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[quote=DmginStars]You dont know what your talking about do you? VL heals 50m constantly. Nobody with 30k rng would have a chance.[/quote]
You are the ignorant one here. If you knew what spawn maxing was, you'd know it is easy as hell to solo if you are experienced.

Paladins have an easier time soloing VL.
Just wait for max summons and Blast him to death.
Just watch out for DR

Awww well that coulda been good fun otherwise.. my 35k range clean won't get me anywhere near soloing him then D:

@ramenrulz: Lots of people disconnect even with good computers. I'd like to say it's specific to ram usage but I'm uncertain. The game typically eats 1.1GB of ram before it crashes on me.

@ramenrulz: Not the case at all.

@ramenrulz: I always stay on the left, avoid jumping, avoid double jump and keep on the portal with all the mobs, still crashes.

@Kazzooey: Ok, Marksmen and bowmasters have different survivability. I can recover my HP at any time with drain arrow they can't. They can't even use IS due to it being glitched. Marksmen have nothing going for them right now other than mobbing. I don't die at von leon when i run, i only crash.

@ramenrulz when Von Leon decides to summon typically boars/rhino's thats when the game decides to crash, 10 minutes in.

Pretty sure someone with at least 30k range can't even put a dent in him. When he summons golems you have to kill them fast. Since they've got a lot of HP themselves VL has already healed himself before you finish them off.

Also the max spawn doesn't always work. The number of monsters gets too huge so they get out of control. VL teles to right in middle if the rhinos so when we start attacking we also kill some rhinos in the process.

I went on 3 VL runs and all of them failed. Guess we're noobs.

@ulllll:

Awh D: what happend?

around 75k range for a merc not sure about other classes

15k on pally should do it, some % boss would help greatly thou xD maybe 20k, i gota test it out when i make my pally

[quote=Kazzooey]Today I Von Leon'd with my buddy who is a uber godly marksman. He died 10-15 times. Me = 0. And by the way our run only lasted like 8-10 minutes tops. And remember, our Threaten gives Von Leon 30% less Attack and my buddy still couldn't survive for long. So yea, it is as hard as you think.[/quote]
Fail MM

@SilverBladez: if only my comp worked

[quote=DmginStars]You dont know what your talking about do you? VL heals 50m constantly. Nobody with 30k rng would have a chance.[/quote]

He cant heal if you know what to do -_-

[quote=DmginStars]Like nobody can legitly solo VL. So GL with that.[/quote]

Fleyx and Calmly do.

Here lately, if you try to max out his boars and rhinos in spawn, it'll actually crash your client.

I think the only way to "legitly" solo him is to be able to constantly hit max on him.

I've only been on a run with one person that could solo him. It was a DS with I believe around 300% str and 100%+ bossing damage. with my ada, he hit max on every hit.

[quote=twopointonefour]@ramenrulz: You stand on top of him just like you would a paladin. Surviving Von Leon isn't as hard as you think it is.[/quote]

Today I Von Leon'd with my buddy who is a uber godly marksman. He died 10-15 times. Me = 0. And by the way our run only lasted like 8-10 minutes tops. And remember, our Threaten gives Von Leon 30% less Attack and my buddy still couldn't survive for long. So yea, it is as hard as you think.

[quote=Darksword]Well it really depends, sometimes it's how Von Leon rolls. If he maxed out the room with boars and rhinos, lucky... but I doubt it's about luck, many have claimed they have soloed it and many have claimed they can't. It can be possible for a few and some for others. The only problem for a few is being either d/ced or the golems, otherwise Von Leon is suppose to be a easy boss.[/quote]

Ohh I'm sure glad I bumped into this thread. Never before have I thought there was such a strategy as to max out the room with mobs other than Mini Castle Golem.

My friend keeps telling me that it's not possible for me to solo and his best advice for me was to get a warrior with rush and keep the Mini Castle Golem at the corner and Von Leon at the other corner and it's still not possible for me to kill Von Leon.

He says this because he can hit max damage and can kill all the monster easily so he doesn't require any strategy such as this.

Well, now I know, I guess I'll give it a try later. Just hope I won't get disconnected from the maxed mob.
And because of the LHC Reorganization, now I can't get in the castle unless I clear the quest, damn

[quote=janny1993].... You don't even know what your talking about... stop bluffing.
30k range isn't enough to solo Von Leon.

