Best solo melee class?

[Zuranthium]

SK is best because of the fear kiting + feign death package (Bards don't count as melee).

If you don't like chasing around the things you're fighting all day, then Monk.

Rangers are nice versatile option.

I wouldn't bother with Paladin, their kit is going to get nerfed any month now. The fabricated thing of "lulling your way through a dungeon solo" is not something that really works in Classic EQ. Need to rely on the root+camp method to get through groups of NPC's you don't want to fight, and that will also be less reliable than it currently is, since root is supposed to break more frequently.

[Goregasmic]

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

I wouldn't bother with Paladin, their kit is going to get nerfed any month now. The fabricated thing of "lulling your way through a dungeon solo" is not something that really works in Classic EQ. Need to rely on the root+camp method to get through groups of NPC's you don't want to fight, and that will also be less reliable than it currently is, since root is supposed to break more frequently.

IIRC so far they said it will make things more difficult for mobs 50+. You can easily get to 60 without ever touching any of those. Yeah that's a sword of damocles hanging over their head but we don't know how it will look like and they can still split a lot of content with root anyway, being plate and having heals.

[Zuranthium]

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

Yeah that's a sword of damocles hanging over their head but we don't know how it will look like

Well we do, because the exact classic resist values have been thoroughly confirmed. There isn't any reason why the p99 numbers should be different when they put it in.

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

Any melee class can solo except Rogue unless you hate yourself.

Rogue isn't so bad if very twinked TBH. Their -50% attack speed poison can be made solely from vendor ingredients and their breastplate heal at 45 is faster than every other melee class gets.

[Goregasmic]

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

Well we do, because the exact classic resist values have been thoroughly confirmed. There isn't any reason why the p99 numbers should be different when they put it in.



Rogue isn't so bad if very twinked TBH. Their -50% attack speed poison can be made solely from vendor ingredients and their breastplate heal at 45 is faster than every other melee class gets.

Not a great point because they just made pet tracking unclassic to avoid banning a clear cheater so that's a highly variable guideline.

My bad though, I went back to check the actual dev quotes and I mixed up two of them. They do intend to restore lulls to its classic shitty state. I was telling myself this week I need to go farm shit that needs lulling in case that happens soon so I'll get on that real quick. The day that patch hits a lot of stuff will become a lot more rare.

As for rogues I saw a twink with SS armor and a Horn of hsagra soloing a greening out entrance in KC and it looked painful even with the heal BP. Pretty sure rogues are known to be the worst soloing class overall. If you need mega twink stuff to scrape by, it isn't a good sign.

[Keebz]

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

they just made pet tracking unclassic

An aside, but still on topic, SKs really caught a stray on this one.

[Snaggles]

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

An aside, but still on topic, SKs really caught a stray on this one.

At least they have disease cloud.

[Snaggles]

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

At least they have disease cloud.

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

It's supposed to be generating more aggro, lol. They implemented the classic nerf to clicky/proc aggro incorrectly and put an aggro cap on all spells instead.

I was joking.

[Zuranthium]

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

Not a great point because they just made pet tracking unclassic

Pet tracking is not classic in terms of developer intent and the amount of people who knew about it.

Lull sucking is very classic, and that kind of hard data is something they're always going to adhere to when they have the info.

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

At least they have disease cloud.

It's supposed to be generating more aggro, lol. They implemented the classic nerf to clicky/proc aggro incorrectly and put an aggro cap on all spells instead.

[Vivitron]

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

Pet tracking is not classic in terms of developer intent and the amount of people who knew about it.

Lull sucking is very classic, and that kind of hard data is something they're always going to adhere to when they have the info.



It's supposed to be generating more aggro, lol. They implemented the classic nerf to clicky/proc aggro incorrectly and put an aggro cap on all spells instead.

Disease cloud change was from getting rid of good aggro on disease counters. My best reading of the record is that this was probably a change that happened on live after shaman slows were given disease counters, which briefly gave slows double aggro. On live they fixed slow aggro with the disease counter change. Shouldn't be on our timeline; we end before shaman slows get disease counters.

[Goregasmic]

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

Pet tracking is not classic in terms of developer intent and the amount of people who knew about it.

Lull sucking is very classic, and that kind of hard data is something they're always going to adhere to when they have the info.

That's some good goalpost moving. You can't call for nerfs because stuff isn't classic then call nerfs on classic stuff because you don't like it. You either want classic or you don't, pick one.

Like pet tracking, Verant fixed lulls later so you could easily argue it was broken in the first place. It isn't classic but we already established you're fine with non classic changes.