On Agnarr server, a good druid can solo PoF c2 without any downtime at all. They can charm in many planes as well with less downtime and more safety than an enchanter with solid crowd control from root/snare and the safety net of evac. After the DoT consolidation years ago, the druid DoT clicks from the elder spiritist vambraces and the orb of clingling death received the New version of the dots on them making their mana free rotting pretty much game breaking. When you have the sporecaller, naturewalkers scimitar, tempest blade and orb of clinging death they all stack, and sporecaller and orb of clinging death are Focusable. So if you have the symbol of planesmaster and the augment from LDoN you can get mana free 1200ish damage each round on your total DoT damage. Granted its a bit slower leading up to Kunark, but once you get your vambrace with the first dot Click at 45 its easy mode the rest of the way for solo without downtime. My dru focuses mostly on resists, ac and hp/mana regen, and since druids can wear alot of Monk and Beastlord gear they can get quite tanky, while still being able to cast endlessly. Outdoors druids are almost as good as an enchanter in most zones, and they can still dungeon crawl just fine able to solo Spore king and many other loot camps that require crawling and dealing with summoning mobs once they have some decent gear and skill. My personal rating on druid would easily put them in the top 3 of all guilds soloing. And first place would be Shaman simply for their ability to tank a bit better on summoning mobs. Enchanters would be second because they can start charming early and often, and with skill can do amazing things. I personally have played ranger and necromancer as well, but not as much as the rest, and I'd say necromancer is solid fourth and ranger solid 5th. Atleast on live progression that goes into luclin and beyond, rangers can headshot and make coin or AA faster than a necromancer could but are limited to camp selection where the necromancer has a much wider range of camps to either get gear or exp, end game Ranger head shot is too efficient.
Oh the feels of being part of a guild and raiding!! Ah I miss this game. I’m thinking of coming back after years ... worried it’s changed so much that I won’t be able to catch up or worse no guild to return to. I see the servers have merged as well and I’m hoping my warden is still able to be found. Great content, definitely subscribed!
Thank you. Yeah it's a good time to get back in if you want. P99 green is still in classic. 2 new live servers just opened and they'll be in classic for 3 months. Definitely don't recommend 26th expansion stuff. I don't even understand the buttons.
Enchanter end of story, they can steal mana, go into every city and sell, rune themselves to avoid damage, aoe stun and men. Calm down into any dungeon boss, charm the most powerful pets in game, slow and haste and c2
I keep getting tempted to attempt a return to EQ but I can't decide if my memories are clouded with nostalgia. Started on release and finished around 05/06 and made the disastrous decision to play EQ2. One thing for sure I will not be picking up old characters will be a fresh start. I may try the Necro have a "main" Bard and the idea of jumping back on to him is a non-starter 8) Cheers for the video mate.
I would regularly solo as a bard kiting. Using the dot songs and speed. Favorite place was somewhere in Kunark where the giants had a fort over a crater. It was perfectly spaced and circular. Had to pull carefully so you didn’t get the whole fort. After that were the rats in plane of disease.
Just found your channel and i'm so excited to watch your videos while I wait (and strategize) for the new TLPs. Can you post the name of that item that you referred to as the "real" necro epic? I couldn't understand it in the video and I'd love to look it up. Great channel, man. Good day over here.
Man... this brings me back so many years. I used to quad + kite with my druid (he became my powerleveler) Swarm kiting on my bard was a blast. The necro was a char I played when I really didnt want to play with anyone
At level 52 with my Necro I was soloing in Howling Stones farming Mask of Obtenebrations selling 2 Krono a pop. Necros are the most fun class I've ever played. I played Enchanter , Cleric, Magician, Rogue, ShadowKnight,
Never played EQ1, just never happened really in early 2000s as I was a huge Starwars Galaxies player and was on that for a long time. Recently with nothing being that great in terms of MMORPG's I literally just created my EQ1 account the other night and I'm waiting for the new TLP dropping in a few days, I Was gonna roll Mage as I like DPS but also if I end up having to solo a bit here and there then Mage pets should do decent right?
You have forgotten Beastlord and berzerker, but i am not 100% sure if zerk can it has it in gates of discord expansion volley + snare also his throwaxe line?
The Druid animal charm is no joke. I charm killed using polar bears in the polar bear pit from 55 to 60 on P99. I'd charm one, have it attack another and then break charm once they were both near death. Root rot to finish both. It was by far the quickest way to get the last five levels considering Druids are not very welcomed into pickup groups unless they are super desperate for a healer.
Hm, i've begun with a wizard bc of their DPS and thought I might have a fun with this class. I've successfully nuked some of the party bosses in the first area of EQ, but i suppose the bosses in higher areas are more difficult to handle. Should try out bard or druid, I just did not want a class with a pet however.
At least on live server at 85 i find wizard pretty much hard to solo, maybe i just don't know better but hard to nuke stuff when they hit you in the face for 30% of your hp or more per hit, can't be rooted/snared and summon :)
I've played a bunch of classes, my SK, monk, warrior were for when my friends were online and we grouped up. But everything else I did mainly for soloing. To me soloing is about leveling up and having the freedom to go where ever you want while doing so while at the same time challenging yourself. The problem with a lot of the classes you mentioned is that they don't become soloer's until much later after they get certain ablities and/or gear. The best soloers from the get go were necromancer & beastlord, and I by far had the most fun with the beastlord. I could get multiple mobs on me and still do fine with my pet and downtime wasn't an issue at all for the beastlord. The problem with magician's and enchanters early(besides the mana and other stuff) is that if you get a mob on you you are screwed because they die so easily. Magicians just need to be super careful for that reason, their pets were definitely the strongest though, but you get a lull in certain levels until you get the higher level pets and you don't have the tools yet to handle aggro. How I remember magician leveling is, "this is a blast to play and easy" then the lull hits "why do my pets suck so much now what's going on" then you get the new pets "man this is great again" and so on lol. I could never get into the chanter to much, so I never made it to the point where they become 'fun' I guess, but I always had mad respect for the people who did. This is all going from memory of course from a long time ago, I soloed with my SK, monk, and warrior too, but the issues are obvious. I actually did it a lot with my SK, but it was so slow. I imagine now a days this is all moot with the addition to mercs though, even though I played the game after they added mercs I never really used them, but I guess mercs make everything soloable with now. I did bard back when the kiting the whole zone was a thing, and it was so long and so boring that I would rather just shoot myself, I leveled one up pretty far but I never got any satisfaction with it as I did with the other classes.
Okay, I've been away from EQ for a LONG time but will be coming back for the aradune TLP. How are you getting the announcements to pop up in the center of your screen? I'm talking about information like "Mez drops" and "decurse someone" Thank you for the video and thanks for the information.
