The Best Solo Class in EverQuest 2 in 2023 - An EQ2 Gameplay Guide 

I had to beat the big blob on the island before i could leave!!!!

This is so true. The game was so overwhelming very early on with no real info online compared to eq1

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Get on it!

Great memories indeed

It's got SUPER fun storylines and you can totally play solo with mercs, so screw your friends and have fun anyway :)

Good memories from back in the day

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kewl!

I've got a few on different servers.

This guide is not for TLE servers, so I can't speak to that here.

As Renfail said Wardens did not get all those good DPS until Higher levels. I assume if the TLE server is high level then those neat spells would come available when you level up. But I do not play TLE so I do not know.

As long as the TLE is on the Echoes of Faydwer expansion (or beyond), the melee healers - warden, inquisitor, and mystic - are great classes to solo with as a new player on the TLE. The main reason for this is because of the melee skill conversion in their class specific aa tree. If you spend 5 points on an ability, you will effectively get a melee version of it that does damage comparable to that spell being expert level, giving you the ability to do respectable damage without needing to have the money or the crafting to upgrade your spells. You'll also have innate survivability as a healer which can help if you're trying to solo harder stuff in only quested gear. These days though, if you're somewhat of an experienced player, the TLE solo-powerhouses are always necro, shadowknight, and illusionist throughout all the expansions.

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Nope and I won't

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@@Renfail Some funny things from Alpha. There were the typical glitches to work out, but city guards didn't allow PvP near them, so hitting someone or casting spells on players meant the guards attacked. So, if you even cast a buff spell on yourself, the guards would come kill you. Fish, sharks, and things that should stay in the water would chase you across land. Damage shields that harmed those that hit you...if you and your opponent both had these, each would instantly proc on the damage done by the other DS for a nearly insta-death loop of procs. You couldn't drag a corpse. If you couldn't get to your corpse, you'd have to trust someone to loot your corpse and bring your stuff back to you. And they had a default set of attacks across mobs, until they realized they had snakes kicking, and found it so funny they left it in game. Quest mobs didn't have all their chat. You'd click on an NPC and get something like "Response for quest ABC step 3". And long after the game was out and the Planes of Power raids were common, they screwed up a script and when people were fighting one raid boss, it would agro another from across the zone. Only 2 guilds beat both bosses at the same time like this. An uber high end raiding guild, and our guild. The uber guild would run raids for epic weapons with 6 man groups (pissed everybody off LOL). We didn't have great gear, and we expected to wipe, but pre-planning worked out and we were able to take down both. Everybody else was too scared. It wasn't the most fun role, but I was happy for my necro to be a mana battery for the healers in that raid.

We don't have an active guild, just as an FYI :) But the Antonia Bayle server. There are others with better new player populations so make sure to check out which one you think will work best for you!

@@Renfail I started on Varsoon because it supposed to be more active and a better place to learn the game. Well sounds like we need to start an active guild and learn raids eventually lol

Interesting...

@@Renfail curious-- what are your thought on the BL? do BL get spirit of wolf from their shaman side like eq1?

@@cc66bb44 BL's just get 2 stances - feral and spiritual - and each get a respective set of advantages you can use (abilities that generate savagery). They both also have a set of respective primals (abilities that spend savagery), however the primals that you have access to depend on the pets that you have grandmastered (there is of course a generic/base set). Feral is all damage, and spiritual can provide some healing and buffs along with solid group power regen. I have no idea how they pair up in the endgame these days, but when I was last clued in they were probably the most variable dps class; ie, if you had all the "things" and knew how to play, they were solid T1.5 (T1 being only summoner and ranger), but if you didn't, their dps was pretty meh. Or in other words, they're a hard class to get to max level and immediately play without investing a lot of time into them. Regardless though, they are most definitely not the best solo class xD. Ironically they might be decent soloers in the endgame on live, but outside of that they're worse than any healer, pally/sk, coercer/illu, and ranger. Their warder/pet doesn't have any taunt effects, and the healing in spiritual isn't enough to solo heal through difficult content (this mostly applies to TLE). Even in situations where you can, you lose out on sooooo much damage, and that difficult boss/zone you're trying to solo becomes incredibly long. It's also a mark against them that they have very little aoe potential in spiritual, which is a large part of being an effective and efficient solo class. They're still fun to play though, and definitely a unique class in the game.

