Iksar Shaman - Solo Challenges?

[7thGate]

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

Min/Max is not about how quickly it takes to level. It is about how effective your character is in the endgame. This is because leveling speed is mostly a factor of how you play, rather than what racial bonuses you have. Ogre/Troll/Iksar Shamans have leveled faster than Barbarians due to twinking, play time, effective leveling strategies, etc. If you really want to level to 60 ASAP, there are better ways than simply picking Barbarian when you create your new Shaman.

Whatever you do to XP though, and there are different methods that will vary in speed, you do it 20% faster on a Barbarian. Its much more debateable how much regen improves things vs. FSI, but the Barb should definitely be much ahead of the Ogre.

Almost nobody reaches actual end game everquest, where you're BIS and have no more progression. End Game for most people is raiding with some mix of high end/BIS pieces, or farming items. You're going to be ahead by some noticeable amount on both of these goals if you're using a Barbarian vs. an Ogre, and it will likely take a very substantial amount of time for the Ogre to catch up.

They will never catch up in a raiding context until you reach BIS, you will always be a fixed amount of DKP ahead on the Barbarian until you run out of things to spend DKP on. If there is a quantifiable difference in farming speed or success rate with having FSI they will eventually catch up with the Barbarian's head start, but it needs to be quantified to see whether it is actually reasonable for that to happen.

As a more concrete example of what I'm talking about, if you ask the question "which race lets me farm the most stuff by 2030 on this new shaman I'm making", the answer is probably Barbarian. I'm really skeptical that the other racials do enough to make up for having potentially weeks of additional time with Torpor.