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Going to bite ha! Kunark is pulling me in. What is the best solo class for the game? I want to play a Sarnak. I played a warrior for 3-4 years in Everquest and was burned bad as they could not solo at all. Played a necro for 2-3 years and loved it. I was able to solo, make crazy money, etc.
So what is the best class to solo, farm items or explore?
Id suggest a Warden or a Necro.
Thanks, I am going to pick the game up in the morning. I had heard necros were only average at soloing.
Wardens are pretty cool. Good fighters plus healing, speed, buffs etc. I enjoyed playing my warden.
I also really enjoyed soloing on my monk. He was fun with the cool fighting, crazy dodge, speed, invis etc.
It really depends on what you want to do. Wardens are great but you need to go with a melee spec, Inquisitors with a melee spec are just as good.
Both Conjurors and Necromancers are very good if they have a good pet, but Necromancers tend to pull away later on when there are undead for them to charm.
Monks, Bruisers and Shadowknights are also good, and the first to can do some quests no other class could solo because their feign death allows them to go almost anyplace.
Ya i had good luck with my monk but the last time i played was EoF launch. God this game is tempting.
I will probably start a necro since they have fd and invis.
Wow DVDs lasted a long time didnt they. Dang game comes on 3 dvds now. I guess soon we will be back up to 5 installation discs. Then once it gets installed, 2 hours to download patch rofl. Ahh the joys of MMORPGs.
But I cant wait to log into Kunark, hopefully it will be a decent casual game.
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Originally Posted by Nyron
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Originally Posted by Nyron
Make sure you take some time to familiarize yourself with how the UI works and how you can move stuff around to your liking (almost everything is adjustable). The UI is fully modable but initially the only thing you really want is the maps mod.
http://maps.eq2interface.com/
EQ2i http://eq2.wikia.com/wiki/Main_Page is one of the better sources of information on quests etc.
You should also make sure you take some time to figure out the broker system and what items are likely to have value. This will give you the cash you need to keep your pets upgraded, which are key early on for Necromancers.
Something else to remember is that newer zones are usually better then older ones. Qeynos and Freeport are reasonably convenient to live in for a high level character but the low level content there isn’t nearly as good as Neriak, Kelethin or Gorowyn.
Thanks, I dinged level 5 and my computer restarted because of updates. I played Everquest for about 5 years so it feels pretty familiar. Those links are awesome.
I am planning on staying in Kunark for now and seeing how far I can go but I am sure I will start going to the other continents to look around.
I've found invis quite a bit useful in the Timorous Deep and Butcherblock quests.Quote:
Originally Posted by Nyron
I started back up too. Started an iksar Warden and then migrated to the Timorous Deep area in my teens...awesome XP&quests there.
So far I'm having a very easy time soloing everything and am almost lvl 20.
I suggest you start dumping all your AA into the melee attacks from the Warden tree. Once you have 20, you can get an ability which gives you 75% passive crit chance on all melee attacks. This will increase your damage output big time. After that max out the rest of the melee attacks, get 5 AA into improved SoW for 45% run speed which is better then most mounts without any of the costs or drawbacks.Quote:
Originally Posted by Gunslash
Once you have that work on the Str line in the druid tree, this gives you haste and double attack. While Warden weapon damage is kind of low, these will really drive up your proc rates. An imbued mastercrafted weapon with either a damage proc adornment or a power proc adornment benefit enormously from the higher procs, as does the group heal proc in the str line.
After you hit Kylong plains you are going to want charm animal as well. Outside of Kunark the mobs it works on are to dependant on auto-attack for it to be much good, but the Kunark mobs also have good spells/CA which don’t get nerfed like auto-attack does when you charm. (which is why Coercers/necromancers always go for caster mobs.)
There will be a lull in quest quality at ~20, but it picks up again in the mid 20’s in Butcherblock. There is another lull in quality around level 30, but the quantity of quests near the docks in Zec and Enchanted Lands makes up for that somewhat. At ~35 move to Steamfont, the quests there are outstanding. Just a caution, they re-scaled quest rewards in this expansion so the quest reward items outside of Kunark are not as good as what
So far I am 11 and that is with minimal work. This game is so much more forgiving than when Everquest came out. I think it took me about a month to get to 10 and after level 5 of Everquest it really became hard--far corpse runs, had to run far for exp places, etc.
So far I am playing the sanark necro and nothing has really come close to killing me.
I have a blast with EQ2 until about lvl 20, then it falls off. 1-20 is a lot of fun though.
All this talk of EQ2 is really making me want to renew my subscription. I miss the old EQ days. I'd really like to see how they remade the old zones. I had many great memories in Kunark... Karnor's Castle, Dreadlands, Old Seb, City of Mist, etc etc etc.
Yeah that was one of the reasons that I was pulled back in. Kunark was one of the best expansions to any game I have ever played.Quote:
Originally Posted by LiquidCrash
When was that? There is fun stuff to do at 20, Nec Forest hasn’t been fun since they took all the heroics out and Thundering steppes is a little sparse, but once you get away from the docs Butcherblock is fun and mid 30’s – mid 40’s in Steamfont is very very good.Quote:
Originally Posted by Timman_24
50-60 is kind of weak, there is some great lore but it’s buried in long group quests not many people do anymore. 70-80 is a lot more solo oriented and weak on the group content side, which starts to drag after a while as well, but otherwise there in plenty of fun stuff to do the whole way.
Maybe it was because I never really saw anyone out in the wild. 1-20 there were people running around in the cities but after that I didn't see many people. This was when Echoes of Fadwyar came out.Quote:
Originally Posted by Moridin
thanks for the tips!Quote:
Originally Posted by Moridin
so far I have 11 AA points (I think), and I haven't used any of them yet.
Originally posted by Nyron
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So what is the best class to solo, farm items or explore?
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Nobody has mentioned this, which I think is quite odd, but in my experience I have discovered that hands down the wizard is the best soloer. My wizard is the only one that I have gotten past 60 and I have played all the other classes suggested. BTW Kunark is an incredibly easy zone, and you WILL NOT FIND ANYTHING THAT CAN KILL YOU, unless you make a mistake and pull about 10 mobs or pull out of your level range. It also has the best loot/jewelry for low lvls, most of it is still good into the 30s maybe even 40s. Also around the 50s lvl it really starts to bog down, zero groups to go with (if you want one) and not very good zones for xp.
Since I posted my last comments I restarted playing after Kunark came out. They've made a lot of changes to address the issues I had.
I'm playing a Brigand and Inquistor. Brigand is downright badass :D
I can't believe you guys would waste time playing EQ2.
lol, from the guy who has something like 8000 hours played in EQ2 :DQuote:
Originally Posted by OpStar