Which Class takes the most skill to play.Follow

Yeah, well, that is a basic skillset of a necro.
When the fit hits the shan, the necro is usually left kiting three of four adds while the rest of the group recovers.

That's just the thing, though.. I'm not talking about a "class ability", nor did I ever imply it. Some classes can offtank and even tank in zones, such as you said with a Shammy in BoT. While I wouldn't consider it "tanking" if it was a "trivial" zone, it's not trivial if you gain EXP from it.

These classes can tank. Just not raids or zones that are just within reach.

..yeah.. I'm just going to stop replying to you.. peace.

So Easy-> DRU<-----------------------
------BST, NEC, WIZ, MAG, WAR--------
Mid-way point->ENC, PAL, SK<---------
------MNK, BRZ, SHM, CLR, ROG--------
skill and patience Hard->BRD<--------



Edited, Sat Apr 8 13:34:14 2006 by dtresendes

Hiya =)... IMO, druids don't take much skill to play even though mine is only 50. I can solo easily and group easily. Enchanters are pretty hard. If you are soloing you need to have a spell set up with about everything you need (tash, self rune, charm, stun, etc.) and if you are missing one thing you could be dead. If you are grouping you have to be fast on the tashes and mezzing, and make sure you know the difference between the really resistant mobs (like the lightning warriors in MPG) and the not so resistant mobs so you don't waste your time/mana trying to mez before tashing when it will just get resisted/

Yeah, I feel ya. While I'm kiting mobs away from the group for enough space to root and rez, I'm also reading Alla's for info on the zone, the mobs and the loot; checking e-mail and the IMDb message boards; cooking dinner; chatting with my mom on AIM and watching TV.

If I'm playing my cleric, though, I'm usually just making coffee so I don't fall asleep.

I think the gist of this thread was not to talk about druids and enchanters tanking. If you are fighting appropriate content, and think your druid and enchanter can tank, you are either wasting the cleric's mana healing you, or about to receive a free all-expenses paid trip to your bind point.

I think we can toss out, what is hardest for a brand-new player.

Assuming you know the basic game and assuming your 45 druid isn't tanking in Crushbone...

Aggro management is everyone's responsibility. If your ranger tags a mob with an arrow, doing 45 pts of damage, and the druid hits it with an 1100 pt dd before the tank gets to it, guess who is going to get aggro. That little lack of patience gets a lot of people killed.

I guess the bottom line of the thread is at lower levels, you can get away with a lot of stuff that is certain death at higher levels, especially in raid level situations.

It is in the higher level content where you really don't want a low-skill anyone in the group. Some classes are more forgiving of lack of skill or lack of patience at lower levels.

Clerics need patience. Casters need patience to avoid killing themselves. Even the supposedly lowly tank needs to be able to control push, position mobs and manage aggro.

Sorry if I got off-topic.

Having my main as a warrior, I've got to say that they are actually fairly easy. However... you have to know that warriors are meant to tank, and not dps. And you also have to make sure that you don't sit back and reap xp while other people kill the mobs, as this doesn't get your skills up.


Next to a skilled player, the actual toon's skills are highly important. If you have a level 10 character fresh out of the tutorial with a Defense skill of 1, you're screwed. Period. Unless you're able to get a lot of blue mobs that won't kill you fast, and work on your defense for an hour or two, you're screwed. And unfortunately, that's what the tutorial does to you. Okay, enough of my anti-tutorial rant.

My highest toons are a warrior (55), cleric (33), and ranger (27). Of these, I would have to say that the cleric is actually one of the easier toons I've played. The only problem I've run into was duoing in CC with a twinked level 30 serker, and running into the fabled foreman. I was able to keep up with heals until I went oom, and then got beat on when I was medding... but yeah.

Rangers = cake. Period. Keep their defense and taunt up, and they can tank long enough for the MT to finish off the mob and then peel it off of the ranger. And solo, they're even easier. Magicians... they're most likely the easiest class to play, period. Sic pet, nuke, nuke, med, nuke, heal pet, nuke, med. All you have to do is make sure you don't nuke so much that it draws aggro from the pet. As for the others... well... Beastlords are pretty much the same... sic pet, nuke, slow, DoT, med, heal pet. =p even in groups, the role doesn't change, just backup slow and pet-tank adds. From the easiest to hardest, I'd have to say:
Magician
Beastlord
Ranger/Berserker
Druid/Necromancer/Shaman
Wizard
Rogue/Monk
Warrior
Cleric
Paladin/Shadow Knight
Enchanter
(Did I get 'em all? =p)

towards higher end raiding... it's not trivial to be a warrior anymore. It's certainly still not as hard as a bard, but a bad warrior has a tremendous effect on a raid.

I'd put zerkers Wizards and Shaman above rogues ona difficulty list.

Zerkers and wizards do massive amounts of DPS and get massive agro(even more so for wizards since it is burst usually) and these two classes have no way of dropping it where as a rogue and necro(who can grab agro very easily if he isn't paying attention) can drop agro anytime they want.

Shaman are hard to play b/c they have so many roles(Slower, Mhealer, patch healer, buffer, CC, OT(two off tanks really) and can do decent DPS with dots as wel).

Also I agree with the poster above me it all depends on what you are good at. I suck with melee(for the most part) and healers but I can play any of the casters EZPZ where as my brother can play a monk and Shaman amazaingly well but sucks with casters..

Edited, Tue Apr 11 15:19:24 2006 by elorianBLAH

from my experiance everquest really is NOT a game of skill, a little skill comes in now and then, but mainly its down to knowing what each class can do, you take a little time to read up on the class you play, then go out and get a few grps and pretty soon it all comes naturally.

IMO no class is HARD to play, once you know the basics of how eq works (ie tanks, healers, DPS, CC, utility) you can pick up any class relatively quickly and as long as you are fairly intellegent, learn to play them well enough to get by in a grp/raid.

I play a 70war on luclin..wars i dont think are the hardest but they are the hardest to improve in equipment wise if your not in a raiding guild..so dont make one if you dont plan to spend many hours farming plat