Planes of Power: Best solo class

[sdp00888]

I know this is not going to happen on this server but what was the best solo class during that time period and why? I played during this era but remember almost nothing

[fastboy21]

Depends if you mean killing named or if you mean raw exp.

I believe enchanter with dire charm is prob the best solo'er for named. I believe a necro in crypt of decay with the right skills/AA can win the raw exp prize.

[Naethyn]

Ranger with headshot.

[Bones]

If I am remembering correctly my monk on retail was able to solo the pofear golems and I had them on farm for like 2 weeks and sold a handful of AoN in that time. There was a discipline that absorbed the cazic touch and I was able to burn down the golem before the next cazic touch. I might be mis-remembering that though it its possible it was the next expansion after PoK when lvl cap was raised to 70 and epic 1.5/2.0 was introduced but I'm pretty sure I remember doing it at 65 during PoK era with full potime/planar gear and monks were the only class able to do so.

[Kagey]

Ranger for GE leveling with Headshot AA.

Enc best for charm soloing/ganking namers. lvl 64 charm spell.

You will still earn more exp while grouping over soloing. All the people that want to just solo should go to a LIVE server not a TLP server.

[lurk]

Enchanter for rediculous charm pets. Necro in CoD and tactics is good. Mage in BoT was alright.

Almost no trash summons so any kiting class is good. Bards destroyed HoH. Wizards quaded fire tables.

But basically enchanter for soloing named.

[Sebastionleo]

Wizards quadding fire tables caused the exp share across long distances to be nerfed IIRC. One would quad fire tables, with others quadding in other parts of fire, able to get a 6 man group all soloing and get the full group exp bonus.

[warplague]

Pop had nerfed charmed pet I'm pretty sure. they'd do like 1/3 of normal damage. I dunno if that went in later or right from launch. I remember giving weapons to knights in Hoh and hasting them and have them destroy my pet and break charm at 1% and nuking to finish. It was pretty ridiculous xp as the knights would quad for like 600 and take my pet down in 20 seconds.

[Tecmos Deception]

Pop had nerfed charmed pet I'm pretty sure. they'd do like 1/3 of normal damage.

I'm pretty sure this didn't happen in PoP. I played in and after PoP, but my first memory of the reduced damage with charmed pets came at least a few xpacs later when I learned of the change first hand upon returning to the game (again). The "wtf is this shit?!" memories are very vivid. I do remember soloing in... uh... POV I think... and not having issues with pets not holding their own against NPCs. I actually remember coming back and playing in POP zones at a point when they were literally empty all the time even and not running into the pet damage issue.

[Jimjam]

Charm pet got nerfed in GoD?

IIRC everything outside of Nedaria's Landing was vastly overtuned, and the hyperbole at the time was only warriors with defensive and shield or enchanter pets could tank anything (so of course they nerfed charm pets).

[Daldaen]

By far the best soloing class was an Enchanter in PoP.

Dire Charm however was useless and only a tool to be used in PoEarth A / PoAir, or by bad Enchanters everywhere.

In PoP the level 64 Charm spell (Command of Druzzil) allows Enchanters to charm mobs up to level 64. This means basically in every zone (excluding Time, Earth A/B, Air) there was a viable charm pet that could destroy the content.

Coupled with their tash, 70% slow, Pacify up to level 65, Mez up to level 68, and AAs like Gather Mana (instant full mana recovery) and Eldritch Rune (instant 1.5k self rune) plus their new spell line Arcane Rune (no reagent self 1.5k Rune)... there was almost no group content they couldn't solo in PoP.

Pair the enchanter with a Cleric to CH the pet every other fight or stun the pet on a charm break and you have the most powerful two box team in PoP.

Nothing else comes close.

[Razaz]

Unrelated - Tecmos, when are you going to add more videos?

[koros]

By far the best soloing class was an Enchanter in PoP.

Dire Charm however was useless and only a tool to be used in PoEarth A / PoAir, or by bad Enchanters everywhere.

In PoP the level 64 Charm spell (Command of Druzzil) allows Enchanters to charm mobs up to level 64. This means basically in every zone (excluding Time, Earth A/B, Air) there was a viable charm pet that could destroy the content.