Hey, it doesnt look like you have a custom UI but curious to know how you filter your "combat" windows to just numbers and misses. Also, where are those overlays from? Gameparse or GINA? Thanks!
Hopefully you have found this by now but... Right clicking the top of a chat window opens lots of options. You can create new chat windows and then filter from there too.
You went up to Luclin on this one, but you failed to mention Beast Lord. They can tank about as well as a monk, and their pets per level are usually better than any other pet. You start seeing a beast Lord's pet proc it's pet spell it will tear mobs to pieces....
In classic EQ, Troll warriors had a regen bonus... Jboots, Fungi Tunic, a weighted axe, and a friendly soloing druid (who you can bum regrowth from) is all you need...
@@mfuckersssss I didn't say "with no downtime", but you could significantly reduce downtime to where the soloing experienced gained exceeded what you could get anywhere else, including a group. I went from 40 to 54 back in the day so fast, nobody could believe it. In fact, people admired my effort and went out of their way to aid me from time to time, and I helped them when they needed it... tanking a mob they were camping or whatnot. I always liked the "little deals" on the side you could make playing EQ... Trusted traders did it all the time....
@@mfuckersssss Warriors are actually fine soloers if they are well geared and have some platinum to spend on consumables, but don't expect to be able to do anything "noteable" by yourself until you're at least max level with 5 or 6 best-in-slot items in classic. They CAN solo without downtime starting in Kunark with the distillate IX healing potions and even sooner if you're willing to spend thousands of plat on puppet strings and other consumables.
Although soloing has become the norm these days. I agree with your top 3 classes. But I will add the enchanter the same as a druid. Then the wizard and last shaman. Necros and Bards can start at very low levels on that grind. I don't include mages because after 45 the soloing stops unless you have very good gear and the epic which sucks to get. Same as rangers. I need a very special bow and a big area to kite. And, rangers need ammo until endless quiver thing way later on. Bards also have a limit on what they can solo later on. Necros are the ones that can continue on until very high levels.
Yeah, still great soloers. Odd that people put wizards ahead, they are very mana dependent while the mages pet can do lots of damage while consuming 0 mana, if you can keep it alive that is.
I am baffled that mages got stuck so low on your list, dead last. My main is a mage. Heard no mention of monks or beast lords either. Beasties are a good pet class. Tough starting out solo though
@@IonBlaze1 Also BTW, I'm pretty sure my Mage is the absolute top geared mage across all servers at my level. I have played so long I also have both an original Manastone and an Earring of Living Slime. I would be happy to show you if you ever cared to see.
I soloed Wiz it was best in my opinion. I had bard, nec, and druid. Plus the rest. My wiz was the ez one. Did this from orig EQ all the way to pop. The worst thing about soloing is getting Epics.
Necro and Shaman are kings. Necro is easier and faster, shaman can kill bigger mobs. Both have no downtime for mana compared to other classes. And a way to run when things get bad, Feign Death and sow. Magician ... hmm after lvl 50 good luck, with an add good luck, on named you can forget. I hope you have 10 minutes to wait between every mob to recover your mana bar. Wiz : same as magician, mana regen is a bit better and you are safer with a root (snare?) line but soloing is very slow and dangerous. Those two classes are good soloers before lvl 40 maybe after that they need a druid or a group. Don't forget the magic and fire resists from mobs of your same level category. Bard, amazing but slow, too slow. It is not a dps class at all. Druid is an amazing class on classic for sure, turning master of nothing during PoP. You can solo but i hope you like mana breaks between mobs. To turn a very good soloer you will have to select your zone and charm an animal. You can snare that is a must for safety but charm breaks will be boring (you can not lower the magic resistance of the mob which is the biggest leverage on charm duration making necro, druid and magician not so good at charming). Enchanter : hmmm ... you can play the hitman and kill what you want in a dungeon. But you will need to know the game more than any class. Talking about soloing for a long period of time (grinding exp) i would not pick this class. But if you duo/trio it is THE class until Gate of Discord expansion ! Charmed pet is the best dps ever and the only thing you won't tank with a charmed pet are raid bosses. So good soloer but it is exhausting and you may die often. You forgot Beastlord if you include Luclin. Good soloer not the best dps, not a tank but you have mana regen, slow and heals. edit : i forgot cleric, yes cleric !! Find an undead zone and you are basically a wizard but a very resistant one. The con is your mana regen, awfull for soloing more than 20 minutes mobs of your level category. Please consider soloing is fighting mob of your level or 5 lvl under yours minimum. If not just pick a ranger and headshot everything that con green.
Takes levels gear and AA to get there but a raid geared SK is a pretty beastly soloer, good tanking, decent dps, can stack DS to help kill, and solid passive healing with the right aa lines maxed.
Hi I just started playing like 2 weeks ago on EQ20th Selo server, I got a lvl 40 monk with 2k platinum. But now I can’t join the server because it says Free players cannot play the server. Was it a trial or something?
Yeah it was a temporary bonus thing. TLPs cost a subscription or krono to play on. Daybreak just made a time period for people to play free to test it out.
Enchanter is best, all the downsides you mention are easy to plan for and mitigate. They also kill mobs faster than anyone else else with like 0 down time starting at like lvl 25. You should play an enchanter.
I do agree those classes make good soloers. And this is the beauty of EQ that I am afraid that DBG and Darkpaw are going to overlook for the future. Yes the game is about grouping and raids. But there are classes that can solo really well. IMO its enchanter as king 50+, shaman because of buffs, heals, dots, etc., necro , then druid, then 5th wizard. For me bard lost their #1 spot when swarm kiting was nerfed, but yes they still have a lot of abilities that can make soloing possible. Monks can solo with mend, FD and AAs, and rangers can solo when they have endless quiver. Clerics can solo as well, specially in undead areas. Lets not forget about BLs and mages too. This is one of the reasons why EQ has survived for 22+ years. 16 classes and I can say 11 of those classes can solo efficiently.
I soloed a shammy and mage but I solo all my toons to lev 50... Now with mercs it is almost to easy... I started playing in 2007 before the Guild Lobby Expac... That's when EQ was a blast.... Courpes Runs Nekid getting a Cleric to come to the zone or /enter and check is in the zone you died in to rezz you... Good Times... Now with the right merc anyone can molo... I don't Group much people are always getting me Splated... Lol I do that enough I don't need Help... Roflmao
While wizards have to stop and med, because they quad kite the speed of kills yields more mobs dead in the same time as other solo classes that don't have mana issues. A single wizard can keep the entire wyvern spawn in CS down (including the zone to SS spawns). Same with the otter camp and suits in WL. The only issue wizards have is summoners. Wizard have to avoid them as they have no way to deal with them. With epic and evac they can get away, but they really can't kill them. Due to this limitation I wouldn't outright give them #1, but from a mobs per hour they are likely tops since bard swarm kiting was nerfed.
