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Thread: Advice on soloing acklay
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Galjoss
Wed Jul 07, 2004 8:26 am
#1
Hi,
I'm Master Rifleman/Master Swordsman with a 4004 TKA and a bit of medic, from what I hear both these proffesions can solo the acklay but when I tried today I got killed and was wondering what I was doing wrong, I got down there with no problems, walked though the door and got attacked by 3 kwi's which didnt present much of a problem, so I powerboost and now there is the acklay, 2 enhanced klicknicks and some spiders, I kill the spider by the door and try to work out a way of agroing the klicknick to the right without agroing the acklay. But the acklay see's me so I am saved the trouble, I stay in the doorway and start shooting the acklay and a kwi spawns behind me so I move into the main room and kill the kwi first because it is intimidating me, then a klicknick joins in shooting fireballs at me soI move into close range and kill the klicknick and then the next klick nick joins in, all this time the Acklay is intimidating me so killing the klicknick takes ages, by the time I have finnished,the other one I had just killed respawns and I've been in the room for about 5 minutes and have hardly got a shot off at the acklay, soI try to concentrate on the acklay and start attacking him, but he is keeping me intimidated and I'm not really doing much damage, I got about half way through before I got killed by ignoring the klicknicks, I was just wondering how you guys deal with the klicknicks in the room with acklay and if there was anyway to avoid being intimidated by him other than having a tank. I've done it with a tank before and he dropped in minutes, but withhim intimidating me and klicknicks spawning as fast as I can kill em because of the intimidation I'm really struggling solo.
Any advice would be appreciated as I would like some bones
Clatters
Wed Jul 07, 2004 8:41 am
#2
Well i use master swordsman to kill it no problem, all you have to do is focus on acklay and not worry about the others spawning arround you, when ur health is low jus stim up.
And having a CoB macro running always helps as it will reduce the ammount of hits that you take.
Blackheart1222
Wed Jul 07, 2004 8:56 am
#3
Clatters wrote:Well i use master swordsman to kill it no problem, all you have to do is focus on acklay and not worry about the others spawning arround you, when ur health is low jus stim up.And having a CoB macro running always helps as it will reduce the ammount of hits that you take.
How do you have the CoB macro setup? I can not get mine to work right.
Clatters
Wed Jul 07, 2004 9:08 am
#4
Say you call ur macro CoB
/centerofbeing;
/pause <insert your cob duration here +1>;
/macro CoB;
That should work fine
Galjoss
Wed Jul 07, 2004 9:30 am
#5
When I tried to concentrate on the ackley i was getting hit for more than I could heal with stims, witha COB macro running, I'm only novice medic can only use stim B's, what attack do you use, I was using HH3 as i thought this would be quickest to kill it or should I use a spin attack and try to take the klicknicks at the same time with this. Is there any way to stop the acklay applying intimidate, when I'm intimidated I'm only hitting for about 500-1000, now I know how or them poor nightsisters elders feel.
Bandit3038
Wed Jul 07, 2004 9:35 am
#6
Want to know the best way to solo him? Master Commando and Master smuggler. Log off in his lair, then log on later when the chance of someone being on is nihl. Then attack him and keep feign deathing unitl the burn kills him. Or how this method that i used to solo him the first time. I do not know why this happened but all the enhanced kwis and kilikinks all attacked him not me, and i just stood back and let my flamer rip. The only problem is that both times i have kill him i have gotten crappy armor enhancing schematics.
