Best solo melee

[Barlu]

Having solo’d a Monk to 60 and now up to 54 on a Pally I don’t think the Monk is as obvious a winner as it is being made out to be. The Bind Wound in battle Nerf will definitely slow things down compared to what they used to be. That being said FD is pretty amazing and instant afk is nice while soloing.

Since the case has already been made for Monk here are a few thoughts on the Pally. First, there is no exp penalty on Pally vs. Iksar Monk. Get a new weapon (Reaver) and use the Fungi until you are able to click Deepwater BP. Once you can do that, ditch the Fungi and get an eyepatch of plunder (will take a bit of extra plat) or Crown of Narandi (preferable eyepatch). At this point you will be extremely capable soloing.

The mobs won’t die as fast, but the downtime is less between kills. The Deepwater Bp allows you to heal for 300 HP ever 10 seconds using a Jasper as the regent. You can also root a mob and do this 3 times in battle before root breaks and be 900 HP to the good. Calm is effective pulling and keeping an off mob rooted really isn’t much of an issue at all. Gets tricky before lvl 54 when you get Enstill if you get more than 2 though.

With this setup I’ve been pleasantly surprised with what a Pally can solo and how fast. I typically burn DS pots as well when exping which help 50+ but aren’t required. If I get 3 mobs in Guk I can usually take them all down no problem using roots and bp heals.

Just my thoughts and both were a lot of fun so you really can’t go wrong.