Crypt of Decay

[Meritt]

Not bad exp here solo at 65, getting 3-4% AA per kill.

[Oneiromancer]

Seems like every time I group there, we get a pretty bad pull, and we either handle it easily, or not, depending on if that Greater Corrupted Pusling (or whatever, the one that can't be slowed) is one of the adds or not.  Any suggestions in that respect?

Some more information would be nice too.  Like, how well geared are you, and how many AAs do you have?  Do you think someone soloing here would need to be similarly geared/AAed, or do you think they can make do with less?

Game on,

[Meritt]

My magelo profile is:
http://www.magelo.com/eq_view_profile.html?num=480736

The Greater Pusling is definitely something that would force you to flee to zone, without a doubt.

I have the 65% slow, although I was doing this with the 50% slow -- it's much easier now.

I've been hunting in CoD for a very long time, so I can get single pulls with relative ease.  I just park the pet at the entance with /pet hold and go in, and pull the puslings with slow.  Don't go straight into the bigger room that has about 4 spawns, that room is quite difficult to get single.

From the zone in point, you walk into the pusling area and can single pull from either your left or right.  Use F8 for targetting, and stay as far as away as possible.  Slow em' and run back to pet.

I use incapacitate after the slow, and this usually brings me full aggro.  I'll tank them for a bit while pet builds aggro (using Rellic proc).  Drop on a scrop. venom for added dps and usually back out around 50% life.

Let pet tank, healing as necessary.  GoD Tribute of Improved Healing, FT5, Spell Haste, Mana Conservation, and AC buff is my normal choice for here.

I usually get KEI and Virtue before heading in, the remainder are self buffs.

I think a person with junk-bazaar gear could do this, just play pet cleric a lot more and don't melee/tank near as often.  My gear isn't great by any stretch, but it gets me by.

[Gimmecatnip]

I have been solo'ing there for a small amount of time, pretty tough with just 19aa, but doable. Not really good with getting singles though, but I guess the longer im there the better my technique will get  :)

[Meritt]

You can also use pet pulling to get singles, but you absolutely need Suspend Minion 2 for that to work.

[Noriko]

Does anyone have a pull sequence?  I can get 2-3 singles but the rest are much harder to pull.  I hate pet-pull and would like to avoid it in an xp grind situation.

[Meritt]

Well, it depends on how many greaters have spawned.  There are 2-3 wanderers that go N-S from the start of the Bubonian Rat place [north] down south to the stairs to where Paffa spawns.

Here's a map:
http://www.eqatlas.com/planes/cryptofdecaymap.html

In each of those little nubs on the first hall, a pusling spawns.  Each of those can be single pulled except for when two nubs are directly across from one another.

Up the stairs towards Paffa is a little with room a DC pet and 2 spawns.  Each of those three can be single pulled easily.

With the 3 wanderers, the North nubs in the hallway, and the south area around Paffa's room that should leave you with 7 Puslings and 2 DC pets [rat, corpse scavanger, etc].

I'd think that'd be more than enough for an individual, after that you need to pet pull or you are going to get doubles.

[Oneiromancer]

Thanks for the extra information...it definitely inspires me to want to try it out sometime soon!

Game on,