@@BrentFriar Manastone only works in "Classic" zones. It also worked in "The Hole" until it was revamped. It was an extremely busted item. It trivialized any encounter where it could be used. If you had a manastone, everyone important had infinite mana. Cleric casts cheal, you spam manastone, get chealed, trade to next person that needs mana, they get chealed, trade to next person. The mana robe has a cast time, and while it had no recast, it definitely wasn't on the same level as the manastone, and in all honesty is extremely tedious and impractical to use while soloing.
@@daethe I am familiar with both, I have both on my original wizard. The classic zone limitation is not an issue for a wizard. I used to just port to Tox, manastone up, then port back to Cobalt Scar. That was before the advent of potions, but with epic click you could still do it pretty quickly then just heal up while you kite. The robe is definitely not as practical, but you can still click it between casts effectively increasing your overall regen significantly during your quad kite.
Went back to EQ not to long ago and it seems that 95% of the people seemed to have forgotten EQ is a social game meant to be played in groups.....instead they just dual and triple box solo......so if you don't play a solo class and don't want to box, don't even waste your time playing.
Necromancer doesn't take awhile to solo. Are they burning mobs as fast as a wizard? No, but they will have zero downtime even engaging multiple mobs while a wizard will spend most of their time waiting for mana. They are basically the equivalent of a group. Not sure how druids made top three, they're basically wizards that do less damage and can SoW themselves. The real top three? Outdoors? Bard > Necro = Enchanter Indoors? Enchanter, Necro, Shaman
TLPs don't allow a bard to run and do damage at the same time. They can run and cast any other spell, but when it comes to doing damage it does 0 / fizzles out if the bard and targets are moving.
Had a buddy that would do this all the time. Made me so mad. We started the same day and he would just rack up levels and I'd be struggling to find groups as a fighter I wasn't soloing anything
Solo with wizard using AOE when you get them. So potions not necessary but help so much. Do giants Giants Giants Giants gives you enough money to buy everything you need learn how to solo groups of with your wizard to be efficient at soloing. And if you're playing expansions up to where you can get most any
So you run and cast AE nukes behind you ? Seems pretty dangerous without a wide area (you just lost 80% of every zones in the game, specially dungeons and their exp bonus). No sarcasm here i wonder just how a wiz can solo efficiently with no run speed, no mana regen, no defensif skills.
actually iksar monks can solo very well in that era. melee soloing is very gear dependent but monks at low levels are REALLY good at soloing. epic 1.0 is also one of the easiest in the game and if u get it pre 60 you can def solo through a lot of 50s. I would say iksar monks can be top solo xp / per hour with good gear at early levels. in later levels you need a lot of bandages but def viable to kill blues/light blues all the way to 60. definitely better than all of the listed classes who cannot heal. except maybe chanter but you need a lot of skill to play that class well and not die
Classic to Luclin enchanters at low levels were not that great. Clarity was basically their only attraction because so few players played to the class' strengths
OP with a healer and using charm. After lvl 30 every ench should be charming all the time and looking for a cleric. 4 last members of the group will just beg to get in. For soloing it is good but not the best as it is difficult and not safe at all. Dying is losing something like 20 mobs exp soloing, which is long.
False. Rangers only receive a damage bonus against targets that are stationary WITHOUT being rooted. If the target is rooted, you absolutely lose your archery damage bonus.
No its not fun to solo but when that is all you can do, you do what you can. Played a shm for 18 yrs, now playing a wiz and wizards were left behind badly. They used to quad kite and rule, now they have to really work to get anywhere.
Shaman is the best soloer, bigger mobs need the best slow, period. And it is the second best Dotter. Necro is easier to play, easier to farm ton of mobs and travel in dungeons, but when you know the game : shaman is the king.
Actually Enchanter is one of the best solo classes in the game. It is actually the 3rd class that can solo with no downtime due to how powerful charmed mobs are plus their mana regen spells in the Clarity lines. There are also very, very few places a Enchanter can't solo including deep in most dungeons where they can hold rooms that usually would take a party. As far as being squishy, that isn't really the case because they have their Rune line of spells which absorbs a significant amount of damage. You always make sure you have Rune up so when you get a charm break, you have plenty of time to AoE Stun, Tash and re-charm. You can also AoE mez if you need more time to get things under control. There isn't a single class in the game that has more control over their own destiny than a Chanter. The downside of a Chanter is they are a very, VERY skill intensive, in fact other than maybe bard before melody became a thing, Chanters are hands down the hardest class to play Solo or Grouped. To Solo them even decently, you have to have well above average skills and you needed Expert level skills to do deep dungeon dives and such. They do get nerfed significantly around PoP and become a bit painful to play for a time but eventually even with the nerfs, become very powerful again, if I recall correctly, around level 70 they rise back up to being a powerful solo class. I will agree that Necro is probably the BEST solo class though because honestly, you can be brain dead and solo a Necro so even the worst player can solo a Necro. It requires about a 10th of the skill of any other class to solo to be honest though, if you actually had skill, they were a force to be reckoned with.
LOL chanters are only 2nd to necros in lack of downtime for soloing. Bards don't come close, because the time required for bards to kill is insane. Charming makes you able to solo very fast. If you can duo, then you can kill nearly anything luclin or before (excluding raid bosses). An experienced and good chanter will kill 4-5 mobs per charm.... then kill his pet and keep going. Down time is severely limited (they have 2nd best mana regen in the game). This guy obviously has never played a chanter, because when charm breaks, you simply hit stun, then retash, stun, then recharm. Any good chanter will tell you this. Oh, and we have runes to keep us alive, as well as beserker spirit damage absorbing spells.
Haha yeah thanks for that :) . Never played enchanter so not super familiar with them. They are beasts at charming. Just always look at them being super risky cause they get squashed quick. Yeah reverse charm killing is a powerful technique. I do the same method as an enchanter when soloing or aoe nuking.
@@basedbear1605 The real reason they are overcrowded and op on TLPs is due to charm gating honestly. There is no FTE or PNP on the TLPs. While the new Aradune server seems like it may have more GM presence, in general the TLPs are basically just the wild west
@@daethe Charm gating was eliminated by code over a year ago. You're seriously out of touch. They're OP because characters don't do as much damage, and have way less hp/ac... period. Now go back to mom's basement.
