Do wizards do decent for solo if needed? - Page 4

Messianic · #31 02-14-2014, 05:08 PM

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Just make an erudite wizard and get some relatively cheap + mana items and you're GTG.

I'd go with +hp gear until about 14-16.

Actually, with even average gear, a wizard can quad kite easily 26 on. I discovered what I called Full-speed quadding at 26 on mammoths in EF. It was incredible exp, and getting snare at 29 was icing. Here's my recommended progression as someone who soloed exclusively to 55:

1-16 - Junk till 4, EC 4-9, Wisps 9-13ish. Do the greater lightstone quest in NK 9-15. Great cash. 13-16 Oasis.

Here's your newb strategy: Find a good twohander; Lost Staff of the scorned or Dagger of Frost are great, great newbie weapons. If you're lucky enough to have a Solist's after 12, this is easymode. Battlecasting (casting between melee strikes) is actually pretty effective. Far more effective than attempting to root nuke at this stage.

16-20 - I did the Heart Spiders in Upper Guk near the Lguk Dead Zoneline since as an erudite I wasn't kos to frogs and could sit and watch them pass me by. Great gems, easy exp. This was pre-kunark, so there might be better places there.
20-24 - This was sort of hard pre-kunark. I did I'd recommend LoIO.
24-31 - Mammoths. Full Speed quad kiting.
31-35 - Giant Skels in rathe mts near lake rathe ZL is what I did. Usually no one around. Safe, easy.
35-42 - The two NK guards on the bridge near the SK zoneline and the two NK guards at the tower. I'd pull the two at the bridge with tempfluxstaff, run full speed to the tower, pull those two, run in circles, snare, have fun. It crushes your qeynos factions obviously. In lieu of this there are a ton of places to do basically the same thing in WW, FM, etc. Giants, Brutes, etc.
42-44 - Yetis in DL.
44-51 - Bloodgills. Bloodgills. Bloodgills. There is absolutely no better soloing in the game for wizards at this level than bloodgills in terms of exp. Why? Bloodgills have a level range one higher than spectres and around 400-600 less hp. It's incredibly easy.
51-53 - Spirocs in TD (I actually discovered a pretty fun way to quad kite DE guards in Neriak - Commons over the water. It's a lot of fun and better exp than spirocs or raptors through 54, but takes some skill)
53-55 - Raptors in TD

Exp slows down so considerably at 55 that I got demoralized and quit. Each quad kite of raptors - even all blues, even with some vicious raptors - is around 1% of a level. And your med times are around 8-10 minutes IIRC. Do the math.

At 55, If you have friends that will get you into good Seb/KC groups, do that instead.

sox7d · #32 02-14-2014, 06:52 PM

[QUOTE(I actually discovered a pretty fun way to quad kite DE guards in Neriak - Commons over the water. It's a lot of fun and better exp than spirocs or raptors through 54, but takes some skill)
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elaborate?

Messianic · #33 02-14-2014, 09:55 PM

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elaborate?

When you pass through foreign quarter, you come to a place where you pass the POD and through a porticullis there's a bridge. On that bridge, there are 5-8 guards (including roamers) that are mostly blue through 54. If you have lev/sow or jboots and are fairly good at keeping your distance, you can run them around the surface of the water to get them into formation, get max spellcasting distance and snare, aoe, etc.

Last time I was there I saw a monk soloing a bunch of them, so apparently i'm not the only one who knows of those guards.

sox7d · #34 02-14-2014, 11:34 PM

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When you pass through foreign quarter, you come to a place where you pass the POD and through a porticullis there's a bridge. On that bridge, there are 5-8 guards (including roamers) that are mostly blue through 54. If you have lev/sow or jboots and are fairly good at keeping your distance, you can run them around the surface of the water to get them into formation, get max spellcasting distance and snare, aoe, etc.

Last time I was there I saw a monk soloing a bunch of them, so apparently i'm not the only one who knows of those guards.

I've tried this a few months ago but couldn't manage to land a snare. did you dip into the water for snare?

fastboy21 · #35 02-15-2014, 04:34 AM

answer to op question is yes...wizard are a viable solo class especially when you can not find a grp. it is not very fast and will leave you medding as long or longer than playing. quad kiting can be fun, but i always found it was something i only enjoyed when i couldn't find a grp.

on bright side, you can do a lot of reading while you med on a wizard.

Fregar · #36 02-15-2014, 05:04 AM

Wizard is a good char to level while doing RL stuff, I made one for this reason...
... and it's nice to have a porting char for transfering stuff to alts or EC mule, camping easy spots in dungeons, doing quests.

About ench, charming is not required to solo: you CAN solo with animation; its not the best xp out there but still better/as good than what some other classes get.

Dweed · #37 02-15-2014, 05:30 AM

I didn't read this. But wiz is absolutely incredible for getting RL shit done. Kill 2 mobs and med, quad 4 mobs, then load the dishwasher and med, quadkite and do the laundry. Quad again, then take out the trash.

Most efficient class ever. (as long as you don't want to play for more than 5mins at a time)

Messianic · #38 02-15-2014, 08:56 AM

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I've tried this a few months ago but couldn't manage to land a snare. did you dip into the water for snare?

That's interesting. I did this more than a year ago.... likely even more than that. They may have changed things. At the time I was able to simply snare them levitating above the surface.

Rzaa · #39 02-15-2014, 01:28 PM

Get the new rocksmith game and learn guitar while medding. Think you were good at Guitar Hero? Try a real guitar if you want to be humbled.

Or, if fat, do 5 push-ups for every mob you kill. Then when you see the 400+ axes and swords you've sold to same vendor you wont feel as depressed.

happypants · #40 02-15-2014, 02:49 PM

I've leveled a necro to 50 with a lot of soloing, very easy on this server.

On live i leveled a wizzy to 65 on live, quadding is hella fun but way easier with jboots and tstaff.

Buddy of mine also leveled a mage to 65 with a lot of soloing.

Bards swarm kiting is sexy, and shammys are incredible at soloing too.

Really just find something you like and honestly you can find places to solo, there are a lot of guides on the wiki that will help you figure out where to go.

http://wiki.project1999.com/Players:Adventure look at the guides tab on the left [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.] hope that helps