Just a little question about guardian

[Commander K]

<p>Right, i'd firstly like to apologise if this is the most stupid question you've ever heard, i've just heard a lot of people say it but never give a reason for saying it.</p><p>Why are guardians really hard to solo with?</p><p>I thought that they were really good because they can wistand lots of damage.</p><p>I only ask because i was thinking about making a fighter character, and i do tend to enjoy solo but also grouping with my guild and would just wonder whether or not guardian is the way to go.</p><p>Any info on it would also be a great + Sorry again, i don't want to start a flame war with this!-KezJona</p>

[RafaelSmith]

<p>Guards are not hard to solo...just slow.  Assuming we are talking about appropriate "solo" content.  We can't walk into KC and solo it like some can.</p><p>I would wager that in soloing thru the RoK solo lines...that out of the people in my guild...I probably did it with the least deaths...just took me a tad longer.</p>

[Rahatmattata]

<p>Mobs take longer to kill than most other classes.</p><p>Small power pool means you will run out of power a lot and have to regen making it take even longer.</p><p>Any class can kill a single solo encounter easily. Some classes take longer. Some classes can't chain kill solo mobs without breaking often for mana. Some classes/players can't kill heroic encounters higher than green without significant effort/downtime. Some classes are harder to move around the world (like guardian) with no natural run speed, stealth, evac, ports, or feign death type abilities.</p>

[YummiOger]

<p>Guardians are prolly one of the slower and less versitile soloers in EQ2 by any mesurement.</p>

[jadsded]

<p>If you want to be able to solo and group, a guard is an option, but a zerker would probably be better.  If you really want to go for a traditional tank a pally or an sk would be good too, for a non-traditional tank a monk or bruiser are great soloers.  Of all of those the sk and pally are going to be your best soloers then the zerk then the gaurd.  Personally I went guard because I wanted something that most resembeled a warrior in eq1 and that was the guard.  In the current state of the game (and where it is heading) if I was starting a tank that I knew I would be soloing for much of it's life I would probably start one of the crusaders.  As for my guard, well he's semi retired and I play my dirge much much more...</p>