Play paladin.

Get a heal charm on acc slot and i use power shot first few points then add power s and salv till MQ

This post was edited by Pick on Jan 25 2019 07:55am

Or play samurai personally I think paladin sucks... his skills are trash

Pfft... just cast on all classes & soloing is a breeze!

Is it worth assigning points into Multistrike and the other sammy abilities if I'm climbing solo? I would usually just max Powerstrike

fwiw when I solo melee (not too often) I do use stat armors until around 35/40 as it seems killing the mobs faster prevents me from taking damage to begin with. Then I switch to the tank armors to absorb more damage (its a little slower). However I have friends who solo quite often and even on melee classes they put a few pts into Salvation and run a heal charm in accessory slot. This helps to mitigate some of the trips to town to shrine up or to regen. If I had your gear I would probably try and use the stat armors as far as you can before switching to the tanks. I also agree with Cheeya about filling that armor gap (even if its slightly less EE than the previous armor the base defenses will be higher). Hope that helps a little.

edit: in reference to sammy multi strike-- multistrike has a lower end avg dmg the benefit is hitting a full page of mobs I would avoid multi so much while soloing and shoot for dbl strike instead as it still hits two enemies and the dmg will be greater.

edit 2: in reference to your unlocked monk -- I know daggers are pricey so look into a EE staff set (they are usually pretty affordable) monk is super strong solo class imo.

This post was edited by AntTheProtagonist on Jan 25 2019 12:05pm

It does, thanks.
This armor gap has been killing me... I've already bought a 45 lvl 100 ee leather just as a temp armor.
I'll also try to buy a better MQ armor because this 155 ee chain is fine but I feel like I could upgrade without ruining my budget.

Ant's comment about salvation may be something to look into actually with the right setup you can definitely make salv work wonders even with base int on melee classes! Plus having a heal set is always a good idea

For samurai Id probably go with two hit back and powerstrike. Multi is definitely more of a group skill. If you end up duo or trio leveling then maybe consider a couple points in it but only if you think the group will last a good amount of time. Otherwise build solo for partial climb groups.

Staves for monk are always a good choice especially since you have a sword set for ninja should you pass personally I believe monk to be the best solo class before HH. Power strike, twohitback, and doublestrike with doublestrike being a class ability for faster increased

If you do go after a new MQ armor I definitely would recommend either a med armor or chain. Try staying away from plates as the caster mobs will shred you with crits.

Click real fast on monster

very interesting topic
thanks to all the good advice

I said use acc heal slot and salv at the top of the page already @@

Good points about stat armors until 40~, thats what I do

Also holy emojis batman

This post was edited by Pick on Jan 25 2019 02:32pm