LOL! You must've played with some really crappy Wizards! Not surprising because most people didn't know how to play them properly. I beta'd EQ, was in two top 20 worldwide guilds, and had one of the top 50 Wizards worldwide. I also wrote a couple guides for Wizards including one on quad kiting and pulling Phinny to the zone in for an easy 3 nuke kill and cash in selling looting rights to epic items. A properly played Wizard can solo with little to no downtime. Once you get Bonds of Force at level 27 all you need is J-Boots/SOW potion/mount, KEI, and Staff of Temperate Flux (quested instaclick debuff) and you're off to the quadkiting races. A properly played Wizard can be a puller, too. For example, I used to pull mobs for our PoH farming group. I also used to do rudimentary crowd control when we'd do level grinding groups. Healer draw aggro? Lob a 6 second stun on the mob and by the time it'd wear off the tank has reestablished aggro control.
Whats amusing is that they are all primarily magic ranged classes - that's a real shame that (in your eyes) all the warrior type guys all have downtime.
They do have downtime…….. either health, mana, or disc timers……after level 46 and pop everything hits so hard anyone trying to melee is dead in a couple rounds. The classes that can one shot things require discs and it has to be light blue requiring massive amounts of kills to do anything. Only other way is kiting which none of the melee classes outside ranger do very well.
@@andrewwinter694 if you slow and dot many mobs ... you kill faster than a necro. Slow at a point is safer than snare (mostly thinking about dungeons) specially with their low resist lines and time durations. Necro and shaman pets are not in the balance, they are equivalent to an average dot at the best. Used to be send on mob but not for tanking (resummoning a pet is a very bad move when soloing !).
I think I’d have to disagree with u as Druid being on top 3, shaman can solo by far better than a Druid especially if ur troll inny with snare necklace
As someone that played from classic to Luclin I can tell you druid soloing was nigh unstoppable. Snare, root, dot. Med up. Lather rinse repeat. Talk to any veteran player about the level up formula of farming all the Dwarf guards in butcherblock
Not in classic lol. Chanters were brought along for Breeze and that's pretty much it. Chanters became nasty well after I stopped playing not too long after Luclin dropped
@@davidmoore5159 you are right for what it was on live. Now on TLPs enchanter start charming in unrest, before lvl 30. And they are the best dps on exp group from this to GoD. However soloing and using charm is possible but not great because you need time to regen and very often you need to recover the exp you lost 2 hours ago dying ... using charm.
I think soloing is faster leveling than grouping most of the time. Only way grouping is better is if you die while soloing. But if you never die, then soloing is faster in most cases. Soloing is probably boring to most people, but it's faster leveling compared to grouping.
I have played various servers and rulesets In the last 14 years exclusively solo. Its definitely faster with certain classes, efficiency is the only caveat.
Soloing with any class is not efficient as a group with at least : a tank, a healer and at least 2 dps. No class, on no expansion. A 6 group is even faster and they will chain kill as long as they have the tank+healer base. You simple have to avoid what makes losing time with a group : searching the good combination and the good place. Once you have that you level fast and the game had been made for grouping.
For soloing one two or three mobs sure. For a chain kill grinding exp : no. SK with PoTime gear sure, not before. The ability to solo is mostly killing the most mobs in a given time : so u need to balance hp and mana bar / mob killed. Even with mend and bandage a monk can not follow the rythm.
You, sir, win the internet. So many think you HAVE to group, or are supposed to group. Bullcrap. Im paying for the game same as everyone else, I play it MY way. I wonder if this turns into a flame, I have a ton of reasons to back us up tho....
Disagree... that's why MMO stands for massively MULTIPLAYER. EQ in particularly forces you to be social. You'll never climb as high in any MMO going solo
Cleric should be on the list for sure. They are gods in undead zones which are already plentiful in the game. They have nukes in those zones that are just about as good as a wizard's, the best hp buff in the game, the best heals, root, lull, invulnerability, stuns, hammer pets, and rez. Just having resurrection alone is huge even if I didn't mention everything else. They can even face-tank better than just about every class that isn't a tank class aside from maybe monk, and ranger.
Everquest servers are a ghost town good luck trying to find a active person to group with. You have to box just to be able to do content any time of the day if your not in a active raid guild will not get anywhere
Why do you call it Looclin? There are two consonants after the u like the word luck so it should be pronounced like Lucklin. Go freshen up on your grammar.
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On Agnarr server, a good druid can solo PoF c2 without any downtime at all. They can charm in many planes as well with less downtime and more safety than an enchanter with solid crowd control from root/snare and the safety net of evac. After the DoT consolidation years ago, the druid DoT clicks from the elder spiritist vambraces and the orb of clingling death received the New version of the dots on them making their mana free rotting pretty much game breaking. When you have the sporecaller, naturewalkers scimitar, tempest blade and orb of clinging death they all stack, and sporecaller and orb of clinging death are Focusable. So if you have the symbol of planesmaster and the augment from LDoN you can get mana free 1200ish damage each round on your total DoT damage.
Granted its a bit slower leading up to Kunark, but once you get your vambrace with the first dot Click at 45 its easy mode the rest of the way for solo without downtime. My dru focuses mostly on resists, ac and hp/mana regen, and since druids can wear alot of Monk and Beastlord gear they can get quite tanky, while still being able to cast endlessly.
Outdoors druids are almost as good as an enchanter in most zones, and they can still dungeon crawl just fine able to solo Spore king and many other loot camps that require crawling and dealing with summoning mobs once they have some decent gear and skill.
My personal rating on druid would easily put them in the top 3 of all guilds soloing. And first place would be Shaman simply for their ability to tank a bit better on summoning mobs. Enchanters would be second because they can start charming early and often, and with skill can do amazing things. I personally have played ranger and necromancer as well, but not as much as the rest, and I'd say necromancer is solid fourth and ranger solid 5th. Atleast on live progression that goes into luclin and beyond, rangers can headshot and make coin or AA faster than a necromancer could but are limited to camp selection where the necromancer has a much wider range of camps to either get gear or exp, end game Ranger head shot is too efficient.
Oh the feels of being part of a guild and raiding!! Ah I miss this game. I’m thinking of coming back after years ... worried it’s changed so much that I won’t be able to catch up or worse no guild to return to. I see the servers have merged as well and I’m hoping my warden is still able to be found. Great content, definitely subscribed!
Thank you. Yeah it's a good time to get back in if you want. P99 green is still in classic. 2 new live servers just opened and they'll be in classic for 3 months. Definitely don't recommend 26th expansion stuff. I don't even understand the buttons.
I like mage and shm vs mnk. Pretty excited to try out shm, zerk, war.
