Velius Soloing - Best Classes

[Messianic]

Originally Posted by webrunner5 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I know a lot of people will laugh but a Ranger is no slouch in Velious soloing. With fear animal, which there is a TON of

It's true - unfortunately, fear animal won't be available in velious for a while. I'm guessing probably a year after velious release on p99 this patch will be in.

However, I have a 32 ranger who will be abusing the hell out of that skill as soon as it is available. Fear animal + cheap snare completely changes the solo game for rangers.

[iruinedyourday]

I wonder how necro is? Necro + puppet strings compared to shamen with them for the solo challenge, is that a viable strat?

I honestly don't even know Vellious's high level group/named dungeons.. I'll have to do a ton of reading. What y'all think will be the perms camped/contested indoor spawns?

[webrunner5]

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

I wonder how necro is? Necro + puppet strings compared to shamen with them for the solo challenge, is that a viable strat?

I honestly don't even know Vellious's high level group/named dungeons.. I'll have to do a ton of reading.

Man, soloing, using Puppet Strings, would be one God Damn expensive way to kill for weeks at a time [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.][You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]. Velious is really a expansion that was more group designed than solo. Mobs just hit WAY too hard to solo a lot of stuff. They don't die in 30 seconds like in Kunark. Melee class run out of Hit Points, and Casters run OOM. Simple as that solo. And oh by the way group wise also lol..

Until AA's came out in EQ live, which I guess will never happen here, Soloing was a hard ass way to go once Velious came out and past that.

[Clark]

Velious* and Shaman* there buddy.

[iruinedyourday]

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

Velious* and Shaman* there buddy.

dude when i started playing eq i couldnt spel coz i was young, lulz

im being classic.

[rafaone]

Have a druid with epic, wait until Root + Snare stack (1 months from velious)

Then you can potentially kill every non - Summon MoB out there if you can get to him.

[Cecily]

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

Have a druid with epic, wait until Root + Snare stack (1 months from velious)

Then you can potentially kill every non - Summon MoB out there if you can get to him.

I can't wait for this. Winged Death, Breath of Ro, Wrath of Nature, Drones of Doom.. 113, 103, 55, 34 = ~3k damage a minute for 525 + 75 mana. Add in new stuff to charm and non-summoning, high level stuff to kill. Druid is gonna be really fun.

[Tecmos Deception]

Am I the only one who understood the original post to be talking about soloing high-end nameds at 60? Lol.

[Messianic]

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

Am I the only one who understood the original post to be talking about soloing high-end nameds at 60? Lol.

Read the whole post before replying? Who am I, good guy Greg?

[webrunner5]

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

Am I the only one who understood the original post to be talking about soloing high-end nameds at 60? Lol.

I pretty much remember about the only class that could do it in the beginning were Shamans.

But something a lot of people forget is when the original game came out nobody knew crap about nothing naturally. Velious, when I look back at it, came out pretty quick from the start of the whole thing.

So the point I am getting at I guess is many people had no clue how to really play the class they had. Few people knew all the tricks we know now, or tactics, or what ever. So I think more classes will be pretty good at soloing high end stuff now with all the knowledge we have from years of playing.

But I seem to remember that a lot of the high end mobs summoned and that is pretty much a no go for a caster class. So that is why I said a Ogre Shaman toe to toe would probably be best because you WILL be toe to toe with a lot of top mobs like it or not. [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.][You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

But yes Tec you are right, I didn't really READ the BEST class only thing by the OP. [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]