soloing SoboroFollow

I seriously doubt it is possible.

No melee can do it - Self Destruct will get to you eventually.

The only way i can see one soloing is with blm - bioII, die, RR, Drain, BioII, die, RR...

Even then im not sure.

It is a rought mob on a very rough spot.

Also, if you die while weakened your nukes will do 0 damage until you unweaken. Thats why people recommend Bio - its the DoT thats killing it

Edited, Sep 21st 2009 10:37am by TheKhory

Nah, nothing to charm there for bst. In fact, 12 bst would probably have a hard time taking him down with Carries. I've heard of 2-3 smn's low manning it with carby kiting, which would probably take easily an hour +.

You have to remember it's a 50 cap fight, so alot of abilities can't be used, best bet would be to low man with a pld, rdm and blm, even that might be pushing it. The other thing that's makes him a bitch is the fact that you can't kite too far due to all the aggro in the area, wyverns, bombs, etc.

The problem with blm solo would be that there are bombs around the ??? not many but enough to aggro your magic casting. I could see a duo being done easily though. You both would need to be willing to die insane amounts of death though. I would go blm+thf. have the thf pop him and you freeze cast followed by your 2nd biggest nuke to take his hp down the fastest. bio imediately after this as you will probably die by then. During this time the thf will still be up and can get a sa ta off easily. I dont remember its total hp but this should take it down quiet a bit. After this point its simple you will do the RR bio trick.

once nm down to 5% I would have both you and thf RR up have the thf aggro the 2 bombs that pop in the area and the nm, flee and hit the nm so to claim. You need to ele seal, 2hr, freeze at this point and take it out.

but really its easier to do what I did, shout for 5 other people, not just anyone but good ppl. Get pld rdm thf drk blm whm and just have fun with him. Way i like to do this setup is have the pld sub blu for cocoon, the blm will sub brd so he can ballad the backline giving them all 4 tic refresh ;D the drk and thf need use sushi and bring bloody bolts so the healers dont need heal them much. Then its just wearing the nm down.

my LS does this sometimes, 4-6 bst using jugs/pet food and 3-4 smn... Takes us 5-9min to kill

fights over all very easy just need to stay back and use Bps and pet food as soon as they can, we did 6 today 5 drops no, not even close to a wipe.

the pop site has 2 or 3 clusters around it and we clear it before we pop.

there was a group of 14-18ish normal jobs that had a very hard time with it and ended up wiping on there last run.


bst/smn setup (low manned) pic
http://www.monstersinclinkshell.com/forums/media/completed/unstable/6-11-09-1.jpg


as far as soloing it goes, it doesnt seem possible

Edited, Sep 27th 2009 5:59pm by zombiedude

Edited, Sep 27th 2009 6:12pm by zombiedude

Even if you got extremely lucky and found a way to solo this fight, Ive seen far too many of these fights cause migraines with parties not having treasure hunter. So unless you plan on going thf, I wouldnt waste my time,money,exp. Everyone wants one of these who is without, so I amagine that a few shouts in whitegate can get you some help. Also try not to wait till you get too high in level to obtain yours, in the 50's it's just insane fun. GL and may the force be with you :D

myself and some other guys tried to low man this, we used the bio RR method, but if you pull him twords one of the displacements if you cast bio at the right time, you can run around the mountain and he will loose sight of you and deagro, we got him to about 50% and we had enough friends pop up that we were able to gather them and finish it off normally

After reading about it I tried on BLM/WHM. Did /WHM mainly cause reraise is free and you can cast it if you are really close to the NM you wont aggro the other bombs in the area. Becareful to not let the mob sit without a DoT more than 6 seconds or he'll start to regen 10% hp/tic.

Even with reraise it helps to have a reraise earring cause the timer while weakened is 2 minutes on the spell and with resting MP it gets harder to put it back up and a reraise earring is good at resetting that cycle.

I couldnt find a secure way of killing it off without someone to pop in and help near the end. I brought my wife's character up there and had her do the last few Bio2s and I rested till unweakened and finished with a Elemental seal freeze.

In the middle of wearing it down you can also occasionally drop a ele-seal poison2 for some extra DoT.

I believe it's a claim issue. I had that problem with Ix'drg and JoP a couple of times (mind that they both have 100% drop rate on one item). You'll need to kill it while still you're alive, so it's best to be able to deal large DMG on the last wave to kill it. It can die from Bio, as long as you're alive and have it claimed. This is not very practical there because you don't have much room to kite it.

To try it as DRK, I'd suggest you follow exactly what Starcrossed said. go as /NIN to give you more time after the Bios and specially on the last wave, take an I.Wing but only use it at the very end, and bring multiple RR items.

Other then being a nice achievement tho, I think soloing him is kind of a waste of money and time. But if you try, good luck there ^^


To be very honest, this is one of those fights that I find it much easier with 5-7 then 12+.

The only real issue that you have when low-manning it is that your stunner must be very cautious with his job and communication, because when his Stun is down, someone would need to cover for him (SB usually). I did it with a slightly different setups, but in all of them, I had he DDs use /ra to build TP. Most of the time I used PLDx2, THF, RDM, WHM and BLM. That's the easiest setup I've had for UC, and I recommend it over any 12+ setup.

Edit#2:
There's actually another issue to worry about: whether you want to believe that the amount of bombs affect drop rate or not. This will affect your entire strategy when fighting with 6. My group never questioned it and always assumed the worst (that it does affect), so we didn't let them explode.

Edited, Dec 4th 2009 5:56am by sbrubles

Yeah thats my issue right now, I've been looking for a party to do this on Fairy for a few weeks now and the most I've got is three people interested. I think if I do try this on DRK I might try and bring a BLM friend just for the finishing touch and some Freezes throughout the fight if he doesnèt mind the death...