Is Barbarian the best class for solo grind?

Well, a lot depends on your build. My barb (full tank build always in tiger) doesn't have problems with any mobs, but my damage is really low so killing takes a lot of time. Grinding in tiger is slow, but I don't use pots. For better grinding, you'll probably use humanoide form more to increase your damage. However, you'll need more pots.

If you really want a good class for solo grind, take a venomancer. They have a pet, which gives them some advantages in grinding. They hardly have any repair costs compared to melee classes. They kill rather fast, in humanoide and fox. And they can solo almost everything.

Barbs don't solo grind they AoE grind.

by now you are confused but I saw a barbarian hit and running with slam, about 15 mobs at a time, looks effective.

But by solo grind think you ment not in squad but.. anyway LOOK infomation! *runs away*

dabrozwadowski wrote: »

In my opinion Barb would grind faster cuz he doesn't have to worry about groups of mobs...

Damn hard to decide...

Any more suggestions?

Dead wrong. As I said fear the magical mobs. True we have lots more HP. I can easily take on 5-6 physical attacker mobs and live through it (charm drain but still liveable). Problem is for the mobs to use a physical attack I need to be right next to them. So lets say I target one and run up to him.
Otw I aggroed another. This second mob doesn't follow me all the way to do physical attacks. He just gets as close as he needs to do his magical attacks.
Now I have one mob which hits me maybe 100-120 per hit with his physical attack, whilst the other's magical attack is hitting me like 500-800 frequently. Now imagine I had another 3 mobs doing that kind of attack? 2000-3200 dmg every 5 secs? So in the 12sec my heiro takes to cooldown I am taking close to 12K dmg? And I'm not counting the physical attacks either.
We most definitely have to worry about groups of mobs. Upto late 40s or so I remember taking on 4-6 mobs repeatedly. But now its not so easy.

And as for "AoE" grinding.... barbs have rather crappy aoes when compared to a axe BM. Most aren't 360 degree to begin with and those that are have long cooldowns (8sec+). Only decent one I can think of is Slam. Billow is a very limited area, firestorm is a straight line, perdition for grinding = self destruct (read a PvP skill only).
Tigerform AoEs are more useful if you ask me though most don't do any damage (debuffs). Surf Impact and Sunder are the ones I use most often. Frighten is pretty cool also.

Besides almost all the damaging AoEs are in human form, where your HP and Pdef are usually no different to a BM's and your dmg is still less than that of a well equipped BM. Humanoid grinding is faster, but its expensive and rather inefficient when soloing. Now if you have a cleric on call at your side its a completely different story, but then it isn't really 'soloing' now is it?

dabrozwadowski wrote: »

So You say it's better to stay with my blademaster, right?
How about cleric?

clerics can deal damage but they can't really take it all that well unless they are an attack build when you are a cleric you use alot of mana....and i mean ALOT...

Mysticlifex - Heavens Tear wrote: »

Barbs don't solo grind they AoE grind.

by now you are confused but I saw a barbarian hit and running with slam, about 15 mobs at a time, looks effective.

Don't know where you saw that, but the barb must have been way higher lvl then the mobs. I can do that in fb19, but impossible on mobs of my own lvl.
Even a fully humanoide build barb should burn through his hp charm in no time grinding like this.

barb aoe grinding is a myth. slam is horrible in higher lvls. when you are up close to casters they will cast less and go physical that is good for us. if you are stupid and use slam...
A you don't do that much damage.
B push them out side of physical damage range now they spam magic = fail

i have tiger lvl 3 with axe hammer maxed for lvl and poison fang lvl well with titans you don't see too much of a damage penalty. and staying in tiger lets you have
A more hp
B more def
C ready access to your best grinding aoe sunder.

now i don't know about the lvl 79 aoe but in tiger you have 4 aoe skills
1 sunder the king
2 surf impact
3 frighten
4 roar

if you find that you are getting jumped they are nice to save you. but to intentionally put your self in that situation just to use aoe is like jumping outa an airplane with only a life vest on sure you won't drown but ..... the fall will prolly still kill you.

and as far as human grinding goes not that helpful to me honest less hp less def and only 50% more damage on reg attacks that is only 450 attack points per attack on a regular swing and that still gets nulled by mob def.

The ferenczy - Sanctuary wrote: »

...if you find that you are getting jumped they are nice to save you. but to intentionally put your self in that situation just to use aoe is like jumping outa an airplane with only a life vest on sure you won't drown but ..... the fall will prolly still kill you.

ROFL! b:laugh
Funny yet so true!! b:chuckle

I have a barb and it rocks for solo grind. the kill about as fast as venos b:victory but have no ranged attakesb:cry they also dont get rare stuff till higher lvlb:cry so keep on trukin




whats ur dream

The ferenczy - Sanctuary wrote: »

barb aoe grinding is a myth. slam is horrible in higher lvls. when you are up close to casters they will cast less and go physical that is good for us. if you are stupid and use slam...
A you don't do that much damage.
B push them out side of physical damage range now they spam magic = fail

i have tiger lvl 3 with axe hammer maxed for lvl and poison fang lvl well with titans you don't see too much of a damage penalty. and staying in tiger lets you have
A more hp
B more def
C ready access to your best grinding aoe sunder.

now i don't know about the lvl 79 aoe but in tiger you have 4 aoe skills
1 sunder the king
2 surf impact
3 frighten
4 roar

if you find that you are getting jumped they are nice to save you. but to intentionally put your self in that situation just to use aoe is like jumping outa an airplane with only a life vest on sure you won't drown but ..... the fall will prolly still kill you.

and as far as human grinding goes not that helpful to me honest less hp less def and only 50% more damage on reg attacks that is only 450 attack points per attack on a regular swing and that still gets nulled by mob def.

yeah u can use slam but just closte to when he is almost dead and when u push him back u use out slaught and wala hes dead

Solo grinding is definitely possible for a barb if you get the right kind of mobs. But the question would be, is it really profitable? The answer to which is "no". Zhenning is always better for a barb, you just pull the mobs and watch them get destroyed 5x faster than the solo grinding fiasco. So 5x more exp, spirit and drops.

Solo grinding works the best for barb when you solo grind at the 4th past on pure phy mobs which do really less damage. There's a video of Templar ripping the mobs apart without even letting his charm tick even once. But of course, this is possible when your barb is of a higher level (95+).

Best class to solo grind is definitely BM. The massive amount of AOEs and AOE stuns are a great asset. Pop an MP potion and grind away to heaven b:chuckle

The last and final BIG question: why do you want to solo grind when you have affordable ways to get decent amount of exp to rocket you at supersonic speeds to the 90s? b:laugh b:cute

3 BHs/day, CS, WQ, GVs, occasional Zhenning, super fast FCs after 85 = No need for any more exp and spirit b:cry

BarbLord - Raging Tide wrote: »

wow this thread is over a year old how did you even find it

anyway necrob:surrender

lol i was just looking for barbarian info and i found it lol bit late but hay

dabrozwadowski wrote: »

Hi.

As the title says: Is Barbarian the best class for solo grind?

They have good HP and quite nice dmg imo...

I don't know which class to choose if I want to focus on solo grind...

Is Barb a good choice? Maybe other class gets better/faster solo exp?


Plz help

I think the best grind class: Venomancer

I have no problems solo aoe grinding and have no problem with my Dmg output either.I have genies designed for solo grinding without a cleric.I also have no problems rounding up as many mobs as I can without losing aggro in wich even most barbs my lvl can't even do that correctly....I guess being a bm for 99lvls helped with the science of correctly aoe grinding.

best char is either a BM or venomancer, clerics can aoe grind posion mobs well tho