*shakes head*
The grass will always appear greener on the other side unless you've been there
before. so far, with my experience of EQ since the 3rd beta, I have mess around
with Shadow Knights, Paladins, Enchanters, Necros, Shamans and Magicians. The
other classes I have not much experiences with so I won't comment.
The problem with Shadow knight is this.
At first glance, harm touch appears to be very powerful, dealing 10 X level + 1
damage, but what many people don't know is that:
1. Harm Touch is counted as an alteration spell. IOWs, it can be resisted.
2. Being alteration in nature, part of its damage can be resisted.
On average, with a level 13 TSK, I constantly do around 70-80 damage, not the
full 131 I expect it to do and miss twice ever 10 times I tyr.
Unless you choose Dark Elf or Humans as a SK, you would not be able to cast
spells the level you get them, as Ogres and Trolls have an aweful intelligence
score, which bring about another problem, Troll/Orge Shadow Knight gains skills
at a painful pace. They often find themselves unable to reach the skill cap of
their level.
On regenaration, at low levels, it is a fantastic thing, but at high level,
nothing functions better than a real healing spell.
At level 40, an average TSK is expected to have around 1200 hp and would expect
to take any where from 200-800 hp worth of damage per battle. Even with
regenaration, it is still take around 10-20mins to regenerate the amount.
Thus, the TSK is not really able to solo at high levels. Level 1-15 is easy,
but after this range, due to slow level advancement and an unreliable way of
healing, they can't solo well.
The advantage TSK have over other hybrid warrior classes is that they can still
bash when using 2 handed slashing weapons.
Troll Shamans are worse off. Being a priest class, they will never gain
additional attack, and damage they deal is capped. At level 16, you reach your
melee damage cap.
In addition Shamans don't really have fantastic direct damage spells nor good
healing ability so soloing past 16 is hard/near impossible.
Troll Warriors fair slightly better than TSK as they hit harder, faster and has
more HP, but they still need reliable backup to reach high levels.
Monks I agree is one of the best class to solo with. The various special
attacks do a lot of damage and mend, at high level almost never fail. Healing
1/4 of your HP every 6 minutes is damn useful.
Priest class can never solo well unless they go to areas where their wards
spell can be use (Befallen for Clerics, Elemental Planes for Druids) else they
fare very badly against normal enermies
For Wizards, the only way they solo is Root -> Damage spells, damage
spells.......
If root runs out, they're toast, and most would dash towards the entrance
bringing trains....... A very common sight.
IMO, these class can solo pretty well from mid to high levels.
Monks
Necros (Provided that nessesary spells could be researched)
Magicians (Same as Necro)
Enchanters (Only after Tashani, Beguile and Clam)
LKW wrote:
> From: LKW <leekw13@...>
>
> There is no doubt a TSK can solo best in EQ. They have the harm spells
> which is as good as Paladin's healing ability (no saving throw or failure),
> yet they have the ability of regenerating HP ability. I made a troll
> shaman in Innoruuk for testing, at lvl 1 my first victim is a monster which
> is yellow to me. And within the first 10 min I play, I gain a lvl.
>
> Btw, all classes always complain that they are weaker than other classes,
> seem to be a norm, hehe. I even read from the net how a lvl 40+ warrior
> complained abt his char as compare to a shadowknight who is few lvl below
> him - coz in term of soloing, this warrior can't handle big monster like
> that shadowknight.
>
> EQSS also have an article abt soloing - and they rank troll anything as the
> easiest soloing char, esp TSK, followed by wiz, shaman, dwarf cleric and
> monk. One thing abt monk, at lvl 35+ they will jump to 2nd in the list, ie
> the next best soloing class after Troll something, due to the new kick ass
> skills they achieve at higher level.
>
> Mondain
>
> On Monday, June 14, 1999 1:50 PM, Sereph [SMTP:garford@...]
> wrote:
> > Troll Shadow Knights are surpose to be good??? Come on, they level up at
> a
> > snail place (25% pentalty for being a hybrid class, additional 50% for
> being a
> > troll I think) and Harm touch is useless as it can be resisted.
> >
> > That's why you hear a lot of SK complaning on why they are weaker then
> > Paladins.
> >
> > LKW wrote:
> >
> > > From: LKW <leekw13@...>
> > >
> > > Yep, no more agnostic for necro. This is becoz too many pple wanna get
> the
> > > goodies from TSK or Necro but yet wanna enjoy good faction after
> killing
> > > hundreds of orcs by selecting agnostic (coz it help in improving ya
> > > faction). Afterall evil classes are made more powerful to compensate
> their
> > > faction hit.
