Shadowknight best solo'er in the game?

[FluffyGoat]

I have observed a decked out shadowknight on my server who has all fabled gear but can kill some of the most difficult enemies. There is a level 68 boss that I kill with my 70 zerker and 70 warden, I have all legendary gear and master 1s and adept 3s for the most part, I do not raid but i'd like to think its pretty decent gear, I did work pretty hard to attain it... When I kill this level 68 boss my warden is usually completely out of power at the end of the battle. Mainly i'm healing like a mad man, so I can't even imagine how a single person could defeat this enemy. How is 1 well equipped shadowknight = to 1 avg gear tank and 1 avg gear healer? PLUS you get evac, and feign death... My average geared 70 zerker cannot even solo a level 62 ^^^ anymore, let alone a 68 ^^^ boss!!! sigh, why am do I always end up with the crappy classes <img src="/smilies/9d71f0541cff0a302a0309c5079e8dee.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" />

[lordblackhea]

<P>he was most likely decked out in some of the best tank gear in game and mastered out and useing potions < buff > and < heal and or mana > .... any one with raid gear can do alot more then the Avg Joe just how it is realy . eh some times i beat the crap out a named other times i'm the one giting the beating and its the same mob . some times its all so just luck on mob hiting you and how much </P>

[Fistantantilus]

<font color="#ccffcc">Gear matters alot at soloing. If this guy had fabled gear/masters and you had legendary/adept 3 spells you are playing on a different league. I admit I have not played alot with other tank classes, only sk but from what i can tell with my toon the more upgrades I was getting the better I could solo. And most definately SKs are not the best soloing class in the game. A necro friend can solo way better than I can the ^^^ mobs. I can solo very well group encounters though. </font><div></div>

[Norrsken]

No, sks are not the best soloers. Its pretty much impossible to solo 4 lvls higher nameds on a sk, but several of the casters do it.<div></div>

[stahlej]

<div></div>SK's are good at soloing large amounts of solo mobs. Which I think is ok for a palte class.Necros solo stuff which blows my mind. As they should.<div></div><p>Message Edited by stahlej on <span class=date_text>12-14-2006</span> <span class=time_text>01:33 PM</span>

[Legaroth]

necros SHOULD be able to solo stuff that is ment for a full group of higher levels ? imo any class SHOULD have the same kind of solo ability, some do it faster, others do higher lvls, but having just a hand full of classes that can do it fast, higher lvl, and with relatively low risk, and all the rest is stuck hitting solomobs and can only dream about nameds :/<div></div>

[Pitt Hammerfi]

<P>I soloed a lvl 71 yellow named yesterday <img src="/smilies/3b63d1616c5dfcf29f8a7a031aaa7cad.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" /></P> <P>That guy in the tent with his 2 dogs in loping plains</P> <P> </P> <P>Then i went to Mistmoore castle and tried to solo  a 71 gargoyle on the steps, and got spanked lol <img src="/smilies/69934afc394145350659cd7add244ca9.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" /></P> <P> </P> <P>ill try him again another time <img src="/smilies/3b63d1616c5dfcf29f8a7a031aaa7cad.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" /></P> <P> </P>

[Xanoth]

<blockquote><hr>Pitt Hammerfist wrote:<P>Then i went to Mistmoore castle and tried to solo  a 71 gargoyle on the steps, and got spanked lol <img src="/smilies/69934afc394145350659cd7add244ca9.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" /></P><P>ill try him again another time <img src="/smilies/3b63d1616c5dfcf29f8a7a031aaa7cad.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" /></P><hr></blockquote>I keep trying those, will kill them one day!

[Boran]

Necro's are not the best named soloers (we are very good with solo level mobs due to no downtime between pulls). Reason for this is that we can't pet tank named. The strategy used by Necro's (and all mages) for soloing heroics is the same and summoners are the least efficient at it.My 64 SK has had a better time than my Necro during the leveling process but that is because he has had much better gear than my necro had at the same level.As a few people have said, a lot of the time it is down to luck. One day you beat up the mob, the next it beats up on you.

[Legaroth]

so what WOULD be the best named soloer then ? <img src="/smilies/69934afc394145350659cd7add244ca9.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" /><div></div>

[Norrsken]

<div><blockquote><hr>Legaroth wrote:so what WOULD be the best named soloer then ? <img src="/smilies/69934afc394145350659cd7add244ca9.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" /><div></div><hr></blockquote>In my opinion, wizard. A metric ton of dps, and a root to keep the mob at a distance. Well, it works as long as the mob doesnt have ranged skills.In the case of mobs with ranged skills, I'd go for a coercer with a wiz pet. Takes a lot longer than the wiz, or prettymuch any class with high soloability, but they can take stuff down. They just die a lot. <img src="/smilies/8a80c6485cd926be453217d59a84a888.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" /></div>

[JoarAddam]

fabled out folk usually have a bag of resist gear... making gear switches on the way to nameds really improves your chances.

