How is soloing xp?

[danmurph3]

With my high level Guardian I can't really gain xp unless I group or do quests, terrible solo xp since it takes so long to kill a mob. I want to eventually roll a character that will be able to solo and earn xp incredibly fast.  I imediately thought of a mage, but my guild and server is already overfilled with warlocks and wizards. Would an illusionist fit my bill here?  I've been reading up on this part of the forum and it seems like this class has a lot of issues.  In your own experience how is the solo xp for an illusionist? And if it is not up to par, what are you thoughts on coerecers, and conjurers, or anyother suggestion you may have?  Thanks for any info you can give me ; )<div></div>

[Impetus]

<div></div><div></div><div></div>If you really want a great soloing character, go with a summoner. (Either necro or conjuror is good.) We aren't a bad solo class, but not exactly great, either. Basically our soloing consists of using our pet along with doing our dps. Well, a conjuror or necro has better pets and better dps, so obviously they are better at soloing.There's definitely a reason for the supernova explosion in the number of summoner alts recently.If you wanted to go non-mage, I'd suggest monk/bruiser, or possibly ranger.<p>Message Edited by Impetus on <span class="date_text">01-08-2006</span><span class="time_text">03:07 PM</span></p>

[jun]

<div></div><p>Lol... I second that.</p><p>Except for the ranger suggestion.  I hear it is a very expensive class to maintain (poisons and such for DPS).</p>

[Gweeto]

Soloing is good. I don't mind it. Im doing it the most amount of time, cause finding groups is like getting your teeth pulled.Love,Gweetoe<div></div>

[zit]

<div></div><p>soloing with illusionist is ok, just not very fast compared to other mages.</p><p>fastest solo is with scout (rogue / predator) in my experience as long as you stick to solo mobs and keep you gear upgraded.</p><p>brawler is easier but also considerably slower than scout.</p><p>if you look for mage i would suggest summoner. wiz maybe ok too, but higher risk.</p><p> </p>

[danmurph3]

Okay thanks for the input.  I have a low 20 ranger who I love but was sort of saving until the RL friend I was playing him with comes back to the game.  But im starting to get tempted to keep going without my friend lol.  I was appealing to the enchanter classes because I don't really see too many of them around and thought it would be cool to be a different type of class.  Maybe I will give Necros a shot though, they do seem kind of cool and I don't find too many of them either.  If I find enough time maybe I will level 2 characters up, an enchanter and summoner and see how I feel about it.  Thanks for the replies ; )<div></div>

[Gyukst]

<div></div><p>As a 58 Conjuror recently switched to a chanter for fun, I can tell you after 30 levels of chanterism... Summoners are by far the faster route solo. </p><p>It was better prior to combat revamp, but if your adept 1 or better in all spells, conjuror (and presumabely necro) are killing machines when mowing down solo encounters, and even group enounters.</p><p>While I am impressed with a chanters ability to solo with their pet, its often twice as long, especially with solo encounters with multiple mobs.</p><p>It can be done, but summoners are more efficient at it.</p><p> </p>

[Bedarra]

I love to solo with my enchanter. I agree that some other classes are faster than chanters, but we are great at it.You can handle groups of mobs with you 2-3 pets + mezzes giving good exp.You can do difficult quests with your invis + petsYou can pull from impossible places with our longrange noaggro petYou can get out of danger with yell/mezz/invisYou wont run out of mana with our regen spells.Of course pet efficiency is very dependant on your equipment and its spell level.I agree that summoners and mayby a few more may be faster, but we are quite versatile and very fuN!<div></div>

[Pins]

<blockquote><hr>Bedarra wrote:I love to solo with my enchanter. I agree that some other classes are faster than chanters, but we are great at it.You can handle groups of mobs with you 2-3 pets + mezzes giving good exp.You can do difficult quests with your invis + petsYou can pull from impossible places with our longrange noaggro petYou can get out of danger with yell/mezz/invisYou wont run out of mana with our regen spells.Of course pet efficiency is very dependant on your equipment and its spell level.I agree that summoners and mayby a few more may be faster, but we are quite versatile and very fuN!<div></div><hr></blockquote>Uhm, yes you will run out of power with our power regen spells. Go try to do the near impossible(solo a 65 heroic). And notice how low your health and power bars will be at the end of the fight, if you succeed that is(it should be around 10% on both from what I experienced).