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Thread: I need some tectical help for soloing Ackley.
The only way I've been able to solo the acklay is walking in slowly, agroing the acklay so he attacks everything else around him, getting my rifle up (DXR-6B) and spamming the hell out of headshot3, and when the acklay finally attacks me, I pick up my PH and start spamming headhits.
By this time all the other stuff is either very low on health or dead. If I get more things than just the acklay against me I use some area attacks, but if I get, like you did, 6 or 7 full health creatures, I run the hell out of there...
The spiders and Klikniks will aggro each other. While i waited for him to spawn, i practiced getting them to do this. It's not 100%, but my tactic was to aggro on a spider, then run to the klikniks (into melee range so no fire balls), then run around in circles peacing out 
I could normally get most of them on each other like this, with maybe one stuborn one not falling for it.
When Acklay was there, i kind did the same thing, only it didn't work out as well.
Still, i've solo'ed Acklay, and i'm a Wookiee. You've got to use intimidate all the time, and probably want to use your scythe. I kill the spiders off in a few hits with my stun baton (fencer) because they are vuln to it. Then spam bleeds/headhit3 on Acklay, ignoring the Klikniks.
I eat and drink well (double brandy, ahrisa, canape,synthesteak, blue milk, muon, etc), and have 50% kinetic resist armor - you guys with 80% comp have the easy life
Naga
See the biggest problem that people usually have with acklay and his buddies is that they intimidate
if you were a doc you can heal that in an instant, for intimidate literally cuts your damage in half for a good while.
But if you were really serious into soloing Acklay, you need pharm 4 and maybe some diagnostics, get some really good Stimpack D's or Stimpack E's ( yep you can use E's at pharm 4)
Try getting a Leather Trim Shirt with +25 to wound and injury treatment and put it on under your shirt.
If you need to, try and hire out a doctor or something, rifle docs work best.
Me and my friend used to do the acklay cave all the time ( literally 8 times a day ) if your on gorath you know us as Schala and Siphion lol
We stopped fighting him though, a group of people started complaining, the funny thing? they do the same thing to acklay, but they lure monsters into the room and feign death to kill anyone else in there which is really sad....
Siphion is a MHS
im a Doc Rifle ( well was, going MHS now lol )
See you need to go into the cave one day and pick up a lot of yellow cubes and solidfying agents ( 3 identical of each ) and make an uber scythe blade, you'll need one
what most people dont realize is that a scythe blade is FAR better for acklay, one made correctly and sliced well with a powerup can have near to 500 max power, a 2.6 scythe with 500 max damage is really good, besides Acklay is less resistant to kinetic and the scythe is much faster.
But if you need tips on how to kill him, here are some:
Lots of good composite
Migrate all your bars to max out focus and mind, and the rest into willpower ( your buffed almost all the time anyways, why does it even matter lol ) that way your mind is crazy high and your focus is really good so that you dont even use mind anymore.
if you can find a safe spot in the corridor right before acklay do it, kill the kwis and the droideka there, and in the little ramp ahead of the kwi but before entering the room into acklay, stay there for a sec.
If your a TKA, Powerboost
then take these foods
2 brandies
Ahrisa
and a Vercupti
What is a vercupti you might ask, its a wonderous food, very costly and very tough on the stomach filling ( usually 50 to 60 )
but it adds around 1000 to your mind and action and health
Siphion tested this for me once, with a base of around 900, he powerboosted, got buffed for 2500 health, and took a vercupti, and even put pixie on.
he reached 6000 health and it was insane, his action was around 5000, and his mind was hitting 5300
but the vercupti only last around 7 to 8 min, so get the job done fast.
try and lure acklay to the front of the room, so that you only have to fight him and the not the klikinks.
if you do have to fight the klikniks, run up to them, hit them with melee and they will go melee, the klikniks in melee are not even a threat so then kill acklay
here is the way i solo the acklay. do the usualy before you get to the geo cave. 80% kinetic armor, get buffed, bring some brandy and canape, and the emergency muon oh no im going to die because my stomach is too full.
i assume you can at least get to outside the room. where all the klikniks and spiders are and the poison fog. Ok go inside now and MAKE sure you kill the enhanced kwi there. Those are very dangerous because they stun and intimidate you. That cuts your damage to like 1/4. Dont just rush into the acklay room after this. just casually stroll against the left wall to where the far left spider spawns. If your lucky you will not agro the acklay or the two klikniks in the room. Which is my goal in all this. If you do agro the klikniks kill them off first. They will just keep intimidating you which cuts your damage into half. Once they are dead run to that corner and the acklay will follow.
assuming your in that corner youll need to agro the acklay if it hasnt already attacked you. Im a combat medic too so i just throw poisons at it. Before then when i was a tkm/riflewoman i kinda just edged up to it and got it to attack me. Your real goal is not to get the 2 klikniks to join in. Well the spiders will keep spawning on you though. Just do area attack 3 to wipe them out when they attack you.
actually killing the acklay isnt hard just takes awhile. I use a powerhammer since i cant get a scythe... im poor and everyone wants 2 million for them. bahh. So i use my powerhammer. I prefer to head hit him because you target one specific pool and it goes faster than hitting action and health randomly. Maybe sure he is always intimidated, and use mind hit 1 & 2 on him. It helps in the end. oh and keep center of being up.
i have 2 macros i use to help killhim. they are my center of being macro that just loops center of being. its like this
cobmacro /centerofbeing; /pause 45; /macro cobmacro;
my other one is my intimidate head hit one which is
sw /intimidate1; /melee2hheadhit3; /melee2hheadhit3; /melee2hheadhit3; /melee2hheadhit3; /pause 8; /macro sw;
the pause for that really depends on your speed and your weapon speed. adjust it so that you arent completely filling up your combat queue and that when you do the last head hit it queues up another set of attacks.
if your a doctor heal your states. oh and make sure you bring stims with you... i used to have 477 power stimbs and sometimes they didnt cut it when there are 7 things attacking you at once.
hopefully that helps
Well, my stratagy was simpler, although no doubt more dangerous and if you can get the others to work great.
72% kinetic ubese.
Full buffs including mind
keep full on Brandy and synthesteak
Charge into room, aggro everything, go toe to toe with Ackly
Hit muon
Spam area attack 3 using power hammer to eliminate spiders
Then use scythe area attack 3 on ackley until the kliks are dead, keep moving ackly toward the kliks to keep in range.
When kliks die, choose the proper attack and take him out using Scythe
Granted, not pretty, but it works.. Was close to be sure
Message Edited by Gebetob on 05-25-2004 06:46 AM