Jastrom
Wed Jul 07, 2004 9:49 am
#7
Redondo
Wed Jul 07, 2004 9:51 am
#8
I have never done acklay, but with elders when other NS show up, I keep the Elder targeted and use spin attack all the while keeping the elder intimidated. Basically keep your hardest opponent intimidated while spinning on the others, you will do damage to all, but will keep your hardest opponent at bay. I can also heal states as a master doc, which isnt that big of a deal with NS I've found, but is there a defense against intimidate food? If you have room for a little extra food that could help.
rgrocott
Wed Jul 07, 2004 10:22 am
#9
Galjoss wrote:
Hi,
I'm Master Rifleman/Master Swordsman with a 4004 TKA and a bit of medic, from what I hear both these proffesions can solo the acklay but when I tried today I got killed and was wondering what I was doing wrong, I got down there with no problems, walked though the door and got attacked by 3 kwi's which didnt present much of a problem, so I powerboost and now there is the acklay, 2 enhanced klicknicks and some spiders, I kill the spider by the door and try to work out a way of agroing the klicknick to the right without agroing the acklay. But the acklay see's me so I am saved the trouble, I stay in the doorway and start shooting the acklay and a kwi spawns behind me so I move into the main room and kill the kwi first because it is intimidating me, then a klicknick joins in shooting fireballs at me soI move into close range and kill the klicknick and then the next klick nick joins in, all this time the Acklay is intimidating me so killing the klicknick takes ages, by the time I have finnished,the other one I had just killed respawns and I've been in the room for about 5 minutes and have hardly got a shot off at the acklay, soI try to concentrate on the acklay and start attacking him, but he is keeping me intimidated and I'm not really doing much damage, I got about half way through before I got killed by ignoring the klicknicks, I was just wondering how you guys deal with the klicknicks in the room with acklay and if there was anyway to avoid being intimidated by him other than having a tank. I've done it with a tank before and he dropped in minutes, but withhim intimidating me and klicknicks spawning as fast as I can kill em because of the intimidation I'm really struggling solo.
Any advice would be appreciated as I would like some bones
Personally, I stay in that little room just inside the door. You can aggro the acklay pretty easily (as you did) and from there you shouldn't draw the attention of the Klikniks (sp?). The Kwi is a relatively infrequent spawn, too. If you get into the main room and try to kill off the others, then you have the respawning problem that you encountered, so I try to avoid that if possible.
Were you well buffed, and properly armoured? You want your secondary stats to be over 1500 once you take your armour encumbrance into account, and 80% Kinetic composite is the armour of choice (the Kilknik fireballs will tear through Ubese like tissue paper). Also, keep the Acklay intimidated so his damage output is lower.
Other than that, not sure what to advise - I've not really had a problem with him myself.
Oh, I just noticed you said 'shooting' the Acklay. When I was Master Rifleman/Master Swordsman, I went melee all the way. If you have a good scythe, use that, he's more vulnerable to kinetic than blast IIRC.
Good luck 
Meh-C
Wed Jul 07, 2004 2:05 pm
#10
Always use intimidation 1 (novice brawler skill), as master brawler, intimidatation 2 is priceless....
AspiringBountyHunter
Wed Jul 07, 2004 10:32 pm
#11
The bad thing about only having novice medic when you are soloing big stuff, is that when you need to heal, you really can't hit yourself that hard. You may want to think about running up the pharm tree to use stim Cs or Ds.
Keep the thing intimidated and stick to the small room.
Also be sure to use a scythe instead of a hammer, unless your hammer has really, really good damage over your scythe.
KawaiiTsuki
Wed Jul 07, 2004 10:48 pm
#12
don't really have any advice for soloing him for the simple reason......YOU CAN'T SOLO HIM AS A WOOKIEE!!...well
KawaiiTsuki
Wed Jul 07, 2004 10:51 pm
#13
sry, comp wigged out
...well maybe, but you can't get to him thats for sure.
I have krayt scale enhanced KC, something like 65%kin/43energy/8heat/etc. only vuln to blast and stun anyway, most stats above 15%.
Tried all of my profs too...
only time i've been able to fight him was with the help of my MSmuggler/Swordsman friend....then 2 guys ran in while we were fighting him and took the loot rights.
guess I'll log on and try again.
Chibacca
MFencer/TKM/MSwordsman
Kettemoor's Wookiee Samurai
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