[clamdiper]

It depends on the mobs but I do from time to time do Blue Boss mobs. Have done a few in Lop and other zones solo. Farm nest, at least the lower 3 names isn't a problem per say but you have to have your tactics down. I do sometimes use potions depending on what the mob is hitting with, but SKs, at least in regards to tank class, are very good at soloing; however, I wouldn't say best solo-class in game.

[clamdiper]

Yes and I do too. I wish SOE would create wagons for our horses to hall all our gear. <img src="/smilies/283a16da79f3aa23fe1025c96295f04f.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" /> <blockquote><hr>JoarAddam wrote:<div></div>fabled out folk usually have a bag of resist gear... making gear switches on the way to nameds really improves your chances.<hr></blockquote><div></div>

[Norrsken]

<div><blockquote><hr>JoarAddam wrote:<div></div>fabled out folk usually have a bag of resist gear... making gear switches on the way to nameds really improves your chances.<hr></blockquote>I realize they dop, but having a mob dstand perfectly still, unable of doing anything really trumps resists. <img src="/smilies/8a80c6485cd926be453217d59a84a888.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" /></div>

[Pitt Hammerfi]

<DIV>yeah resist gear is pretty much useless for soloing, the majority of mobs attacks are either crush or slash, unfortunatley mitt is still king followed closely by HP </DIV>

[JoarAddam]

<DIV>Reaver has me finishing solo fights at 90% hp that i was usually struggling to save my butt on.</DIV>

[Tiko_7801]

<DIV>To reply to Fluffly.....im probably the Sk hes talking about, he has always been jealous of my powers. Yes i was equipped with the best gear, all my spells were mastered out, and yes i could solo alot. (notice past tense). I was the sk with the MOST unbuffed hps on the server (being bazaar server). Feel free to check him out as like i said this is past tense and hes now on the exchange.  70troll sk, 70 armor, with huge hps, fully mastered 50+, and everything you could dream of, inc hurricanus bp (aggro proc) and greaves of codex(aggro proc)......</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Check him out</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Buy it now only $1000, cheap for the best.</DIV>

[FluffyGoat]

lol tiko you crack me up. Actually it wasn't you that I was observing but I knew you could probably kick [expletive haxx0red by Raijinn] too <img src="/smilies/3b63d1616c5dfcf29f8a7a031aaa7cad.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" />

[Legaroth]

well id love to see the SK solo compared to my bruiser. the SK already seems better atm.. only lvl 13 <img src="/smilies/69934afc394145350659cd7add244ca9.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" /> but lvl 10 armor and the AOE and now that blessing increase my chances for killing greens/blues in small groups and pretty fast. single target seems slower then my bruiser but again with higher survivabilityin the end i want a usefull class, that can also deal some decent dmg.. not top but enough to solo good and to be of use if i cant maintank :p for pure dmg i have a warlock in the making as alt so..<div></div>

[Tiko_7801]

Well if you ever want to group Shadowknight isnt really for you(atleast not if your greedy) i mean why do the nest with a group and only have a 1/6 chance of winning a master vs, soloing it and getting 1/1 chance. Same for poets palace, and many other zones. If Den didnt repop I would of been able to do that too solo. I think if i ever come back to the game my dps tank will be a guardian so that it will be more of a challenge. Or a zerker they seem [Removed for Content] enough <img src="/smilies/3b63d1616c5dfcf29f8a7a031aaa7cad.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" />........ Really wouldnt mind knowing how a Bruiser does for soloing.

[Mistmoore-Milaga]

Hmm, I don't know why I haven't tried soloing poets yet. Maybe I'll do that tonight. Maybe actually use my Djinn's master rage for once.<div></div>

[joeygopher]

<P>I thought about poets, but I don't think my mana would hold out for those damned ring event beetles.  And once the power goes those things will tear me a new one :smileysad:</P> <P>Anyone know what happens if you FD part way through them?</P>

[Binabink]

FD, dying, and evacing don't affect the ring.  Just make sure to run back outside the room to a relatively safe spot to FD.  Unless you're paying real close attention, you probably won't notice where the current round of the ring spawned at, and odds are when FD wears off you'll get aggroed again.<div></div>

[Beldin_]

Maybe invis-totems .. in groups we always used group-invis of illu,fury or brigant directly after the last mob of an encounter was dead to have a break