Need new playstyle
 

Hello all. I am definitely a casual player. I usually play a rogue or for the torture a pally, but due to a couple things in RL one of which is a new baby in the house I need to find a good class to play that I can go afk and solo with. Nobody wants a tank that says hey guys I have to make a bottle and change a diaper. What I am looking for is a good solo class, yet not requiring a lot of attention as well so that I can play when I am the only person at home to take care of things. Thanks for suggestions.

If you're looking to afk/solo, you really can't beat a wiz/druid.

2 minutes of playing while quadding, 20 min of downtime while mana regens.

I wouldn't rule out a necro. Feign death will help you a lot if you need to suddenly afk, and they're capable of splitting/soloing camps with a bit of effort.

Also, it never hurts to have a necro to make you some plat. Mine has been great for when I'm semi-afk. Iksars will level slower, but you'll enjoy that extra regen that others won't at 60 ;)

I should say (as I've just typed in another thread) that they're not great in Velious, but then there's no extra levels so you'd be fine in vanilla/Kunark all the way up :)

My rough levelling guide has been:-

11-19: Kurn's Tower
20-22: Lake of Ill Omen
23-26: Warsliks Woods at the giant fort
26-29: Bard in Feerott (near Innothule zone line - she drops cash, a lot of the others don't). Named sisters in OOT if I could get them.
30-34: Bit sketchy, remember doing some Highkeep guards and Halfling guards too. Some work at the Frontier Mountains giant fort.
35-49: SPECTRES! Go Feerott over Oasis, usually quieter and you can sell in skeleton form to vendors outside Oggok. Can also bank in skeleton form in Oggok.
49-50: Currently 50 and stopped - been going into the back end of Felwithe slaying guards there. 20pp a guard (sale of 2h sword) and chances on FS weps, 2-3pp cash, gems, etc. Fear kite is a winner.

...overall, great for cash camps. Can probably add in Lower Guk for camping some nice pixels as well if you can deal with all the young camp lawyers.

probably a necro or a wizard?

main thing stopping a wizard from being an awesome solo class is the amount of time spent meditating between kills, but if you have to AFK anyway then no big deal. :)

make it a dark elf so you can hide while AFK

I was in the same boat as you when I started last year. Had a newborn, wanted to play a class where i can afk randomly if need be. I decided to roll necro since they can solo 1-60 and can FD to make it easy to afk if baby was crying or needs a diaper change ect..

A wizard would have been perfect too. Quad mobs, afk for 15 minutes while you med. Also get the benefit of porting yourself around.

Any class that has FD, Monk etc, or Hide is good for doing RL thingies. Druid, Wizz, Necro, even Monk at lower levels can all solo great. I would not pick a class that you need to be in a group if you have to go AFK a lot like a Cleric, Warrior, Pally etc. As a Cleric you can't really even go Pee without half the group dying.

nah, you are going about it all wrong. roll a female elf-race cleric. flirt, and make lots of friends. and then, for the capper, always eventually wipe the group because you had to go take care of the baby for a few.

now *that* is classic eq.

The ultimate Solo/Afk class is druid/wiz as stated above, at least at level 35 +. Normally I do a quadkite and have to let mana regen for about 6-8 min to do it again safely (whithout clarity).

If you manage to get to level 47 and until 53, the ULTIMATE solo/afk spot is probably aviaks in TD, nothing aggro you while medding so you can safely do anything else even without hiding.

My 2cp

FD is a must

Lets say you pull 4 aviaks for a quad on that druid/wiz, then all of a sudden the baby starts projectile vomiting on the dog.. you're as good as dead. The only way around this would be to gate, but then its time spent running back.

I'd go nec personally

Wizards aren't an AFK class, that's ridiculous.

But I'm OOM so we'll pick this discussion up again in 20 mins, k?