I say this because I have more than 30k range but less than 60k and I was completely pawned by Von Leon.

Von Leon will summon Mini Castle Golem which he will absorb to heal his hp and those golem have plenty of hp themselves too so with 30k range, you can't kill them fast enough before Von Leon absorbs them and if you try to lure the Mini Castle Golem away from the Von Leon, he will teleport TO YOU and absorb the Mini Castle Golem while you are still in the middle of trying to kill the Mini Castle Golem so ya... good luck with that...[/quote]

Well it really depends, sometimes it's how Von Leon rolls. If he maxed out the room with boars and rhinos, lucky... but I doubt it's about luck, many have claimed they have soloed it and many have claimed they can't. It can be possible for a few and some for others. The only problem for a few is being either d/ced or the golems, otherwise Von Leon is suppose to be a easy boss. The only way I know how to solo Von Leon is by maxing out the spawns, but it causes my client (or Maplestory) to crash. I haven't found my way around that yet. I also suggest not to kill the boars and rhinos, because Von Leon seems to be glitched and summons golems instead of rhinos/boars even though the Boss Notification says otherwise.

[quote=janny1993]Ohh I'm sure glad I bumped into this thread. Never before have I thought there was such a strategy as to max out the room with mobs other than Mini Castle Golem.

My friend keeps telling me that it's not possible for me to solo and his best advice for me was to get a warrior with rush and keep the Mini Castle Golem at the corner and Von Leon at the other corner and it's still not possible for me to kill Von Leon.

He says this because he can hit max damage and can kill all the monster easily so he doesn't require any strategy such as this.

Well, now I know, I guess I'll give it a try later. Just hope I won't get disconnected from the maxed mob.
And because of the LHC Reorganization, now I can't get in the castle unless I clear the quest, damn[/quote]

Well that use to work before due to Von Leon's programming back then but he has changed a bit since then. Pushing the golems away will trigger him to directly teleport to the golems within a few seconds. It was a good tactic but it doesn't work now. Either you solo it with max mobs, or go with another party. I doubt it's possible to actually kill him unless you're experienced, then you know his weakness and to effectively use it against him.

Just to throw a tip on those quests, I suggest you make a party, or start looting from others, it's quick and easy.

[quote=gamemage3]It depends if your class has a strong solo damage attack.

Probably 30k would be enough.[/quote]

30k range isn't enough to solo Von Leon.

I have more than 30k range but less than 60k and I was completely pawned by Von Leon.

Von Leon will summon Mini Castle Golem which he will absorb to heal his hp and those golem have plenty of hp themselves too so with 30k range, you can't kill them fast enough before Von Leon absorbs them and if you try to lure the Mini Castle Golem away from the Von Leon, he will teleport TO YOU and absorb the Mini Castle Golem while you are still in the middle of trying to kill the Mini Castle Golem.

@ramenrulz: It crashes people still for what ever purpose.

@ramenrulz: You stand on top of him just like you would a paladin. Surviving Von Leon isn't as hard as you think it is.

[quote=ramenrulz]It's because of blast ability to lock onto a single target and paladins defense that they are able to do it so quick. I never crashed and I died on every single damage reflect but those where my only deaths. Threaten helps but its because paladins can tank Von Leon and target him with blast that the run goes so quick. Not dying that much helps a lot when trying to do the most damage.[/quote]

I can do the exact same with strafe or hurricane, don't think it's class exclusive.

[quote=Kazzooey]I believe paladins are the best at soloing him with low ranges. Just made a thread about this a week ago in the Paladin section. I was able to solo him with a 15k range clean on my paladin with 4 minutes to spare. I now have a 18k range clean and solo him daily. Piece of cake.

What makes us so good at soloing is that we don't worry about dying at all which boosts our Dpm up very high. Plus Blast is our main bossing skill and hits 1v1 so we easily lock onto VL. I have noob damage and VL is easy for me.[/quote]I don't agree and i don't disagree but i feel it's more about threaten and Crash than your actual survivability.

I believe paladins are the best at soloing him with low ranges. Just made a thread about this a week ago in the Paladin section. I was able to solo him with a 15k range clean on my paladin with 4 minutes to spare. I now have a 18k range clean and solo him daily. Piece of cake.

