is botting soloingFollow

A few days ago i was in a discussion where my friend who bots 4 was telling me how he solo'd this and that and i replyed ,botting playing solo its just running a grp by your self , was just wondering about the public opinion of this thank you.

I consider it soloing if the character took on the mob mano a mano at the time of combat. So botting multiple characters into the fight doesn't count but getting some buffs before the fight does.

solo = 1 or alone.

so NO a botted group is NOT soloing. it is grouping even if it is only one real person, there is more then 1 toon involved.

Soloing is one character (not one player) versus the mob(s).

Perhaps your friend thinks that since it is a single player that he is soloing.

Edit: Your friend would be correct in saying that he boxed such and such mob.

Edited, Aug 28th 2006 at 7:46am EDT by Pinzarn

Edited, Aug 28th 2006 at 7:46am EDT by Pinzarn

I always considered soloing any tough mob to be a matter of pride, meaning you did it yourself. If you're getting insane buffs from multiple toons, regardless of whether they're yours or someone else's, or if you have a safety net from another character to ensure you win then you haven't soloed, especially if you're involving 4 characters in the fight. To solo means to defeat alone, not to beat a mob with the assistance of a bunch of other characters. I'm just switching over from EQOA as soon as my download finishes, and I remember a few people there who claimed to have soloed mobs ("because they had a good healer oog" and another who had people bloodgating and coming back to give him stacks of food to keep his health up. That's not soloing, lol.

Sorry, I'm a purist, lol. I consider soloing to be based on your toon's skills and abilities, not your toon's skills and abilities and the buffs of as many other characters as you can get to beef you above and beyond what you're capable of. Just my personal opinion, but if you're going to have claimed to solo something, you should have done it yourself, not with the aid of others (whether it be buffing, pulling adds, taking the initial hit, etc). I don't know if anyone here has played EQOA, but I eventually wound up building a SK who soloed dreadaughts like nothing, mobs who used to tear inexperienced raid parties a new a*****e. On one occasion I went to solo Paraithor, and the sha with me buffed me, so I took off all my CR gear to compensate.

Again, just my opinion, but in my opinion, soloing means doing it yourself without help. guess that would cut the number of people who could have claimed to have done it on any given mob down badly, though...

I think it is really simple : Buffed or unbuffed , if you did it completely alone then you soloed the mob.

If you take Maldovars argument to it's conclusion , then any equipment that increases any stat is a buff and therefore makes the encounter non-solo .

Sorry , any gear or buffs but all alone = solo

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–adverb 11. on one's own; alone or unaccompanied: After six lessons he was flying solo.

–verb (used without object)
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So ya I would say you solo a mob when you use one char to kill it.


Edited, Sep 6th 2006 at 10:22am EDT by Fairystears

When I "solo" it's by myself, one character. If I box one extra toon I say I "duo'd", etc.