Class for different soloing tactics...Follow

I have played a little bit of all four class archetypes and I have found that when I am soloing I am always doing the same thing against the mobs....HOs for all....rooting dotting for mage....stunning sneak attacks for scout...

What I would like to know from you guys is which class has the most variety on their soloing strategies in your experience?

the strategies change a little bit when you choose a class and receive more varied skills, and also with encounters of varying sizes. in addition, each person plays the class or subclass according to his/her own playing style.

my main is an enchanter, and i have a brawler and a predator, as well as several that havent chosen classes yet.

i've found that i dont like playing tanks much, so there's an example of playing style affecting class decisions.

i *have* found that i like classes that require a bit of patience to play, like the chanter for example. she cant just charge in, nuking everything in sight. she'd get squished. so, in an encounter with 3 green ^^ mobs, for example, she uses her mez on one, stacks dots and stuns the second, and stacks dots and nukes and beats on the third, repeat on number two, which is usually at half health by the time the stun breaks, and, when she's done with #2, the first breaks mez and, depending on the chanter's power and health, it might end up being rooted and dotted, or just nuked into the ground. the chanter has to be very focused or she'll die in a matter of seconds.

very different from tactics used by my predator, who'd sneak up behind one and use his shadowblade (i think that's what it's called) and ho's and get the first one down as quickly as possible, then ho, ho, ho until the other two are down, varying the ho to get as many different things going on at once as he can. the predator has to be a moulinex to try to beat the damage the mobs are doing, since he's not tankish either.

my brawler, by contrast, is very casual about the whole thing. he starts out pulling with taunt or shout, or might just wade in depending on what else is around. then he proceeds to stand there and beat the stuffins out of everything that moves until they stop moving. he uses the aoe assault, but only if that encounter group is the only one in range. he also uses ho's but they arent as vital to him just yet. he also has to race to outdamage the mobs before they get him down too low on hp, but not as much as the predator.

as far as the lower level toons that are still just the archtype (fighter, etc.) the tactics dont vary a whole bunch.

once you get a toon into a class, and further into a subclasses, you can have some fun :).

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"i *have* found that i like classes that require a bit of patience to play, like the chanter for example. she cant just charge in, nuking everything in sight. she'd get squished. so, in an encounter with 3 green ^^ mobs, for example, she uses her mez on one, stacks dots and stuns the second, and stacks dots and nukes and beats on the third, repeat on number two, which is usually at half health by the time the stun breaks, and, when she's done with #2, the first breaks mez and, depending on the chanter's power and health, it might end up being rooted and dotted, or just nuked into the ground. the chanter has to be very focused or she'll die in a matter of seconds.

very different from tactics used by my predator, who'd sneak up behind one and use his shadowblade (i think that's what it's called) and ho's and get the first one down as quickly as possible, then ho, ho, ho until the other two are down, varying the ho to get as many different things going on at once as he can. the predator has to be a moulinex to try to beat the damage the mobs are doing, since he's not tankish either"





I don't know what fantasy world you live in, but i'll paint a different picture of what it would be like if any of your jobs tried to solo three ^^ mobs.


They would all be slaughtered. Fast.

Edited, Wed Dec 15 22:46:24 2004 by Technina

Edited, Wed Dec 15 22:48:20 2004 by Technina

or, you could send in feedback

tactics in EQ2, thats an oxymoron... just like "american history" or "microsoft works".

seriously, a bit looking for a spot without adds, doing HO's (picking the skills to finish them - most efficiently in regards to your power), and running when in danger. that's it.

HO's in groups are a bit more difficultt, one needs to communicate. but apart from that...

there is another tactic, when one trains high level mobs away, so that you can get to this phat lewt dropping mob behind them.

but more I don't know of at the mo.

EDIT: Typo

Edited, Thu Dec 16 04:23:55 2004 by Kajolus

Well thanks to everybody for responses.

I am getting the feeling that the enchanter has the most ways of soloing so far so I rolled one up and I am gonna try it.

Appreciate the helpful responses btw, good forum here, nice community.

I just wanted to add that HO's for the solo character are always going to be the same unless we will be able to aquire new HO starters later in the game/development. If you want to do killer HO's you need to have a group. Other than that the style of play is all on which skills you use most. When you recieve a skill every level, you wont be using all 30+ skills you have at level 30. Find the ones that work best while you solo mobs and have them set up in a hotbar, and find the ones that work best in a group environment and set them up in another hotbar. I'm still only lvl 17 so I only use one hotbar for all my fighting skills and a partial bar for my buffs.

My soloing with my druid at level 17 pretty much involves:

Damage shield self, pull with toughest looking mob/only mob with weakness. If it's a single mob, I'll just melee it and let it beat on my damage shield and casting regrowth occasionally. If I think I'll have extra mana, I'll do an HO starter, then Stinging Swarm, and another stinging swarm when the first expires to complete the HO. I can still reliably use that for single ^^ group blues.

For groups of mobs, I'll use HO starter/stinging swarm/Chill combo to take down the toughest one pretty fast, then handle the rest HO/Swarm/swarm or swarm/chill depending on how I think mana is going.

To be honest, I prefer grouping so I don't mind only having one solo style.

gah!

double post!

Edited, Thu Dec 16 17:47:52 2004 by runyariel

OK, so it was simply a typo. That's previous poster was simply referring to a group of 3 creatures with double chevrons and that is why he said you would get slaughtered.

No one doubts the ability of an Enchanter being able to solo. We're not playing EQLive anymore. It was simply a misunderstanding between 2 parties :) And the fact that you are level 15. This will change as you get higher up in level.

I still believe that the priests, with their high armor, nukes and heals, have better survival rates in solo encounters. I doubt my Warlock will be able to solo 4 groups of 5 green con creatures and live like my Fury can (the undead in Caltorsis)... But maybe he doesn't need to. Maybe he can kill all 4 groups, individually, faster than my Fury can kill them all bunched up. Its just fun being surrounded by a mob of green con skeletons and killing them slowly with my damage shield.

Oh no, I mentioned fun... I hope no one that has played WoW comes in here and tells me "If you thought that was fun in WoW I can solo 10 purple con Gods at once! You'll have MORE fun there!!!". Ahem, sorry.

WoW has little to do w/ it for me. I can't see myself ever buying it. I think Sony is the company that can fix mmo's for the future and give us a really good and "new" experience.

EQ2 is mostly reactive and derivative. Except for the bold new graphics. What I'm missing is bold new game content.

EQ2 is a whole *magnitude* lower than the older generation of mmo's in terms of tactical variation and the adventuring experience.