Feldon 
The Advanced Solo zones in Chains of Eternity drop some amazing loot, including a full set of jewelry upgrades as well as (somewhat controversially), the basic raid gear that drops in Chains of Eternity raid zones.
This has been nice for players who are either tackling them with a mercenary or a second player. However due to the way the loot in these Advanced Solo zones drop (in one or three mystery crates), most players end up with an item they cannot use. Worse, the items cannot be traded with group members. And more maddening still, the loot table includes the rather useless Dungeon Maker rewards such as [eq2u]Demonicus Steaks[/eq2u], temporary adornments, etc.
Fortunately, it looks like some changes are coming to how the loot will be granted from these zones. From Kander on the EQ2 Forums:
We are going to change the way advanced solo zones drop loot. Very soon.
Which of course means no more fabled loot I’m sure. To nerf or to nerf more, that is the question.
Get rid of the Advanced Adornment Vol. 10 books or GTFO.
I still find the solo to diffculty to do, I have a 95 warden that gets creamed tying to do the sleeepers tomb a.s. dungeon. I tried 9 times with a conjy, and 10 with a sk merc. no go on both
It’s Advanced Solo which is Greek for “Duo or Solo+Merc”. The folks doing these zones truly Solo are typically raid-geared.
Also, many of the names have scripts you have to follow. Have you learned and tried the script for the names you’re attempting?
Or institute a program where you can trade worthless loot for a token or something that can be traded for something you CAN use.
lol Feldon, my warden cant kill the first mob, advanced solo should NOT required raid gear, because then casual players that do not raid will never have raid gear.
Even my Conjy had to have help from a real raid gear Pally friend to get thru sleepers tomb. Even she told me do not fight, let me fight You are being knocked all over the place and one shotted.
Advanced Solo is:
Sounds logical to me. Why do you need raid gear?
The loot that drops in Chains of Eternity Adv Solo zones is more powerful loot than has even been available to soloers in any past expansion.
With my pally friend , my conjy was able to complete. I am able to kill all the mobs with my tank pet taking my time. its the coloums that she is not able to take down. My warden differnt story it was deat upon entiering with the first 1 or 2 mobs. with her sk merc.
my conjy is decently geared. when attacking the coloums, within seconds, It is non stop attacks on me so much that I could not cast a single spell.
You met that Pally at Fan Faire this year. it was Kheri.
jesus conjy how bad do you have to be to be unable to kill the first name in soloadvance.
I ran through it easilly not knowing any strat completely solo with my dirge but he is raidgeared.
A pet tank shouldn’t be an issue when moving the mob to the columns though, just move to the other side of it (have it between the mob and you) and call back your pet.
some advanced solo zones are better than others. I love Dreadcutter. Easy and quick for my pallie. the first one (temple ) is, IMO, also very easy,
Sleeper tomb advenced solo have too many raid script in it.
My friend just finished to raise all her 25 toon to 95 with 320 AA…
The last toon she have leveled was conjurer and it was the most difficult toon for kill in sebili mentored 80 using mercenary, ALL other toon was nice and fun to play… Look like the conjurer have a low capability without some good setup (more than other class).
And for Healer like warden, use the dreadcuter mercenary (berseker one), often can be found on broker for under 100 plat, it’s a must have for a healer.
Tips : Avoid sleeper tomb and go dreadcuter and temple, even throne are nice (you can use jump boot :p)
Same as above about the news, i feel a nerf incoming. It’s always a nerf 😛
The zerker a must have for a healer? I’m a defiler and barring WE solo (and now Baelon solo but that’s ’cause I suck at noticing things) I don’t even use a merc. And if I did it would be Vittia lol, she can’t die 🙂
And of course by WE solo I mean the last name in there HM 🙂
If you can solo WE then you missed the point where mercenary is usefull. Berserker merc is far better than Vittia for casual Healer.
Whoa.
Conjy. I regret to inform you that you are not entitled to raid gear.
Also, please give name and server for your warden. I suspect a glance at the info on [shamelessplug] u.eq2wire.com [/shamelessplug] might be…illuminating.
I hope this isn’t the end of the temporary adornments that come out of there, that’s the only thing that is worth running it to me. I’m sure this is one of the things that the players upset that the raid loot might be going away from there. I’d like to get a peek at some of the people that insist they can’t solo this too, I did it in unadorned handcrafted gear, gear that is much worse than anyone should expect to be able to do it in, it was harder and it took about an hour. I’m sure that the temporary adornments are one of the first things a lot of those that can’t do it right click and destroy as they consider them ‘worthless’
SHK – Skyshrine faction gear (no raid gear) – ST HM charms
Those ADV solos were easy at lvl 92 and stupid simple at lvl 95 (without a merc)
The ADV Solo NEVER should have dropped gear higher than 177. Maybe some unique yellow adorns but gear should be the same as what drops in ST Contested which is CRAP (163 gear)
Really the mechanics are there with gear stat numbers. Just make it so it is a progression
@ Conjy
My warden in purely WL + CoE gear was able to solo (not molo) the zones. Is your warden melee specced and reforged for melee stats (dps, haste, MA)? If not, give that a try. I can pretty much guaranteed that it will solo WAY better with such a spec.
shards imo… the rng hates me on my main account.
on my second account it literally rains loot.
“casual players that do not raid will never have raid gear.”
I don’t agree. I casually raid once a week, but I still think casual players even more casual than me should have a chance at raid level gear… just have it be very very slim chance. If you’re in a situation where you can’t raid but still want to enjoy the game, what is there to aspire to?
I’ve always thought all gear should be available to all players. It’s just the frequency at which that gear becomes available is in contention.
Raid level gear should be made available to Raiders first. Groupers should still have a chance at that gear but maybe it takes them weeks to get it. Solo players as well, but maybe it takes them months to get it to the point where there are 2 tiers below the current top rated gear.
There should always be something to aspire to, but I understand the plight of the raiders that they should, for their commitment be awarded the best gear in the game.
but to quote Dennis Miller: ” That’s just my opinion, I could be wrong…”
@Liftik, I’m sure you won’t be surprised to find out that I think you are wrong. I don’t care if someone runs every one of the Adv Solo zones 1 million times on 8 toons they should never, ever have a chance at the myth cloak that comes from Teku, your statement says that they should.
lol queue the battle cry of self entitled casual gamer these days.
So the gear (that is only 3% worse than raid gear) you get in a SOLO zone, that is also being changed so you get it even FASTER.. still isn’t good enough because its ‘too hard’ to get.
@Lempo
It’s cool man… agree to disagree 🙂
As long as they drop the food items, the stupid temp adornment items I am all for it. Honestly I gotten gear not for me or an alt I transmute it.
All they need to do is make the loot Heirloom, which it should have been in the first place.
The changes being made to Advanced Solo zones actually make a lot of sense. Much better chance of players getting something useful or being able to trade it to a friend if they are duoing the zone.
I never understood what all the fuss with the loot is about. Either you run the solo instances hundreds of times to get the raid gear or tou can just lazily sit back and wait for it ro come up on auction channel and do absolutely nothing to “earn” it. Just my 2coppers.