Best solo melee class?

[bcbrown]

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

Maybe it is just me but at that point I'd just throw on an earring of woven bark and leave it there if I'm gonna use it a lot... and just eat the extra 0,5 cast time.

Earring of woven bark is great! Got semi-decent stats too until you get to no-drop earrings.

[Cecily]

I guess they used a high level cat. That's awesome.

[shovelquest]

I do love a min max clicky fight that you realize, "hmm if i do this for 2hrs without fucking up i can win this fight!"

[Cecily]

They're not worthless.

Vendors pay like 489 platinum for them.

[sammoHung]

Tolan's gloves and Elder Spiritst Gloves are pootrash. Long cast time for a spell that is a very low mana cost as is.

[Danth]

Case in point of the relative difference between classes: Shamwowi linked an ice burrower video. Now replace the shadowknight with a ranger. Ranger doesn't have a pet to care about, so if he's solo'ing he doesn't care at all about aggro. He lands 1 ensnare, that lasts a long flippin time so he only has to re-apply it a relative handful of times through a fight. Otherwise it's move-shoot-move-shoot. His mana bar's fine, gloves or no gloves. Totally different tactics, and the snare gloves which are handy for the shadowknight in that situation, collect dust in the ranger's bag.

Kiting for someone else? Ranger would probably rather flame lick--shoot. Still a lot of aggro, and more damage too. Least I would in his place. Mana bar will gradually go down but it'll outlast the burrower.

More likely to use the things in a chain-pulling exp group with no mana regen where the ranger happens to be the tank. Flame lick takes awhile to run you out, but it eventually will, and some exp groups will complain even at one stoppage per hour. Even then it's not THAT likely, kind of a contrived scenario that most ranger players will probably never experience, so I don't really disagree with the folks dismissing the snare click as fluff. It's there, use it if you need it, but you probably won't need it on that class and bag space isn't endless. Frankly I don't use the things all that often on my shadowknight.

[Cecily]

No. I didn't forget that. I choose to accept that my mana will run out eventually as a tradeoff of having a higher quality of life during my active playtime. It's actually not a problem for me.

[DeathsSilkyMist]

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

No. I didn't forget that. I choose to accept that my mana will run out eventually as a tradeoff of having a higher quality of life during my active playtime. It's actually not a problem for me.

Your story just doesn't add up. On the one hand you claim that you need the max mana for an 86 minute session, while also suggesting a break will occur well before 86 minutes. This means you don't need 86 minutes of max mana, you can do with less.

[Naethyn]

I wear https://wiki.project1999.com/Ring_of_Relkententinar because it’s ranger only not because of stats.

[Cecily]

Sometimes I equip my Earthcaller and Wuoshi Shield and walk around pretending I'm female Link. Best use case for that clicky I've found.

 

It's also really good for ice burrowers because the land rate is like 5% and you will go OOM trying to land ensnare on them