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Thread: question about elders and protectors
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demonbane423
Thu Apr 21, 2005 1:41 pm
#1
Now I have soloed numerous elders at stronghold and a bunch at natural spawns,, although the majority I do is with a ranged guy just to pull the elder and keep the spawn alive,,,
however what im wondering is what is your strategy for getting the elder out alone,,, whenever I try to aggro the elder to me and im alone at a natural spawn many times ill end up with 3 protectors and 2 spell weavers plus the elder hitting me,,, there is always a chance when this happens that they land multiple bleeds before you can get them intim,,, on occasion i get ganked by the group of 6 NS,,,
What im wondering is what is your strategy,,, so you send in a pet and call it back? does it work or what else do you do,,, ?
however what im wondering is what is your strategy for getting the elder out alone,,, whenever I try to aggro the elder to me and im alone at a natural spawn many times ill end up with 3 protectors and 2 spell weavers plus the elder hitting me,,, there is always a chance when this happens that they land multiple bleeds before you can get them intim,,, on occasion i get ganked by the group of 6 NS,,,
What im wondering is what is your strategy,,, so you send in a pet and call it back? does it work or what else do you do,,, ?
demonbane423
Thu Apr 21, 2005 1:43 pm
#2
oh yeah im a master swords//master doc ,,,,,,, took out 7 last night 6 empties =(
Gecko22
Thu Apr 21, 2005 1:51 pm
#3
Its very hard to get the elder to come out alone, if you agro the whole group and run away I find that the elder will run further than the rest of the group. I run away and as soon as the others start running back turn around and lunge at the elder and then attack it.
JedKid
Thu Apr 21, 2005 4:12 pm
#4
heres the trick, go kinda close, but dont let any agro you, then taunt one and they all come after you. run away but look at them the whole time and see whose still aggroing you. the harder they are to kill, the less time they spend following you, so kill the others first, then the elder is alone.
Heronemous
Sat Apr 23, 2005 3:18 pm
#5
I send my poor little level 10 pig, works 8 out of 10 times safely from 100ms away
KraytDragonMan
Sun Apr 24, 2005 5:05 pm
#6
Or you can just do it like me... put some 90% composite on, take some synth steak,have pixie and vercupti on stand by, and run in there and kill everything. 
AsianGimp
Mon Apr 25, 2005 3:53 am
#7
i have no problem taking out the group out first, then hitting elder.....usually what I do, try to get the elder to aggro me only, if not, i intim the elder and put a bleed on her first, then wookie roar to intim everything else, start killing the lower levels (weavers, sentinals) then start killing protectors, then finally the elder...my chestplte is only 82% base and 80% kinetic and I don't remember the last time I died to an elder.
Or you can just bleed elder if whole group aggros you, peace out, burstrun, and when all stop aggroing you, the bleed will tick on the elder and he'll re-aggro you only.
Heronemous
Tue Apr 26, 2005 2:02 pm
#8
well if you kill everything you mess up the spawn, if you just kill the elder it will respawn infinatly
AsianGimp
Tue Apr 26, 2005 8:25 pm
#9
i done that with a rifleman and me and we'd just take out the elder at 350+ m away and it eventually despawns on me =\\
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