Mistakes were made, now we must learn from them.

[SenoraRaton]

I screwed up. I rolled my first character as a tank. I'm a level 55 Shadow knight, and have come to the realization that it is nearly impossible to make any appreciable amount of money soloing. I don't have a haste item, and my DPS is so abysmal that I can barely kill a level 40 mob without medding for 20 minutes. I have tried fear kiting and this increases my kill rate from 1/hour to 2/hour. To compound this, I'm nearly worthless in a duo for cash camps because my DPS is so poor, any other class replaces me better.

I will add that I play on red, so my options for camps are a little different(different values, more open camps) than blue. I used to camp Shiny Brass Idols when I was 40, which sell for 700-1k on red. I'm tempted to go back to that but I only made like 1k/hour there at best. Also tried spectres/hill giants and SBIs seemed better. Does anyone have suggestions on ways to average more than 1k/hour as an SK? I'm trying to avoid re-rolling, although its looking like it might be the only/best option.

[Sadre Spinegnawer]

...I will add that I play on red...

Well, ya know, I'm no doctor, but I might have a hunch where your problems are.

[fastboy21]

Try red forums.

Sks on blue seem to do fine though. Can try selling pl but I don't know how popular that is on red.

[webrunner5]

I played on here for years then I leveled up my Druid and made a ton of plat porting, PLing, looting items etc., and I mean a ton of plat. Not sure how they work out on Red, don't play often enough. My Druid on there never has got high enough to port other people.

But yeah, Melee classes pretty much suck for looting. Well a Monk can PL at high levels. Good at doing that. But have to have really good gear to pull it off. No pun intended. :D

[Daldaen]

PLing is useless on red since the group exp is so broken it makes grouping faster exp in most cases, especially for a bad PLing class like monk or SK.

But yea this is a question to ask on red. The servers aren't very similar at all. Especially their economies and availability/desire of camps.

[Izzni]

You're a tank... As a business solution you probably should group... If you want to make your group hot and bothered about your presence, you should find groups in areas where mobs running is a problem and your snare DOT is useful.

[SenoraRaton]

Solutions provided for Solo SK camps: None

Thanks!

[Grayskull]

I screwed up. I rolled my first character as a tank. I'm a level 55 Shadow knight, and have come to the realization that it is nearly impossible to make any appreciable amount of money soloing. I don't have a haste item, and my DPS is so abysmal that I can barely kill a level 40 mob without medding for 20 minutes. I have tried fear kiting and this increases my kill rate from 1/hour to 2/hour. To compound this, I'm nearly worthless in a duo for cash camps because my DPS is so poor, any other class replaces me better.

I will add that I play on red, so my options for camps are a little different(different values, more open camps) than blue. I used to camp Shiny Brass Idols when I was 40, which sell for 700-1k on red. I'm tempted to go back to that but I only made like 1k/hour there at best. Also tried spectres/hill giants and SBIs seemed better. Does anyone have suggestions on ways to average more than 1k/hour as an SK? I'm trying to avoid re-rolling, although its looking like it might be the only/best option.

1k/hour isn't bad, especially if your gear is as terrible as you say it is. Camp those until you can afford a FBSS, that will make a big difference in your DPS

[Reguiy]

If you were on blue I'd say maybe try Droga. Don't know about r99 though.

[Reguiy]

But ya, seems like grouping in seb or something might be your answer. If that's even possible on red.

[rgostic]

Solutions provided for Solo SK camps: None

Thanks!

Expecting to solo your way to riches as an untwinked SK in classic EQ is pretty ignorant. Getting to the top gear-wise maining a tank is challenging but doable, and will likely require making some good friends.

Shadowknights can make cash soloing in Droga, but you may find you need more levels/gear to pull it off.

[Hroth]

No idea what items go for on red, but you could do mistmoore. You should be able to solo camp both the cloaked dhampyre and Lasna Cheroon at the same time. Resist stuff probably sells well on red, so you could also slaughter stuff in the Gorge of King Xorbb and hope you get lucky with Spinflint spawns.

Cash camps you could do would be halfling guards in Misty or skeleton guards in Paineel if you can get in.

However, if you are getting 1k an hour on your current camp, I don't know how you're going to find something better. That is a solid farm rate and better than people can get at seafuries most of the time.

[Nagash]

A few low level camps ideas come to mind although I'm not sure how crowded they are on red: guards in Felwithe of in Misty, Splitpaw. All these place drops tons of FS weapons. Maybe not the best money camps but should be steady at your level.

[heartbrand]

Camping plat on red in your situation is a waste of time. Join holo or az and get decked out via raids within a month. People are selling BE BP for 10k and greaves for 15-20.

[11bangbang]

on the blue server i have a 56 ranger. sometimes i get bored and will farm highkeep guards for a few hours. they drop a little bit of coin and a fine steel sword everytime. sells for 5pp and some change. there is a banker in highkeep that you can bank with even if she is attacking you. its not the fastest money making ever. but its 100% self reliant because you dont have to find someone to sell shit to. by the time you kill the last guard the first ones you killed will be getting ready to respawn soon. just keep doing the cycle and you will slowly line your pockets. eventually i was able to afford a 50k BP thanks to those guards.

[Niedar]

1k/hour isn't bad, especially if your gear is as terrible as you say it is. Camp those until you can afford a FBSS, that will make a big difference in your DPS

Yeah seriously this. I have been told that FBSS costs only 5k plat on red and if you are making 1k plat an hour that is 5 hours of camping which seems like no time at all to me. Think of all the time you saved in getting to 55 to begin with because of the insane group xp bonus.

[Doors]

Camping plat on red in your situation is a waste of time. Join holo or az and get decked out via raids within a month. People are selling BE BP for 10k and greaves for 15-20.

[Swish]

I screwed up (etc).

Can you handle giving your monk a 2nd try without ragequitting after 1 pvp death?

[Janifer]

Can you handle giving your monk a 2nd try without ragequitting after 1 pvp death?


Maybe we can try to start a core group again, and stay within proper range~ All it requires is a little self control to say no to pixel/PL frenzy when members aren't online.

No single player, besides an Enchanter(but not as quickly nor as safely), can efficiently farm items/platinum...

[SenoraRaton]

Can you handle giving your monk a 2nd try without ragequitting after 1 pvp death?

Playing a monk does not solve the problem. Soloing cash camps as a monk is almost as bad as an SK. I did however start camping Goblin Gazhugi/Courier spawn. I would not recommend this to my worst enemies, I'm sticking it out though. 6 hours in, 14 couriers, 0 drops. GL.


And heartbrand, there are really only 2 active leveling SKs in holo, and I'm one of them.:P