Best class for solo farming instances?

[ThreePieceSuit]

I want to make a character that will be able to go through instances solo to make gold. I've narrowed my choice for a class down to two, but I can't decide which would be better.

Rogues would be good for their ability to sneak past most mobs, lockpick chests, pick pocket mobs, stealth nodes, and handle multiples mobs at a time with stuns.

A Frost Mage is my other choice for being able to go in and have control over most of the fights with freezes and slowing effects. The mage can't pick locks but will probably make up for that with the ability to get more kills. Also I could go Engineering for Seaforium Charges.

If anyone has any other suggestions for good classes, please let me know.

[mesonm]

Prot Pally, and feral drood, by far.

Both can heal, and take and deal damage.

[dwarfenhelm]

if you want to solo dungeons then go grab a warlock. you can find plenty of sites with locks showing you how they solo high lvl dungeons. hunters are pretty good as well with traps and feign to help along. palas and druids might be able to take and deal damage but they cant cc and drop agro like a hunter can and they dont have the multi fear and dots that a lock has has. pluss both locks anad hunters are great farmers as well no matter what you are doing

[jschild]

Well, can't speak from experience from the feral druid, but my nephew didn't need help when I asked him to help me get my epic land mount from the paladin quest. He was prot at the time and we took the long way, only thing he needed to do was drink. I healed him a few times just to have something to do, but I was just along for the ride. He could pull multiple mobs easily throughout it.

That being said, any pet class, Warlock or Hunter can do amazing things as well if done right.

[GenXCub]

Watch the Hobbs videos on youtube. Search Paladin Hobbs on there. He's a prot pally who usually brings low level helpers along and does SM Cathedral in a single pull.

My pally is only 62 and can do SM Cathedral solo in about 8 pulls, but I tend to make more cash on her doing places like RFK in 3 pulls. As soon as I got the Petrified Lichen Guard from sporeggar, I started soloing much better with her.

Mages are also good, but you have to do smaller pulls.

[Cerberus]

The downside if using a paladin is that you'll have to kill everything. Stealthing with a druid or having feign death really cuts down on time. Feign death saves tons of time as there will be times you don't get the run right the first few tries..

I'm not sure I'd recommend a lock. You end up with having to kite/abuse terrain at hardhitting bosses. You can't tank them yourself and the VW is no good. Hunterpets can get very strong with the right specc and abilities.

lol, writing this in between Archi attempts, just got out forst kill :D

[Baboon]

My guildie soloed normal Ramparts with his Hunter. Pretty impressive imo, I can't even do a Baron run on my rogue.

[moopy]

Watch the Hobbs videos on youtube. Search Paladin Hobbs on there. He's a prot pally who usually brings low level helpers along and does SM Cathedral in a single pull.

Not that hard, a resto shammy with a fire elemental can wreak havoc there also.

[TPMdm]

Not that hard, a resto shammy with a fire elemental can wreak havoc there also.

Single pull though? My lock with a couple well placed seeds of corruption and siphon life can do well there, but if I get more than a handful of Scarlets hitting me I tend to die :)

[moopy]

Single pull though? My lock with a couple well placed seeds of corruption and siphon life can do well there, but if I get more than a handful of Scarlets hitting me I tend to die :)

Nope, not single pull. I aggo mobs, drop an earthbind, cast and focus the elemental, and it nukes the mobs down with AoE. Just pure joy. The elemental's AoE is an instant, so as long as it gets the aggro, I'm not bothered by pushback.

[elsegundo]

i see two different views.

1. Run in grab everything AOE down to dust.

2. Run in head straight to the boss, kill boss, loot boss drops, DE, reset instance.

I dont know if the OP had a level difference in mind, like a level 70 in a level 50 instance, where in that case, you can just walk past most mobs without aggroing them. and even if you do, they're easy fights. pretty much any class can do this. rogue/druid can stealth past lots of things but for most utility, use rogues as they also have the ability to pick locked chests and doors. one other thing about rogues, you sometimes cant fight a boss without him bringing in his crew. so in those cases, being a rogue might not be the best thing if you cant take the boss down in a few hits.

but if AoE is your thing... there's a lot of suggestions already.

[ThreePieceSuit]

I didn't really have any kind of level in mind. I guess what I'm trying to figure out now is what would make the most gold:

1. Stealthing past mobs and looting chests and killing the bosses as a rogue.

2. Running in and killing everybody as.. well a lot of classes could do that.

[elsegundo]

I didn't really have any kind of level in mind. I guess what I'm trying to figure out now is what would make the most gold:

1. Stealthing past mobs and looting chests and killing the bosses as a rogue.

2. Running in and killing everybody as.. well a lot of classes could do that.

from what i remember, chests are usually guarded by one or several mobs. and even if you wait til they walk far away enough, touching the chest will aggro them automatically. with rogues you have sap, so you can take care of one guard while killing the other. all good.

killing bosses is a bit more tricky though, since a lot of them have sidekicks, and some you must summon. not all bosses just stand there waiting for you, so keep that in mind. but you can pickpocket! if you like that sort of thing. there's actually no "best" class. also, remember you can reset instances a limited amount of times per hour, 3 or 5, so you might not be able to do your technique that effectively.

