More screenshots added!
Sunday September 27 2009, I soloed Zakum. There's plenty of people who've done this, but I think (correct me if I'm wrong) I'm the lowest leveled marksman and the first strengthless one to do it.
The fight lasted 2 hours 59 minutes, I used about 1600 gingers, 220 allcures, 15 apples and 2 gelts. I took some video footage which I'll eventually turn into an actual video, my youtube account being the same as my sleepywood one. The mobs didn't cause toooo much trouble (except at the end when my apple ran out and I was too cheap to use one for 3-4 minutes) and it was fun timing my snipes to only hit zak when I had a clear shot at him so it wasn't the regular "stand still and spam attack/potions/apples until you win or fall asleep". To any marksmen planning on trying this, frostprey is cool until middle of second and middle of 3rd body when he starts summoning the blue guys which are immune to ice so FP will do more harm than good.
Why did I do it?
Thanks to the people that inspired me (in the spoiler) for uh, inspiring me; and the people of Khaini's Vindication zakum runs for helping me get inside. If you want to know what my equips are you'll have to content yourself with the answer of "they're pretty good, but nothing amazing by cross-server merchanter standards". I use a 114 attack Maple Nishada though, if that tells you anything
. My damage range without apples/buffs is like 44xx-54xx I think, I'll check it when I get home as well as adding more screenshots.
If you want to tell me how being strengthless at my level (or at all) isn't a good idea, this topic and more importantly the solo is my counter. So unless you know of a level 14x-15x marksman who soloed a lot faster than I did you have no case. I know my math and for now I'm making the right choice by staying strengthless. If you have any questions or comments (and not criticism of soloing zakum or being strengthless), I'll be here to answer em. I'd read why you wouldn't want to solo zak, but not why I or others am stupid for doing it - makes sense?
Skill build:
Spoiler
![[Image: Maple4534.jpg]](http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v722/hotshot2k4/Maple4534.jpg)
![[Image: Maple4540.jpg]](http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v722/hotshot2k4/Maple4540.jpg)
![[Image: Maple4554.jpg]](http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v722/hotshot2k4/Maple4554.jpg)
![[Image: Maple4563.jpg]](http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v722/hotshot2k4/Maple4563.jpg)
![[Image: Maple4564.jpg]](http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v722/hotshot2k4/Maple4564.jpg)
![[Image: Maple4566.jpg]](http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v722/hotshot2k4/apogeeprime/Maple4566.jpg)
Sunday September 27 2009, I soloed Zakum. There's plenty of people who've done this, but I think (correct me if I'm wrong) I'm the lowest leveled marksman and the first strengthless one to do it.
The fight lasted 2 hours 59 minutes, I used about 1600 gingers, 220 allcures, 15 apples and 2 gelts. I took some video footage which I'll eventually turn into an actual video, my youtube account being the same as my sleepywood one. The mobs didn't cause toooo much trouble (except at the end when my apple ran out and I was too cheap to use one for 3-4 minutes) and it was fun timing my snipes to only hit zak when I had a clear shot at him so it wasn't the regular "stand still and spam attack/potions/apples until you win or fall asleep". To any marksmen planning on trying this, frostprey is cool until middle of second and middle of 3rd body when he starts summoning the blue guys which are immune to ice so FP will do more harm than good.
Why did I do it?
Spoiler
. I had apples/mesos to burn and maxed out my snipe when I reached level 149 so I thought if I was going to solo at all, it should be at my most oppertune and meaningful time. 
), 2 helms that I had no use for, and TT10 (S> this on Khaini 
).Thanks to the people that inspired me (in the spoiler) for uh, inspiring me; and the people of Khaini's Vindication zakum runs for helping me get inside. If you want to know what my equips are you'll have to content yourself with the answer of "they're pretty good, but nothing amazing by cross-server merchanter standards". I use a 114 attack Maple Nishada though, if that tells you anything
. My damage range without apples/buffs is like 44xx-54xx I think, I'll check it when I get home as well as adding more screenshots.If you want to tell me how being strengthless at my level (or at all) isn't a good idea, this topic and more importantly the solo is my counter. So unless you know of a level 14x-15x marksman who soloed a lot faster than I did you have no case. I know my math and for now I'm making the right choice by staying strengthless. If you have any questions or comments (and not criticism of soloing zakum or being strengthless), I'll be here to answer em. I'd read why you wouldn't want to solo zak, but not why I or others am stupid for doing it - makes sense?
Skill build:
Spoiler