip, oly paupers are splork (hit hard through -8 if you miss though),

followers in tonys are mostly splork, militia arent splork
chicks in irap. are splork but just about nothing else.

Xander runs +17 grip, -8ac and has squat for blasting so I pretty much just use restore and grip. I only get like 30-35m/hr though but X also has the problem of low mana and my short attention span/surfing while regening

We wont even discuss the fact that I can solo more xp/hr with X than with Ana. Still not as much as with RR but I see that day in the near future.

[jezer]

I've taken lower oly, pronghorns and lyme elites/foot soliders.

Unfortunately a supplicant, sanct, wraithform, lion/gods means I get about 4 ticks of fighting before full mana regen.

If you whiff your lucky to hit two mobs before wraith drops.

6mill xp for 3 mobs before a full mana regen, doesn't sound too great. I might run stalkers/ddreams for and hour and try and match it against lyme xp.

I have a feeling lyme will work for me better, if I just know what I'm doing.

Thanks for your advice so far, I'm getting around to try all your ideas.