Easiest Solo Class?

[Vizax_Xaziv]

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

Easiest?

Necros and Enchanters can do the hardest camps solo (necros usually dependent on the camp having undead mobs to charm) and level fast on their own. Extremely late game Shamans can also do difficult solo camps with Torpor but for most part they can’t.

Out of these enchanters are the hardest to play and require more knowledge and have high risk of dying.

Wizards and Druids can solo until 60 and are technically easy to play, druids have a few more tricks though with charming. Quad-kite for weeks, literally.

Mages, Shamans and a few other classes CAN solo to 60 but no idea why you’d want to. Most classes can solo to 50.

My vote for "easiest" would PROBABLY goto Necromancer. While not the "easiest" play at a top level, they have access to so many quality of life spells that will make the overall leveling experience so much easier. Feign Death is the obvious HUGE one and if that fails you have the ability to summon your corpse and eventually even Rez yourself. The ability to succor through zones etc etc.

Theyre also ABSURDLY powerful anywhere there are undead about giving them the ability to solo some really top-tier Kunark camps.

[Kich867]

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

You don't have to fear kite. You can root rot with a pet, with dots, and mana regen.

They are hands down the most straight forward solo class.

Druid has slow mana regen. Even with most efficient root rot and most efficient quad kiting its worse.

They don't get a non-undead root until the 30's and its kind of a shitty one and then a good root at like 49 or something though, right? You're correct though, the mana regen thing is a big deal, lich spells are dope.

[Wrekt]

i have a 55 mage that is naked. literally only bought a few pet spells and a few nukes. 90% of my fights are hitting tab and then 1, which is my pet attack macro. there's no way that any other class comes close to this easy to solo with. some may be better at soloing, but none are more easy.

[Knuckle]

I had a TLDR paragraph. Going to consolidate it. Basically I think you have two ends of the spectrum: Necromancer and Druid, as far as "easy solo" goes. There are other solo classes in between this spectrum, but I believe these two embody the definition of "easy solo" due to the options available to them.

Easy - Micro based - Specific Combat Encounters (what is the easiest way to kill mobs alone only, no other context)
For this definition of easy, I believe the necromancer is the clear answer for the below reasons:
1.) Feign Death is the best get out of jail free card in the game in my opinion, even though the spell version has cast time. Anytime you can reset a mistake, that makes an encounter easier to learn from as you avoid the frustration of a death and corpse run.

2.) Summoned Pet: Necromancer Pet's are pretty darn good, and not only act as a great dps/minor tank, but also allow the necromancer to have yet another escape tool to channel a gate, cast feign death uninterrupted, or simply run away and buy a few seconds.

3.) Lifetaps/DoTs/Fear are great ways to kill mobs, the bone knight is a great example of how an INT cast can facetank to 50 with only minor effort required thanks to a lifetap proc.

4.) Access later on to IVU/Invisibility for extra travel safety.

5.) Fearkiting outdoors is insanely simple and safe for necromancers to kill mobs.

For those reasons, I award the Necromancer the easiest solo class for in-combat encounters with no other consideration.

Easy- Macro: Overall Everquest experience leveling solo, including traveltime, vendor accesibility, income generation, and of course ability to slay monsters alone effectively, singularly or in groups of mobs.

Druid is the champion here, because they have so much time saving convenience built in a necromancer can not begin to compete:

1.) In high population hours, starting at level 19, the druid can access multiple locations freely at no cost to themselves, almost always ensuring a location can be found to effectively solo monsters, this can also allow druids to have a better shot at "rare camps" where highly sought after items are farmed. Non teleport classes must commit to parking their ass nearby hoping for a shot at the camp, while a druid can freely teleport around the world until it is closer to their chance at a camp they are in line for(disputable to some, and not applicable to "list" camps).

2.) SoW decreases travel time further, and has 100% uptime on druid. Provides additional plat tips here and there. Allows easy escape in majority of scenarios, excluding some dungeon situations and some spellcasting NPC scenarios.

3.) Root/Rot or Root/Nuke is the simplest solo strat for braindead grinding. Excluding undead, necromancers do not have access to this faceroll strat for soloing mobs. Not always mana efficient, but EXTREMELY simple, this is the easiest way to solo mobs. As a afk WFH player, i killed many mobs this way due to low actions per minute required, could easily med to full between respawns.

4.) Versatility - Versatility doesn't equal easy, but the fact that a druid can snare kite, root/rot, nuke/root, charm kite, charm tank, and eventually quad kite give them an answer for most encounters, and pretty much all outdoor solo scenarios.

5.) Druids are all good races = far more access to vendors/selling/spell upgrades than the necromancer class which can be killed on sight far more often for the newbie soloer.

Reason Shaman/Mage/Wizard/ENchanter are not listed:

Shaman - No teleport, more situational in dungeons than necromancer with no FD.
Mage - No convenience, higher risk of death without picking specific fights, no crowd control except pet.
Enchanter - No convenience except for faster mana regen, higher risk of death than necromancer/druid for newbies.
Wizard - This would actually be my third choice right behind necromancer and druid believe it or not. They function in a very straightforward way and have the utility of teleports which in my opinion does increase the "easy" factor on the convenience scale way more than any non teleport class. In a combat encounter you root/nuke and that's it. You can clear camps with guaranteed roots by bursting and camping out, mages may not be able to get away with this due to root pet dependency or it staying alive long enough to camp out after killing a mob(when clearing larger mob aggro groups).
Wizard would basically be option 3 as far as balance between convenience and ease of combat, but they have too many limitations to beat out the druid, and not as combat effective in as many scenarios as the necro + less survivability than either.

Honorable mentions: SK/Pally/Ranger/Cleric.

Hybrids are more gear dependent which by its nature alters the argument of easy, assuming a "natural" leveling experience where you arent given a major twink advantage, I can't place them above the other classes. Cleric's can be effective soloers against undead mobs, but that heavily limits where you can solo effectively and also lack the conveniences of fast travel or feign death.

[Scalem]

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

I still think it enchanter, they can solo just about anything in the game any other class can by tashing and slowing with a hasted animation it won’t be as fast as a charmed pet but it will be super easy level 1-60.

While enchanter is good it's not the EASIEST solo class.

[Kich867]

I'd concur that wizard is #3. Leveling a wizard is easy as fuck. The rare fights where you get a few nuke resists feel super shitty though. Depending on the camp that can really mess with your rotation, like the minotaur in Gorge, since if you aren't ready to kill that thing as soon as it pops it wanders around for ages before coming back to its spawn point.

[Vexenu]

If we're gonna call Wizards one of the easiest to solo due to the simplicity of root/nuking then Clerics are right up there, as well. Considering that Cleric undead nukes are pretty much the same mana efficiency as Wizard nukes but come with the benefit of a -50 MR resist mod. And Clerics can also obviously heal themselves, as well as single pull with the Lull line. Having leveled both, I can tell you that single target root/nuking is much smoother on the Cleric for these reasons.

Wizard soloing doesn't really shine until you can quad, which isn't the most difficult thing to do in this game but certainly isn't the easiest, either. It's pretty easy to die while quadding if you aren't paying 100% attention. All it takes is slightly mistiming your cast of Bonds of Force.

[Izmael]

You can sleepwalk a necro to 60. If you don't go for the fastest but the safest exp, you can probably do it with 0 deaths without trying too hard.

Just find a blue undead mob and use undead nukes on it until it greens out, then find a slightly higher blue mob. FD if you need to AFK. You literally cannot die unless you forget to click off Lich before FD.

Total of 3 buttons to click, or so.

[DMN]

This thread is like half a year old. I'm pretty sure he puzzled it out.