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Suddenly Soloable: CoP content post-10/06/23Follow

#1 Jun 23 2010 at 8:07 AM Rating: Excellent
With the dropping of level caps in CoP areas, a lot of content has become suddenly soloable. I'd call it a safe bet that everything 50-cap or lower can be solo'd, and a skilled player could possibly solo the airship and Tenzen fights. The past couple nights, I've run around completing some content that I hadn't gotten around to. I don't think I've seen that many people in Riverne and the Sacrarium since 2006.

Anyway, here's an attempt to summarize CoP content that can now be solo'd (or low-manned). Feel free to add your own experiences.

(See the individual posts in the thread for details.)


Missions

PM 1-3 The Mothercrystals
- At least one confirmed instance of Promyvion-Holla solo.
- Holla solo'd by 62 SAM/DNC, 2-houred during Trinary Absorption.
- Mea trio'd by 62 SAMN/DNC + 75 RDM + 61 THF: "it was a complete joke"
- All promyvions duo'd by 75 BLU/WHM + 75 DNC/NIN "in about an hour"
- 63 BLU/NIN solo'd all three.
- 76 RDM/WHM solo'd Mea and Dem.
- Dem solo'd by 50 BST/DNC with Keeneared Steffi.
- Holla duo'd by 50 BST/DNC and 75 PUP.
- Mea solo'd by 50 BST/DNC with Lullaby Melodia.

PM 2-3 Distant Beliefs
- Two people will be needed to click the torches in Phomiuna Aqueducts. (On Iceday, it is possible to solo this part as well, as the required torches for that day are adjacent to each other.)
- Minotaur trio'd by 62 SAMN/DNC + 75 RDM + 61 THF
- Duo'd by 75 BLU/WHM + 75 DNC/NIN

PM 2-5 Ancient Vows
- Solo'd by: 75 SAM, 75 RDM/BLM, NIN/DNC, PLD/DNC, 75 SMN/WHM
- Duo'd by PLD + PUP/NIN.
- Possibly soloable by most jobs.
- Duo'd by 75 BLU/WHM + 75 DNC/NIN
- Solo'd by PUP/NIN: "pathetically easy"

PM 3-5 Darkness Named
- Solo'd by SMN.
- Solo'd by SAM 75 with 2-hour.
- Duo'd by 75 BLU/WHM + 75 DNC/NIN

PM 4-2 The Savage
- Ouryu duo'd by a pair of THF.
- Ouryu duo'd by PLD/DNC and DNC/NIN.
- Solo by 76 DRG/BLU with 3 mistmelts, succeeded attempt #2.

PM 4-3 The Secrets of Worship
- Two people are needed to unlock the door in the Sacrarium.
- Keremet solo'd as 76 BST/WHM

PM 5-2 Desire of Emptiness
- Promyvion-Vahzl solo'd by DRG/BLU.

PM 5-3 Three Paths
- Ulmia's Path and Louverance's Path duo'd by DNC + BLM. "

PM 6-4 One to be Feared
- Airship fight duo'd by MNK/NIN and SMN/WHM with several deaths and reraises.
- Dual-boxed by MNK + RDM: "Wasn't easy, wasn't hard."

Multiple Missions:
- BLU/NIN and DNC/NIN duo'd all missions up to and including 5-2 Desire of Emptiness.
- 75 BST/DNC solo'd all battles up to and including 3-3 The Road Forks. "The only time I needed help was with those damn torches in the Aqueducts."

Quests

Go! Go! Gobmuffin (Map of Riverne)
- Solo'd this as SMN75 with Diabolos. Other jobs have reported being able to solo.

Brygid the Stylist Returns
- Subligar-dropping fomors are now soloable at 75.

Tuning In
- Tauri that drop Spruce Lumber are now more easily soloable at 75.

Paradise, Salvation, and Maps (Sacrarium Map)
- Key-dropping mobs can now be solo'd; chest can be found without aggro.
- A second person may be needed if the chest spawns behind the door that requires two keys to open.

Spice Gals
- This quest can now be completed at 75 without aggro. Firedrakes can be easily solo'd for the needed Dragon Scales.

The Search for Goldmane
- The Riverne portion of this quest can now be solo'd.


Other Content

Map of the Aqueducts
- with no aggro mobs, locating the ??? to obtain the map was beyond trivial. The "hardest" part now is farming the bronze key(s) to get to the libraries.

Swift Belt
- The taur that drops the Fomor Codex can be solo'd at 75. My group of 3 took down Balor in less than a minute, and I saw another person solo Indich. It's probably a safe assumption that most 75 jobs could solo any of the Swift Belt NMs.
- Luaith solo'd by 75 BST/WHM.
- Balor easily solo'd as both DRG and BLU/

Soboro Sukehiro
- Unstable Cluster is soloable by some (all?) jobs; low-mannable by others.

