Soloing with Guardians?

[tom1301]

Hi folks,right now I'm a lvl 16 warrior and I'm thinking about becoming a guardian or a berserker.One point not considered in this board when discussing this common question is soloing. If you're soloing a lot, I'm afraid most of the guardians abilities are quite useless since they focus on protection of your group mates. When grouping, guardians might be strong in protecting their mates. When soling, it's extremely important to kill off the enemy (enemies) as quickly as possible. I think the berserker has significant advantage in this case.Or is soloing (a part of the time; clearly you can't solo all the game) nearly impossible in higher levels?What do you think?tom1301

[AslaanH]

<DIV>Im a zerker, just browsing my brothers forums here! As a zerker I can solo decently but nothing amazing. To be honest though, EQ2 is a grouping game, solo xp is jsut plain terrible even if you chain kill blues with no downtime. I dun recomend soloing at all, this isnt EQL where it was nice xp. You want to level, want to make nice xp and good loot worthy your lvl...then get in a group and don't look back. Heck even duoing seems slower then just getting in a team. </DIV>

[Tarskin]

<DIV>solo mobs give crap for xp compared to group mobs so yeah... no point in soloing really cept at those times when your lfg and no invites came in yet (thats when i solo... but aye our dps is kinda low so it takes us a bit longer then other classes <img src="/smilies/69934afc394145350659cd7add244ca9.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" />)</DIV>

[schrammy]

<DIV><FONT size=3>[no point in soloing really cept at those times when your lfg and no invites came in yet ]</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=3></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=3>look thats the nice thing being a gaurdian almost the same second you come online people start inviting you for they're groups,even if i don't looking for group :smileyvery-happy:</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=3></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=3>but yes solo xp is quitecrappy, but altough it might be me it seems that group debt is also alote more than solo debt.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=3>(after spiritshard recovery ofcource)</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=3></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=3>maybe thats just my imagination :smileywink:</FONT></DIV><p>Message Edited by schrammy on <span class=date_text>12-01-2004</span> <span class=time_text>12:45 PM</span>

[Geothe]

<DIV>When I solo.  I always try and find a camp of mobs that are green, double up arrow.  Those give great XP since you get the group encounter bonus all to yourself.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Example:  I basically soloed to 19 and to 20 on Antonician Stags in the Archer's wood.   They gave 1-2% a kill, plus a decent chance for chests to drop.</DIV>

[Raiden]

I'm a lvl 26 guardian and ive seen zerkers solo compared to me.zerkers solo by hitting hard and taking the mob down fast but at the same time taking lots of damage.guardians solo by taking on the mob but it takes a while to kill, at the same time though you will take minimal damage compared.ofcourse if you spam specials you can probs take it down just as fast but then you have to med afterwards, whereas if you only use a few specials then you can hop stright onto another mob whereas the zerker has to heal.

[EQ2Shil]

<DIV>Takes me about 30 seconds to down a yellow or orange con at 24 followed by about 30 seconds downtime to recover lost health/power. They both give me about 0.5% of a levels worth of xp. So thats about 3 bubs an hour, or 3 hours 20 minutes per level if I have sufficient spawns. Grouping is slightly quicker if you have a good group, i.e. Guardian, couple of priests (Inq+Shaman is my pref), an Enchanter type, and a couple of melee DPS machines (Brigands/Assassins are my pref). In the majority of pickup groups I have tried the experience rate has been slower than when I solo.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>But the only reason soloing is so good at the moment is that all melee specials seem to bypass the mobs AC and do full damage, when that gets fixed then grouping will be the way to go for Guardians who want quick XP as it will take much longer for us to drop the mobs.</DIV>

[ThramFalc]

<DIV>At 26 I can easily solo green con group mobs in Stormhold.  Both ++ and 2 + mob encounters are trivial really.  I lose about 20% of my health if I cast Call of Command, Battle Tactics and Guardians Call before the fight.  All my gear is around yellow con and I have mostly adept combat arts but it should still be possible if you don't have all that stuff.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>At level 20 I couldn't solo group mobs any more, but by about level 24 I could do it again... its all about how wide the con range is... at 20 its very small.  I assume at 30 I will hit another wall for a few levels.  Soloing solo tagged mobs is of course pretty easy at any level... even oranges.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Always dual wield when soloing btw.  I use Steel Maces myself, even though I have Berik, Sword of Thunder and a nice shield.  Dual wielding greatly outdamages 1h and shield and slightly outdamages 2h (I had a steel lance til I did the math on it) and gives better stats.  Soloing with a shield is a little tougher and slower but certainly possible.  When grouped I use the shield all the time.</DIV>

[Rodney]

<DIV>Some very good comments, most I agree with a few I dont.  At 23 I find a white con in TS is a very hard fight but I solo'd most of my way to 23 with little problem and have the highest lvl in my guild.  So far I have never gone wanting for a group if I wanted one.   I would be very careful about DW while solo, the riposte can kill very fast.  The only time I dw is in a group and NOT the mt, you dont want to be in front of a mob while DW'ing.  In one group while not the MT and DW, I took 20% in one fight while in front of the mob, it depends on the mob but why thak the change?</DIV>

[Syraxen]

<DIV>I pretty much soloed my way to lvl 20 perhaps 2 level's worth of exp in groups but the rest were hunting alone, I did as someone suggested here, kill alot of green con ^^ mobs, they give fantastic exp, I have recently started doing that in Stormhold as well though its alot harder, i guess i need a couple more levels, lvl 20 seems to be a weak one, for example at lvl 19 I could kill orange con bears in antonica, but at lvl 20 I got hammered (and I mean big time slaughted) by a yellow con deer in TS.  I'm hoping as was said that it does indeed get easier again in a few levels.</DIV>