Which melee class solo levels the easiest / fastest?

[Vanessa]

Hello, I've been considering trying out a melee character soon and was wondering what some of your opinions were on which of the melee classes were the better soloers? By better I mean like in regards to their kill speed, downtime, efficiency, ease, over all speed it takes per level etc.

I'm assuming it would be between Monk, Shadow Knight, Paladin, and Ranger? But those classes all have pretty rough exp penalties, so maybe a Rogue or Warrior with a bow would actually be faster as a solo leveling melee class?

I'm not sure, what do you guys think?

[BarnabusCollins]

make a ranger track pays dividends

[Vanessa]

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

make a ranger track pays dividends

How so? Do you mean for solo leveling, track helps a lot?

[peterpal]

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

How so? Do you mean for solo leveling, track helps a lot?

He's been selling JBoots MQs for months. So most likely he's parked his ranger in Sro and tracks the AC every hour

[DMN]

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

make a ranger track pays dividends

speaking of which, this is sort of unclassic. Ranger track was pretty shitty most places becuase the incredibly small track list. I remember even my druid struggling in places with any significant mob density to track anything because your tiny list was filled with trash.

It was useful in the planes for repops though.

[kaev]

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

speaking of which, this is sort of unclassic. Ranger track was pretty shitty most places becuase the incredibly small track list. I remember even my druid struggling in places with any significant mob density to track anything because your tiny list was filled with trash.

It was useful in the planes for repops though.

All tracking is usable in a very unclassic way on p99. Back in the day, when a mob being tracked was of your track range (i.e. you and/or the mob moved away) you got random direction messages. Imagine how useless that made Druid track, couldn't even keep track of where a fleeing mob was while you med to kill it.

Regardless that bit of unclassicness, track is equally useful for soloing ranger here as it was on live: find the easy loot mobs, avoid the dangerous pathers while you killing something, find the xp mobs in the sea of greens in the rain.

[Baler]

I got an untwinked warrior to 30, 100% solo in 2 weeks on green without going overboard on time investment.
Hybrids can not be the fastest due to the hybrid exp penalty, until velious.

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edit: I did not see the solo part...
If you're not anti-social and can get a decent pierce weapon, Rogue.

Halfling Rogue is a fantastic raid character. Hopefully guilds start PLing some of them to use as guild alts. [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]
Halfling Rogue requires 85.45% exp

[Vanessa]

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

If you're not anti-social and can get a decent pierce weapon, Rogue.
Hybrids can not be the fastest due to the hybrid exp penalty.

I got an untwinked warrior to 30 in 2 weeks on green without going overboard on time investment.

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edit: Halfling Rogue is a fantastic raid character. Hopefully guilds start PLing some of them to use as guild alts. [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]
Halfling Rogue requires 85.45% exp

The best Rogue weapon currently is that 9/31 Harpoon right?

How would a Rogue solo level? Just kill 1 or 2 blues until low hp then bow kite?

Halflings are too ugly though lol. I'd probably go either Human or Wood Elf...

[Baler]

If you think bow kiting is fast exp you're in for a bad time.

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If you can afford it, Bone Chips 1-10 in Kaladim & then Greater Lightstones 10-15
It only cost ~200-300plat for level 1-10 if you pay 5p per stack of bone chips.
& Greater Lightstones at 15p per, get you a container that sells for 9p so they're only 5-6p each.

[Vanessa]

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

If you think bow kiting is fast exp you're in for a bad time.

Hahaha I know it isn't the fastest .... but wouldn't it be better than sitting and regening HP on a melee?