Coupled with their tash, 70% slow, Pacify up to level 65, Mez up to level 68, and AAs like Gather Mana (instant full mana recovery) and Eldritch Rune (instant 1.5k self rune) plus their new spell line Arcane Rune (no reagent self 1.5k Rune)... there was almost no group content they couldn't solo in PoP.

Pair the enchanter with a Cleric to CH the pet every other fight or stun the pet on a charm break and you have the most powerful two box team in PoP.

Nothing else comes close.

Two manning The Diaku Overseer for those sweet sweet runes in early PoP was where it was at.

[Larkverdin]

Wizards quadding fire tables caused the exp share across long distances to be nerfed IIRC. One would quad fire tables, with others quadding in other parts of fire, able to get a 6 man group all soloing and get the full group exp bonus.

Totally unrelated to the OP's question, but fire tables was one of my favorite camps ever on my druid. Stop sneaking up on me nostalgia!

[Jorgam]

Bards doing swarm kite charming in PoN at Nightstalkers was elite. Didn't see that mentioned here.

[pasi]

Depends what you're after. My take from EQ of this era on live (likely differs from TLP).

Exp wise. graveyards removed most of the risk of AE kiting and charm killing:
Bards AE kiting PoValor is King.
Necros did well in CoD.
Enchanters could do well in most zones.
Druids did well in PoTactics and HoH.

Money wise, it really depends on the economy and how top-heavy the server is. I can't imagine most items fetching a decent buck if you can run multiple instances for every different character ala TLP.

Most of the stuff that I remember being worth good money in PoP was way the fuck out of the way from anywhere 65s wanted to exp. The exception was E-Plane Bows and crafted E-plane armor. I'd be very surprised if these retained value on a top heavy server. There's a ton of good items from PoP that don't end up being worth dick because of supply. BoT minis, Piglet/Overseer, random zone drops like Wingblade, etc.

Necros could make a killing farming the mouth in Torment for Putrescent Blood for Ceramic Shackles.

If geared enough, an SK (and for most of this stuff, a paladin) can solo old raid mobs fairly easily. Trakanon has some useful BP clicks, some Dragon Haste/Scales still fetch a decent buck from twinks and bards. Tribute in GoD helps this. But most importantly, Divine Intervention was the most expensive spell in PoP. It's a required spell where there aren't many copies entering the market and 15% of the population are clerics. Compare DI to Torpor here and then realize people are actively killing Torpor-dropping mobs here. You won't be able to solo VP (NPC regen > your shitty dps), but you can trio it with a cleric and a DPS.

With CoS + FD, 65 necro or SK is going to be mobile enough and strong enough to farm a variety of CT nameds at once. FT3 Boots, Mosquito Leg Earring, Shield of Striding, etc. were all worth a lot of dough.

[Daldaen]

Druids were boss in PoStorms. Charmed frogs could wreck trash and named mobs. Solo it was fantastic EXP, duo or trio with enchanter/Cleric you could do all the mini named, add 1-2 more charmed frogs and another Cleric and you could do the Giant lords/froglok/turkeybee scripts.

Fun fact, wurms in VP were charmable with CoD and could Pacification all of the trash.

So a 65 Enchanter with one of the 1500 hitting wurm pet, weaponized and hasted crushed through 32k Dragons even with 1k HP regen. But if Charm breaks you're done.

When I boxed on Al'Kabor I made a ton of money from farming EP Tradeskill stuff and the odd ball stuff like Putrescent Bloods (BA was bugged on AK until the last year of the server so almost 0 of those ceramics existed before I started farming them). PoWater was always great because everyone else was afraid of the zone so it was always empty and it has some of the best TS stuff. Best Plate/Chain armor, 2nd best bow (Fire parses better), Mana Pres4 Ceramic.

Ornate Leg molds always held their value because of how rare they were from the mobs that dropped them. Got lucky and grabbed two Ornate Greaves back to back one day and made bank on them.

[Froakula]

Yes, camping Gaukr dropping pants was $