@@cc66bb44They have a “warder” pet that acts as the shaman pet also would. They can have many different species of pets, not just a dog.

Woot

I remember I was playing a warden and use to fight a ranger called "ohnoes itsaranger". I once took out a x2 raid solo with my warden. The warden actually rose in popularity after I continually boasted about it on the forms!

Antonia Bayle is a live legacy server and it's where all my main toons are; but no, I'm not actively playing in 2024.

Oh, nice! Pallies are an amazingly well rounded class (= Typical on Kael). Ironically though (unless this has since been changed) bard's Victorious Concerto is the most broken ability on Kael atm. If you can get to a certain charge threshold, you will be able to 1ko or 2ko any of the raid bosses due to the scaling and the god buff. Troubies are the best too because of their 30s damage immunity ability (idr what it's called, but it's from aa's). I stepped away from the game shortly after that change, but it sent bards from the bottom to the top of the "best class to solo all of the achievements" meta list xD.

nah :)

Nope

mystic is way more fun in a group for sure.

@@Renfail We just hit some H3s today.

I remember the CoE era when mystics could solo heal dungeons while simultaneously competing with the T2 dps...those were the days :D

@@the1only1witness Could solo heal now if not for all the cures. The amount of cures required is crazy.

oh wait ... infusion is not for solo ... but I would never trade it for something else. Cuz doing dmg while healing is just to fooken cool . Sorry ya I'm a druid ... have no plan to play anything else ... albeit I did play a coercer once .

yeah you don't need groups anymore unless you are raiding at the cap. Which is only a small fraction of the playerbase.

It wasn't something I was interested in. Everyone has different ways of covering content :)

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arch-type

aa · kuh · tipe @@Kudeghraw

@@saharaantarctica2525 Are people arch bishops or ark---kuh--bishops? Arch type ftw.

@@saharaantarctica2525 arch type, arch type, arch type. nyah na na na na.

Why?

@@Renfail well in eq1 you could solo by kiting. eq2 you can't I could play a bard, druid, or Necro with speed boots and keep mobs snared while dotting and nuking them eq2 has some quirking snare thing where mobs can always hit you

@@cc66bb44Just isn’t true, most mobs can only hit you in melee range and are quite easy to kite.

Never played much in EQ2 besides guardian, warlock, & inquisitor, but I definitely remember kiting being a lot less of a thing in EQ2

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@@Renfail C'mon lol. Paladin in eq2 was 50% tank 25% healer and 25% mage. Was a jack of all trades but master of none, with the right gear you never needed a group. One of the best eq2 pvp players iv ever met was a Paladin ( Elwin on Nagafen ) I watched that guy solo literally an entire zone of players by himself. Dude was on exile faction, max lvl, he walked into QH one day and just stood there in front of the bank in front of like 80 - 100 players, many of them maxed out as well. His presence alone formed an even bigger crowd and a raid of lvl 80s formed over the coarse of like 10 min. Everyone knew what was going to go down, they were going to attack Elwin. I waited for them to attack, thats when agrro would be tags for anyone who hit him. This guy had the WHOLE DAMN zone try to jump him, including me. Bro, I died within like the first 30 seconds after my first two casts, turns out his fkin class specific breast plate proced and one shot me, then i sat their on the ground taking a dirt nap while i watch in awe as he slaughtered like 100 people, and his health never dropped below 50%. Dude was a fkin monster, he was the best damn player i ever saw, best Paladin i ever saw lol.

And yet none of what I talked about in the video had anything to do with PVP :) @@thefifthaceassociation

@@Renfail HA! Ya know, i guess you're right. My bad for trying to start a conversation. Guess I just figured id try to show some interest and add to the staggering 70 something comments you have.

Shadowknight counters the Paladin as they are technically anti-paladins which is the generic term. Pallies get lay on hands, SKs get harm touch to take those HP away again.

There isn't any pay to win in the game. That's simply your imagination

Yes there is. It's not imagination it's fact. Trust me, I played for over a decade. You're playing a game that is irrelevant and poorly managed; try to die on another hill for a franchise that is successful.@@Renfail

lol 100% a you problem, not a me problem@@Michael-dt9lo