Solo Melee class

[paulgiamatti]

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

Just wanted to laugh at this comment in specific.

Name something a shadow knight can farm that a ranger can't. If you pose that question the other way around you have the TT and FM cycles, for starters. Not to mention the added ease of just popping into a zone and instantly knowing whether something is up. Not to mention being able to farm tons of other stuff with efficiency like trade skill materials, Coldain quest items, etc. And again, it doesn't matter if a shadow knight can fear kite something when they're unequipped to FTE the mob or even know if the mob is up.

[Cecily]

60 Ranger's aren't a good solo farmer. Best farmer in the game for greens, blues.. I'd take fear kiting on anything and FD splits.

There's very little outdoors worthwhile to track, and there's very little dungeon content ranger friendly. I love rangers and hate SKs, but rangers are outmatched for big named hunting. Druids are better than either for sub 51 mobs, terrible at green farming.

Really what you wanna do is make an enc or shaman, sadly. Ideally enc, because their cost to be solo-worthy is a fraction of a shaman's.

[skarlorn]

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

Really what you wanna do is make an enc or shaman, sadly. Ideally enc, because their cost to be solo-worthy is a fraction of a shaman's.

i made a fortune soloing willowisps on my rogue in the teens

I would really like to see someone take rogue soloing to the next level

[Sirelk]

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

I would really like to see someone take rogue soloing to the next level

I soloed a gnome rogue from 1-60 in about 10-11 months. Untwinked and no outside buffs.

I streamed most of it on Twitch. Sqid the soloing rogue.

[fadetree]

Yadda yadda.
OP, If your sole concern is getting to 50, then I don't know why you are talking about melee. What's so important about 50? Roll a chanter or necro. You'll get back to 30 and probably still hit 50 faster than either melee.
In my opinion, having to wonder whether you should play your Ranger or not means you shouldn't.

[MikeXG]

Leaning towards doing the SK as it may be easier to find a pick up group and also just an easier class tonplay despite it being slower. With that I can than use the sk to farm plat and gear to truly twink the ranger with a fungi and maybe those epics way down the line. Because a decked out ranger sounds like a fun class to just run around with!

[Troxx]

if your goal is to get xp and farm cash/loot

.... with both of these classes you're barking up the wrong tree

Casters (nec/ench/shm) own that aspect of the game. Rangers have their niche but their drawbacks. SKs? yep them too. Of the two ranger will kill faster but SK will be able to kill single mobs in all zones (fear + snare) that rangers may or may not be able to kill.

Both classes are fun.

Neither class is IDEAL.

[Hitmonkey]

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

Both can fear kite which ups their solo viability way over any other melee classes, even monks

LOL WHUT? No other melee class can come close to what monk can accomplish solo, it's not even close. it's Monk #1 and every other melee class a distance 3rd place.

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

Ranger. SK's really can't solo too well at later levels.

This^

Had a main troll sk on live from classic to now, the higher you get up in level the more you fall behind in the ability to solo effectively -especially named -unless they're 20 or 30 levels below you.

Really should just pick a Caster class if you want to solo, the things you can do with a necro or Shaman (the two classes I played) is so far beyond what the few things you're going to be able to solo as a melee class.

Edit- if I had to pick I would definitely pick ranger, SK is incredibly gear dependent along with the other problems as you get up in level versus the Mobs

[paulgiamatti]

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

LOL WHUT? No other melee class can come close to what monk can accomplish solo, it's not even close. it's Monk #1 and every other melee class a distance 3rd place.

I've soloed Sir Lucan (both versions, with a full guard spawn) on my 60 ranger, self-buffed, without using a single clicky. I challenge any monk to do the same.

[American Standard]

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

I've soloed Sir Lucan (both versions, with a full guard spawn) on my 60 ranger, self-buffed, without using a single clicky. I challenge any monk to do the same.

Have also seen SK's do this. Time for monks to head back to the Ashy Order and learn a few things.