Monk or Ranger for soloing melee?

[Ivory]

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

I appreciate your enthusiasm for archery, but where you are getting unlimited arrows and mana?

Sit and med between shots...with the med button its superrrr annoying till 35 on green, but once you get 35, med up and pew pew pew.

Ranger spells largely are small mana costs, so they can really spam stuff.

Also....no archer in their right mind tries fletching their arrows for regular hunting. Early on if you REALLY need to pinch your pennies, then sure (like I did on my early ranger on green)....but once you got some extra plat, then you just buy all your bags filled.

I carry like 7 bags of 8 slots with arrows..... which is about 1120 arrows....

That can last a few hours easily. But knowing arrow merchant spots (they are all over) is important for archers. Commons, kith, several karanas places, akanon, kelethin, ogok, and so on and so on.

And I'm not an absolute purist....when EXPing , you wana take advantage of all you got....so now and then just go melee a blue, and go arrow kite while recovering HP. Melee is a little faster, but the thing is the massive downtime associated with throwing tons of HP at something as it bashes you around. That's why archery shines so much for soloers, because they can just keep going.....and if they gets ads, it doesn't matter, because they can kill it as long as they have arrows.

Though the AE kiting once you get 15 is the most efficient way to hunt. The extra damage per mana is reallyyyyyyy good. You are getting like 3 damage per mana, that is better ratio than anything else soloing anything else (unless it is a wizard or druid quad kiting, but they don't do that till later because they can't go all the way with their mana.....rangers don't need to rely 100% on their mana is what makes them shine there).

Monks don't have the option to go farm giants for plat ....you won't find them taking down the entrance giants at permafrost or doing seafuries much..... but rangers can. Sure, not as great as a necro plowing through them for cash, but at least rangers can hang out in the same room as the top tier soloers...... monks are much more limited.

Oh, and that's still not even mentioning tracking! Ranger tracking is GODLY for if you are doing many many many things. Ranger tracking alone is insane for awareness of a zone and knowing where your targets are (so later if you are doing kunark quests or getting various keys....rangers are godly...or even just walking through a zone and hitting your "what's up right now" button to snag a rare as you pass by).