Anyone know enough to list the difficulty of class epics in a rough order?

[Safon]

I've always been curious about how the epics stacked up against each other (as far as getting them) and how worth it each is to their class. If some of you are as bored as I, list the difficulty of acquiring each class' epic from easiest (top) to hardest (bottum), and if you're really bored do a second list with usefulness to class (top being most useful).

I'd love to see such a list! Sadly I have limited experience from live. Could get some interesting debate going on, or show some people uses for their epics they never considered before.

[SamwiseBanned]

rogue easiest, alot of them can be MQed. from personal xp, without a guild, collecting the pearls for cleric epic took me a very very very very very very long time.

[Splorf22]

Something like this I think.

Easy: Rogue / Shaman / Monk / Cleric / Enchanter
Medium: Magician / Paladin / Ranger / Shadowknight
Hard: Warrior / Druid / Wizard / Necromancer
Insane: Bard

This is basically a list of how thin the bottleneck is. 'Hard' epics require 2+ rare drops, 'Medium' epics require one, and 'Easy' epics don't require any. The Bard epic is in a class by its own with 1 Trak guts every month or so.

[Ele]

Magician was much harder on live due to a lack knowledge farm Quillmane and crowns from island 7 in Sky before it was released.

Cazic Skin was also much rarer on live for Wizards. Only a handful were completed before the epic revamps after Velious.

[SamwiseBanned]

wierd could have swore i saw a bard being sold that had epic. if its so rare then what a waste

[falkun]

wierd could have swore i saw a bard being sold that had epic. if its so rare then what a waste

That's why there was such a shitstorm about the sale. I think it was something like the 3rd or 4th bard epic on the server, and I only know of 5, but then I don't see TMO bards much anymore. Also, there are only 2 bards outside TMO with bard epic, and one of them is that sale.

[Alarti0001]

Magician was much harder on live due to a lack knowledge farm Quillmane and crowns from island 7 in Sky before it was released.

Cazic Skin was also much rarer on live for Wizards. Only a handful were completed before the epic revamps after Velious.

cazic skin was not any rarer, most did not know you could turn in multiple epics with one skin however, also velious released much sooner than here

[Xadion]

Shadowknight epic is in the hard category- and bard should not be in the hardest- it is just that way here because the trak strings where messed up loot table for...oh just a few MONTHS

Shadowknight epic has one real part that is soloable / purchase - and that is the ghoulbane.

CT is a stingy mofo on soulleeches- back in the DA/IB days DA only got 2 total - myself and kayrina's - IB seemed to get one almost every time they got CT :-( so thats why there where some sold for MQ was when they quit.

Ashenbone drakes are stingy as fuck also

the only thing that is "easier" here is Lharc - I am sure its been reported but seeing as 90% of the epic SKs did theirs all very close no one wanted to screw over their fellow knights- but Lharc is a weak ass here- kinda just like a lame VS- on Live he melted raids like a hot knife through butter.... and on Live if you lost the fight- have fun starting over... and that happened quite a few times because Lharc was insane.

[Bruman]

I always thought monk epic was an interesting one. Start to finish, starting with the headbands and sashes, it's a loooooooong quest, with lots and lots of loooooooong camps for rare drops. But it's nothing contested or crazy crap like rare drops from gods, just some areas require at least duo'ing with a healer for some long ass camps. There's only one fight that you even need a raid for (and even it can be one grouped if you have all 60s and the right mix of classes).

I wouldn't consider it easy, like the Rogue epic, but it's difficult in a different way. Just lots and lots of time (but actually doable).

[Slave]

Magician epic is top three in difficulty and top three in power.

[Namegen_Isterrible]

My effort at ranking the epics' overall power:

Weak: wizard, druid, necro, ench
Medium: warrior, paladin, shadowknight, ranger
Strong: cleric, shaman, monk, rogue
Insane: mage, bard


Mage and bard are just insane in how greatly they affect each class in every way. Especially in solo/duo/groups, those two epics make those classes WOWWTFPOWERFUL compared to how they stand before epics. Monk is like that too for solo and a lot of duo situations.

Couldn't bring myself to rank cleric as insane because as required as it is for raiding, it doesn't really change the class in any fundamental way. Donal's BP is way more powerful than the cleric epic.

Sham epic is solo/duo awesomeness. Rogue epic gives them their top spot on DPS for a long time. The other melee epics are nice but they aren't exactly big gamechangers (I don't think?) unless you are upgrading to one of these weapons from droppable stuff you bought in EC for 5k or something.

Wiz is handy but you shouldn't be getting hit anyway... it only shines if you have a stone and are oldworld. Nec and dru... guess I don't know about these really but they seem to have long cast times for the benefit for the class. And ench is like cleric imo, handy, convenient, but not gamechanging in any way.

[Stealin Dragons]

difficulty for someone just starting out?

Necro is probably going to be the hardest one for someone to complete. Not only is CT and Inny a bitch (when contested), but so is getting the cape from sky. Add on top of that the drops from CT and Inny are somewhat drool'd over for other classes so the likelyhood of seeing them for sale is low (unless someone steals them from a gbank).

Oh, and the new rules for fear doesn't help any with smaller guilds getting CT from larger guilds.

I am sure p99 will go socialist tho and everyone will have one in 3months.

[Xadion]

Best looking

Shadowknight :-)

[tekniq]

I always thought monk epic was an interesting one. Start to finish, starting with the headbands and sashes, it's a loooooooong quest, with lots and lots of loooooooong camps for rare drops. But it's nothing contested or crazy crap like rare drops from gods, just some areas require at least duo'ing with a healer for some long ass camps. There's only one fight that you even need a raid for (and even it can be one grouped if you have all 60s and the right mix of classes).

I wouldn't consider it easy, like the Rogue epic, but it's difficult in a different way. Just lots and lots of time (but actually doable).

thats why you get 5 clerics and kill brother z/q

[Slave]

thats why you get 5 clerics and kill brother z/q

I think you mean 5 mages.