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Big_w_powah said:

I was working off "war/bard" that he stated.

Mage/Mage/Wizard+ClrMerc+WizMerc+Rotating Slot between Wiz and Clr Mercs would probably be absolute optimal if all you care about is absolute optimal

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SK/Berserker/ENC + mercs is probably the most OP combination for kill speed. Those three classes are the current OP ones.

sukik said:

Up to which expansion is free to play at this point? And how much content would I be able to do with something like a warrior/bard with maybe a wizard or cleric?

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I box a war/bard/mage right now.

It's fine and once your warrior is geared you can pretty much do all the group content on your own except some of the difficult missions.

I am considering replacing the mage with either a berserker or a cleric. The berserker would increase kill speed, the cleric would make me more able to do challenging or awkward content.

Only in that an enchanter can do decent DPS (unlike a bard or shaman) and do some tanking (no really) but can also buff their group and add ADPS.

Personally I like the tracking and selos a bard has so much that I'd take my 20k DPS bard over whatever an enchanter is doing. I also think a bard is better at pulling and might be the best pulling class in the game. At many points that becomes super important, at other points the grouping game becomes so laughably easy that you can just pull tons of mobs at a time and kill them all with your well geared tank + high AE DPS.

I'm considering going from war/brd/mage to war/brd/cle right now because if I have a boxed cleric I can go DPS mode in my warrior, whose DPS totally eclipses my mage, and it'll enable me to survive tougher pulls more easily (under tanking mode).

This thread kinda goes over the balance issues that are in the game right now:
balance.. where art thou? | EverQuest Forums

In short, SK/ENC/Berserkers are S rank. Pal/War are A+ rank.

Xadion said:

I logged on, level 69 SK in PoP Elemental/Time with some GoD off slots..

NO fucking clue what to do, no idea where to level.... gear is crap...don't know how to summon the auto bro so I can solo....

logged off.

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Create a new chaacter, its all explained in tutorial. Log off, log into main, enjoy the auto bro and solo. There is a dude in POK that tells you where to go, hail him. Hes outside the guild hall thingie.

Last time I quit they nerfed headshot for my ranger, back a few years ago when it was still sony. Is headshot back?

Big_w_powah said:

Explain to me Chanter tanking.

Like, can I molo with my chanter? Without needing a box crew?

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I don't know shit about enchanters except they have some way to use runes to tank and something else to hold aggro. I recommend reading through:
The Newbie Zone | EverQuest Forums

There's a lot of good advice there for returning players.

But a boxed army will always be better than moloing. Moloers are the peasants in EQ. Even 2-boxing is bad because you generally have a tank + healer merc + utility/buffing + dps merc. So that's one slot for DPS and it's probably a merc doing 20-30k DPS in addition to your 20-30k from your tank. And unless you're a raid-geared tank you'll want 2 healer mercs to fight tier 2 named mobs, which means you'll be grinding down named mobs with tank DPS like a chump.

If you have a 3box you have tank + healer merc + utility/buffing + DPS + 2x DPS mercs. A good DPS can sustain 150k DPS, which means you might be killing stuff some 5 times faster 3boxing vs 2boxing.

I'll sometimes roll up to an area, watching a 2 boxing group be fighting a mob, and kill like a dozen mobs by the time they finish it. I have no idea what some people are doing. And I don't even have a really good DPS character.