Soloing Heroic Dungeons

Duvall · 10-28-2009, 01:09 AM

Hi all,

I am going to be starting a new character and I am curoius about something. Assuming I would have mastercrafted equipment, could a SK solo heroic dungeons for experience while leveling up. For example soloing stormhold, fallen gate, ROV, Crushbone, Runneyeye, Nek Castle, etc including some of the named.

Thanks,

Druuna · 10-28-2009, 01:50 AM

yaeh pretty much, you should be able to solo in the dungeons at level, but the instances as you get higher level, starting with eof, will be a little more difficult.

Sadari · 10-28-2009, 10:47 AM

The old dungeons were designed before AA's, so as long as you have mastercrafted armor, a decent number of expert (adept 3) spells, and good AA's (Reaver and spell crit) you should be able to solo many of the dungeons before they gray out.

The hardest part is learning the dungeon. Except for feign death, you usually won't have the reserves to handle adds, so if you get a roaming add you could be in trouble. Some ring events might cause problems, too -- you want a little time to regen mana between fights.

EOF dungeons were designed after AA's, so they're much tougher.

If you go dungeon diving, you should level faster, but you won't get as many AA's as you would questing.

Sadari
80 Illusionist

Duvall · 10-28-2009, 05:13 PM

That sounds pretty good. My main is a swashbuckler that I leveled up using the solo timelines in the overland zones. Those quest series are great but I don't really feel like just doing them all again so I thought a new challenge would be to pick a class that could solo up through dungeons and the do the quests they offer since I didn't experience them as much on my main leveling up.

I've been trying to decide what class to do this with. From the forum searching that I've done it seems the best choices are: SK, Bruiser, Coercer, or Illusionist. I'm not really concerned about endgame raiding etc. just what class would be best at doing what I described.

I'd be curious to hear others opinions on a good class for something like this.

The way I'm kind of breaking it down in my head is
- Bruiser and SK seem like they are probably pretty equal in their mob killing ability. Bruiser has the better feign dead to get out of trouble and to bypass stuff that I might not want to bother with but being a plate tank the SK can take more punishment.

-People speak highly of the Coercer's ability to solo with their charm ability but having to deal with charm breaking at a bad time seems really frustrating and if things start to go bad mages are so squishy.

-Illusionist seem to be able so solo heroics well and don't have to worry about charm breaking. Illy along with Coercer have invis without having to use potions which is an advantage. But again they are squishy and when an add comes it could be over in the blink of an eye.

I'm also want to take into consideration what is a better named killer. For example lets say Varsoon in ROV still cons green to me, what class would be best for stuff like that?

Sadari, since you have a Illusionist I would be curious what you think.

Great community here,

Druuna · 10-29-2009, 01:54 AM

I have a bruiser and with mastercrafted I was able to solo every dungeon for the named aa's besides epics, very good class, illusionist i dunno, i've only ever played one for one or two raids, same with coercer.

serum321 · 10-29-2009, 10:07 AM

If you want to lvl a toon for the reasons you've listed here then don't go illusionist. Sure they can solo very well, but are too damn squishy for what you're looking to do with it. All it will take is an untimely roamer with an untimely resist and you'll be dead.

From my experience when soloing fd is invaluable so I'd go with the bruiser or sk.

Pharon · 10-31-2009, 08:03 AM

I am actually sorta curious about the same. I am going to be playing on a PvP server. Would fabled/legendary regular gear be better for soloing heroic content? Would pvp gear be better?

Sajen · 11-01-2009, 08:52 AM

Soloing as a chanter w/ no help from scratch is definitely fun and sometimes challenging but will in the end make you a better player on any classy imo. With chanter you really have to use your spells intelligently to succeed as a accomplished soloer.