Solo Kiting in TC

Centurion Class : Ranger

Written by: Cruoris

Hello all, nice to see you in the ranger forum like me. I recently leveled up to level 30 and part of my leveling was spent soloing in the Training Camp instance and I thought I would share with you my findings. Please note that when soloing elites in the training instance you will gain more then 105k EXP per kill even at level 28.

The first thing you need is someone to join your party. That person's level does not matter, even if they can't enter do to level or lockout, you just need to be in a party to enter the instance.

You will want to have Odella Powder, HP pots, MP pots, arrows, all the usual things. I would also suggest abyss point potions as backup if case.

At level 25-26 the biggest scare you will have in the instance is slow not landing, so if you are not confident in your skills try holding off until 27+. If slow doesn't stick you can do a couple things like dropping a trap, sleep arrow or running until cooldown comes up.

When inside you must pay attention to one group of enemies that roam around that have 4 regular and 1 elite, these path down the left side toward the start area and back up the center. You need to be careful because you will be kiting in this area. Also do note that the smaller of the enemies, the runners, can see through stealth and we can actually use this to our advantage.

What I like to do when I enter is clear out all of the regular enemies that I can first to give me more room to work with. To the right you have a couple of recruits that pull together with a pathing elite, so make sure you don't get the elite. To the left you have a few more recruits that can be pulled solo. You can then grab some of the dragons which will pull in pairs if they are to close. Now we get down to the hard work of killing elites. I would clear out the pathing elite on the right hand side to allow for a clear kiting path. Killing one elite enemy in here actually doesn't take to long and is fairly easy, you just need to look out for their special attacks if they get to close, in that case pop focused evasion when you see their attack charging.

The biggest difference between instance fighting and outdoor fighting is enemies will not leash, which makes it normally impossible to get enemies 1v1 when they pull in pairs, but as I said earlier the smaller enemies see through stealth which helps us. What I like to do is pop slow arrow on the bigger of the pair and run like the wind! After a short time of running, even though they still are chasing you, hide will un-grey and become available for use. At this time pop hide and the bigger guy will leash and wander back to his spot and the small one will keep coming. This is the trick I used to make leveling worth while solo in the training instance.

I did try and take on the dragon boss blocking the second half of the instance but was not able to take him down, I only got him to half health before he managed to get spells off to kill me. He uses Fire Blast repeatedly after I slowed him, as well as his AoE fire attack. They are silenceable and interuptable via sleep arrow, it MAY be possible to kill him if you gear to fight him but I am not sure if it worth it to try.

If anyone else has ideas to add or comments feel free, and anyone under 29 reading this should try it out. Not only is it good EXP, it also feels rewarding and continues to train you into become a very good ranger. Another benefit is that any drops from enemies are not split amongst the party, each elite will drop 1000+ kinah as well which is a nice bonus.

Brigade General Class : Assassin

I hate that SM and Rangers can kite. Talk about easy mode..

Centurion Class : Ranger

yup i love it

Centurion Class : Sorcerer

Hey.. You forgot to mention Sorcerers Shu!
We can kite too dammit! Psssh...

Brigade General Class : Assassin

I kind of forgot about Sorcerers.. strange for saying I was with you while you were kiting for hours lastnight..

Centurion Class : Ranger

haha, poor you melees, tho there are other things then your good at that we suck at... like being up front against the asmo's, of course we're lucky we dont have to be that close that we can actually smell em.

Brigade General Class : Assassin

Wha? We suck at PvP, unless we get the jump on them and all of our stuns land.

Assassins get kited and rooted far too much.

The only thing we are good at however is doing that much damage that we take threat and get ourselves killed. Whoop! An Assassin is only ever as good as their tank.

Centurion Class : Ranger

see then you are good at one thing... dieing! :P

but your right, without someone to take the beating then you are quite squishy actually

Centurion Class : Gladiator

As for your 'at least you can be up close with asmos' that is not an upside to being melee. As melee alot of the time you're sitting there bored because you know if you forward and attack something, you're going to be pulled into the mob and get mashed so much you can't tell what's your ass and whats your tounge.

Upside is that at 50, with decent gear, we (at least temp and glads) don't have to be so scared of that happening because we have a much higher health pool and with pots etc we can survive quite redily as well as doing some dmg.

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