I know a lot of people will laugh but a Ranger is no slouch in Velious soloing. With fear animal, which there is a TON of, and using snare to shoot arrows out the ass, and oh by the way he can track the stuff like a champ to even find it, they are damn good at killing. You just find a mob, snare it, IF you can, but most animals you can, and shoot arrows till it is like say 60% health, then go in Melee mode, and DoT, DD mode till like 20% health, then snare it again, and below 18% you don't even get hit. So you don't die that often on a Ranger IF you really know how to play one well. They are a Cat and Mouse class. And they get a LOT of tools to do it with spells and all. But you NEED the Tolan's Bracer to have all the shitty arrows you will need to do it.
Now we are not talking fast as hell killing, but the one I played in that original time frame was damn fun doing it.
But, nobody is going to kill mobs faster than Bards can do, lets not sugarcoat it. But there is not a LOT of people can play a Bard well with the twisting thingy, let alone stand to run around in a oval 8 hours a day.
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But I would agree, toe to toe, a Ogre Shaman will be hard to beat.
Druids with charm animal if, and I mean, IF they have their epic are no slouch either. The epic DoT lasts forever.
Feign Death is a NICE thing to have in Velious unless some Jackass Caster Mob is not liking you too well. But a SK, Pally kill to slow to solo, and a Warrior is sort of out because their downtime without a Cleric would be maddening.
I never played a high end Necro or Mage in that era so I will not comment on them. I see no reason why they won't do well though.
A Monk is just about going to HAVE to be a Iksar to solo. No way a Human can do it unless you have real TV in your room to watch movies while he heals up.
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The Enchanter route, which I played in the day, just died way to many times I remember to not get pissed off and quit. Too many resists, too many mobs that can not be rooted, charmed, etc etc, to make it worth it. I JUST F'ing HATE DYING. And they will. You had better have a GOOD friend that is a Cleric.
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