Most Chill Class Period?

[Trivonus]

Hey all,

I'm still in a holding pattern trying to figure out what to roll for green. I want something super chill, raid and group and that can solo.

So, what's the most chill class period? I was thinking, possibly, rogue. Rogue - can lockpick doors, explore safely, get corpses extremely safely, get to and out of camps safely, is wanted for groups and raids even high end and is useful. Epic is a freebie. Can hold fat amounts of loot b/c of high strength. Also, just hitting auto attack and backstab makes it like the most chill thing ever right? Okay, so they can't solo well.

Wizard is a close second, but as a wizard you can't recover your corpse nearly as easily as you can on rogue (HS, Seb, DN, etc.). Also, wizard epic is much harder to get. Also, much harder to get groups, especially high end.

Necromancer is also extremely chill I would surmise. With FD and the ability to summon your corpse and self rez, you are extremely solid no matter the situation. Plus, you can solo extremely well. That being said, it's hard to get groups, and having your hp tick down constantly is stressful (imo), and Kunark is out yet, so I would want to wait until November to play this anyway.

Druid can't get groups 30+ and healing is the most stressful role to me next to pulling for raids.

Magician is pretty chill, but raid role is just summoning items and post-Kunark I never seemed to get into any groups. Spending hours LFG in Seb is lame. Maybe the most important factor is the epic is nigh impossible to get!

Bard, enchanter, cleric, and shaman should all go without saying here.

SK/Pal/War. Can't bind and are always the first to die when stuff hits the fan. Needs to be a large race usually (War, SK) and w/o DElf mask can be extremely frustrating (or expensive) getting around the race size issue. Has to constantly watch for incoming and keep agro up and gear requirements are quite large. Epics are not super easy.

So, is rogue the most chill class ever? Maybe I'm wrong. Thoughts, please!!!

[Bigsham]

The most chill class is a wizard they get up for 3 seconds every 20

[magnetaress]

rogue or wiz, u r right about not having tough crs, as a wiz i refuse to do dangerous things, so i end up not doing much on them other then quad or kite singles in the safest corners of norrath

rogue has more potential for adventure

wiz has ports so u dont have to walk

u can play a druid without ever grouping or healing, personally if i played a druid i would refuse to heal if i didnt want to and would spec evoke but that is just me

[Cen]

Magician, Wizard, and Rogue are the simplest classes. Magicians and Wizards can solo well.

but as for most chill period no other variables? I think its Wizard.

[branamil]

Rogue, even wizzes get bugged for ports.

Rogues don't have to do anything at all besides autoattCk and press backstab once in a while. If you ever get asked to drag a corpse you can just /q

[ChooChoo Train]

Necro/monk/sk having FD makes life super easy.

[magnetaress]

cleric was pretty chill too, spec evoke, nuke whatever afk, de /hide if u really want some extra insurance, again, going to take several months to hit 40, but its chill lol

do not ever group on a cleric if u hate healing u will hate ur life :)

[turbosilk]

Hey all,

I'm still in a holding pattern trying to figure out what to roll for green. I want something super chill, raid and group and that can solo.

So, what's the most chill class period? I was thinking, possibly, rogue. Rogue - can lockpick doors, explore safely, get corpses extremely safely, get to and out of camps safely, is wanted for groups and raids even high end and is useful. Epic is a freebie. Can hold fat amounts of loot b/c of high strength. Also, just hitting auto attack and backstab makes it like the most chill thing ever right? Okay, so they can't solo well.

Wizard is a close second, but as a wizard you can't recover your corpse nearly as easily as you can on rogue (HS, Seb, DN, etc.). Also, wizard epic is much harder to get. Also, much harder to get groups, especially high end.

Necromancer is also extremely chill I would surmise. With FD and the ability to summon your corpse and self rez, you are extremely solid no matter the situation. Plus, you can solo extremely well. That being said, it's hard to get groups, and having your hp tick down constantly is stressful (imo), and Kunark is out yet, so I would want to wait until November to play this anyway.

Druid can't get groups 30+ and healing is the most stressful role to me next to pulling for raids.

Magician is pretty chill, but raid role is just summoning items and post-Kunark I never seemed to get into any groups. Spending hours LFG in Seb is lame. Maybe the most important factor is the epic is nigh impossible to get!

Bard, enchanter, cleric, and shaman should all go without saying here.

SK/Pal/War. Can't bind and are always the first to die when stuff hits the fan. Needs to be a large race usually (War, SK) and w/o DElf mask can be extremely frustrating (or expensive) getting around the race size issue. Has to constantly watch for incoming and keep agro up and gear requirements are quite large. Epics are not super easy.

