Whats the easiest class to solo with besides necro?

ARCHIVED-Losse · Oct 24, 2012

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ARCHIVED-Koralith · Oct 24, 2012

The healers are all very good solos, though they each do it at varying speeds.
Rakurr Shaman and Disciples tend to be able to mow through mobs pretty quickly for healers while taking a pretty good beating.
Bloodmages are a bit tougher because when you're being whacked around your spells can fizzle. And having that happen when trying to heal yourself can be scary.

ARCHIVED-Enkur · Oct 24, 2012

Disc is a good class to solo with as well.
I suggest doing a search on the forums about best soloing class as this topic has been brought up many times before.

ARCHIVED-DoomingDarkness · Oct 24, 2012

Stole this from another site, posted by someone named Adamantine:

“1. Best solists: Can tank mobs and handle lesser dungeons solo.
Paladin - Healing is good even in bad gear, but doesnt get better in good gear. Damage output before raids is really low. Also, remember that tank class performance depends a lot upon gear quality.
Dread Knight - can tank mobs and handle lesser dungeons solo. Thanks to area attacks, this is an awesome class against groups. However, solo performance is even more dependent upon gear quality than for Paladin, since weapon damage constitutes healing for the DK.
Cleric - low damage, but literally unkillable. Choose War for better solo performance.
Shaman - Bear is possibly the best solist of them all. Can get defenses like a tank at maxlevel, has more debuffs than anybody else, and great healing. Low damage output, though. Wolf and Phoenix though are less tough, Phoenix specifically is the worst of all healer solists and has to kite mobs (which Shaman cant do well since many of their attack spells arent instant cast and they dont have any consistent slow ability).
Disciple - The god of soloing. Dps output is better than for bear shamans. Thanks to massive aggro and good defense, they can operate as group tank through lower and middle levels. Also they have fake death.
Blood Mage - second worst healer solist after Phoenix Shaman. Even worse defenses than the later, and no ability to slow opponents at all, but thanks to lifetaps they can combine self healing and attacks and thanks to selfbuffs they have hitpoints like a tank. Cant handle multiple attackers well (has a root and a one-time charm though for them).
Necromancer - Pet class and can thus handle a lot solo. Also can fearkite.
Psionicist - As long as the dungeon supports crowd control, wellplayed Psis can do impressive tricks. Also good at kiting.

2. Average solists: Cant handle getting hit, but can kite
Sorcerer - Massive damage output. Also can root mobs into place for a short time. Invisibility for avoiding mobs, too.
Druid - Root, snare, runspeed, dots, massive spike damage.
Ranger - Forget their heals. But they have anything one needs for kiting, except levitation (can get that with Artificer Carvings etc) - runspeed, slow spell, and massive ranged damage. Also can avoid mobs with stealth.
Bard - Runspeed and I think also slow. Sadly low ranged damage. Invisibility and Invis vs Undead, but not both at the same time.
Rogue - Runspeed selfbuff. Low ranged damage. Stealth to avoid mobs.

3. Worst solists: Cant handle much solo
Monk - Fake Death specialist who can thus avoid getting killed most of the time. No kiting, no (noteworthy) self healing, squat.
Warrior - The worst solist ever. Cant do any tricks at all. Only run to the mob, maximize damage output, and hope the mob dies before you do. For some odd reason they can handle the best kind of ranged weapons, just like Ranger - but just like every other class except Ranger, they get no special abilities to use with ranged weapons, so their ranged damage doesnt compare to Ranger at all.”

ARCHIVED-Enkur · Oct 24, 2012

DoomingDarkness wrote:

“Stole this from another site, posted by someone named Adamantine:

“1. Best solists: Can tank mobs and handle lesser dungeons solo.
Paladin - Healing is good even in bad gear, but doesnt get better in good gear. Damage output before raids is really low. Also, remember that tank class performance depends a lot upon gear quality.
Dread Knight - can tank mobs and handle lesser dungeons solo. Thanks to area attacks, this is an awesome class against groups. However, solo performance is even more dependent upon gear quality than for Paladin, since weapon damage constitutes healing for the DK.
Cleric - low damage, but literally unkillable. Choose War for better solo performance.
Shaman - Bear is possibly the best solist of them all. Can get defenses like a tank at maxlevel, has more debuffs than anybody else, and great healing. Low damage output, though. Wolf and Phoenix though are less tough, Phoenix specifically is the worst of all healer solists and has to kite mobs (which Shaman cant do well since many of their attack spells arent instant cast and they dont have any consistent slow ability).
Disciple - The god of soloing. Dps output is better than for bear shamans. Thanks to massive aggro and good defense, they can operate as group tank through lower and middle levels. Also they have fake death.
Blood Mage - second worst healer solist after Phoenix Shaman. Even worse defenses than the later, and no ability to slow opponents at all, but thanks to lifetaps they can combine self healing and attacks and thanks to selfbuffs they have hitpoints like a tank. Cant handle multiple attackers well (has a root and a one-time charm though for them).
Necromancer - Pet class and can thus handle a lot solo. Also can fearkite.
Psionicist - As long as the dungeon supports crowd control, wellplayed Psis can do impressive tricks. Also good at kiting.

2. Average solists: Cant handle getting hit, but can kite
Sorcerer - Massive damage output. Also can root mobs into place for a short time. Invisibility for avoiding mobs, too.
Druid - Root, snare, runspeed, dots, massive spike damage.
Ranger - Forget their heals. But they have anything one needs for kiting, except levitation (can get that with Artificer Carvings etc) - runspeed, slow spell, and massive ranged damage. Also can avoid mobs with stealth.
Bard - Runspeed and I think also slow. Sadly low ranged damage. Invisibility and Invis vs Undead, but not both at the same time.
Rogue - Runspeed selfbuff. Low ranged damage. Stealth to avoid mobs.

3. Worst solists: Cant handle much solo
Monk - Fake Death specialist who can thus avoid getting killed most of the time. No kiting, no (noteworthy) self healing, squat.
Warrior - The worst solist ever. Cant do any tricks at all. Only run to the mob, maximize damage output, and hope the mob dies before you do. For some odd reason they can handle the best kind of ranged weapons, just like Ranger - but just like every other class except Ranger, they get no special abilities to use with ranged weapons, so their ranged damage doesnt compare to Ranger at all.”

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Excellent find Doom and that just about sums it up.

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