My stamsorc main solo-tanked PvE stuff for five years, and he did surprisingly well. Now I decided to rebuild him into a DD recently - I'm getting older and just don't want to spend hours to clear a group dungeon anmyore. Well, as long as I don't forget that he shouldn't stand in stupid now, he's doing pretty well.

Zodiarkslayer wrote: »

I understand "soloing a class" as follows:

• Surviving on you own, no help from other players
• Using the the toolkit the class provides

At the same time please understand that all gear sets, all consumables and all other (non-class) skills are available anytime you wish for it (except maybe emperor ;-) ).
So the real questions are:

• Why does everybody think a MagickaClass is different from a StaminaClass? Because classwise they aren't. (It's not like you'd expect a football (it's NOT soccer) player to play only with his right foot, completly ignoring the left)
• Why does everbody assume any given content gets easier with a specific class? Because the content stays the same.
• And why do people think they are still playing a class, when they are only using 3 or 4 class skills out of 12 total?

With that in mind I can come only to one conclusion:

The best class is the class with the most complete overall package (toolkit).

For example Templars may have the minor Sorcery buff, but still no source of MAJOR Fracture, Breach, Brutality or Sorcery. That makes them an inferior class for soloing. True, they can compensate by other means. But that doesn't change the fact that they only have access to 1 of the 5 most important MAJOR Buffs/Debuffs. And please do keep in mind that this compensation takes up ressources in other slots and thus you'll always end up less efficient overall.
Extend that logic to the minor buffs/debuffs and... well, you know...
Or all other important stuff for soloing... damage mitigation, healing, diversity of attack types and damage types, class spammable...

I hope you'll agree on the principle.

If you get my point, you'll understand why I arrive at a slightly different list:
1 Wardens
2 Necromancers
3 Nightblades
4 Sorcerers
5 Templars
6 Dragonknights

Edit: After a good nights sleep, I've decided to demote sorcerers and nightblades.

Stamwarden is my favourite, but I find Magplar way easier to play.

Warden does have the bigger and badder toolkit for sure the dynamic rotations make it fun to play. It adapts to all content with a simple swap of a class skill or two. I’m running 7 class skills plus the bear and sometimes 8 depending on the content. In order to be effective you have to use them all.

Magplar is an AoE death machine. It’s what I call a one trick pony. Over load the AOE’s and stab everything in the face, rinse and repeat. It’s easy mode. Great for farming stuff though because those trash mobs don’t stand a chance. The play style is very vanilla. Same buttons in the same order every single time. Easiest one bar setup by far though many will argue pet sorc.

My other tomb is MagDK this is in a class by itself. I’ve built mine pretty much using the ardent flame skill line as the basis for damage. You can grab some survivability from the other two lines if you wish but I use mine for group play to push the most damage possible. I may expand the build for solo play later because I can solo the same content with her that I do both my warden (adaptable to solo and group) and Templar (solo setup only) but the problem is the overall squishiness of MagDK if you aren’t slotting the extra heals and shields.

But I agree best toolkit hands down goes to warden, but ease of use IMO goes to Templar (haven’t played sorc yet.)