Promyvion Maps
- Solo'd mini-quest for maps of Holla, Dem, and Mea as SMN 75. Memory Receptacles die to a single Predator Claws, and Strays die in a single hit. The mobs that drop memospheres can be easily solo'd. Occasionally, the map ??? may pop behind IT mobs.

Carmine Dobsonflies
- One person reported killing 5 of the mobs solo.

Elel
- Duo'd by 75BLM/WHM and 75WAR/NIN.

Promyvion-Vahzl Map
- "Easily soloed the NM in Promyvion - Dem (Satiator) as well as the one in Vahzl popped with its item, Provoker. Also easily got the map in Vahzl since those NMs drop memospheres all the time."


Edit: Added more content from thread.

Edited, Jun 23rd 2010 12:00pm by Nupinu

Edited, Jun 24th 2010 10:22am by Nupinu

Edited, Jun 27th 2010 1:56am by Nupinu
#2 Jun 23 2010 at 8:13 AM Rating: Default
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the only thing i recall that wasn't soloable from the first post was the map of riverne.

fomor subligars, map of aqueducts and swift belt was all soloable by bst and certain races.
#3 Jun 23 2010 at 8:15 AM Rating: Good
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Saw a line of people waiting to pop Unstable Cluster (Soboro Sukehiro NM) today. Some solo, some in small groups.

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the only thing i recall that wasn't soloable from the first post was the map of riverne.


o_O Why wouldn't it be soloable?
#4 Jun 23 2010 at 8:16 AM Rating: Excellent
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A friend from our Dynamis soloed the Mammets fight as a 75 SAM. And there's a video up on Youtube of someone soloing Promyvion Holla
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#5 Jun 23 2010 at 8:21 AM Rating: Good
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If you mean actual missions too, Ancient vows is ridiculously easy. Went in with a PLD and PUP/NIN and they only hit us once or twice. Any job could have solo'd them with no problems.
#6 Jun 23 2010 at 8:26 AM Rating: Good
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I soloed the Mammets last night with 75RDM/BLM. They must be immune to Sleep, but it didn't matter because they never broke my original Stoneskin.
#7 Jun 23 2010 at 8:32 AM Rating: Good
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Mammets - Solo on NIN/DNC. At some point i even dit not bother putting up shadows anymore. 2 where dead before the person i was helping came out of the CS.

Diabolos 3-5 ~ Solo as SMN becasue Avatars for some reason don't sleep as long as players. Not the easiest of fights but doable.
#8 Jun 23 2010 at 8:32 AM Rating: Good
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Fynlar wrote:
Saw a line of people waiting to pop Unstable Cluster (Soboro Sukehiro NM) today. Some solo, some in small groups.

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the only thing i recall that wasn't soloable from the first post was the map of riverne.


o_O Why wouldn't it be soloable?


never heard of it being soloable before the update.
#9 Jun 23 2010 at 8:34 AM Rating: Excellent
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The quests in Windy involving Spruce Lumber and such. Tuning In and Tuning Out? Can easily get the mats required off of the Tauri now, especially seeing how the Lumber has a fairly high drop rate.
#10 Jun 23 2010 at 8:38 AM Rating: Decent
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never heard of it being soloable before the update.


Nvm, I misunderstood you.

In any event, I'm willing to bet that fight probably was soloable if there was a way to separate and despawn two of the gobs, which I'm thinking would be possible if ES+Sleep works on them. Might have required a death+reraise and some kiting after that.
#11 Jun 23 2010 at 9:02 AM Rating: Excellent
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#12 Jun 23 2010 at 9:08 AM Rating: Excellent
Updated original post.
Thanks, everyone!

Fynlar wrote:
In any event, I'm willing to bet that fight probably was soloable if there was a way to separate and despawn two of the gobs, which I'm thinking would be possible if ES+Sleep works on them. Might have required a death+reraise and some kiting after that.

Hmmm... Maybe, maybe not. The goblins spawn close to where you land on the island, and aggro immediately. The island itself is fairly small, but there is some room further back. There are at least two drakes back there, which would have aggro'd anyone under 50 cap at the time. Possibly if there was a safe spot to die and reraise away from the drakes, put up invisible, and rest to full...?

Anyone want to sync to 50 and try it? ^.~
#13 Jun 23 2010 at 9:15 AM Rating: Excellent
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soloed promyvion-vhazl last night as drg/blu. a little hairy when one of the NMs spams his HP drain attack for 300+. there were some IT wanderers on the 4th and 5th floors.

Edited, Jun 23rd 2010 11:15am by moffatt
#14 Jun 23 2010 at 9:26 AM Rating: Excellent
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Does anything aggro in the Sacrarium, cause if not the map quest for there should be soloable as well (farming key, finding coffer, etc).
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#15 Jun 23 2010 at 10:02 AM Rating: Excellent
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I can confirm that, while not solable, I was able to duo CoP6-4.

Our jobs were MNK/NIN and SMN/WHM.
For the mammet part, the SMN would summon and engage before the MNK and so all the mobs were targeting the avatar.
The MNK and the SMN got rid of each mammet one by one.