Enchanter end of story, they can steal mana, go into every city and sell, rune themselves to avoid damage, aoe stun and men. Calm down into any dungeon boss, charm the most powerful pets in game, slow and haste and c2
No
@@brisbanetim fair argument
I keep getting tempted to attempt a return to EQ but I can't decide if my memories are clouded with nostalgia. Started on release and finished around 05/06 and made the disastrous decision to play EQ2. One thing for sure I will not be picking up old characters will be a fresh start.
I may try the Necro have a "main" Bard and the idea of jumping back on to him is a non-starter 8)
Cheers for the video mate.
I would regularly solo as a bard kiting. Using the dot songs and speed. Favorite place was somewhere in Kunark where the giants had a fort over a crater. It was perfectly spaced and circular. Had to pull carefully so you didn’t get the whole fort. After that were the rats in plane of disease.
Just found your channel and i'm so excited to watch your videos while I wait (and strategize) for the new TLPs. Can you post the name of that item that you referred to as the "real" necro epic? I couldn't understand it in the video and I'd love to look it up.
Great channel, man. Good day over here.
Sure thank you. everquest.allakhazam.com/db/item.html?item=30021
Man... this brings me back so many years. I used to quad + kite with my druid (he became my powerleveler)
Swarm kiting on my bard was a blast.
The necro was a char I played when I really didnt want to play with anyone
Swarm charming with bard... my knuckles hurt reading this. Haha. Those were the days!
At level 52 with my Necro I was soloing in Howling Stones farming Mask of Obtenebrations selling 2 Krono a pop. Necros are the most fun class I've ever played. I played Enchanter , Cleric, Magician, Rogue, ShadowKnight,
Never played EQ1, just never happened really in early 2000s as I was a huge Starwars Galaxies player and was on that for a long time. Recently with nothing being that great in terms of MMORPG's I literally just created my EQ1 account the other night and I'm waiting for the new TLP dropping in a few days, I Was gonna roll Mage as I like DPS but also if I end up having to solo a bit here and there then Mage pets should do decent right?
You have forgotten Beastlord and berzerker, but i am not 100% sure if zerk can it has it in gates of discord expansion volley + snare also his throwaxe line?
The Druid animal charm is no joke. I charm killed using polar bears in the polar bear pit from 55 to 60 on P99. I'd charm one, have it attack another and then break charm once they were both near death. Root rot to finish both. It was by far the quickest way to get the last five levels considering Druids are not very welcomed into pickup groups unless they are super desperate for a healer.
Druid, wizards, necro.
Hm, i've begun with a wizard bc of their DPS and thought I might have a fun with this class.
I've successfully nuked some of the party bosses in the first area of EQ, but i suppose the bosses in higher areas are more difficult to handle.
Should try out bard or druid, I just did not want a class with a pet however.
I'm a Necro/BST boxer. So far my favorite combo.
At least on live server at 85 i find wizard pretty much hard to solo, maybe i just don't know better but hard to nuke stuff when they hit you in the face for 30% of your hp or more per hit, can't be rooted/snared and summon :)
I've played a bunch of classes, my SK, monk, warrior were for when my friends were online and we grouped up. But everything else I did mainly for soloing. To me soloing is about leveling up and having the freedom to go where ever you want while doing so while at the same time challenging yourself. The problem with a lot of the classes you mentioned is that they don't become soloer's until much later after they get certain ablities and/or gear. The best soloers from the get go were necromancer & beastlord, and I by far had the most fun with the beastlord. I could get multiple mobs on me and still do fine with my pet and downtime wasn't an issue at all for the beastlord. The problem with magician's and enchanters early(besides the mana and other stuff) is that if you get a mob on you you are screwed because they die so easily. Magicians just need to be super careful for that reason, their pets were definitely the strongest though, but you get a lull in certain levels until you get the higher level pets and you don't have the tools yet to handle aggro. How I remember magician leveling is, "this is a blast to play and easy" then the lull hits "why do my pets suck so much now what's going on" then you get the new pets "man this is great again" and so on lol. I could never get into the chanter to much, so I never made it to the point where they become 'fun' I guess, but I always had mad respect for the people who did.
This is all going from memory of course from a long time ago, I soloed with my SK, monk, and warrior too, but the issues are obvious. I actually did it a lot with my SK, but it was so slow. I imagine now a days this is all moot with the addition to mercs though, even though I played the game after they added mercs I never really used them, but I guess mercs make everything soloable with now. I did bard back when the kiting the whole zone was a thing, and it was so long and so boring that I would rather just shoot myself, I leveled one up pretty far but I never got any satisfaction with it as I did with the other classes.
Okay, I've been away from EQ for a LONG time but will be coming back for the aradune TLP.
How are you getting the announcements to pop up in the center of your screen? I'm talking about information like "Mez drops" and "decurse someone"
Thank you for the video and thanks for the information.
Thank you. It's a program called Gina. Here's the video info th-cam.com/video/xJSF_OzcnRw/w-d-xo.html
I used to solo with my 3 mains back in the day shaman shadowknight and beastlord mostly because it wasnt easy to get groups at times
Hey, it doesnt look like you have a custom UI but curious to know how you filter your "combat" windows to just numbers and misses. Also, where are those overlays from? Gameparse or GINA? Thanks!
Hopefully you have found this by now but... Right clicking the top of a chat window opens lots of options. You can create new chat windows and then filter from there too.
Wizard root can withstand direct damage spells. They just need to do a lot of meditation
At 3:45, I'd like to remember which zone is that melody from ?
A knowing Druid with Charm to Animal is the most deadly force. No better xp in the game if you know how it's done.
You went up to Luclin on this one, but you failed to mention Beast Lord. They can tank about as well as a monk, and their pets per level are usually better than any other pet. You start seeing a beast Lord's pet proc it's pet spell it will tear mobs to pieces....
In classic EQ, Troll warriors had a regen bonus... Jboots, Fungi Tunic, a weighted axe, and a friendly soloing druid (who you can bum regrowth from) is all you need...
warriors? solo? with no downtime? yah... nop
@@mfuckersssss I didn't say "with no downtime", but you could significantly reduce downtime to where the soloing experienced gained exceeded what you could get anywhere else, including a group. I went from 40 to 54 back in the day so fast, nobody could believe it. In fact, people admired my effort and went out of their way to aid me from time to time, and I helped them when they needed it... tanking a mob they were camping or whatnot. I always liked the "little deals" on the side you could make playing EQ... Trusted traders did it all the time....
@@mfuckersssss Warriors are actually fine soloers if they are well geared and have some platinum to spend on consumables, but don't expect to be able to do anything "noteable" by yourself until you're at least max level with 5 or 6 best-in-slot items in classic. They CAN solo without downtime starting in Kunark with the distillate IX healing potions and even sooner if you're willing to spend thousands of plat on puppet strings and other consumables.
