best way to get sealsFollow

Hey all,

I'm a long time bst returning from about a 4 month break, so I'm a little out of the loop. I've pretty much gotten all the new af for bst (which is hideous btw) and I'm working on the hq versions. From all of your experience is there a "best" way to get a hold of these seals? The ones that drop from Dominion Ops haven't dropped for me yet, and I haven't tried any of the nms either. How are they for bst? I haven't seen any testimonials so far about bsts fighting these.

Thanks!

With a little work into other gear, BST can solo many of their seal NMs. Even a pair of -pdt Magian axes and a good Reward build (Zoraal Ja's Axe x2, Bison Warbonnet, Ogre Gloves, Monster Gaiters and some +MND gear) will suffice, but I'd also suggest meriting down Reward and Call Beast timers.

Head Seals - Kharon or Mielikki: I prefer the Kharon, although you have to pull him down by the Martello or North towards conflux OO to avoid blood aggro from the other skeletons. You have to come /SCH, /RDM or /BRD for some kind of Dispel, or his Dread Spikes will make the fight crazy difficult.

Leg Seals - Sirrush: This is by far the easiest of the three. Pull him down the cliff so that you don't link other lizards. If you have your pet tank on one side, you can stand behind him and max melee range and be out of range of Snowball/Fireball, allowing you to safely melee alongside your pet.

Feet Seals - Seps or Hrosshvalur: Haven't successfully solo'd these yet, but I'm confident it can be done. With Seps, you would be unable to melee alongside pet because of AoE Hypersleep. Use your AF body with Reward to get rid of it's strong Enpoison. I can see this being a hard fight without Call Beast timer merited down. With the pug, you could try using the Leech jug pet with a strong Regain atma to spam Suction. Not sure if you can melee outside the range of Aqua Ball or not.

I have not had experience fighting the Body or Hands NMs yet, so I can't give any suggestions. Also, Kharon and Hrosshvalur also drop SMN seals, and are both soloable by SMN, so you may get try to Team Up with one.

thanks deranged! That's some good info. I'll let you guys know how my solo adventures turn out.

In my own experience, You get seals just as quickly doing quests as you do killing nm's solo. If you have a full party willing to spam the NM and you are not competing for the same seal, I think this is the fastest way.

I have spam killed kharon over and over, I have enough seals for rng and smn head pieces easily. I only have 1/2 what I need for bst and blu.

as far as time investment for solo... quests work just as well.

edit: a full pt should also be well equiped to proc grellow !!

Edited, Jan 3rd 2011 5:27am by Xilk

Yes, I have, and farming them stinx.. which Is why I use blue to fight amoeban. or make sure to hit the d/c versions and not the vt's. Amoeban suck.

No merits in reward recast, I took them out when they gave us "Ready", and yes I do use the Warbonnet. Call Beast is merited fully which puts it at 4:10 iirc. Call beast merits are redundant for this since I wait out the timer before poping the NM.
Razed Ruins, Voracious Viloet and Vissitude, the most important being Vissitude to maintain your hp, your pet also benefits from this regen which is an awesome bonus.

Cloak & Dagger*

We're talking about BST here, but unfortunately, most of us have more than 1 job, so I'm also wondering what I can solo for RDM seals. Head seals in particular. It looks to me like the best bet is Pallid Percy, but anybody else give him a try yet? None of the SCH head seal NMs sound soloable though.



Don't have. :(

Edited, Jan 4th 2011 6:23am by Ketaru

Gaizkin? Yeah, you/your pet hit it or it hits your pet/you during or right after tp move, it can tp move again. But it stands still for a second after using tp move, so technically you could stand on the other side of that little bridge, and when you see tp move, heel fast. By the time Gaizkin reaches you, tp spammage mode should be over. I used that strategy on dnc when I was solo to make sure it couldn't do double abyss blasts and oneshot me.

As for Percy... mudstream move could be the end of you. Since it does dmg, bind and heavy magic defense down, and Percy will almost always use -ga 3 right after it. Mudstream can be stunned tho, so maybe /dnc would be of use there? As a side note, rdm/nin can dot/nuke kite Wherwetrice. It's godawful slow and annoying tho.