I'm also soloing one of these (currently level 18)...
Fire Cages takes some time and enhancing to start becoming really useful - it has much lower base accuracy than the single target attacks. (Lower than a number
of other AoEs for that matter.) You also won't always want to use this once you have Hot Feet - some groups will be much less dangerous if they can't
decide whether to run towards or away from you than they will be if they're nailed down but can still attack.
Putting a lot of accuracy into your attacks would be what I'd usually recommend anyway, but it's particularly so for this character. In general,
anything that I can reliably keep held, I can beat in time. But if you can't keep certain enemies held continually, you'll be in real danger.
A lot of my soloing has been doing door missions. I don't usuallly use Fire Cages more than once, if it's just a small number of enemies. With the
recharge bonus from Siphon Speed I can cycle Char on 3-4 enemies and keep them held continuously. This uses a lot more end, but I also get attacked much less.
(And when you're fighting something with immobilize resistance, it's much more likely to *work*.)
I also spent some time killing groups of things in Perez Park. Mostly blues and greens, because I wanted to get a lot of arcane salvage. '.' Started with
Hellions, then once they stopped being worth it moved on to CoT. The bosses that appear in both groups are enough of a pain that I didn't fight them unless
I could avoid it. Since at that level most of the minions don't hit that hard at range, I could just FC a group, and let HF wear them down. Never levelled
anything before that had this much AoE, so it was kind of fun. (Well, Katana has some, but I haven't played too much with them yet.) Tried to do the same
thing in Hollows, but even blue/green the groups there are a lot more dangerous. The knockdowns from Ruin Mages really screw you up when your defense involves
constant clicking. If you can get one of the things that protects against this, it'd probably help quite a bit. (Groups of Outcasts and Trolls in Boomtown
are supposed to be doable in the teens, but I decided to go do more missions instead.)
And... that's all I can think of right now. '.'
-Morgan.
Fire Cages takes some time and enhancing to start becoming really useful - it has much lower base accuracy than the single target attacks. (Lower than a number
of other AoEs for that matter.) You also won't always want to use this once you have Hot Feet - some groups will be much less dangerous if they can't
decide whether to run towards or away from you than they will be if they're nailed down but can still attack.
Putting a lot of accuracy into your attacks would be what I'd usually recommend anyway, but it's particularly so for this character. In general,
anything that I can reliably keep held, I can beat in time. But if you can't keep certain enemies held continually, you'll be in real danger.
A lot of my soloing has been doing door missions. I don't usuallly use Fire Cages more than once, if it's just a small number of enemies. With the
recharge bonus from Siphon Speed I can cycle Char on 3-4 enemies and keep them held continuously. This uses a lot more end, but I also get attacked much less.
(And when you're fighting something with immobilize resistance, it's much more likely to *work*.)
I also spent some time killing groups of things in Perez Park. Mostly blues and greens, because I wanted to get a lot of arcane salvage. '.' Started with
Hellions, then once they stopped being worth it moved on to CoT. The bosses that appear in both groups are enough of a pain that I didn't fight them unless
I could avoid it. Since at that level most of the minions don't hit that hard at range, I could just FC a group, and let HF wear them down. Never levelled
anything before that had this much AoE, so it was kind of fun. (Well, Katana has some, but I haven't played too much with them yet.) Tried to do the same
thing in Hollows, but even blue/green the groups there are a lot more dangerous. The knockdowns from Ruin Mages really screw you up when your defense involves
constant clicking. If you can get one of the things that protects against this, it'd probably help quite a bit. (Groups of Outcasts and Trolls in Boomtown
are supposed to be doable in the teens, but I decided to go do more missions instead.)
And... that's all I can think of right now. '.'
-Morgan.