Best solo melee class?

[Crede]

Yea I had sky cloak and both epics. Still took forever. Maybe different with tov weps, but meh. Low hp blues is always the best for melee.

[Jimjam]

From the Jimjam posting archives. Probably epics, sky cloak, bow of the huntsmen and tolan’s bracer.

Originally Posted by Jimjam

Took me 1535 arrows (not hits) (and finish the last 3% with melee) to kill an ice burrower on my ranger recently. Iirc doing about 30 damage most hits (I suspect these boys have high AC for a mob which makes your kite of them more difficult) suggests to me they probably have 32000 hp.

The silks are worth player cash and they can drop a nice chest piece if you or a friend have an alt they can park for loot.

Again, this is a ranger perspective, but I found the animals have too much hp (along with the problems you mentioned) meant it was easier to find xp elsewhere. Perhaps Druids don't have as rich solo options as Rangers 55-60?

Perhaps a high delay 2 hander to exploit bow damage bonus can knock the kill time down a bit.

[Cecily]

77 stacks x 15 seconds = 19.25 mins of summoning Tolan's arrows. Lol.

[Snaggles]

A friend killed Tantor in a similar way, not sure what bow was used. Anything 30+ damage would be ideal to cut down on the shots needed effectively increasing your gas tank. My ranger only has about a dozen empty slots for arrows plus 13 or so on the cursor. That makes quick bows really only good for sprints. Unless I corpsed arrows, lol.

A shaker would add 45 damage a shot over a 11dmg DW setup; there is no way the Swiftwind attack is closing that gap. Basically it would reduce your kill speed by at least half.

Bow soloing for xp isn’t fun if it works. Especially in HK with 2k hp nobles/bards, or like in Chardok to kill sarnaks to free up fear room for Chokidai’s.

[Goregasmic]

If you're a non raider only bow that would make sense for that would be velium reinforced. Everything else is too fast or ~0.5 ratio. Equip a 45+ delay weap and have at it.

But like crede said people shit on KC but basement is basically outdoors HS without the HTs. Shit loot but cardboard mobs with an exp bonus. When my ranger gets to mid 50s it is the first place I'm trying. Probably great for knights too.

[Jimjam]

Originally Posted by Cecily [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

77 stacks x 15 seconds = 19.25 mins of summoning Tolan's arrows. Lol.

Oh wow, one thing i strongly remember about this experience is using true shot twice on a single burrower! Haha! It was a long fight! Had to summon more arrows many times!

Originally Posted by Goregasmic [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

If you're a non raider only bow that would make sense for that would be velium reinforced. Everything else is too fast or ~0.5 ratio. Equip a 45+ delay weap and have at it.

But like crede said people shit on KC but basement is basically outdoors HS without the HTs. Shit loot but cardboard mobs with an exp bonus. When my ranger gets to mid 50s it is the first place I'm trying. Probably great for knights too.

Idk lots of names drop items worth 500pp vendor, the turnkey and knight of sathir drop some nice items, you can churn thru jail or rcy and maybe find a tstaff if the 50+ mobs are too difficult.

[Cecily]

Yeah that's just so painful to think about because I remember killing one solo, and I'd interrupt my summon casts all the time misjudging distance or just not completely stopping. It's a neat thing to do, but yeaaahh. Not that bad with a primal bow and Earthshaker, but even if you halved that time... 10 mins of prep work for a 32k kill with a bow [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Also factor in time clicking Wuoshi shield (4 sec cast I think), which is like a 5% land chance. WW is the best exp zone.

[sammoHung]

Originally Posted by Cecily [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

It seems like the perfect zone to fear kite, but the mob density and hp make it super tedious and I think the ZEM is awful as well. If you reaaaaally want you, could you bow kite worms, but god help you if you under estimate how many arrows. Those things are also surprisingly bad exp. Also the animals repop as wyverns and worms, I think, so you kill off most of the animal population eventually.
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Agreed - Ranger soloing in WW is best saved for killing time between scout rolls.

[Ennewi]

Really should have had been able to apply poison to arrows, among other things.

[Crede]

Originally Posted by sammoHung [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Agreed - Ranger soloing in WW is best saved for killing time between scout rolls.

Got lucky with double bracer on my Ranger. Made zero difference. Class gets absolutely wrecked by mobs. Best thing you can do is get tov weps and embrace being a glass cannon.