I want to make a GOOD solo inquisitor

[Benamour]

Hi ! I'm new in Everquest (I've played EQOA but it's quite... different ^^) and I've made an Inquisitor. I would like to be able to solo efficiently. I'm looking for suggestion about AA's line. Must I begin with "Invocation Strike" (rank 5 ? or less ?) to reach Battle Cleric as faster as possible ? Or is there any other skill that I have to take before ? Moreover, I dither between Sage craft (for my spells) and food/drink craft (to have always good drink ==> solo faster). What do you suggest me ? That's all <img src="/smilies/3b63d1616c5dfcf29f8a7a031aaa7cad.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" /> And sorry for my bad english, I'm from a french server but the french board is not very active ^.^

[Vidar64]

I would suggest that you get to at least 4/4/8 in the cleric stamina line before persuing any of the EOF skills.  100% crit is a major dps boost and when you do start placing points into the battle cleric line, those abilities will crit along with your normal melee hits.  I also like the cleric agility line for the extra double attacks but some prefer the intelligence line for spell crits and faster casting. For tradeskills, I would suggest sage over provisioner.  Food and drink are usually not all that expensive and power regen can be suplimented by totems.  Also of note, once you get to level 45 and scribe the Harrowing Inquest spell and its future upgrades, power basically becomes a non-issue.  Now if you're really crazy, take up tinkering along with sagecraft.  With all the harvesting you have to do for tinkering, you'll pretty much have all the rares you'll need for your inquisitor spells plus  a  scout/warrior and a  mage.  

[Norrsken]

I'd suggest getting like 50% melee crits then getting all 4 top CAs, and then filling out all 4, and then getting the end skill. Then maxing out the critrate, and after that, getting the other CAs. <img src="/smilies/8a80c6485cd926be453217d59a84a888.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" />

[Benamour]

Thank u for all these advices ! But what does "CAs" mean ?

[Rikimaru]

CA stands for Combat Arts.  These are the Battle AA conversions that make your spells become weapon-based attacks with no chance to interrupt and something like .5s casting time.  They use the same recast timer as their respective nuke but you never need to upgrade them once theres 5 points in each. Vidar64 wrote: <blockquote>I would suggest that you get to at least 4/4/8 in the cleric stamina line before persuing any of the EOF skills.  100% crit is a major dps boost and when you do start placing points into the battle cleric line, those abilities will crit along with your normal melee hits.  I also like the cleric agility line for the extra double attacks but some prefer the intelligence line for spell crits and faster casting.   </blockquote>I went for 100% crit first when i made my inquisitor, but personally i would recommend filling our your Battle line first instead.  Its going to make low level soloing a breeze rather than taking hits and getting interrupted trying to cast your weak nukes.  100% crit isnt going to mean much when you are only critting for 100dmg at low level and probably missing a lot.  Battle CAs do much more than that, even when they dont crit and its a more efficient way to gain dps. The order i would suggest for AAs is 20-Battle, 4-4-8-7-1 STA, 4-4-7-8-1 INT.  The AGI line is another option instead of int, double attack would help your dps a bunch but personally i prefer INT because of our long cast time heals.  Its very useful, especially with Yaulp running, to be able to get spells and heals off faster when youre taking lots of hits.

[Benamour]

All right. You suggest me 20 points in Battle Cleric. 1 point = 1 rank, right ? So, it's possible to put more than 20 points in "Battle Cleric" line. Which skill is indispensable in that line ? Thank you <img src="/smilies/3b63d1616c5dfcf29f8a7a031aaa7cad.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" />

[Norrsken]

<cite>Benamour wrote:</cite><blockquote>All right. You suggest me 20 points in Battle Cleric. 1 point = 1 rank, right ? So, it's possible to put more than 20 points in "Battle Cleric" line. Which skill is indispensable in that line ? Thank you <img src="/smilies/3b63d1616c5dfcf29f8a7a031aaa7cad.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" /> </blockquote>Id say the AoE is really good. but Im a pvper so I prolly like it for the big damage on all surrouding pks. <img src="/smilies/8a80c6485cd926be453217d59a84a888.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" />

[Rikimaru]

<cite>Benamour wrote:</cite><blockquote>All right. You suggest me 20 points in Battle Cleric. 1 point = 1 rank, right ? So, it's possible to put more than 20 points in "Battle Cleric" line. Which skill is indispensable in that line ? Thank you <img src="/smilies/3b63d1616c5dfcf29f8a7a031aaa7cad.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" /> </blockquote> the final ability "Battle Cleric" is the indispensable skill.  I would put 3 points into each CA until you have all four.  then fill them to 5 each to get the final ability. 

[Benamour]

Thank you very much for these advice <img src="/smilies/3b63d1616c5dfcf29f8a7a031aaa7cad.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" />

[Uilamin]

I would suggest for leveling up to go INT/STA until you get 40 or so AA then respec and spend points in sta and batle cleric

[ManOnAMission]

<cite>Uilamin wrote:</cite><blockquote>I would suggest for leveling up to go INT/STA until you get 40 or so AA then respec and spend points in sta and batle cleric </blockquote><p>Wont be able to do a respec like that until Kunark expansion is out unfortunately.</p><p>(Cant move from the KoS and EoF tress yet )</p><p>I went for melee crit as well initialy. But it makes sense to go for the CA's first. Only loss is the extra health ya would get from the points in Sta. tree at the top. Put Wis/Sta/Str as yer main priotities in that order with yer gear ya equip.</p>

[Norrsken]

<cite>ManOnAMission wrote:</cite><blockquote><cite>Uilamin wrote:</cite><blockquote>I would suggest for leveling up to go INT/STA until you get 40 or so AA then respec and spend points in sta and batle cleric </blockquote><p>Wont be able to do a respec like that until Kunark expansion is out unfortunately.</p><p>(Cant move from the KoS and EoF tress yet )</p><p>I went for melee crit as well initialy. But it makes sense to go for the CA's first. Only loss is the extra health ya would get from the points in Sta. tree at the top. Put Wis/Sta/Str as yer main priotities in that order with yer gear ya equip.</p></blockquote><p><b>ACHIEVEMENTS</b></p> <ul><li><b>You can now respec your achievements and spend the points in another tree.</b></li><li>All second row achievement abilities in the class tree no longer share reuse timers with each other.</li><li>Subclass Achievements have been tuned for desirability and balance.</li><li>Please speak to any of the <Achievement Counsel> NPCs in order to receive a card with five charges of subclass  achievement respecs. Aelia Naeni in Greater Faydark, Nexa L'Dur in North Freeport, Wynia Vethe in South Qeynos, and Tria L'Belk in Neriak may all present you with the card.</li></ul>Copied from GU37 update notes. you can respec across trees now. or at least, youa re supposed to be able to.