> > >
> > > Dark Elf alone shld be quite easy to improve faction - Kenven once did
> it
> > > b4 as a DE warrior, by killing many orcs and he can enter Freeport at
> lvl 9
> > > I think (but some npc merchants at commonlands still refuse to do biz
> with
> > > him). But DEN is more evil, so u will need more time to gain good
> faction.
> > >
> > > Why not we create a Dark Elves/Trolls evil team, forget abt the good
> > > faction thingy and bash the good races city, hehe. I read some high
> lvl
> > > dark elf wizards/shadow knights actually attack Freeport guards in
> other
> > > servers (no need to find monsters to hunt, lol), sound kewl!
> > >
> > > Btw, Leshrec also got a DEN in Prexus server.
> > >
> > > Mondain
> > >
> > > On Monday, June 14, 1999 9:07 AM, Cheng Shan Chieh, Freddy
> > > [SMTP:sccheng@...] wrote:
> > > > ok... im not sure if its true... ive read up article from either
> Everlore
> > > or EQVault... or EQ Stratics... in one of the necro guides... it
> mentioned
> > > no able to choose agnostic fer Dark Elves anymore... wonder if its
> true...
> > > >
> > > > Fred aka SilverHand.
> > > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > > From: Entreri
> > > > To: sg-everquest@onelist.com
> > > > Sent: Monday, June 14, 1999 9:55 AM
> > > > Subject: Re: [sg-everquest] Something...
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > To improve faction,there are 2 ways
> > > > 1.If possible,choose agnostic when choosing ya race...
> > > > 2.kill as many orcs as possible
> > > >
> > > > Entreri
> > > >
> > > > Email: drizzt@...
> > > > ICQ UIN: 2326860
> > > > Previewer, Singularity Gaming Network
> > > > http://www.sg-gaming.net
> > > > Your Single Source of Everything Gaming
> > > >
> > > > .plan at
> > > > http://www.wplan.com/cgibin/directplan.cgi?name=Entreri&viewpass=
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > From: Cheng Shan Chieh, Freddy <sccheng@...>
> > > > To: SG-Everquest Mailing List <sg-everquest@onelist.com>
> > > > Date: Monday, June 14, 1999 8:30 AM
> > > > Subject: [sg-everquest] Something...
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > hi all,
> > > > it seems that quite abit had happened over the pass weekend when
> i
> > > wasnt around... the party got formed... n stuff like that... n ive
> readup
> > > abit on the few websites over the weekend... i think in general... the
> > > necromancer has spells that spread over a pretty wide range... from
> > > summoning... to direct damage... to healing... that no one spellcasting
> > > class can provide... however this is with the drawback of faction....
> so i
> > > guess my first char in EQ will most likely be a Necromancer... but i
> havent
> > > decide to make a Erudite or Dark Elf Necro ... most likely Dark Elf...
> but
> > > i think i need to do more research on faction n stuff like that....
> maybe
> > > some of u guys can help me out here... esp Leshrec...
> > > > 1. is it that bad that a Dark Elf Necro is KOS in other
> towns/cities?
> > > > 2. how difficult is to be able to better the faction so that one
> can
> > > enter those cities without KOS? n how can u do it?
> > > > 3. what about Eruite Necro?
> > > >
> > > > Pls advice :) although i havent got my EQ here yet... but i would
> > > like to be fully prepared fer it b4 it comes... :) hopefully within
> this
> > > week... otherwise next... as i can only play during the weekend...
> BTW...
> > > count me in... in ya guild.... i should be in the same server as u
> guys...
> > > but i guess i will be progressing slowly... most likely i will be using
> > > SilverHand. :)
> > > >
> > > > Also, not sure about Trade Skills... anyone has any advice fer
> > > Necros? Also, u think it will be better to have 1 trade skills on a
> char
> > > rather than 2? or does it matter? thats all i got fer now...
> > > >
> > > > cheers,
> > > > Fred
> > > >
> > >
> --------------------------------------------------------------------
> > > ------------------------
> > > > SC Cheng, Freddy
> > > > Mobile-Internet Laboratory, Multimedia Laboratory,
> > > > NTT DoCoMo R&D Center C212,
> > > > 3-5, Hikari no Oka, Yokosuka-Shi,
> > > > Kanagawa, 239-8536, Japan
> > > > Tel : +81 468-40-3497
> > > > Fax: +81 468-40-3788
> > > > Email : sccheng@...
> > > > << File: ATT00012.htm >>
> > >
> > >
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > > Where do some of the Internet's largest email lists reside?
> > > http://www.onelist.com
> > > At ONElist - the most scalable and reliable service on the Internet.
> > >
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > > Singapore Everquest Players List
> > << File: ATT00001.htm >>
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> What do lizards and rock music have in common?
> http://www.onelist.com
> They both have communities at ONElist. Find yours today!
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Singapore Everquest Players List