Plat farming

[Murmus]

For overall plat farming, i.e. vendor loot(not named item farming) which would be a better class, mage(non epic) or necro? elaborate on your answer please

[Clark]

Magician.

[Tecmos Deception]

Necro, because they aren't entirely reliant on their pets to do anything and have superior utility for moving through and dealing with dungeons.

[Murmus]

Originally Posted by Tecmos Deception [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Necro, because they aren't entirely reliant on their pets to do anything and have superior utility for moving through and dealing with dungeons.

what dungeons are good for vendor trash

[Tecmos Deception]

Sebilis? There's like 8 different spots bugs can spawn, and they poop out 80-200pp vendor gems/jewelry constantly, with gems you would want to sell to players or JC yourself dropping ocassionally as well.

I don't really understand why you'd fixate on this specific issue though.

[Supaskillz]

Mages are better at sea furies I think which seems to be what you are asking. Necros better at everything indoors. Enchanters are better at both

[fastboy21]

Originally Posted by Supaskillz [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Mages are better at sea furies

This about sums it up. If you want a sea-fury farming whore destined to be a coh bot buried at the bottom of sleeper's tomb roll a mage...

otherwise, go chanter or necro.

[Ikonoclastia]

Originally Posted by Supaskillz [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Mages are better at sea furies I think which seems to be what you are asking. Necros better at everything indoors. Enchanters are better at both

I'd have to disagree with Enchanters being better than necro's. Enchanters can solo a lot of named stuff well but one mess up (early break or early summon) and we're dead while necro's mess up and they just pretend to be dead. Overall they have better ability to heal and a lot better mana regen.

I used to solo lodizal a lot on live (dire charm) when I could find him up and made a million or two when a million was a lot but been trying to solo him on beta (with charmed Captain Nalot double 450 bs) and can barely get him to 50% before I OOM or die.

Necro probably couldnt' solo him but shaman definitely could from what I recall prior to Luclin.

For farming non named loot mobs though, average geared necro's are just gonna be more efficient with constant heals and awesome mana regen you aren't going to have downtime like Shaman and Enchanter.

[Loke]

Originally Posted by Ikonoclastia [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

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I'd disagree. Charm pets do so much more damage and have so much more HP than necro pets that it really tips the scale back in favor of the ench imo, especially if you know which mobs to charm. Necros are great and all, but if you were to break down all the strengths and weaknesses of each class in some sort of cost-benefit analysis, I don't think anyone could top a chanter, especially if you don't care about EXP.

Necros can tap and FD, but FD isn't a huge advantage movement wise over lull / memblur, and with stuns, gate, caps, AE mez, runes, etc, enchanters have plenty of tools to get them out of tight spots. So it really comes down to killing power, which a necro can't top when enchanters have a hasted pet dual wielding.

Really though, it comes down to play style imo. Even if we all agreed enchanters were the best, if you hate babysitting your pet or keeping runes up or whatever, you're better off playing a class whose style you like more. Personally, I'd rather duo on my shaman than my enchanter, but solo wise I'd much rather play my necro or enchanter (at 60, except necro but he's close enough to 60 - basically leveling doesn't really equate into this).

Also, don't discount some not so obvious classes if you're not looking to do named. From personal experience I can speak to monks and bards being able to make some decent scratch if played right. There are certain camps that Bards speed and tracking ability really make them head and shoulders above everyone else. Monks being able to bind to 70% and having a quick refresh on mend also makes them viable in quite a few camps (especially with fungi, t-staff, and iksar regen). They're never gonna farm like a chanter or shaman, but if you're not going after named you're probably not gonna be making big $$$ anyway.

[Man0warr]

Necro can't solo HS South named like Ench.

Necro might be a bit safer/efficient at farming easier stuff but meh.