For Omega, we had a little wee bit more of trouble. I tried to attack with Garuda but I deemed it not worthy and main healed the MNK. When we were about to die, I dia Omega and we die and RR in a safe spot. The MNK waited for weakness to wear off while I applied RR on myself and got an avatar out to BP while I was weakened. When I died a second time, the MNK finished it with a Chi Blast.

For Ultima, we did the same thing we did against Omega except that the MNK opened with Hundred Fists. However, when the MNK died, he had to go to another event, so I was left alone. I proceeded to do a cycle of RR > BP > die & RR which, in two cycles, was more than enough to kill Ultima.

I thought that a SMN might be able to solo it, specially with /SCH sub since I had to use around 3-4 Yag. Drinks, doing a summon > BP > die > RR cycle, but that won't probably work because Omega and Ultima kill the avatars in about 3 hits. Furthermore, as we didn't investigate prior to the fight, we also noticed that Ultima and Omega weren't regening even when dia wore off.

Lastly, when this was finished, we didn't have much time left. If I recall correctly, we either had 2 or 7 minutes left (nothing in between though, I just can't recall).

As an afterthought, I guess that it would have been wise to use any kind of items against the mammets (because we lost some time when the one the MNK was fighting absorbed physical damage) and to stop the special attacks of Omega and Ultima that depleted my MP in order to mantain the MNK.

Also, I didn't use Alexander or Odin as I haven't finished ToAU yet D:
Therefore, I am not sure how useful they would be in this fight.
#16 Jun 23 2010 at 10:20 AM Rating: Default
whats the word on carmine dobsonfly?

and for those who have made the climb through vhazl prom solo think a 67 bst could solo it way up to do enm pulling the plug?
#17 Jun 23 2010 at 10:32 AM Rating: Excellent
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ENM's level caps haven't been lifted.
#18 Jun 23 2010 at 10:38 AM Rating: Default
i know those caps havent been lifted but after the second floor the memory recepticles got to be a real pain in the **** so wasnt able to make it too far without help so never got to try bst vs pulling the plug
#19 Jun 23 2010 at 10:51 AM Rating: Good
What about the quest for tactics Pearl? Did SE mistakenly kill off that quest? because I am pretty sure it will be next to impossible to get decent xp in Promies now, while doing that quest.
#20 Jun 23 2010 at 11:04 AM Rating: Good
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OmegaTyrant wrote:
What about the quest for tactics Pearl? Did SE mistakenly kill off that quest? because I am pretty sure it will be next to impossible to get decent xp in Promies now, while doing that quest.
That's a damn good question. I'll have to look into it, just finished my last Tactics pearl and tossed it recently.

I'll post when I do.
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#21 Jun 23 2010 at 11:04 AM Rating: Good
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I personally 2boxed 6-4 on MNK + RDM on the night of the update. Wasn't easy, wasn't hard.
#22 Jun 23 2010 at 11:05 AM Rating: Good
OmegaTyrant wrote:
What about the quest for tactics Pearl? Did SE mistakenly kill off that quest? because I am pretty sure it will be next to impossible to get decent xp in Promies now, while doing that quest.


I think you don't actually need to get EXP for your NPC to get EXP in those. It probably even makes it better because you can slaughter multiple floors now, instead of doing a few then timing out.

Edited, Jun 23rd 2010 11:06am by Overburn
#23 Jun 23 2010 at 11:19 AM Rating: Excellent
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Soloed 3-5 as 75 sam. Used 2hred and that was over kill.
#24 Jun 23 2010 at 11:28 AM Rating: Decent
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Overburn wrote:
OmegaTyrant wrote:
What about the quest for tactics Pearl? Did SE mistakenly kill off that quest? because I am pretty sure it will be next to impossible to get decent xp in Promies now, while doing that quest.


I think you don't actually need to get EXP for your NPC to get EXP in those. It probably even makes it better because you can slaughter multiple floors now, instead of doing a few then timing out.

Edited, Jun 23rd 2010 11:06am by Overburn


I haven't been able to get my NPC to talk about the empty in ages well I guess ever since I finished all the quests it would be nice to get a tactics pearl again....
#25 Jun 23 2010 at 11:54 AM Rating: Excellent
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Carmine Dobsonfly is a Joke, I killed 5 of them myself with 2 others there trying to get it also.

2 THFs in my LS duo'd Ouryu (sp?) with easy, they said they probably could have solo'd. I know they did bring mistmelts with them, but not sure if they used any.
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Overburn wrote:
OmegaTyrant wrote:
What about the quest for tactics Pearl? Did SE mistakenly kill off that quest? because I am pretty sure it will be next to impossible to get decent xp in Promies now, while doing that quest.


I think you don't actually need to get EXP for your NPC to get EXP in those. It probably even makes it better because you can slaughter multiple floors now, instead of doing a few then timing out.

Edited, Jun 23rd 2010 11:06am by Overburn
I can confirm that last time I got the Tactics pearl, I didn't kill any enemies.
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