Yeah, "all you need" is one of the most expensive items in the game.
Although soloing has become the norm these days. I agree with your top 3 classes. But I will add the enchanter the same as a druid. Then the wizard and last shaman. Necros and Bards can start at very low levels on that grind. I don't include mages because after 45 the soloing stops unless you have very good gear and the epic which sucks to get. Same as rangers. I need a very special bow and a big area to kite. And, rangers need ammo until endless quiver thing way later on. Bards also have a limit on what they can solo later on. Necros are the ones that can continue on until very high levels.
Luck-Lin
Played a mage for years. Loved it
Yeah, it's a great class :)
Yeah, still great soloers. Odd that people put wizards ahead, they are very mana dependent while the mages pet can do lots of damage while consuming 0 mana, if you can keep it alive that is.
I am baffled that mages got stuck so low on your list, dead last. My main is a mage. Heard no mention of monks or beast lords either. Beasties are a good pet class. Tough starting out solo though
@@IonBlaze1 Also BTW, I'm pretty sure my Mage is the absolute top geared mage across all servers at my level. I have played so long I also have both an original Manastone and an Earring of Living Slime. I would be happy to show you if you ever cared to see.
I soloed Wiz it was best in my opinion. I had bard, nec, and druid. Plus the rest. My wiz was the ez one. Did this from orig EQ all the way to pop. The worst thing about soloing is getting Epics.
Necro and Shaman are kings.
Necro is easier and faster, shaman can kill bigger mobs. Both have no downtime for mana compared to other classes. And a way to run when things get bad, Feign Death and sow.
Magician ... hmm after lvl 50 good luck, with an add good luck, on named you can forget. I hope you have 10 minutes to wait between every mob to recover your mana bar.
Wiz : same as magician, mana regen is a bit better and you are safer with a root (snare?) line but soloing is very slow and dangerous.
Those two classes are good soloers before lvl 40 maybe after that they need a druid or a group. Don't forget the magic and fire resists from mobs of your same level category.
Bard, amazing but slow, too slow. It is not a dps class at all.
Druid is an amazing class on classic for sure, turning master of nothing during PoP. You can solo but i hope you like mana breaks between mobs.
To turn a very good soloer you will have to select your zone and charm an animal. You can snare that is a must for safety but charm breaks will be boring (you can not lower the magic resistance of the mob which is the biggest leverage on charm duration making necro, druid and magician not so good at charming).
Enchanter : hmmm ... you can play the hitman and kill what you want in a dungeon. But you will need to know the game more than any class.
Talking about soloing for a long period of time (grinding exp) i would not pick this class.
But if you duo/trio it is THE class until Gate of Discord expansion ! Charmed pet is the best dps ever and the only thing you won't tank with a charmed pet are raid bosses.
So good soloer but it is exhausting and you may die often.
You forgot Beastlord if you include Luclin. Good soloer not the best dps, not a tank but you have mana regen, slow and heals.
edit : i forgot cleric, yes cleric !! Find an undead zone and you are basically a wizard but a very resistant one. The con is your mana regen, awfull for soloing more than 20 minutes mobs of your level category.
Please consider soloing is fighting mob of your level or 5 lvl under yours minimum. If not just pick a ranger and headshot everything that con green.
Takes levels gear and AA to get there but a raid geared SK is a pretty beastly soloer, good tanking, decent dps, can stack DS to help kill, and solid passive healing with the right aa lines maxed.
Thanks
I soloed better with my ranger then my ENC but I sucked at playing an ENC, I liked grouping more with the ENC
Hi I just started playing like 2 weeks ago on EQ20th Selo server, I got a lvl 40 monk with 2k platinum. But now I can’t join the server because it says Free players cannot play the server. Was it a trial or something?
They take your money and give you little to nothing..this game is really expensive.
Yeah it was a temporary bonus thing. TLPs cost a subscription or krono to play on. Daybreak just made a time period for people to play free to test it out.
Enchanter is best, all the downsides you mention are easy to plan for and mitigate. They also kill mobs faster than anyone else else with like 0 down time starting at like lvl 25. You should play an enchanter.
I think a shaman can solo good. They do have to med and canni though
I do agree those classes make good soloers. And this is the beauty of EQ that I am afraid that DBG and Darkpaw are going to overlook for the future. Yes the game is about grouping and raids. But there are classes that can solo really well. IMO its enchanter as king 50+, shaman because of buffs, heals, dots, etc., necro , then druid, then 5th wizard. For me bard lost their #1 spot when swarm kiting was nerfed, but yes they still have a lot of abilities that can make soloing possible. Monks can solo with mend, FD and AAs, and rangers can solo when they have endless quiver. Clerics can solo as well, specially in undead areas. Lets not forget about BLs and mages too. This is one of the reasons why EQ has survived for 22+ years. 16 classes and I can say 11 of those classes can solo efficiently.
You don't know what you're talking about. Only rogues solo well
I soloed a shammy and mage but I solo all my toons to lev 50... Now with mercs it is almost to easy... I started playing in 2007 before the Guild Lobby Expac... That's when EQ was a blast.... Courpes Runs Nekid getting a Cleric to come to the zone or /enter and check is in the zone you died in to rezz you... Good Times... Now with the right merc anyone can molo... I don't Group much people are always getting me Splated... Lol I do that enough I don't need Help... Roflmao
While wizards have to stop and med, because they quad kite the speed of kills yields more mobs dead in the same time as other solo classes that don't have mana issues. A single wizard can keep the entire wyvern spawn in CS down (including the zone to SS spawns). Same with the otter camp and suits in WL. The only issue wizards have is summoners. Wizard have to avoid them as they have no way to deal with them. With epic and evac they can get away, but they really can't kill them.
Due to this limitation I wouldn't outright give them #1, but from a mobs per hour they are likely tops since bard swarm kiting was nerfed.
Didn't mention this because manastone and mana robe are so rare, but with mounts, harvest, epic and one of these items, downtime is minimal.
@@BrentFriar Manastone only works in "Classic" zones. It also worked in "The Hole" until it was revamped. It was an extremely busted item. It trivialized any encounter where it could be used. If you had a manastone, everyone important had infinite mana. Cleric casts cheal, you spam manastone, get chealed, trade to next person that needs mana, they get chealed, trade to next person. The mana robe has a cast time, and while it had no recast, it definitely wasn't on the same level as the manastone, and in all honesty is extremely tedious and impractical to use while soloing.
@@daethe I am familiar with both, I have both on my original wizard. The classic zone limitation is not an issue for a wizard. I used to just port to Tox, manastone up, then port back to Cobalt Scar. That was before the advent of potions, but with epic click you could still do it pretty quickly then just heal up while you kite. The robe is definitely not as practical, but you can still click it between casts effectively increasing your overall regen significantly during your quad kite.
