BST Solos

O.O Damn nice

Tethra.

Very easy, have to be careful because it draws in and you cant drag it out of the spawn spot which has like 10 dijinns.

Took only 1/2 stack rewards.

I'd imagine all the Fomor HNMs are doable.

I just soloed Kutharei, an easy solo until it reaches 25%. I used almost two stacks of Zeta pet food. It took a very long time, so it tests your patience more than your skill. I had an accident when I was not paying attention and I allowed my pet to die after Bannaret Charge, but I quickly ran and resummoned my DipperYuly. Used Ducal Guard, Mounted Champion, and Siren Shadow. Carry about two Dawn Muslums, Healing Salve I, and Healing Salve II on you just in case of emergencies when Reward isn't up right when Bannaret Charge hits.

Amhuluk is easily soloable, it just takes longer. Amhuluk's TP moves hit for very low even before Ducal Guard kicks in! Again, tests your patience more than your skill.

bump

anyone?

I used Eva, since I was using Yuly.

How many Dawn Muslums did you use?

0 but I wasn't solo from 100-0, was helping people with pops. Using Yuly I'd say no more than 5 (if that) with a proper reward build w/Eta.
I craft both of my own though, so may be less profitable to you.

Price isn't an issue. Planning on duo'ing/trio'ing with BSTs, I want to know exactly how much I'll need for it to be a safe and guaranteed fight. Not looking for a challenge, just a guaranteed strategy for churning out some Behemoth pops with few people.

Anyone know the easiest giant to solo for iron plates and whats the best pet?

Altepa Giant is easy but Ballistic Kick could pose a problem for BST. I don't know if the Grauberg Iron Giant uses a move like that but it seems the only feasible alternative, as Triturator will just destroy you.

Tried Vrtra.. It's definitely a race against Dipper's despawn timer.. I made a mistake i could have prevented easily and died at 10%. Revenge is in the air~

Yea I made 1 mistake and almost cost me but whee fun fight :O

Gonna be going after Vrtra if I can catch him up after we get back from outta town this weekend, I have 2 other BSTs so I can tribox and speed it up, am actually looking forward to this a lot.

The hate reset from Ballista kick will only apply if you actually take an action against the Smiter. For instance, if u used hyoton:Ni on it to try and trigger yellow, then ballista kick would reset the pets hate and it would chase you instead. But if you only use pet commands throughout the fight then it will NOT chase you after ballista kick. Overall Smiter is a very easy fight but it is a tad on the long side.

As with all ironclad's 1/3rd of the time your pet is stunned. But with smiter, the majority of the fight your pet will not hit very hard. It is useful to try and use spur to get off 2 pet WS's after arm cannon.

P.S. Arm cannon does not heal the pet. It lowers the pets maximum hp. Also ducal guard activates based on normal max hp NOT current max hp, so don't worry your pet still has ducal DT active even if it says 100%.


The grauberg ironclad is a quicker fight because it does not have the resistance switching modes and has less HP. The Hate reset "scapula beam" is easy to avoid and is not very potent. The pop is more expensive BUT by heeling after WS's you can undermine his gimick (which is to use 2 WS's in a row) which helps to make the fight cost less pet food. Ultimately making it the cheaper, easier and quicker fight. Its also less crowded.

I was thinking the difficulty would be in Ballistic Kick's damage more than anything - the fact that it drops you to 5-10% HP.

Moves like throat stab and ballista kick that instantly lower you to red HP (or a certain HP %) are very weak on pets because they are effected by DT.

For instance, lets just say your pet has 4k hp then he would be in red at 1k hp and the move would do 3k damage to him. But this 3k damage would be reduced by 87.5% so you pet would only take 375 damage.

Now different moves have different parameters but the result is similar.

Because these moves will always end up being physical or magical damage, they are subject to DT reductions. And since pets have such large DT, they are not anywhere near as devastating as they were designed to be.

Ironclad Severer's Ballistic Kick only does 170-200 damage to my pet!

Severer is really simple. You even even melee with your pet if you want to speed up the fight, so long as you know when to back up to avoid Scapula Beam. Snarl after Ballistic Kick to give your pet hate again. This probably works for Ironclad Smiter as well, just don't ever stand in front of it.

Also: is Itzpapalotl still simple? Haven't tried it yet and was wondering if it is still doable solo. :X

any bst with Atma of a Future Fabulous and mdt 71%+? (ducal guard added)


i just would like to collect some info about the performance of that atma

idk, maybe how much dmg taken from turul's thundgas or rani aoes, or isgebind ga's

Grauberg's your best shot, no fiddly TP moves.

got Vrtra to 7% solo then dipper timed out, going again now hoping for better luck :D

Grats on soloing that Xavierr! :P

I dont understand why u lose if dipper times out? Ive never fought or even seen vrtra fought.

Okay, just tried doing Vrtra on BST... how the hell do you deal with the adds?

because without a pet a giant purple wyrm tends to eat your face in that instance