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Great responses, I guess I could elaborate a bit more.

Paladin was fun, I liked tanking and taking control of aggro, rooting mobs and stunning casters. It was actually a very fun class, but I disliked being so dependent on a group and moving so slowly. The activity was great, unless I was pulling and tanking, then it was just 100% GO, which was OK, but I would notice how often the clerics and wizards were afk. Or I get to the camp with 3 mobs, and I am rooting and running them around for 5-10 seconds before anyone seems to notice I am back yet. VERY annoying.

I went about three days without being able to get a group, which was really strange, and just figured I should go for a solo/group class. I know you can get jboots, but they are out of my pricerange.

The paladin was my first class to 34, so I parked it and sold off most of the gear, but it only amounted to a few thousand plat.

I started the mage with no investment aside from 50p or so, I did like having a strong pet, being able to solo, and groups were pretty fun, helping with items, bandages, ect.

My big problem with the mage I guess is that you dont do any damage compared to a melee class. I just felt like a burden half the time. My pet hits for 28 if I go for a max level pet (lvl 30 mage) but it just doesnt feel like I am contributing anything. Then you get resisted three times and did absolutely nothing but a few hundred damage with your pet.

Utility, I didnt like either, being able to gate and invis is great, but slow movement speed, no root, and if I get caught without my pet, I am done for. It only happened once but it really bothered me.

So I decided to try what all the melee guys were doing damage with, and went monk. I really enjoyed playing monk, I sunk in my savings of 5k into the char and got pretty decked out, and even got a haste item through saving carefully and a few investments. I do great damage, I havent died once with feign death, splitting pulls is awesome, but after 30 levels, I am getting tunnel vision from constantly running corridors and opening doors, spinning around, running back, and find myself envious of resting people again.

So fired up the mage, was /afk lfg coming back every 5 min to broadcast, and about 45 min later I got a group, and i was as pathetic as ever.

The enchanter was dancing around, charming, stunning, seemed pretty neat. but I just dont know what to do anymore.

I'd like to be active and useful, but I don't want to be running constantly and depending on people's reaction time to stop be from dying.

I forgot to mention I also got a necro to 34. I solo'd most of it, just because whenever I tried to group, watching the bar move so slowly was driving me crazy compared to just fear kiting or even root rotting. but its a social game I love actually chatting and doing stuff. Just not running a corridor over and over again.

So I guess my top issues would be

1. Movement speed/mobility -> I know I can get jboots later in life, but thats a lot of money
2. Pulling -> Get tunnel vision and just sick of it after an hour or so
3. Damage/Utility -> I hate feeling like a group leech, I want to be considered a great player
4. Group requirement -> I really find playing solo boring, but I would like the option of being able to, I mostly want a class groups are begging to get, I hate having a few hours to play, then just LFG and browsing the forum