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heal yourself and you'll be fine

also, try to keep the thing intimidated

to intimidate efficient, without being kicked use
/warcry
/intimdate

it'll let you 10 seconds to intimidate the opponent without getting hit

but I think the ability to heal yourself is an important factor here

First off - Since elders are generally surrounded by some protectors, spell weavers, and sentinals, FIRST thing you need to do is get the elder alone. How you do this is dependent on how the group is situated. If they are in a tight group, get about 45m from the group, hold your shift key so you walk, walk 1-2m, pause, see if anything agro's you, and repeat until you peel them off from the group 1-2 at a time. If the elder is alone, or with a weaver/sentinal, maybe a weaver and a sentinal, shouldnt have too much a problem taking the 3. But try to keep it down to as little agro as possible. As soon as something agrp's you, hit peace and start running away, til your about 70m from the group. Once you are a good ways away from the group, turn around and headhit the weaver/sentinal if thats whats tailing you. If its just the elder...INTIMIDATE it to h3ll...this is where master brawler kicks @ss heh. If you have an elder and 1-2 others comin at you, intimidate the elder 2-3 times that sticks, then switch to the others and head hit them to death. I personally only use intimidate on protectors and elders. Spell weavers and sentinals go down fast enough they arent too much a threat. Also, since you are solo, CHECK THE ELDERS WEAPON! This is very important, at my current template, if its an AP 2 weapon (Scythe, Powerhammer), its unsoloable to me, if if intimidated. So if im solo, and come across one with a scythe, i move on lookin for different one. Better to live and kill others, then to die and have to rebuff/heal battle fatigue.

Second - Soon as you are down to just an elder, spam intimidate til it sticks 2-3 times, then mindhit1, mindhit2, and headhit3. Just intimidate it ever 45 seconds if your not master brawler, and about 1 min 45 seconds if you are. Once it gets down to about 30k life, it will start to run away. Soon as it starts running away, spam taunt. Taunt keeps it from running. Once it has ran, and has been taunted, stay bout 10m from the elder and keep spamming headhit3. Staying 10m keeps it to where only the special moves the elder uses hit you, otherwise, your out of range its regular attacks. Then it dies.

Third - Loot it and either wait for another to spawn, or head out. wait 3-5min for another to spawn, if one hasnt spawned after that amount of time, pretty safe to assume the spawn is done.

My current template is :
Master brawler
Master swordsman
4/3/0/1 Teras Kasi
4/4/4/0 Fencer
Novice Medic
0/0/0/4 Combat Prowess
0/0/0/4 Senses

Hope this is the info your looking for. If you need anymore help, PM me or post back on here as i'll probably check it at least once a day.

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drunkkracka wrote:
First off - Since elders are generally surrounded by some protectors, spell weavers, and sentinals, FIRST thing you need to do is get the elder alone. How you do this is dependent on how the group is situated. If they are in a tight group, get about 45m from the group, hold your shift key so you walk, walk 1-2m, pause, see if anything agro's you, and repeat until you peel them off from the group 1-2 at a time. If the elder is alone, or with a weaver/sentinal, maybe a weaver and a sentinal, shouldnt have too much a problem taking the 3. But try to keep it down to as little agro as possible. As soon as something agrp's you, hit peace and start running away, til your about 70m from the group. Once you are a good ways away from the group, turn around and headhit the weaver/sentinal if thats whats tailing you. If its just the elder...INTIMIDATE it to h3ll...this is where master brawler kicks @ss heh. If you have an elder and 1-2 others comin at you, intimidate the elder 2-3 times that sticks, then switch to the others and head hit them to death. I personally only use intimidate on protectors and elders. Spell weavers and sentinals go down fast enough they arent too much a threat. Also, since you are solo, CHECK THE ELDERS WEAPON! This is very important, at my current template, if its an AP 2 weapon (Scythe, Powerhammer), its unsoloable to me, if if intimidated. So if im solo, and come across one with a scythe, i move on lookin for different one. Better to live and kill others, then to die and have to rebuff/heal battle fatigue.

Second - Soon as you are down to just an elder, spam intimidate til it sticks 2-3 times, then mindhit1, mindhit2, and headhit3. Just intimidate it ever 45 seconds if your not master brawler, and about 1 min 45 seconds if you are. Once it gets down to about 30k life, it will start to run away. Soon as it starts running away, spam taunt. Taunt keeps it from running. Once it has ran, and has been taunted, stay bout 10m from the elder and keep spamming headhit3. Staying 10m keeps it to where only the special moves the elder uses hit you, otherwise, your out of range its regular attacks. Then it dies.

Third - Loot it and either wait for another to spawn, or head out. wait 3-5min for another to spawn, if one hasnt spawned after that amount of time, pretty safe to assume the spawn is done.

My current template is :
Master brawler
Master swordsman
4/3/0/1 Teras Kasi
4/4/4/0 Fencer
Novice Medic
0/0/0/4 Combat Prowess
0/0/0/4 Senses

Hope this is the info your looking for. If you need anymore help, PM me or post back on here as i'll probably check it at least once a day.

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I would say her weapon is the most important part of the soloing process, exmaine her while you are drawing her from spawn. If she has stun baton, vibro axe, scythe or power hammer......RUN!!!

Just thought I would touch on that subject again.

Nice post though this is all you need!

With

Master Brawler
Master Swords
Master Fencer
Medic 2000
Combat Prowess 4004

The only elders I can't solo are the ones with stun bats. If I carried stun armor when I pve, I might even be able to take those on.

Spam intimidate2 while running away (I usually get 250m+ away from the spawn), and keep yourself healed. Then mindhit 1, mindhit 2, and headhit 3 with your acklay power hammer. (Mines 250-640 no pup, don't want to waste the durability) As long as you are swinging decently fast (<2.0) it will fall in under 15 minutes. If you bleed, stop what you are doing and heal them. If you can't heal bleeds, good luck. I use 2 brandy (428, 45 minutes, 50 filling), 1 synthsteak, and have canape and a muon ready. I use more synthsteak when needed (after she lands a 800+ special), and the muon once she gets down to 1/4 life and I need it. Equilibrium is awesome if your mind gets down really far. Once she starts to run, taunt her and keep up with headhit3. In case you are getting your ass kicked, switch to a stun bat or something and heal up. You are a lot harder to hit with a fencer weapon equiped. Then prey for good loot. I have been getting a LOT of credits lately