Solo comparison
 

I was having a discussion about this with a few friends and wanted the p99 community's input.

Of the following which is best at soloing to level, soloing to farm, soloing to gear, and soloing those big named targets.

Ranger
SK
Monk

Thank you. And just out of curiosity what would you place at 2 and 3?

If I could choose one of those classes fully decked out, I would choose Ranger. Their upward mobility in gear is a lot more unique then just AC/wep ratio.

They get all the fun utilities and can self haste to 91%. They can track to farm any green mobs. They get great run speed. They get a decent slow proc. They get an extra port to faydwer. They get the BFG synergy.

When it comes to soloing big names... any of these classes could do it with enough pots and puppet strings. You might as well be a shm or ench to do that...

For the day to day stuff though, Fully decked Ranger just seems a lot more useful and fun to play.

Love your points. I really enjoy the ranger class, despite them "not being great" compared to other classes. They are a fun class that really gives the sense of adventure to the player. I also think that with certain conditions and gear, ranger can bow kite/rot anything given enough time. Not fun or interesting but, might give them an edge in the big name department.

I've enjoyed soloing my SK up to 51 so far but it's been very slow going (mainly because rate of xp is the last thing I care about). I've managed to save up enough to buy a fungi, blood ember BP, and probably a few thousand plat worth of other gear. I've enjoyed the survivability and utility of the class but you've really got to not care about the rate of progression.

I would think a monk, with their ability to do tremendously more dps than a SK would do much better, especially if given fungi+haste+appx 1:1 ratio weapon from the start.

if you wanna farm gear none of those will do it alone

Enchanter so you can pimp out your alts camping and soloing entire game all in EC gear for less than 5k

A monk can solo most named camps in classic but you wont get far in Kunark/Velious alone unless your aiming for lvl 30 low 40ies type of loot

I know of a monk that solos a ton of stuff ofc he has awesome gears and clickies too.

I don't know any warrs, sks, pallies, etc. that do what he does so I would have to go with monk being the best if you have to pick a melee for solo viability and solo accomplishments.

Ranger simply for tracking. So much time not wasted seeing if nameds are up. Forget about FD, WC cap, Lizard Pot, Soulfire and Reaper work just fine to not die when things go south.

Also just the old fashioned run to zone line. Rangers are great soloers and pretty easy to trick out

out of those 3, from a practical standpoint?

monk and it's not even close.