What makes us so good at soloing is that we don't worry about dying at all which boosts our Dpm up very high. Plus Blast is our main bossing skill and hits 1v1 so we easily lock onto VL. I have noob damage and VL is easy for me.

Paladins Threaten is a flat 30% off Von Leons damage reduction, which takes it from 55% to 25% minus whatever other %ignore you may have. Paladins have it very easy in terms of damage reduction from Von Leon, hence explaining why they can solo the boss with such a relatively low range while other classes like the dual blade with the 180k range has some troubles due to the dispelling and other effects.

Even as a bowmaster I have a 85% chance of failing each run but it is something you can solo, it isn't something you can adjust your computer against DCing or anything. The problem is mainly due to the Memory Usage of maplestory caused by a memory leak in the mobs. I believe it has something to do with the mini boss flag as having excessive spawns at LHC cause the game to crash in a likewise error. There is really nothing you can do, your only hope is that they change the coding of the boss to make it summon less or a finite number of summons when it becomes an instanced raid.

i lol'd so hard when VL came out, it was obvious it would be easy to defeat.

people to this day and age think it's hard?

[quote=ulllll]for my mercedes, doable but hard at a ~100k buffed range, pretty easy now at a 206k buffed range (no echo)[/quote]

You should really consider selling me coins..

I've been soloing him since 180 back when I had 20k clean.
As long as you have a skill that hits 1v1 you'll be fine.
Just let him summon rhinos until he can't summon anymore and then kill him.
Back then I used to finish with about 15 minutes left now I'm at 55k buffed and I finish with about 40 minutes left.

[quote=DmginStars]Like nobody can legitly solo VL. So GL with that.[/quote]

Then why can I?
Note that it's a lot easier being a 1 handed sword and shield user... No status resistance is killing me.

I can solo it with easy (95k clean range Evan with 15% bossing dmg), if you manage to kill the mini castle golems and avoid damage reflect it is quite easy, I recommend having your graphic guality at the lowest possible when fightning it, I lag a lot :l probably cause its a big monster and his skills are somewhat flashy.

I hear paladins are particularly good at soloing him. Somone said you could do it with a range of 15k.
Multiple people in the pally forums actually have solo'd him.

lol if von leon is not buffed in the latest patch i call u all noobs
cause my mech at 170 solo's it pre allaince eternal
so i dont know

@DmginStars http://www.basilmarket.com/show/screen/218271/0/Von_leon_solo.html
What chu say to me?

for my mercedes, doable but hard at a ~100k buffed range, pretty easy now at a 206k buffed range (no echo)

How old is this thread? O_o
I know a Pally who solos daily, his range is somewhere between 10k - 20k...
VL is really easy for any class with a 1v1 attack.

@SashimiFTW: Pssh, not you, but everyone else in Broa<3

I can't solo him without a bishop, too little HP and pot lock + healing. I can't auto target VL either. Lol Mech's get the short end of the stick on that one.

I have a feeling vl was revamped so easier?

vl is a joke if you got an ass load of % boss on a merc/db

@Range4Fun: the sole reason for your menial existence is for you to HS me. <3

@SashimiFTW: LMFAO! No Alex, I'm never HSing you.

[quote=Range4Fun]@SashimiFTW: No, gtho Alex, I don't hs you![/quote]

bish please.

@SashimiFTW: No, gtho Alex, I don't hs you!

@Range4Fun: son. you are mah bish

[quote=CinderTea]Max spawn disconnects you if he teleports and you aren't near most of the mobs from what I can tell. Try to get him to max spawn near the portal.[/quote]

This is correct, thats why its quite hard to solo him

@SashimiFTW: I ain't HSing no one!

@DmginStars: From the looks of it, you are the one who doesn't know what he is talking about. Surely 30k range is hardly enough (I tried it as a Mercedes with 50k range), however what you are implying is nonsense. It's not that incredibly hard to solo VL. I have seen countless of people do it before without hacking.

If you would like some one to go with you. I would be more than willing.

[quote=DmginStars]Like nobody can legitly solo VL. So GL with that.[/quote]
i unno man lol i solo it all the time legitly.