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Originally Posted by fortior
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Nah. Enchanters are the most versatile soloing class, but Necromancers and Druids at least have niches of their own in being dad-friendly (infinite use feign death) and mobile (porting around, being able to bind at a camp and port to sell/xfer) while being less versatile. Bards are the king of xp/hr with 10 plat in gear on a fresh server and deserve a mention because of that. Shamans are just worse Enchanters.
It's a class with no rez, no port, no charm spell. It's an entirely mediocre soloing class bombarded to god-like status because it can facetank and very slowly grind down impressive-looking mobs with minimal input required. You can kill a lot of mobs, but you lack the tools to efficiently get to the location of the mob, isolate the mob, and dps the mob.
Everyone looks at the time it takes to kill a mob, but you have to get there first. Druids reign supreme when there's something to charm for dps since they can just port there. Enchanters can paci down a dungeon before a shaman makes it past the first pack of mobs. I feel bad for people who kit out a Shaman and find out that they never evolve from 'facetank mob, whittle it down'. You'll never be able to port. You'll never be able to paci. You'll never be able to feign death without recharging your sky ring. You'll never be able to charm without using puppet strings clicks.
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I think you can argue that druids, bards and necromancers are more efficient at soloing, which they indeed are, but shamans are the ones who can take on the higher end mobs which summon etc.