Which Priest Sub-Classes Are Best For Soloing?Follow

Hmmm I am not overly familiar with Priests but I do know that Fury is the one most solo/priest types take since they have a big stick (though it comes with a long timer). Had a buddy playing a shaman (defiler i think) and he enjoyed the class as lot for soloing.

Overall though it is a priest class which means no matter what you choose it will probably solo slower than most others. Of course that is the price one must pay if you want to get to the end game and be in demand.

That being said I have found grouping to be marginally less painful in EQ2 than most other games. It is also good exp and doesnt require a huge 3 hour investment. So if you do level a healer whether it be a Fury or Defiler you will be lucky in that if you get the urge to group you won't have trouble finding one.

Edited, Dec 7th 2006 3:34pm by bodhisattva

I have to agree that the druids comprise the 2 best solo classes among priests.

I play both a 70 warden and a 40 fury and although the fury has a greater selection of damage spells (DoTs & nukes) the wardens damage spells recycle faster so I believe the damage out put is nearly the same over time. In addition, they both get root, furys get a group invis and wardens get evac.

All are potent tools for solo or group play.

DSD noted:

wasn't a stroke that kept me away... been going 15 rounds with real life... sucks to be me sometimes I rekon!

This will change some once the fury is 55 (Non-Encounter AoE DoT, 200 damage to everything in range every few seconds for 36 seconds), much more at 65 (Stuns you and nukes one target in range every second for 600-800 for 16 seconds) and a ton more once the fury has alot of EoF AA's. The warden 55 ancient teaching is nice, the 65 is meh.

A damage oriented fury with:
-4/4/8/8 in the intelligence line gives 30% spell crits, +35ish to focus (Less interupts) and disruption (Less resists)
-21+ points in the energy tree to lower recast & casting time on all your damage spells by 33%, final AA allows you to go into nuking mode for -50% heal strength but +50% spell damage. Also increases mana cost by 50% but:
-Animal form (last ability on left tree): Self or group mage/priests, 60 second stifle that gives +30 or 40 to melee skills, 100% haste, every attack procs 200+ damage, drains 80 mana and lowers agro.

Go into nuke mode, save enough mana to cast HoT, switch to animal form and refill mana bar in about 30 seconds. With the 50% damage AA up I've hit just under 5k on the group nuke with a crit and 4k on the single target.