Jigoku from Agnarr is the most OP solo class
Went back to EQ not to long ago and it seems that 95% of the people seemed to have forgotten EQ is a social game meant to be played in groups.....instead they just dual and triple box solo......so if you don't play a solo class and don't want to box, don't even waste your time playing.
Same reason why I stick to p99. Grouping is still a thing.
play at the launch of a TLP, you will have the nostalgia shoot.
I think beastlords are great solo classes
Was there a way to avoid original POF cazic thules death touch for a bard?
Besides having a sacrifice to ranger-gate
Necromancer doesn't take awhile to solo. Are they burning mobs as fast as a wizard? No, but they will have zero downtime even engaging multiple mobs while a wizard will spend most of their time waiting for mana. They are basically the equivalent of a group.
Not sure how druids made top three, they're basically wizards that do less damage and can SoW themselves.
The real top three?
Outdoors? Bard > Necro = Enchanter
Indoors? Enchanter, Necro, Shaman
Mages are not bad either i would say.
bards can aoe dot multiple targets with speed and run circles around mobs till they fall rinse repeat...
TLPs don't allow a bard to run and do damage at the same time. They can run and cast any other spell, but when it comes to doing damage it does 0 / fizzles out if the bard and targets are moving.
@@azurebreeze. Bards use to be able to do this. The no AOE DOTs while running was a change that happened long ago to all servers.
Had a buddy that would do this all the time. Made me so mad. We started the same day and he would just rack up levels and I'd be struggling to find groups as a fighter I wasn't soloing anything
Solo with wizard using AOE when you get them. So potions not necessary but help so much. Do giants Giants Giants Giants gives you enough money to buy everything you need learn how to solo groups of with your wizard to be efficient at soloing. And if you're playing expansions up to where you can get most any
So you run and cast AE nukes behind you ? Seems pretty dangerous without a wide area (you just lost 80% of every zones in the game, specially dungeons and their exp bonus). No sarcasm here i wonder just how a wiz can solo efficiently with no run speed, no mana regen, no defensif skills.
actually iksar monks can solo very well in that era. melee soloing is very gear dependent but monks at low levels are REALLY good at soloing. epic 1.0 is also one of the easiest in the game and if u get it pre 60 you can def solo through a lot of 50s. I would say iksar monks can be top solo xp / per hour with good gear at early levels. in later levels you need a lot of bandages but def viable to kill blues/light blues all the way to 60. definitely better than all of the listed classes who cannot heal. except maybe chanter but you need a lot of skill to play that class well and not die
Isn’t enchanters like the most op class?
Classic to Luclin enchanters at low levels were not that great. Clarity was basically their only attraction because so few players played to the class' strengths
OP with a healer and using charm. After lvl 30 every ench should be charming all the time and looking for a cleric. 4 last members of the group will just beg to get in.
For soloing it is good but not the best as it is difficult and not safe at all. Dying is losing something like 20 mobs exp soloing, which is long.
You can solo everything you want through pop with some potions
funny watching a raid take down mobs I can now 2 hit....
1. Necro
2. Enchanter
Ranger's do better with rooting mobs when using archery because you get a double bow shot when rooted, so you do more damage.
False. Rangers only receive a damage bonus against targets that are stationary WITHOUT being rooted. If the target is rooted, you absolutely lose your archery damage bonus.
No its not fun to solo but when that is all you can do, you do what you can. Played a shm for 18 yrs, now playing a wiz and wizards were left behind badly. They used to quad kite and rule, now they have to really work to get anywhere.
Druids do get tash, but works on animals only.
charm or tash ? because charming without lowering the magic resistant of the pet is the main issue for druid if i remember.
@Jean Michel Exactitude They get both, an animal only charm, and an animal only tash spell.
@@aretak25 Very nice ! I don't remember having a tash with necro charming undead. Then druid charming is more than an option ! Thank you
Shaman should be number 3 imo. Slow, dot, torpor, canni. GG indefinite soloing
Redid a soloer list and put shaman #1 and necro #2 :)
@@IonBlaze1 This seems more appropriate. Shaman is the only class that can solo Efreeti in classic. Lol
Shaman is the best soloer, bigger mobs need the best slow, period. And it is the second best Dotter.
Necro is easier to play, easier to farm ton of mobs and travel in dungeons, but when you know the game : shaman is the king.
Actually Enchanter is one of the best solo classes in the game. It is actually the 3rd class that can solo with no downtime due to how powerful charmed mobs are plus their mana regen spells in the Clarity lines. There are also very, very few places a Enchanter can't solo including deep in most dungeons where they can hold rooms that usually would take a party. As far as being squishy, that isn't really the case because they have their Rune line of spells which absorbs a significant amount of damage. You always make sure you have Rune up so when you get a charm break, you have plenty of time to AoE Stun, Tash and re-charm. You can also AoE mez if you need more time to get things under control. There isn't a single class in the game that has more control over their own destiny than a Chanter. The downside of a Chanter is they are a very, VERY skill intensive, in fact other than maybe bard before melody became a thing, Chanters are hands down the hardest class to play Solo or Grouped. To Solo them even decently, you have to have well above average skills and you needed Expert level skills to do deep dungeon dives and such. They do get nerfed significantly around PoP and become a bit painful to play for a time but eventually even with the nerfs, become very powerful again, if I recall correctly, around level 70 they rise back up to being a powerful solo class. I will agree that Necro is probably the BEST solo class though because honestly, you can be brain dead and solo a Necro so even the worst player can solo a Necro. It requires about a 10th of the skill of any other class to solo to be honest though, if you actually had skill, they were a force to be reckoned with.
/agree
Shaman and necro first : faster exp, safer exp, chain killing.
To kill the biggest mob possible to solo : only shaman.
LOL chanters are only 2nd to necros in lack of downtime for soloing. Bards don't come close, because the time required for bards to kill is insane. Charming makes you able to solo very fast. If you can duo, then you can kill nearly anything luclin or before (excluding raid bosses). An experienced and good chanter will kill 4-5 mobs per charm.... then kill his pet and keep going. Down time is severely limited (they have 2nd best mana regen in the game).
This guy obviously has never played a chanter, because when charm breaks, you simply hit stun, then retash, stun, then recharm. Any good chanter will tell you this. Oh, and we have runes to keep us alive, as well as beserker spirit damage absorbing spells.
Haha yeah thanks for that :) . Never played enchanter so not super familiar with them. They are beasts at charming. Just always look at them being super risky cause they get squashed quick. Yeah reverse charm killing is a powerful technique. I do the same method as an enchanter when soloing or aoe nuking.
