Best solo melee class?

[Jimjam]

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

Ghosts and scryer IIRC. Figured with sow, snare and how twisty KC is you can LOS all the way back to camp most of the time, if we're talking pulling. IIRC some of the ghosts are clerics so you get more mileage out of MR by resisting nukes too. Blind and slow also sucks on shamans.

Plenty of good reasons for MR but nothing make or break in an exp group I feel, especially if not tanking. Solo is different since you have the mob's attention for the entire fight.

The clerics only know cheal.

The callers have nasty spells with their slow and stat/ac debuffs. Also you’ll have to tank swarmcaller, nature’s wrath, etc.

[kjs86z2]

If you aren't full BiS at level 46 are you even playing p99?

[shovelquest]

Originally Posted by kjs86z2 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

If you aren't full BiS at level 46 are you even playing p99?

Yeah, all it takes is a pair of Tolan's gloves for ranger.

[sammoHung]

So, if I can summarize what the last 20 or so pages have been about --

Monk is best solo melee?

[bcbrown]

Good advice Snaggles, thanks. Looks like a Blue Diamond will keep me covered until I get a Fingerbone.

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

Where do you pull that MR is that significant?

Not pulling, but I mostly want resists for dragon AOEs. A skeletal scryer fucked me up pretty bad in KC last night with those 600dd nukes, though. Also nice in Droga if I wanna go farm more skins.

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

Hammered Golden Loop would give you like 74 more max HP over Woven Bark if you aren't STA capped, but the mana savings from the clickie are going to help you more than 74 max HP.

I'm using the damn clicky earring (which you've never used) and I'm telling you the mana savings aren't important. Furthermore I'm very rarely low-mana. The other night I was constantly nuking off my excess mana and didn't snare a single thing.

Originally Posted by kjs86z2 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

at least someone else out there is seeing what im seeing when it comes to DSM lol

Oh we all see it.

[DeathsSilkyMist]

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

I'm using the damn clicky earring (which you've never used) and I'm telling you the mana savings aren't important. Furthermore I'm very rarely low-mana. The other night I was constantly nuking off my excess mana and didn't snare a single thing.

I've used snare clickies before. I have multiple videos in this thread. You don't need to play a ranger to understand the following:

1. Click the clickie
2. Mob is snared
3. You spent zero mana
4. A 4 second cast time is not long, especially when compared to many other non-clickie spells that people cast often.

Please stop using the argument from authority fallacy. I'd love to hear about this supposed knowledge that can only be gleaned from clicking Woven Bark earring specifically.

You can of course have Hammered Golden Loop bagged for scenarios where you don't use snare if you have the bag space. The downside with earring slots is they are swapped for resist gear, so you need to know how to play with less max HP anyway.

You have 3 basic scenarios:

1. When using snare, 5 clicks of woven bark earring gives you enough mana for 270 HP via Greater Healing, which is better than +74 max HP from HGL.

2. When not using snare and not needing resists, you can get +74 max HP from HGL.

3. When you need resists, you are either losing all max HP in that slot for Blue Diamond Earrings, or you have basically the same max HP as Woven Bark Earring when using Earring of Essence.

Until you get a nice all purpose raid earring like Essence Pearl, Vulak Earring, etc., you aren't going to be permanentally using one earring.

[sammoHung]

The caller's damage will come from their cold nukes (SV COLD)

and the DoTs (Poison, Disease)

And the pet.

Yeah, you might be able to avoid slow - but with ~ 80 MR I routinely resist Togor's.

Again, though... the vast majority of mobs in KC are melee.

[Naethyn]

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

The caller's damage will come from their cold nukes (SV COLD)

and the DoTs (Poison, Disease)

And the pet.

Yeah, you might be able to avoid slow - but with ~ 80 MR I routinely resist Togor's.

Again, though... the vast majority of mobs in KC are melee.

[Sat Aug 09 23:05:06 2025] You resist the Malisement spell!
[Sat Aug 09 23:04:15 2025] You resist the Flash of Light spell!
[Sun Apr 06 18:48:11 2025] You resist the Force Spiral of Al'Kabor spell!
[Sun Apr 06 18:47:07 2025] You resist the Gravity Flux spell!
[Sun Apr 06 18:46:46 2025] You resist the Force Strike spell!
[Sun Mar 02 00:07:43 2025] You resist the Thunderclap spell!
[Sat Mar 01 22:06:59 2025] You resist the Listless Power spell!
[Sat Mar 01 22:06:33 2025] You resist the Togor's Insects spell!
[Sat Mar 01 22:06:17 2025] You resist the Enstill spell!
[Fri Feb 21 22:22:47 2025] You resist the Tishan's Clash spell!
[Sun Dec 22 21:17:37 2024] You resist the Thunderclap spell!
[Tue Dec 31 20:39:39 2024] You resist the Incapacitate spell!

My logs show a total of 223 MR spells resisted in KC since level 54. These are just the unique values in that list.

[bcbrown]

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

Please stop using the argument from authority fallacy. I'd love to hear about this supposed knowledge that can only be gleaned from clicking Woven Bark earring specifically.

Yeah, I don't believe that. I could explain (again) but you'll just ignore my reasoning so you can argue with me some more. You're far too stubborn to ever change your mind and I'm not interested in arguing about this with you. I wanted some advice on upgrades from the rangers in this thread and Snaggles provided an excellent suggestion for an upgrade path.

[Cecily]

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

Yeah, I don't believe that. I could explain (again) but you'll just ignore my reasoning so you can argue with me some more. You're far too stubborn to ever change your mind and I'm not interested in arguing about this with you. I wanted some advice on upgrades from the rangers in this thread and Snaggles provided an excellent suggestion for an upgrade path.

I dislike the negative AC on those hoops. I generally run Fingerbone Hoop / Vindi earring for AC/STR/MR on my melees.