[ThreePieceSuit]

Alright thanks guy. I think I'll make a Druid for farming. Like else said, you cant touch chests without aggroing a few mobs and druids have the ability to go stealth and tank so it all works out.

I just have one for question for the Hunters here. When you solo instances, what type of pet do you use? Tank or DPS?

[elsegundo]

honestly, for pets it doesnt really matter that much to me. i make sure it has high stamina, good armor, and some aggro abilities. oh and i also do not take my scorpid or anything with a poison, just in case i need to freeze someone, i dont want him to have any kinda poison ticking since it will break the trap.

[Findariel]

Prot Pally, and feral drood, by far.

Both can heal, and take and deal damage.

Yes, Pally or Druid .. tank + healer + DPS in one :)

[Shadowfern]

I've begun soloing several instances with my 63 BM Huntress. I generally place a frosty or explosive trap, mark and send pet, Bestial Wrath, use trinkets (Bladefists Breadth and Devilsaur Eye), I can pull up to 6 mobs at a time right now in RFD and they barely get a hit on me before my 2nd boom from my trap knocks them off. I love my hunter!

- Shadow :heart:

[MoRRoW]

Really low level instance, I'd go with a mage I think.

Instances likes STrat and scholo, I think druids and pally have it easier.

I have a feral druid, and I have to say soloing is a piece of cake, I stealth to bosses, get shard and DE. Although, you sometimes want to kill the other mobs, as greens might DE into illusion dust which still sell really well...

But bear form + heal from your improve leader of the pact = easy thing.

I guess Prot pally have similar tools.

Where I'm sure if you try this with other classes, you'll have some difficulty... warlocks against undead, it's going to be you that's going to turn undead, as you can't fear them... so really hard to kite them...

MoRRoW

[Ntrails]

Prot pally...

Run run run consecrate run run consecrate, reach boss, die really really slowly, bubble heal, eventually everything dies.

Feral druids at least have the option to stealth to bosses. My level 39 could easily solo SFK in massive pulls, I have done SM in one pull with a decent geared 70, but again they can cat through if you prefer easily making their way through mobs. I would say quicker than pallies. But preference. And the higher the instance the more chance of getting it wrong. Certainly strat is soloable.

Anyway. Farming lower stuff for cloth and greens I would probably say frost mage. Never done it myself though.

[corga]

I really cant believe you ntrails... Anyways the moeny isnt so good, if it was then there would be no primals on the AH

[tabstercat]

Yeah, I remember my friend DtkDaniel Pulling all SM and Freezing them and blizzarding them! He killed them all and i was amazed..( I was a low level )

[Khab]

So is the only reason for doing this to DE the BoP drops and whatever greens show up? Doesn't seem like there are that many BoE items in instances.

[clevins]

It's a fast way to get cloth if you need to level tailoring or FA... and some instances have twink BoE items (SFK and Shadowfang for example) that can sell for a lot. And, if you're levelling enchanting some of the greens DE into mats that are hard to find on the AH or pricey.

And it's easy to get bored at 70.... :)

[Justinledwards]

I soloed ST on my hunter in greens and blues, some of the pulls there are quite hard - the packs of six dragonkin etc.

I might try hellfire ramparts see how that goes, now she is in mostly T5 equivalent. I've 2-manned ramparts with me as elemental shaman and a fury warrior.

I used to go into Dead Strat on my shaman solo and grab the spawns - piccolo anyone?

[Havikoro]

I would say a prot paladin or BM hunter. :p

[Ritsuko]

My desto locks the easiest. Sacrifice your void for the hp regen buff and go at it. I never run oom or have to stop and eat. Shes my favorite to do dailies on, or run alts through crap, and between me and my boyfriend we have every 70 which i've all sadly have had to do dailies on. Hunters are extremly easy too. Both i can solo anything non raid in bc with.

[drewid]

Yes i think it would all depend on the lvl of the instance and how fast you want to do it.
I have a guildie who will farm elves in SMV, uses a prot pally and it is a complete masacre(for the elves), yet if i tried it on my fire mage id be squashed goo.
But my Fire mage can 3 pull SM armory, AOEing 3 times. eat rinse repeat.
RFK she can do in 4 pulls sometimes 5 because they sometimes lose aggro and run back to their spawn points if i try and pick up too many.

Sort of on topic, ive been trying to farm Mantle of Thieves from RFK, the first time i got 2 boe blues the next 25 times i have not had a single one.
does the game some how determine drops depending on your lvl? would it nerf the drops in RFK because im killing a 1/4 of the instance at one time?
or am I just completely unlucky?

How can someone solo Ramparts? do you actually solo the bosses as well?