did 1.0 have an "uber" solo class?Follow

By thats I mean a job that (if well equipped and skilled enough) the player could solo or duo things that under normal circumstances would take ahwole party to do. for example RDMs in FFXI soloing high level NMs and BCNMs that would usually require a party or an evasion tank of DD (thief) that could solo or duo things who would usually need a full party for... was there anything like that in 1.0 and jobs that could do it?

Yeah, 1.0 Thaumaturge was insane...in 2.0, I'm sure there will be a class that's great at soloing, but I'm sure that every class will be able to solo somewhat.

Archer could solo nearly any monster. I soloed NM's far above what I should be able to with the following:

"Nock" up to three arrows
Cast Shock Spikes
Light shot (with the 3 arrows, I now have enough for a WS
WS
Nock
Fire again (2 arrows)
Leash the NM (Cheeseball way of dragging an nm out of their "zone" so they would deaggro)
Repeat before it regained health.



Edited, May 6th 2013 8:13am by Louiscool

Warrior. 1 v.s. 10? No problem.

Before that, a Gladiator with all the classes leveled could solo monsters 40 levels higher.

Edited, May 6th 2013 12:35pm by GDLYL

If you're 50 and have all your classes leveled you can solo level 90 monsters and live to tell the tale. I'm trying to find the video to post lol.

Edited, May 6th 2013 1:27pm by GDLYL

I'm not so sure that would be possible after ARR is released to be honest but I guess time will tell... At least I hope not all classes can be lvled that fast takes just a smidgen of fun out of it and respect for the lvled class as well. And from what I understand pugilist/monk could hold its own as well solo. I hope its not to nurfed in ARR cause I've been actually thinking of lvlibg this class/job as a makeshift thief untill its released...

Not sure why my first post got rated down tbh, I just meant that in XI there were a lot of use in being able to solo mobs that were tough. In ARR I am not so sure there will actually be any mobs like that to kill, and if there are if there is much point in killing them solo.

I mean there will be no NMs, the few BCNM-like events we have heard of (primals) at least in 1.0 didn't have anything not rare/ex, instances up to cap is basically for exping meaning soloing it will most likely not be a very efficient way of doing it, raids will most likely have mostly rare/ex items.

Adding to that there is now a tiered progression system which makes older gear useless. One of the reasons there was a point in actually killing older mobs (which a lot of the NMs that were soloable were when they were first soloed like sky/sea/enm) was that they might have had a specific item which was old but still good for that particular slot/ability. Without gear swaps and new content more or less making all older content useless as soon as you clear the new content kind of takes away the reasons (outside of just pure fun) in even doing older events.

I guess with the tiered progression system we have it might be a point in soloing lower raids if you have progressed past them to be able to sell the items on AH for those who haven't progressed that far yet, assuming it isn't rare/ex and instead "bind on having gained exp with the item on".

Hopefully I am wrong though because soloing really tough mobs is amongst the most fun I've had.

Just wondering, why would anyone still ask these kind of questions about 1.0?

someone said soloing if you have all classes/jobs leved to cap is makes soloing easier so I just said in that case Ill do that (whereas i originally only planned to level pugilist, monk maybe get a few cure and b buff spells and maybe lancer/drg and archer... but if i have to level EVERYTHING for the best solo chances Im just simply saying the ease of leveling should make that goal quick and easy to accomplish...

now if i were only leveling one or two jobs then yeah Id want it to take a few months but if im gonan be leveling them all Id prefer it didnt take 10 years either. so no i wasnt going for an "omg i hate casuals" descussion. Now Im ok and would even prefer taking 1 year to level ONE job if thats the only job I plan to play. but if i plan to level ALL of them then yes I dont wanna take 10 years doing it. so in the case with all the leveling Ill have to do Im fie with it not taking forever.

I guess a large portion of MMO players are OK with the aforementioned style of leveling and at this point SE has to recoup some money so the direction they're taking is not surprising to me.

Games are big business now and corporations don't want to take big chances, understandable to a degree BUT there are plenty of creative/different ways to implement these systems that would please casual and hardcore players alike, they have to be polished and engaging but there is room for something new, there is so much potential.

The genre is so stale to me and I won't be handing my money over if it ends up being the same old thing..even with a Final Fantasy skin.

I will give it a chance no doubt, here's to hoping that Yoshi has some surprises in store for us.

I agree.

I wasn't implying or saying that this was the nature of ARR, I just don't see much of an issue with either style.

For instance, that level 20 dungeon was added in 1.0 and I never visited it. Even leveling up another job, I just thought "well I'll outlevel anything i get...

I wish that all people thought like this