Monk v.s. Warrior

[Toxigen]

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

Which class is more fun to level up solo 1-60?

monk and its not even close

even if you had full BiS at level 46, monk is gonna do better getting to 60 solo and be a lot more "fun"

[skulldudes]

do u like swords most? warrior

do u like sticks? monk

monk >>> for being able to FD afk alone tho

[questever]

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

monk and its not even close

even if you had full BiS at level 46, monk is gonna do better getting to 60 solo and be a lot more "fun"

Valid point - but on blue especially , it feels like monks are a dime a dozen

[Toxigen]

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

Valid point - but on blue especially , it feels like monks are a dime a dozen

I mean there is a reason for that.

You said solo, the only answer is monk.

[Solist]

Solo everquest...


Like why?

[cd288]

Yeah FD alone is the reason to go Monk over Warrior. If you're soloing and going to 60, the reality is there are limited camps in the latter half of the 50s that you can solo as a melee. As a result, it's not uncommon to find people checking to see if these camps are open frequently. Generally some of them you can AFK safely in, but not all. And if you have to camp out on the Warrior to AFK for a few minutes there's a decent chance someone will steal the camp when they show up and see no one there. If you can AFK FD they won't be able to argue that you weren't at the camp first.

[Estrang87]

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

I would definitely say warrior is more fun to level. The way they scale every level up is wonderfully rewarding. Great fun all round.

Monk is just...too easy? And sooner rather than later you're just another lizard monk twink and every other lizard monk twink is better or worse than yours, and none of it means anything or matters. Then you end up BiS and you still just auto attack things and they die or you die. You use more worts and they die. /yawn Watch some of Kelz's videos for an example.

And berserker/crits is not a thing. You do that maybe twice once you loot a twisted steel or gauduraak etc, bleh.

But the levelling experience on a warrior is sublime in contrast to the boredom and ease of a monk. Your decisions matter and have consequences as you have no get out of jail free card in a single key.

Hmmm yes, can I autoattack this mob to death or not? Decisions decisions..... Warrior is NOT more fun to play solo, you simply cannot engage with as large a scope of solo locations or strategies as the monk, so therefore the only thing more "fun" is the crits as the guy said.

[magnetaress]

Dex helps war crit do much it's worth stacking too.

[knottyb0y]

Warriors are fun for itemization. Especially 50+ they have bags full of tricks.

Solo as a warrior 50+ is tedious, I'd suggest grinding out in groups. That is where warriors shine anyway. Even duos and trios offer a lot of flexibility (get a slow weapon and duo a LOT of content with a cleric).

In a group you are either tank, and playing the fight for aggro, hoping for procs etc. Or you are the DPS that can CC by off-tanking. Not a ton of dps like monk or rogue, but with a good 2 hander, or weapon set you can make some noise.

Couple cool very attainable clickies & procs 50+ wars get.

Slow: Truncheon of Doom
Invisibility: Incarnadine Breastplate(gather shadows), cobalt greaves (invisibility)
strength buff: cobalt boots
shielding buff: cobalt arms
snare weapons: silken whip of ensnaring


Probably missing a few, but having invis on a war 50+ is sweet. is it as useful as monk's sneak and feign death? probably not.

I like the thrill of tanking and managing aggro. So i'm very biased towards warriors.

[Vexenu]

I think a lot of the "fun" of soloing a Warrior is just the feeling of accomplishment from doing something different and difficult. You can't throw a rock without hitting a Fungi Iksar Monk twink, but soloing a pimped out Wood Elf Warrior? You're definitely stylin' and profilin'. That being said, there's a reason Monks are far and away the preferred melee to solo with. It's just a much easier and more enjoyable experience with the Monk toolkit compared to the Warrior.