@@IonBlaze1 Risky yes. But the risk is worth the reward. That's why TLP servers are overcrowded with them.. they are OP in classic-DoN.
@@basedbear1605 The real reason they are overcrowded and op on TLPs is due to charm gating honestly. There is no FTE or PNP on the TLPs. While the new Aradune server seems like it may have more GM presence, in general the TLPs are basically just the wild west
@@daethe Charm gating was eliminated by code over a year ago. You're seriously out of touch.
They're OP because characters don't do as much damage, and have way less hp/ac... period. Now go back to mom's basement.
What specialization to go for with a beastlord?
veterinary ?
seriously i would say the one for slowing mobs as you will always cast it soloing.
LOL! You must've played with some really crappy Wizards! Not surprising because most people didn't know how to play them properly. I beta'd EQ, was in two top 20 worldwide guilds, and had one of the top 50 Wizards worldwide. I also wrote a couple guides for Wizards including one on quad kiting and pulling Phinny to the zone in for an easy 3 nuke kill and cash in selling looting rights to epic items.
A properly played Wizard can solo with little to no downtime. Once you get Bonds of Force at level 27 all you need is J-Boots/SOW potion/mount, KEI, and Staff of Temperate Flux (quested instaclick debuff) and you're off to the quadkiting races.
A properly played Wizard can be a puller, too. For example, I used to pull mobs for our PoH farming group.
I also used to do rudimentary crowd control when we'd do level grinding groups. Healer draw aggro? Lob a 6 second stun on the mob and by the time it'd wear off the tank has reestablished aggro control.
Lol chapter two translation : you can kill everything full buffed and with good gear + mount.
Lets say soloing is doing it alone :)
With a potion soloing a wizard is really easy
So can Beastlords not solo? I was always under the impression they could do okay with it but granted, I haven't really played in years.
To be honest, I'm not sure. They can do decent dps, good pet, slows & heals. Probably could do some minor soloing. Good class to duo with definitely.
Moonsidian they can solo
Pretty sure they can solo
Beastlords could solo quite good, not as good as the top 3 but def solid enough. I loved playing Beastlord.
Bard swarm charming was good
Instant click Invisible vs animal ftw
Lol, enchanter and shaman all day. You literally can solo 6+ tally lesser dragons in Velious with them. Zero downtime.
Whats amusing is that they are all primarily magic ranged classes - that's a real shame that (in your eyes) all the warrior type guys all have downtime.
They do have downtime…….. either health, mana, or disc timers……after level 46 and pop everything hits so hard anyone trying to melee is dead in a couple rounds. The classes that can one shot things require discs and it has to be light blue requiring massive amounts of kills to do anything. Only other way is kiting which none of the melee classes outside ranger do very well.
Shaman can solo easy even with his green pets.
Shaman can solo effectively, not quickly.
@@andrewwinter694 whatever you say.
@@andrewwinter694 if you slow and dot many mobs ... you kill faster than a necro. Slow at a point is safer than snare (mostly thinking about dungeons) specially with their low resist lines and time durations.
Necro and shaman pets are not in the balance, they are equivalent to an average dot at the best. Used to be send on mob but not for tanking (resummoning a pet is a very bad move when soloing !).
I think I’d have to disagree with u as Druid being on top 3, shaman can solo by far better than a Druid especially if ur troll inny with snare necklace
As someone that played from classic to Luclin I can tell you druid soloing was nigh unstoppable. Snare, root, dot. Med up. Lather rinse repeat. Talk to any veteran player about the level up formula of farming all the Dwarf guards in butcherblock
Enchanted shamans necros in that order
Not in classic lol. Chanters were brought along for Breeze and that's pretty much it. Chanters became nasty well after I stopped playing not too long after Luclin dropped
@@davidmoore5159 you are right for what it was on live. Now on TLPs enchanter start charming in unrest, before lvl 30. And they are the best dps on exp group from this to GoD. However soloing and using charm is possible but not great because you need time to regen and very often you need to recover the exp you lost 2 hours ago dying ... using charm.
I think soloing is faster leveling than grouping most of the time. Only way grouping is better is if you die while soloing. But if you never die, then soloing is faster in most cases. Soloing is probably boring to most people, but it's faster leveling compared to grouping.
I have played various servers and rulesets In the last 14 years exclusively solo. Its definitely faster with certain classes, efficiency is the only caveat.
depends on the group. cannot beat efficient group xp wise or pbae group
@@mfuckersssss true, those are rare. But yes those kind of better.
@@mfuckersssss depends. If you can kill more than 4 mobs in the time it takes a group to kill 24, your leveling faster.
Soloing with any class is not efficient as a group with at least : a tank, a healer and at least 2 dps. No class, on no expansion.
A 6 group is even faster and they will chain kill as long as they have the tank+healer base.
You simple have to avoid what makes losing time with a group : searching the good combination and the good place. Once you have that you level fast and the game had been made for grouping.
umm monks and shadowknights hello??
For soloing one two or three mobs sure. For a chain kill grinding exp : no.
SK with PoTime gear sure, not before.
The ability to solo is mostly killing the most mobs in a given time : so u need to balance hp and mana bar / mob killed. Even with mend and bandage a monk can not follow the rythm.
no the whole point of mmos is to be in a world where you have the choice to be social or not to be social
You, sir, win the internet. So many think you HAVE to group, or are supposed to group. Bullcrap.
Im paying for the game same as everyone else, I play it MY way.
I wonder if this turns into a flame, I have a ton of reasons to back us up tho....
Disagree... that's why MMO stands for massively MULTIPLAYER. EQ in particularly forces you to be social.
You'll never climb as high in any MMO going solo
Cleric should be on the list for sure. They are gods in undead zones which are already plentiful in the game. They have nukes in those zones that are just about as good as a wizard's, the best hp buff in the game, the best heals, root, lull, invulnerability, stuns, hammer pets, and rez. Just having resurrection alone is huge even if I didn't mention everything else. They can even face-tank better than just about every class that isn't a tank class aside from maybe monk, and ranger.
vs undead most of what a cleric can do can be done better by a Necro or Pally
Luclin was a blight on EverQuest, unfortunately.
Luclin is amazing
You need to pay 2 win.. without the AA's your character is useless..and you need like +30k to be able solo RoS, +50k on TBL, all granted for ToV..
Everquest servers are a ghost town good luck trying to find a active person to group with. You have to box just to be able to do content any time of the day if your not in a active raid guild will not get anywhere
Booo tlp boo
you over explain
Why do you call it Looclin? There are two consonants after the u like the word luck so it should be pronounced like Lucklin. Go freshen up on your grammar.