Monk or Ranger for soloing melee?

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Originally Posted by Teflondon75 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

To kill a single yellow would likely take me my entire mana bar and still not likely finish the job. 2/6 seconds DoT, 22(MAX no misses) bow, 16 DD spell. Then add in multiple snares/roots...I'm doubtful this will get the job done in a single mana bar consistently.

Well, first off....you are killing yellows solo....which most classes can't do, at all. Yellows also aren't really the best targets for "grinding exp", high blues and maybe a white con is plenty for that.

level 13 mobs have 275ish HP.

Quad kitting. I AM interested in this but can you give some more insight into how you do this and maybe even give an example of where/what you might start at 15? I tested on myself a bit and I can cast a total of 11 AoE spells. Even a single fizzle meant 10 only. Typically quad kitting involves snaring all the mobs And having SoW/JB's.

Yea, grab a sow from a nearby druid or shaman. Always someone around that you can get that from (especially in outdoor zones). Even better if it's a druid, and you can join up so they can AE also.

Well....10 AEs....is 250 damage....that is killing 4 mobs JUST WITH YOUR SPELLS.

But you won't be just taking them down with your spells. You will be adding on with your bow shots. When I would quad I would keep switching targets to try and even out damage a bit, but it's just an efficiency thing.

Are you doing this with no snares and just chugging along with a mooched SoW every 35 minutes?

You don't "need" sow, it just makes it a lot more mindless (and lets you get more room for spells). You can strafe run and kill stuff too (I was doing that to orcs a bunch earlier on before druids were high enough level).

But yea, mooch a sow [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.] Eventually you can just buy some SOW potions....and at level 30 you can sow yourself....

Don't bother snaring....unless you are killing single targets and just want to relax more. Sometimes I would root and dot and try to med between hand, especially if I didn't feel like running around a bunch (or didn't have sow).

You don't HAVE TO do the quadding. That is just the maximum way to EXP (since, again, your spells do 3 times the damage for the mana at that point. So one bar of mana using AEs is equal to 3 bars of mana doing single target DDs between shots. Even at much higher levels, using invoke lightning is a big boost.

And running out of mana to finish stuff isn't the biggest problem in the world, you can always just finish off mobs with your bow. Later one when you can beg some clarity from enchanters who are soloing nearby you can go a lot longer too.

200 damage will not even get close to killing zero exp mobs at this point

???? That is VERY close....that is killing them 4/5ths of the way..... another 50 HP is nothing, that is literally 3 shots with the bow....

Again, you are doing stuff no one else can .....wizards don't have the mana-pool to quad kite yet...druids either..... but as a ranger with a bow, you can (even if you need to polish them off with a few bow shots).

You are killing yellows....red....DEEP reds if you feel like it.....

You are exping faster than most other classes....and doing it safely..... you never need to worry about "will I win this fight" as long as you have arrows.

Don't even really need to worry about adds (yesterday I accidently pulled like 10 kobolds.....so I just ran around till they were all dead).

Archery is suuuppperrr strong. Especially in the hands of rangers and their spells working together with it all so well.