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    So while working on some crafting I have been looking over what adventure schools might be fun/fight my play stlye.

    I was initially thinking of paladin but after reading some articles I am questioning that choice as it appears that they do not get a lot of heals and do not deal a whole lot of dmg either.

    So what I am looking for is what type of class would best fit one of the two playstyles below. With either style I am loking at something that would hopefully not have a lot of down time between fights and is solo friendly. Meaning if the class can kill but takes ages n ages to kill then its probably not the best for me at least solo wise

    Playstyle one: A ranged DPS based, willing to give up survivablity for the ablity to either burst a target down or to effectively kite them/keep them at bay while I remove their health. Yet if something does get into melee range of me its not game over for me.

    Playstyle two: Heavy armor character that can stand on their own, do respectable DPS and is solo friendly.

    I am not looking to do to much multiclassing at this point. Perhaps having one main school high enough that I can work on my primary goal(crafting) for now. Perhaps later once I get a hold on crafting and what not then I can come back and play with adventure schools more and develope a more hybrid build.

    Oh and on the last note, in prior games I have always been the group healer. Have not been really allowed out of that mold as no one else would play the healer and we always needed them for grouping. I have played ranger types as well and enjoyed them. Mages can be trickie for me, they are either very fun or very fustrating for obvious reasons lol.

    I do like the idea of my dwarf in chain/platemail as it seems more role appropriate to me. However I am willing to by pass that for leather/cloth as well as I have played games where a dwarf fits that role as well(healing types etc but not so much rangers lol. Perhaps I can be that odd dwarf the likes to plink things with his bow.)

    Thanks for any advice in advanced.

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    I mainly adventure on my dragon toon, so my experience with biped adventuring is a bit limited, but here is my take:

    Style 1: level an archer to 100 and then obtain (beg, borrow, steal, loot) a Demon Flurry Bow. For specific school, I'd probably go with either Ranger or Elemental Archer. With Ranger, you can use a bow, for the range, and still get a bit of cool Life-skill stuff (CoT, Heals). With the ELAR the school+Energy Arrows+Demon Flurry will pretty much keep anything that you go after perpetually stunned, before it can even come close enough to touch you.

    Style 2: Reaver. Can wear plate, half of it's offensive weapons transfer health from the mob to you, and a third of them do ethereal damage (normal armor is ignored). Nothing matches them for full-on liberal applications of serious whoop-arse.

    Anyhoo...just some food for thought, until someone with more bi-ped adv experience chimes in....

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    Cleric
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    Nice to play solo

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    For Mithril Platemail on 100 Cleric one must either be a Dwarf or have a second adventure with 10 armor use per level school to get to 910 armor use.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Sigi View Post
    Cleric
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    Nice to play solo

    platemail and heals - i got the most vivid mental pic of a fully armoured fighting machine with 6 inch manolo stillettos charging into a fray of undead.....
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    Quote Originally Posted by velveeta View Post
    platemail and heals - i got the most vivid mental pic of a fully armoured fighting machine with 6 inch manolo stillettos charging into a fray of undead.....
    I'm glad I'm not the only one who thought of something like this...
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    Thank you all for the suggestions. For some reason I thought reavers only could wear chainmail or less. Defiantly looking at their skill tree a bit closer now.

    And looking at a few others that folks have kindly suggested. Greatly appreciated as the list of possible classes is a bit overwhelming for someone new/getting back into things. Perhaps one day in the long future I will look at taking a few up for a broader skill pool.

    @the rest of you Sorry only way this dwarf will be wearing heels is if I get to drink to much again. And that only happened once and that gnome said she got rid of the pics!

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    Quote Originally Posted by velveeta View Post
    platemail and heals - i got the most vivid mental pic of a fully armoured fighting machine with 6 inch manolo stillettos charging into a fray of undead.....
    he, those manolos can be deadly (mostly for the one wearing them I think )

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    Elemental Archer would be my choice for number 1, flame arrows at a long range will certainally burst down mid range hp mobs. Ranger can get dark cyclone spell too if u have the nature skill but Elar gets burning archer epic spell (awesomeness)

    for 2 id say Paladin since is what i play best /shrug


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