So, is rogue the most chill class ever? Maybe I'm wrong. Thoughts, please!!!

This must be for blue because mages don't summon riffs and are the alpha dps class.

[Porcoa]

Barbarian Shaman specializing in evocation.

[Velerin]

Clearly enchanter. Put up LFG, get invite. Toss clarity and do nothing else. Soak up exp. See how long before they boot you. Get booted. Put up LFG and repeat.

[Christina.]

Mage is the most chill and can always get groups lol

[Tnair]

Rogue is maximum chill in a group setting, but you almost can't solo.

However, in a group, your normal duties can't be f*cked up so bad that you wipe the group, unlike tank/healer/puller/cc/pet classes' potential to wipe group if not paying enough attention. Noone ever asks you to tank, almost noone ever asks you to pull, and noone gets upset with you if you just Sneak/Hide as a bad pull or train comes through and you watch in safety while everyone scatters and dies.

Also Rogue is possibly the only 100% safe instant-afk-anytime class (never played much Monk/Necro/SK, maybe feign death is 100% safe too??) . Which makes your domestic life much more chill if you'd otherwise have to convince your spouse that they need to wait 5-15 minutes for you to get somewhere safe to afk.

[loramin]

Barbarian Shaman specializing in evocation.

It took me a minute at first, because I forgot that our DD line was frost-based ... then I LOLed :)

[Tilien]

Cleric is super chill in groups... tab in, CH tank, tab out, wait 5 minutes, tab in. Easy peasy.

[Vexenu]

In terms of APM/keypresses, it's hard to beat a Mage. While grouping you can get away with just pressing your /pet attack macro every mob and throwing in a nuke every now and then. And soloing is not too much more involved. A Rogue has to do considerably more work positioning for every mob and staying in melee range. That's not a concern for the Mage, the pet does all the heavy lifting. Just not a lot of keypressing required here. A very chill class to play.

Wizard is obviously a contender. But played well, a grouping Wizard will actually be relatively active and focused on CC through root and stun nukes. And when solo quadding is pretty easy once you get the hang of it, but does require a lot of attention if you don't want to fuck it up. They are probably the absolute best class for chill raiding, however.

Clerics are more chill than most classes, but if you get too chill on a Cleric you WILL have your tank die on you while you aren't paying attention and possibly wipe your group. It's just a matter of time. Would not recommend Cleric if most chill is your absolute #1 priority, but it's probably the best combination of a chill class that is also very desired for both groups and raids.

Rogue is by far the most chill melee class. You have to position yourself for mobs and occasionally drag corpses, but that's about it. You will almost never be asked to pull, which is the least chill thing to do in the game.

Classes for the chill player to avoid like the Plague: Bard, Monk, Enchanter, Shaman.

Everything else is somewhere in between depending on the situation.

[Keebz]

...almost noone ever asks you to pull, ...

On live I mained Rogue during classic til SoL, and I remember pulling a lot. I guess it was because sneak pulling was a thing on live?

For green, I guess you don't want to get an aggro head start on the tank since there's no evade, but most groups I'm in have the tank pulling, which seems strictly worse (slower pulls, therefore slower exps).

[Izmael]

Anything with FD is super chill, as someone above said. It's just teh absolute win for someone who has a life beside EQ.

However - if you play monk, note that every single pickup group will expect you to pull and do all the work while they afk on pornhub and press /pet attack once a minute. It takes a lot of social engineering to dodge pulling duties as a monk. Usually you still end up pulling.

[Jimjam]

The burden of expectation is an interesting one.

Like, I've been in groups pulling/tanking with a couple of twinked rogues, a class that gets a bonus to AC from agi and better defence caps than rangers - a class that takes hits better than a ranger.

When I needed to take a 5 min afk I asked them to keep pulling/killing to keep on top of spawns, something easily within the group's capabilities.

Of course, when I got back (within the time notified) everyone was sitting in camp doing nothing and complained that they got no xp in my absence.

Even though the rogues were perfectly capable of fighting a couple of mobs with the support of the rest of the group, such a behaviour would be outside the normal paradigm so they were able to get away with doing nothing - and instead placing the blame one me.

This is why in the other thread about simplest class to play I suggested wizard. Although it can be surprisingly proficient, most people expect them to be nothing more than a nuke capacitor: charging up to full (while afk for 15 mins) then dumping mana in one foul swoop.