Best solo class

I like my Bm.

I'm not a APS machine either (2.22) and I usually end up going to hunt on my own to relax and be in my "bubble", like you seem to explain.

We have awesome physical defense (that clerics can't even reach buffed) and can push it even higher with our own buffs. Talking about over 20 000 here easy at lvl 100.

We are weak against magic (which you might have trouble adapting at first as poison hurt US, not you clerics, lol). But they are ways to compensate. get a good genie with healing A STR genie with second wind (Mine has 70 str and heals me a instant 1900 or so) or Tree of Protection if you don't care risking charm ticks using it.

Also get True Emptyness, a Bm/barb exclusive genie skill. Maxed, makes you almost invulnerable to magic for 10 secs, enough to close in, do damage and prepare to stun or cancel the next cast or a magic mob. You can also get earthquake that maxed has 100% to cancel a enemies channeling if times right.

You might wanna consider sins, they got good soloing capabilities. However they are expensive to equip and need 80+ imo to shine. Heavily equipment dependable, even decent gear cost quite abit to get.

Veno: THE solo class. Rarely needs a pot thanks to low mana cost skills, nature's grace, soul transfusion and metabolic boost, can grind for hours only going to town to empty inventory (or when the fecal matter hits the rotary impeller and you die)... and doesn't need epic gears.

Mystic: Mana pot sink. Can only really compare to a veno if done the lazy veno way (send pet, only heal pet.) Mystic summons can't hold aggro as well as veno pets, and are squishier (except maybe for Cragglord, which only lasts 20 seconds.)

BM: Awesome AOE grinder. More AOEs than any other class, sell heal, pdef out the rear end. The only class that may have higher PDef fully buffed is a heavy armor veno in foxform, which won't have as high HP.

Sin: Squishy, only shines at high level with epic gears. Once you ARE high level with epic gears though, you can solo things even herc venos can't, and kill them much quicker.

Venomancers are very flexible on builds. You can go pure magic (1 str 9 mag/2 levels) for max heal/attack, sacrifice some mag for vit for better survivability, go light armor (1 str 1 dex 3 mag/level) for more crits/better pdef, or heavy/arcane for greatest flexibility in defense (no set build, as you need to scavenge as many +stat/-req items as possible to make up the stat deficit, as for own level gear you need 5 str 1 dex 6 mag/2 levels - 6 stat points per level.)

I play a barb veno bm and cleric. in my opinion, cleric is the best solo magic class because they can heal themselves, and veno is the best solo all around. sins arent good soloers until high levels and ultimate gear, in which case they beat venos and clerics at soloing. i dont really find any of the melee classes easy to solo with, but maybe that is just me.

BM's become epic Solo class by around 70 assuming you have have decent gear and axe skills on them. Great AoE grinder by then as they have the skills, and the right mobs are around. Sins on the other hand are squishy as ****. Just put BP on a BM and they're have an easier time AoEing a dozen mobs than a Sin will have killing one or two of said Phys mob.

Also, the biggest reason, Herc aside, that a Veno is good at solo-ing, is their HP/MP Regen skills. Their pet is fairly self sufficient and they generally just pile up pots for free coins.

Veno is the way to go, do arcane for pet heals and dd - you can put some vit early to help with survivability and restat later or just leave it. Veno can heal themselves and recover mana, they have low mana cost anyways so it won't be a problem. Once you hit 75 you will never ever med and need only a few magic food ever (even though before you rarely med anyways).

For some of the tougher fights you can always duo with another veno or a mystic, with two heals on a veno tank pet you can kill pretty much everything (eventually).

Every class can get boring because this game is about grinding, veno offers some good AOE fun and you can always take fox form and melee a bit too.

Maybe it is just me, but without bp, aoe grinding/solo work is pot intensive if no hp and mp charms are used.

http://www.pwdatabase.com/pwi/items/29468 + mp and hp pots that i pick up during farming suffice. Diamond sutra heals well, but 1~3 chains of stun,hf, highland cleave, fissure, drake sweep at lvl 10~11, will drain the mp pool of 2k.

What bp allows is to kill the same number of mobs with demon spark (for me), i use stun to keep mobs running away, and killing 7~13 mobs gets you back to full spark by the time spark ends. Bosses can be soloed with bp.

Just be careful with earthquake, i find it buggy against mobs. It pushes them back, which is fine. But at some monsters it causes the screen to freeze, which can lead to death. Doesn't happen with bosses as they seem to resist push back skills. Most bosses/mobs cycles the magic attack on a 8~10 second basis.

I still prefer my bm, but that is the only class i have played with. Hope that helps somewhat.

Joey_Cleric - Dreamweaver wrote: »

Before I get to the main question, please allow me to explain. My cleric is and always will be my main. However, when * happens and I don't feel like talking, I just wanna play without having to use even the minimal effort for common courtesy.

I'm looking for a class that can solo. Not worried about making money. Not going to buy heads. Just looking for something that I can do all by myself when other people aren't welcome in my thoughts.

I've read other posts, and they basically all say veno. Why aren't mystics listed? But I don't have the money for a herc. for the veno(donations welcome lol). I can do a little on my cleric if I use my genie, but I've killed her twice in the past week.

Even a basic layout of the classes from your experience is welcome. Looking for a new alt. while my cleric is on break lol.

Thank you for any help you give.

lolb:shocked

Sir_Puma - Raging Tide wrote: »

You can also get earthquake that maxed has 100% to cancel a enemies channeling if times right.

Does this work against bosses and in pvp?

IMO a bm is the best solo class, they can take a hit much better than a sin, put a mana charm on them and endless aoes >:D, go axe/fist build and you can solo just about any boss, plus i speak from experience, i have played every single class and bm is by far the best soloer i have used.
Edit: Also with alter marrow magical leveled, you can take hits form mag. mobs too

A lot of good and valid points here concerning the BM/Assassin Aspect of the question, They're all right Sins are good at 80+ with awesome gear, and almost always need R8 Gear to get the required aps, which is quite sad actually, almost the same with a BM but axe builds are better when it comes to AoE Grinding (IMO), As for Venos and Mystics I Cannot say anything as niether of mine got past lvl 40 b:surrender But my Assassin is 101 and I have a few BM friends who all say they miss their Axe builds as it was easier to AoE grind, now they keep pestering me for BP so they can APS Grind b:chuckleb:pleased. Recently I've started a psychic and using Black Voodoo with a Jones I'm blasting things with just two hits b:shocked So it would seem that class has a lot of solo mob potential but I wouldn't want to try and take on bosses with it, so Depending on what you wanted to go and do with your alt you could give psychics a try, gear doesn't need to be epic either, I'm just using a mix of 3*'s and NPC gear and still doing rather well, as far as they go towards end game gear a psychic with good refined gear is only 2nd to the Assassin (PvP Wise, Again, IMO) My reason behind that is because A psy once slapped me for 9k unsparked and non crit, might of had cleric buffs but I can't say for sure b:sad (I got thrown out of SP before I could see).

But yeah thats my view on Classes for solo, hope you find enjoyment in your new alt, which ever class it might be.

P.S. Come try Lost City if you want to try PvP :P Beware of the trolls and Epeen wh*res though