soloing camps
Use an offhand pistol. Line of sight the mobs around a corner so they all bunch up together. Use black powder so they are constantly blinded and stay inside the blind field. Kill them. Grab loot.
Once you get better at the game you can use any tactic but that is simply the easiest one
focus the charr guards because they can stun for 10s, then focus supervisor because they will 1hko you, then finish off the harmless scouts.
oh, and kill dolyaks first because they can knock you down when charging. they also will give you buffs if killed.
hoped I helped.
(edited by Bandos.4287)
i wouldnt focus the charr guards first, i usally do the guards that will blind you then charr then supervisor.
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New thief here, but soloing camps isn’t very much different from any other class I’ve played. The scout’s blind is extremely devastating, and very much to thieves so they must be eliminated first. Everything else pretty much does nothing to you and can be trivially kited away/stealthed away.
As many others have said, offhand pistol is great for taking them done thanks to blinds and dazes, not to mention the on-demand smoke field (pistol 5+ dagger 2) If you use offhand dagger, you can use cloak and dagger to stealth and then immediately hit them with your stealth attack. Backstab is the most famous example, though the shortbow immobilized shot can be useful too.
Just lure scouts out with shortbow, and if you can stealth to get yourself out of trouble but stay close enough so they don’t reset their health and reset, thus wasting your time. You can also make copious use of poison fields (Shortbow 4+2). This will give weakness to them, meaning you will take less damage and also screw them up when they try to heal. Many camps have a narrow space of which you can lure the guards into, such as a bench or a gap where you can just aoe them to death. Just don’t rush if you don’t feel confident.
Note that some camps are easier to solo than others. North camp on borderlands is obnoxiously wide and open, while ne camp has a really easy gap in between these two buildings on the west side. It’s great because you don’t need to bypass any guards to reach it. Also, note the camps near enemy spawns, as those will obviously see more interference. Fighting an extra player or two while you take a camp will require a lot more patience. Don’t blow all your initiative and utilities when you fight guards. It is not good to fight enemy players with such a handicap should they appear.
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(edited by ArchonWing.9480)
I run D/D and the easiest camp solo I have found is to switch my elite to DS and my heal to SoM. While in DS the thief is effectively unkillable in a grouped up camp. When the spin ends usually both scouts are dead, the warriors almost dead and the supervisor is at half. I can usually finish off a regular camp in under 20s with this trick.
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