Classess that are the hardest to solo

[Loraxx]

Please select the 2 hardest classes to solo level.


Thanks,

Loraxx

[Loraxx]

Wow, I surprised to hear that rune-keeper is hard to solo level. They seem to have very good DPS and healing ability as well as basic CC.


Thanks for contributing to the poll

Loraxx

[Zib]

Rune-keepers are tough to solo because of the attunement process. Attunement is a linear process. Cast a damage spell, get one damage attunement. More powerful spells become available as you get further attuned. Also your spells of that attunement get more powerful. The converse is also true. With 3 points of damage attunement, you are closed out from all but your weakest heal over time. And that heal over time casts at its weakest efficiency.

The whole idea of the rune-keeper is to pick a role (healer or nuker) and stick with it for the duration of the fight. You can switch roles, but it takes a little while to ramp up your attunement.

At level 24, my one stun lasts 5 to 10 seconds and has a 20 second cooldown. With a trait the duration can be doubled, so it might last the entire cooldown time.

This isn't to say rune-keeper isn't fun. It is fun to play a healer that can also put out respectable damage. Just be prepared to die regularly. Most of my deaths have occurred because I was fighting two critters and a patroller jumped into the fight as well.

[Brunli of the Many Names]

My choices:

Early levels: Lore-Master (I took Gildir to 35 pre-Month of the LM, it was VERY painful).
Later Levels: Minstrel

[OnyxBlade]

I didn't pick any in the poll. Each class has a hard time in specific cases, and each class has an easy time in specific cases.

I've probably had the most deaths with Rune-keeper, but only because I skipped an entire level's worth of quests back in the late teens/early 20's which put everything from 20 - 35 at the extreme peak of the difficulty curve. But even then, I didn't have much problems with anything.

And at the same time, I'd have to say Rune-keeper is the easiest because they're so darned good at both healing and killing.

Got an escort quest? have the npc do all the work while you sit back, paint your nails and throw the occassional heal.

About to die? Stun em, switch to healing and laugh with a full power and health bar as you start the zapping again.

I've heard complaints about Lore-Masters being difficult to level. And I really don't see it. ANYMORE. There were lots of issues with them in the early days of LOTRO, but as far as I can see, they're all fixed now. Especially in the late levels, Cynderwen is nigh unstoppable.

I've heard that Minstrels were having a hard time in Moria. Haven't seen it. Now... I did have to adapt my playstyle on Wilim, but he's an efficient killing machine now. Usually ends up with a full morale bar at the end of each fight.

Burglars? OMG! Everything's a cake-walk. Easiest time getting from 1 to 50 I've EVER had.

Captain I had a problem with simply because I really didn't like the class. (Might have had everything to do with Wyncen being an explorer and my 7th level 50).

Until overpower came into being, I would have said Guardian was difficult. But with overpower... CAKE

Hunters & Champions are overpowered.

And Gildir to 35 pre-Month of the LM! That was an accomplishment.. there should be a title for that! Really! My first character in Lotro was a LM. got to 20... deleted.. tried again... got to 22 and deleted her to not be seen again until cynder.

Bottom line: I've soloed each class up to 50 pre-moria and haven't thought any of them particular "hard". Each had to put off certain quests until a later level because of their strengths/weaknesses, but each have done marvelously.

And note: I'm very "aggressive" when solo-ing. I'm in orange mob territory 90% of the time and occassionally taking on reds.

[Zib]

I guess my real answer should be spider, hunter or captain. I don't log in any of them, so it is extremely difficult to level them!

[Loraxx]

Thanks again all for supporting this thread. The information will be valuable to many people.

[Loraxx]

Feb 25, 2009 12:55:25 GMT -5 OnyxBlade said:

I didn't pick any in the poll. Each class has a hard time in specific cases, and each class has an easy time in specific cases.

I've probably had the most deaths with Rune-keeper, but only because I skipped an entire level's worth of quests back in the late teens/early 20's which put everything from 20 - 35 at the extreme peak of the difficulty curve. But even then, I didn't have much problems with anything.

And at the same time, I'd have to say Rune-keeper is the easiest because they're so darned good at both healing and killing.

Got an escort quest? have the npc do all the work while you sit back, paint your nails and throw the occassional heal.

About to die? Stun em, switch to healing and laugh with a full power and health bar as you start the zapping again.

I've heard complaints about Lore-Masters being difficult to level. And I really don't see it. ANYMORE. There were lots of issues with them in the early days of LOTRO, but as far as I can see, they're all fixed now. Especially in the late levels, Cynderwen is nigh unstoppable.

I've heard that Minstrels were having a hard time in Moria. Haven't seen it. Now... I did have to adapt my playstyle on Wilim, but he's an efficient killing machine now. Usually ends up with a full morale bar at the end of each fight.

Burglars? OMG! Everything's a cake-walk. Easiest time getting from 1 to 50 I've EVER had.

Captain I had a problem with simply because I really didn't like the class. (Might have had everything to do with Wyncen being an explorer and my 7th level 50).

Until overpower came into being, I would have said Guardian was difficult. But with overpower... CAKE

Hunters & Champions are overpowered.

And Gildir to 35 pre-Month of the LM! That was an accomplishment.. there should be a title for that! Really! My first character in Lotro was a LM. got to 20... deleted.. tried again... got to 22 and deleted her to not be seen again until cynder.

Bottom line: I've soloed each class up to 50 pre-moria and haven't thought any of them particular "hard". Each had to put off certain quests until a later level because of their strengths/weaknesses, but each have done marvelously.

And note: I'm very "aggressive" when solo-ing. I'm in orange mob territory 90% of the time and occassionally taking on reds.

Excellent detailed input thanks !!!

To clarify guardian I would have to agree based on my experience. I DID NOT use overpower until lvl 51. I almost STOPPED PLAYING LORAXX since it just took FOREVER to kill mobs and I got bored. I rarely died but my DPS was just so low and near over AOE. Then I tried overpower and WOW the fun was back. So much fun that I could not stop playing loraxx till he hit 60 then I decided to take a little break to prevent burn-out.

[Tierawyn]

Now I haven't played all characters... but the reasons I voted for LM were as follows. 1) I play an LM mainly (isn't bias great?)... 2) Unpredictability - The difference between crits and non-crits during fights can absolutely change the fight. I'd say it's much harder without crits than some classes, yet much easier when it does crit (except for maybe hunters but that is their thing)... keep in mind that most of our skills that keep us alive (debuffs and CC) can fail (and quite often on white+ mobs).. 3) Inconsistency (ok kind of the same) - specifically referring to fighting undead and/or archers. Without blinding flash available, the LM becomes a different character. You kind of have to play it differently at that point.

All of this is somewhat balanced because you have a pet. But in my opinion, controlling a pet makes it a bit harder to play... even if the mastering it makes the content easier.

Hope that made sense... and just my opinion of course...