Best farming class/duo?

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shanemonk

Dalayan Beginner
Just started here, played live for 7 years. I am wanting to start something to get a good start on a pile of plat. What would level the fastest solo or duo? I'm thinking Necro or possibly a duo of some sort. Would any duo level faster than a solo Necro? Oh, and if anything beats out Necro throw that in if you would too, its just that in live they dominated soloing.
Thanks in advance!
 
If you solo you get 100% of the exp for each mob killed.
If you duo you get 50% of the exp for each mob killed.
If you trio you get 50% of the exp for each mob killed.
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If you 6 man you get 50% of the exp for each mob killed.


There is literally no way for a solo character to keep up with the exp of a group, and exp wise there is no penalty after the 2nd person. So the right answer for max exp speed is to duo (you can 2 box here) and form groups around yourself.
 
go monk+cleric. Relatively cheap combo to gear, fast at levelling, easy combo to play and really good combo for farming when you get bigger.

Id suggest iksar for the monk if you can stand spending your gaming looking at a lizard as you heal him. For the cleric the race isnt as important just dont go human.
 
Cyzaine said:
If you solo you get 100% of the exp for each mob killed.
If you duo you get 50% of the exp for each mob killed.
If you trio you get 50% of the exp for each mob killed.
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If you 6 man you get 50% of the exp for each mob killed.


There is literally no way for a solo character to keep up with the exp of a group, and exp wise there is no penalty after the 2nd person. So the right answer for max exp speed is to duo (you can 2 box here) and form groups around yourself.
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Not completly true...

If I get into the mood just to grind xps on my rogue, I can actually exp much faster solo then even in one of "ringo's free xp no loot leech groups"

The trick is to know your targets, and swift kills. Heal out of group after the fight is over. Probably doesnt help the posters question, but I just wanted to point out, you can actually exp faster with solo kills if you have the right setup.

Now that being said, it really is foolish not to group with a full group all the time, all people get the same xps and its much more fun then soloing any day.

Sometimes I just like to be a drunken hermit.
 
not everyone likes to group all the time.

i'd say monk and a healer will bring you great success
 
monk/ranger/shadowknight/paladin/bard + cleric/druid/shaman - Pick whatever you want.
 
Personally I suggest a monk + (druid/shaman) duo for a good team that will be able to handle alot alone, and will be able to build groups easy. They will level fast, and not bear the heavy cost that the plate wearer duos would.

Yes necro dominates the soloing game on SoD, and if you are intent on a necro, you probably either was to play that char alone (as opposed to boxing, not as opposed to groups), or if you want to duo with them, throw in a druid or shaman. Druids and shamans both have a good amount of dots, they add in some rooting/snaring capability, sow, heals/hp regen, and shaman has the malise line to help land your dots and stuff more easily.

tl;dr - Monk + (druid/shaman) or necro +/- (druid/shaman)
 
It's not really that great until the toons are pretty high tier, but I'm having a lot of fun with paladin and rogue.
 
Once a paladin is high tier you can pretty much 2 box anything effectively with them though. =p
 
What about a beastlord with a druid instead of a monk?

It would be kinda like doing the monk/ without having to choose between druid and shaman. You'd have the melee, pet, some lesser shaman utility, and all the druid brings, plus a little extra dotting power. Are they too jack-of-all-trades to take the place of a monk tanking/dps to make a viable duo?
 
Orakio said:
What about a beastlord with a druid instead of a monk?

It would be kinda like doing the monk/ without having to choose between druid and shaman. You'd have the melee, pet, some lesser shaman utility, and all the druid brings, plus a little extra dotting power. Are they too jack-of-all-trades to take the place of a monk tanking/dps to make a viable duo?
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You don't have the splitting power and the ridiculous tanking that monks can achieve.
 
a slightly twinked beastlord + a druid is amazing for lvling up quickly and that way it's an easy classcombo to get from 1-65 in 2 days or so. In the long run (ie at 65) the beastlord will take too much damage and wont be able to split (although he can use pet as offtank, while tanking another mob).
The monk handles dmg a lot better and can split. The extra buffs just won't outweigh that for a duo. As an example of how huge the difference can be, when I lvl'ed up my sk he passed my tier 9 beastlord in tanking capability the moment he hit 65, in only droppable/buyable gear (although yes, that wasnt the cheap stuff). The slow wont make up for it.
 
It has ben stated a massive number of times, by players smarter and more knowing and better looking then me. The best duo combo in the game hands down is Wizard+Enchanter. They can do it all, and leave all the tank/healer, Meleedps/healer comps in the dust. So I dont know why anyone would post otherwise here.
 
Tecnodoc said:
It has ben stated a massive number of times, by players smarter and more knowing and better looking then me. The best duo combo in the game hands down is Wizard+Enchanter. They can do it all, and leave all the tank/healer, Meleedps/healer comps in the dust. So I dont know why anyone would post otherwise here.
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You shouldn't troll serious posts, wizard enchanter might work when your going in RSM but against a prolonged fight with aoes from a named its flat out not going to work due to plenty of reasons. You are constantly at the mercy of the zone/mobs being mezzable/charmable/etc. If this was a serious post something must of drastically changed in ikisith that I am unaware of.
 
Dimmi said:
The most effective plat farming duo I've ever ever ever witnessed was an enchanter boxing a wizard. Spooky ain't it?
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Thade said:
Stral did wizard + enchanter with Stral + Kemper for a while. If you are very good at it (I mean perfect) He could kill things faster than I Can with my shaman + bard and take 0 damage while doing it. Only downside was med time.
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If need be i will look around for some more, im just putting this in here to remove the "trolling nature" of the post. But it is kind of a fact that i dont agree with the wizard statement at all myself. That can be cuz im not as good as stral at all.
 
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Tecnodoc said:
If need be i will look around for some more, im just putting this in here to remove the "trolling nature" of the post. But it is kind of a fact that i dont agree with the wizard statement at all myself. That can be cuz im not as good as stral at all.
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That takes a ton of effort. It's only good in certain places, too. But it can be very effective in the right places as far as farming goes, but the main place it was used for got nerfed money wise so a new farming destination needs to be found.
 
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