Melee Variant of my "Ancient Soloing Build". The details are WIP for now, as the description was copy pasted from my Caster one.

This is the Ancient version of my Adult build; most information will be copy pasted from there, and the assumption will be that you have obtained Ceremonial Chest Scale as a result.

This build is set up for Melee; see the Caster version here:

Set your TPs for HP and T&C, you should end up with a total of 4804 HP for the non-physical sets, and 4654 for the physical set.

This build *WILL* work for soloing all of the listed bosses without requiring any outside help, assuming you provide yourself the dragon consumables (CRS) and bring baubles.

If you are using the Physical version of this set; use a double socketed Mithril-Marble head scale teched with Sigil of Ascent V. Falgut the Slaver and General Reklar Plaguebearer both love their recycle increasing debuffs, and Sigil of Ascent will counter it entirely.

Crest of the Blackhammer Clan + Physical Resist V effectively covers every Epic in the game in terms of mitigation. Bear in mind that the extra effect of Crest will ONLY work on Valkor and Reklar out of the epics available, as none of the others have the "Undead" tag.

I HIGHLY RECOMMEND getting the Dark Highly Radioactive Skala - It's obtained from the Challenge Master in Tazoon after progressing the T3 story far enough, and requires you to farm up Challenge Tokens - this build can also handle soloing all of the arena except for Exalted Gudal, so you can very much do this; 2 weeks and 4 days total of doing all the arena dailies everyday will net you enough tokens to get yourself the Skala, or you can buy tokens from other players to speed it up.

The skala provides -10% incoming attack damage, a free AoE DoT for more DPS, and a chance to proc a Spiked Scales-esque effect for yet more damage.

If you are are interested in being a hybrid, I suggest setting up your spells like this (This is assuming you do NOT have mental bane available, but if you do, replace Romp/gale/pierce with it.)

Single Target DPS spells (Primal Burst, Spark, Strike, and Lightning)

Primal Damage V, Romp/Gale/Pierce V, (OPTIONAL) Fragment of the Chalice/Accuracy V (Will be updated in the future)

AoE Spells (Gust, Barrage, Blast, and Tempest)

Primal Damage V, Romp/Gale/Pierce V, Accuracy V

Direct Healing (Primal Health)
Heal Increase V, Cleanse V, Heal Recycle III

HoT (Quickening and Rejuvenating Breeze - most times it will just be quickening; long cast times make using more than one wasted DPS in a fight where you need to push damage.)

Cleanse V, Heal Recycle III

Buffs (It doesn't particularly matter which ones these are on unless you're fighting Reklar for some reason who can dispel buffs, Aim to have 3 buffs like this)

Buff List: True Grit V, Promote Intellect / Vitality V, Primal Attack V, Ignore Mysticism, Arcane Refusal, Countercheck Primal V

Cleanse V, Fortify V

The most important thing in the build is the Wolf's Blessing; without it you will not have 100% uptime on Refreshing Breeze, Gold Rage, and Staggering Howl; all of which are mandatory to deal with the extremely high incoming damage you will be dealing with. If you use this set for other content, always dispel any Recycle buffs immediately, as they'll cause you to lose your uptime on Refreshing Breeze.

The stances used here are:

OFFENSIVE
Blue (Primalist) / Yellow (Alerted) - generic buffs or a -5% recycle, both are good options.

DEFENSIVE (Soloing)

Silver (Soldier, MARTIAL Damage) / Green (Adept, SPELL/Magical Damage)

Finally, I HIGHLY suggest that even if you don't make your consumables yourself, unlock Fiery Rift and get the Inspire Abilities - particularly Bliss, Peace, and Fear; these are incredibly useful debuffs that just proc on any hit, but ONLY on certain enemy types

Bliss triggers a 10% damage taken increase on ANY type of Withered Aegis, Fear will increase delay and recycle on Withered Aegis Animate & Constructs (a good thing, you can reach 100% recycle reduction on enemies with Fear, Gold Rage and Staggering Howl), and Peace will reduce Withered Aegis Construct & Animate spell damage by 10% (used on any spellcaster solos, particularly Daknor and Shaloth)

Bosses currently possible with this build (will be updated as I progress in my solo adventures)

Every Greater Epic except for General Reklar Plaguebearer, Daknor the Berserk, Project X, Fafnir the Defiler, Avatar of Pain

Make sure to change your socketed resist crystals and armor techs appropiately! Here's what you should use for each boss listed here.

Daknor, Project X, Fafnir the Defiler, Avatar of Pain, Son of Gigaroth, Falgut the Slaver: Physical

Surtheim: Arcane

Both forms of Elial: Ethereal

Shaloth, Valkor: Mystical - use Crest of the Blackhammer physical/arcane resist wings

Epic Item Priority

With us now at the endgame, we also need to consider the options of the 3 Ally Plaque pets, Primal Combust, and the two Reklar scales. This is my suggestion on how to prioritize obtaining these items, as each one takes quite a while to get even if you can kill the pre-requisite boss, and I HIGHLY recommend finding a crafter with the formulas to craft the components to save yourself a lot of pain.

The highest priority should be Reklar's Tail Scale of Power, this offers a hefty -25% damage taken multiplier to ALL MARTIAL DAMAGE while equipped. Following this, I would recommend getting the Virrak Wyvern Ally for the active ability Breath of Life; you should still keep the Skala as your primary pet, but create a few hotkeys and set it up so that you can swap the Wyvern in, use the active, and swap BACK to the skala. Afterwards, you should also get the Forest Skulk ally for the powerful Lethal Poison debuff it allows you to apply.

After this, choose between getting Primal Combust (spellcaster) or obtaining the other two Wyvern allies for the same reason as the first (Both playstyles). After these, you can either try to work on getting Mental Bane onto every spell you have, or grab Reklar's Tail Scale of Strength for usage on Shaloth and Valkor.

It is not recommended to use an epic claw on this build due to how good Wolf's Blessing is.

Should you have any questions or if I forgot something, feel free to DM or ping me on the Istaria Discord, Tirwa#2088

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