Melee vs Casters

[Cen]

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

I solo'd a ranger to 38 on red by just doing snare, root, dot kiting and jousting and bow kiting b4 velious mob fear thing. And getting the few ranger weapons, like the root sword. GG

but I think exp penalty may not have been in

it took a few months irl

I was offered an amazing deal on two ebs and runed oak bow and the bow is amazing. Its like a whole new game for low levels. I dreaded the levels below 20 since dwda comes so late for rangers but this is going to help me blast off to the fun 20-40 levels where rangers are incredible.

[Bardp1999]

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

If the population counts were like this back in 1999, what do you think Verant would have done to balance the game? I have ideas, but want to see what others think.

They would launch an expansion with weapons that make Melee the dominate damage dealers, and they would add in an item that gives insane health regeneration, they would call it Kunark

[Bigsham]

Kunark made melee viable

until then melee are stupid : )

Maybe a SK for a tank thats about it

[Kanuvan]

you can have a melee heavy group and have great endless xp with no downtime, too many casters and you have problems with lack of tanks and downtime even with clarities, it is very true the best xp groups are heavy melee based

melee is great for groups, but you need the gear first, and to get the gear you want to solo and to solo you want to...not be melee, but eventually you can get the gear from just farming plat off bandits and then youre set, its really not as bad as people make it out to be, EQ1 players arent exactly known for their quick wits and prowess when it comes to these things so they take the easy road everytime, melee is still nice to have around in groups and nothing is worse than a caster that is sitting more than casting

[magnetaress]

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

you can have a melee heavy group and have great endless xp with no downtime, too many casters and you have problems with lack of tanks and downtime even with clarities, it is very true the best xp groups are heavy melee based

melee is great for groups, but you need the gear first, and to get the gear you want to solo and to solo you want to...not be melee, but eventually you can get the gear from just farming plat off bandits and then youre set, its really not as bad as people make it out to be, EQ1 players arent exactly known for their quick wits and prowess when it comes to these things so they take the easy road everytime, melee is still nice to have around in groups and nothing is worse than a caster that is sitting more than casting

:thumbs UP:

<3 ya that's how I did my rogue and a friend loned me his rubi bp was good times good times indeed

[Kpaz]

Just dinged 14 today as a Shaman. So far I have grouped with mostly other shamans while in my starting city, once I moved to the Freeport area I have seen a ridiculous amount of necros and enchanters, but I have grouped with almost each class at least once except for palidans or bards. They are MIA, only place I have seen them is in the EC tunnel.

[magnetaress]

Melees are awesome if you don't want to solo even cons or camp dungeons. Killing green after green and getting 1kp per hour on a warrior or rogue is great.

A lvl 50 melee with decent classic gear can camp some cool spots too, like in SolA.

Just don't expect to camp AC island with one. Unless you have a mage buddy who wants to help you out )

[Wallicker]

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

Melees are awesome if you don't want to solo even cons or camp dungeons. Killing green after green and getting 1kp per hour on a warrior or rogue is great.

A lvl 50 melee with decent classic gear can camp some cool spots too, like in SolA.

Just don't expect to camp AC island with one. Unless you have a mage buddy who wants to help you out )

Lol at 1k an hr on rogue or warrior raw plat.

[magnetaress]

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

Lol at 1k an hr on rogue or warrior raw plat.

I am not super hardcore at grinding plat. There are also a few nice low lvl item camps that net a decent amount of cash per-time spent.

[Wallicker]

You just said killing green after green after green and getting 1kpp per hr. A warrior or rogue could potentially do the net camp in perma and the wand camp in lfay(albeit these are perma camped and you would still need stellar RNG) outside of this there is no way possible to get 1kpp/hr on a warrior or rogue, sorry.