Originally Posted by KentalCowtipper
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Long time no speak (had a 6 hour brain surgery last month but damn glad to be alive!); most of ya guys know me. It really surprises me that, with a group of extremely smart gamer nerds, it took until page 7 before someone mentioned a warrior.
I can confirm, in a monk/monk/warrior trio with a messed up pull with 1 monk dying and the 2nd having to zone with 3-5% hp, I was able to get off a clean tag on the fungi king. I was then able to solo the fungi king without much of an issue as a warrior. The monk who lived flopped back down to find the king at 35% and me at 55%-60%; at that point I had a slight net hp gain.
The essence of solo EQ is damage mitigation. Period. Why shamans, necros and to a lesser extent enchanters and monks are such powerhouse solo artists. A warrior, with the right gear and right way to play him, is right there in the chase.
Warriors have by far the most mitigation of any melee. Out of every 9 minute period, we are able to take 50% less damage. 33% of your time having that is rather broken when you stack it with the utility various procs provide. If you have the right weapons and gear as a warrior you can solo things only Shamans, Necros and Enchanters can pull off. Don't believe me?
Equipment you need:
- Pre-Nerf Fungi Stick & Fungi Tunic. You're now regaining as much hit points as an iksar monk.
- Journeyman's walking stick - gotta stick a tash for later procs on high end solo hitlist stuff
- A willsapper (preferable with the 35%) or Koi trident for the early slow
- A truncheon of doom to then land the big 50% slow
- A razor fang of xygoz to land the mark of karn next
- However many dots you want to try to stack - i usually go for 2-5 depending on hardness off the mob. IIRC, i stacked 4 on that fungi king
- Then you swap in a scimitar of lifestealing 150pt lifetap mainhand and a jaelaens katana 80 lifetap offhand.
You should be able to proc all 4-9 procs, including dots, within a 1.5 to 2 minute period. Most times when all the procs are landed, I'll drop defensive - because even without defensive a warrior will be regaining hitpoints with this set up vrs the Fungi King and Emp Chottal. 100% of the time, first hand confirmed.
So as a warrior we have:
1) The most raw damage mitigation potential - not even factoring how broken defensive makes it to land all the procs you need. I would venture that a BiS warrior takes 90-92% of the received raw dmg as a BiS iksar monk. With an extreme example of the right equipment, a warrior can self regenerate as much as that monk. The long term monk healing over the duration of the fight will be significantly less than a warrior's though simply because of the 150 pt lifetap compared to 80 pt (scimitar of lifestealing vrs gharns) - in addition to lack of offhand lifetap for monks. Thats a TON of lost hitpoints from the -70 lifetap mainhand and 0 lifetap offhand.
And when you start running the in depth numbers, the mark of karn off the razor fang miitigates another 2% or so.
2) Far and away the most versatility. I will say that a ranger comes close, but the lack of lifestealing weapon procs, combined with their rather abysmal mitigation makes them pretty low on the melee solo totem pole.
I'm not going to lie - I don't do nearly the DPS a monk or even a palladius/heartwood pally or SK would do with my solo set up (mainly due to scimitar being 9/18... I've played around with Jalaens MH and a bloodpoint offhand but the mitigation drops significantly). But I don't have to do as much DPS when I'm mitigating the received damage as such a higher rate. The name of the game is solo challenge, not speed solo challenge.
The only major drawback as a solo warrior is the pulls - not sugar coating it. You have to know your class inside and out, know the zone and exactly where the proximity and body agro planes are along with a little luck. But I can and have solo'd down to NG, Disco 1 and Chef/Bar area as a warrior - without using a single expendible item clickie. Some OT hammer procs I'lll grant, but not a single charged item. When I got 2 or 3, I calmly pop defensive, rooted the casters, exited LoS and solo'd down the melee.
Thanks for letting me ramble. Not much else for me to do besides read at the moment- playing video games right now gives me a horrible migraine unfortunately. But hell I'm alive! I don't know if I'll ever be able to come back and play. <3 all you guys. Life is too damn short - value what you got.
Kental Cowtipper, 60 Warrior
TLDR; Warriors are insanely underrated solo artists with the right collection of gear and a little skill.
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