Champ Spawns
Just after some advice for a champ spawn to start on, I've done them before along time ago with a guild or with my necro mage but that's in the distant past and I feel like I'm starting all this again. My main is a tamer weaver mage with a decent nightmare and a aoe Naja. Ultimately I want to go through all the uo content like doom , roof and all the champs I can solo but just after some advice on where to start out
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I used to solo Atlantic despise during "prime time". It was off hours where i had problems.
Sampires or healing chiv (90chiv is what I run) warriors do tend to be best, as mentioned. While dedicated spawning templates are fastest be weary of their limitations in pvp & keep in mind that solo stealth archers that spotted u & are taking pop shots almost always have backup on the way. Often their entire purpose is to delay ur departure long enuff for others to arrive.
Bind a recall/sacred journey spell to an INSURED boat key/rune in ur pack may also help on the island… plz make sure it’s insured. You’ll just have to run outside the spawn area to use which shouldn’t b a prob if ur being raided. (Can u recall onto a boat in T2 still? It’s been a looong time since I’ve spawned on the island.)
Work up sacrifice so u can self res as there are no healers on the island. Keeping a gem of salvation in ur pack can be a huge benefit. Bring enuff supplies bc running out of bandages, petals, pots, etc when 4th lvl hits is a bummer. I’m missing a lot but that’s off the top of my head.
Good luck and hope u do well bossman
I am sharing some guides with you that may be helpful.
Each part has more pages, and in part 3, I give an example of a Champion Spawn.
Good luck on your adventure, and enjoy!
IMO Piper is the easiest champ (and spawn) so it will help make things quicker compared to doing something like Oaks.
I've also found that I've been able to solo a spawn during ATL primetime as well (again being quick) since a lot of PvPers (ie the people who will raid you) are busy PvPing, but the best "peak time" to do a champ IMO is during an EM event. Everyone goes there for an hour so you can easily get a spawn in without much interference.
Yeah it's way too slow to just use a pet.
From your initial temp you can add enough necro for wraith form and spam thunderstorm/essence of wind since they're area spells. Then you add in a -mage bow with hit area effect and mana leech. I like magical shortbows since they're pretty fast.
Champ pops switch to -mage slayer bow while your pet tanks or bring in another character from a 2nd account.
Configuring effective odd temps has been a niche of mine.
As Urge stated earlier; a Sampire is the standard for getting them done the quickest but a paladin with a whirlwind area damage weapon is good too. Going back to what I said, some spawns like the Abyssal / Oaks / Primeval are a bit tougher (both spawn and champ) than say Piper or Rikktor so they will take additional time.
As mentioned above, a paladin or Sampire is going to take half the time (literally) because you are able to clear the higher level spawn faster with your DPS compared to a single pet. Just a heads up that if doing Piper if you aren't already in some sort of "form" (ie vampire / wraith / etc) that he can morph you into a rat which dismounts you. This isn't really an issue if you aren't being raided but you're at a huge speed disadvantage if people show up because you are on foot.
I got rat'ed , forgot about that. Europa a bit quiet and I was out of the way so was not an issue.
Going to collect some slayer talismans and make a decent radiant scimitar and give it a go with my paladin next
Having another character invoking the knight of justice virtue for "protection" of your spawner will yield you double the amount of scrolls.
Personally i like despise and destard since they're quick.