Aren't Leves Meant To Be Possible On Your Own?

[Lorthethf]

I did this as 20 pug with only lnc at 10 and physical lvl 17. I was able to complete that one by watching their cone aoe. As the blue mist started to signify their ws, i just moved behind them and it never hit me. Now i dont know if i was just lucky with the misses, but every time i did move behind them while the ws was being activated, i received a miss from it. Of course it was super hard and i did die with the first group. But i guess i was a quick learner and i was able to do the rest. But i did have to rely heavy on my Second wind and potions. And no i did not have any evade buffs up at the time of the misses, just thought i would put that out there ^^

My point is along with everyone else, strategy works well with the updated eq, vit and so on.

Good luck with the next time you face off against them ^^

[Felis]

Normally monsters rank have the same rank as the camp with 1 star. In Camp Horizon, it would be R20. Each star increase the rank +3.
Example: Ladybugs in a leve in Camp Horizon with 3 stars would be rank 26

But some monsters, like skeletons or devilets, don't start with monster rank = camp rank but with monster rank = camp rank +5. The skeletons in the leves with 1 star are rank 25 and are in a certain way almost like 3 star leves.

[AndrewN]

As pointed out, that leve always was difficult, I remember large parties wiping on it when I was levelling around there.

The main question I would ask, is your gear suitable for your rank and class? Wearing gear designed for a different class gives you a huge penalty to your defence as does using gear designed for a much higher rank. Also are you using a suitable bow? You should be using a Willow Composite Bow or an Ash Longbow.

Apart from that, multishot is your friend. Multishot -> Raging Strike -> Multishot -> Light Shot does amusingly large amounts of damage. And if you can add Ferocity from Lancer (rank 4) then the damage is even more fun.

[Wynn]

Easy fix is to not do that particular leve, OP. All the camps have one or two leves that are insanely hard compared to the others. Wight Stuff is Horizon's PITA. Stay away. ^^

[VydarrTyr]

As others have said, part of the issue is that the leve you're talking about is just difficult.

Also, in looking at your character profile page, you've got Arc up to level 27, Conj up to level 4, and that's pretty much it. So your Arc is level 27, but your physical level is 22. That means that physically you're going to be weaker than mobs that are level 27.

It also means that you have almost no cross class skills to equip. Skills from other jobs help a ton in this game. Level Pug until you get Second Wind; level Marauder until you get Bloodbath; level Lancer until you get Ferocity and Invigorate; level Conjurer until you get Cure, Protect, Shell, and Shock Spikes; level Thaum until you get Sacrifice. You can get all of those skills in fewer than 10 levels. And they'll all help you immensely with your Archer.

Leveling those other jobs will also raise your physical level, so it will be closer to -- or even higher than -- your Archer level.

SE designed this game to encourage you to play more than one class. Try some of the other classes out. You might even like them.

[Ruri]

I never had any problem soloing leves ever. Maybe equip better abilities or put stat points somewhere else? In a few weeks you won't have to worry about stats as much though.

[Chione]

I have problems soloing certain r40 leves now that were nowhere near as difficult before.

Since the changes to leves, all of the defend-this-spot type of leves have become broken, or at least so it feels. The waves spawn way too closely to each other, and sometimes there is no pause at all between them. The bomb and ahriman one is particularly impossible now, as a wave of 2 bombs and a wave of 3 ahriman always spawn at the same time.

I dunno many who could survive that alone - I sure can't. And if you happen to be of a rank multiple 5, its game over.

Also, these mobs will not return to their territory either if you try to run (in hopes of being able to pick them off after they settle) they will chase you to the end of the Eorzea it seems. This I know from experience, having been chased from where they spawned nearly all the way back to the camp before they finally did me in.

This was me at GLA43 doing the leve at 1 star. Other leves are much more challenging now due to the hike in mp costs, but the most of the defense leves with boss types are nigh impossible now. And the ones that are defense till the time run out are extremely difficult as well.

The cliff yarzon one for example, if you don't destroy them fast enough you will end up with 5 or 6 on you (and sometimes they aren't grouped at all for some reason, so you lose sp if you try to aoe them to death). Very difficult odds for a solo player with the mp costs what they are.

[Deminia]

I have problems soloing certain r40 leves now that were nowhere near as difficult before.

Since the changes to leves, all of the defend-this-spot type of leves have become broken, or at least so it feels. The waves spawn way too closely to each other, and sometimes there is no pause at all between them. The bomb and ahriman one is particularly impossible now, as a wave of 2 bombs and a wave of 3 ahriman always spawn at the same time.

I dunno many who could survive that alone - I sure can't. And if you happen to be of a rank multiple 5, its game over.

Also, these mobs will not return to their territory either if you try to run (in hopes of being able to pick them off after they settle) they will chase you to the end of the Eorzea it seems. This I know from experience, having been chased from where they spawned nearly all the way back to the camp before they finally did me in.

This was me at GLA43 doing the leve at 1 star. Other leves are much more challenging now due to the hike in mp costs, but the most of the defense leves with boss types are nigh impossible now. And the ones that are defense till the time run out are extremely difficult as well.

The cliff yarzon one for example, if you don't destroy them fast enough you will end up with 5 or 6 on you (and sometimes they aren't grouped at all for some reason, so you lose sp if you try to aoe them to death). Very difficult odds for a solo player with the mp costs what they are.

I just soloed one of the bomb + ahriman leves (at Bald Knoll) last night as a 36 PUG - I did die a couple of times and I did have to zone to move the mobs away from the yarzons, but I was able to complete the leve. I do not have any mage classes leveled, so no cure - just my own healing wind and bloodbath equipped. I did not have trouble getting them to stop following me however. I wonder if you ran into a glitch? I found it a challenge due to my rank, but not impossible.

[Chione]

I just soloed one of the bomb + ahriman leves (at Bald Knoll) last night as a 36 PUG - I did die a couple of times and I did have to zone to move the mobs away from the yarzons, but I was able to complete the leve. I do not have any mage classes leveled, so no cure - just my own healing wind and bloodbath equipped. I did not have trouble getting them to stop following me however. I wonder if you ran into a glitch? I found it a challenge due to my rank, but not impossible.

Its that whole dying part that tends to bother me.

I can succeed on the leve, but I likewise end up getting KO'd and then come back and peel off the critters one group at a time. But that doesn't sound like much of a plan to me, especially not with the damage gear suffers now, and it's not something I consider soloable if I have to die to win.

As for the following part, I haven't had to run from the spiders, but I tried running from the ahriman and the bombs and they just kept on chasing me. Otherwise I'd be able to shake them off instead of dying, and then peel off the groups one by one.

But I've done this leve before the patch, and those two waves in particular (bombs and then ahrimans) had enough of a break between them before to defeat the bombs before the 3 eyes show up. Now there's hardly a pause (if any at all). Sometimes I can manage to take one of the bombs out before the ahriman actually get to me, but it doesn't help.

All other r40 leves I can do easily at 3 stars on my own. But this one? Not so. I don't count dying as a success. ^^; Especially since I don't have armorer leveled.

[Scape]

A 26 Archer should absolutely destroy R20 leves. Even with higher star difficulty.