Best Class To Solo New Content?

So I've come back a couple weeks ago, after taking a long break just as Seekers of Adouling was being released, so it's my first time playing it along all the new content. The first days were pretty rough, I had dozens of tabs, most with extremly long come back guides, it was overwhelming, I could only grasp a little fraction, I Discover the Survival guides on my third day or so after movin old school, even taking a few airships between towns.

So anyway, now I'm already used to everything, RoE, advanced on RoV questline... When I left the game I had my main, DRK with the full Empy+2 along other classes I use, and was working on Caladbolg and Ragnarok. I left with 39/50 lanterns, I finished farming them pretty easily with trusts and DNC, but after changing to the IL119 Bayld set, even as Dark I could solo the fish. I upgraded and tried Isgebind, it was pretty easy too stunning all it's casts.

So right now I wanted to finish Ragnarok, had to get used to Dyna again, I farmed either as BST, DNC or THF before the expansion depending if I was alone or with a friend, after I came back I farmed around 350 currency on Valkurm, I started to get used and change strategies, getting the right trusts, and with a locked THF, Mumor, Uka, Mayakov, Luzaf and Volker (Since he has Provoke for another JA and with jobs locked Trion and these wouldn't be much help) I get 650 single coins, usually 750 with the white proc.

Sorry for this long introduction, I just want to let you guys know my current state to make sure I'm now doing anything stupid, even if Caladbolg ends up being much better, I always wanted a Ragnarok, and I think once I finish it will be much easy to reach the second to last stage I'm planning to leave it (Just before the 250 Umbral Marrows, I rather start working on Caladbolg at this point) plus the augmentation of course.

So basically, I'd like to do Ambuscade, do thinks like farming the Ark Angels trusts and reforging items, but I think Dark it's better suited to play with people, at least with my current gear. So I was thinking on working on a second "main" class, a really good one at soloing.

As I said I have Beastmaster, the 5 3k Bayld armor pieces, some Empy+2 for macros, and just got the Sparks and Bayld axes. I tried Ambuscade on Very Easy (the easy one too where you fight a single enemy mantis) I purchased Jug Of Tantalizing Broth since it's one of the few that I think are good ones on sale. It got wiped after a certain attack, then summoned Falcorr and I had the impression it managed the damage better, but maybe it's just me doing something wrong. I managed to beat this one and get 100 points, yet in the second one Apururu died almost at the start of the battle (the bull died again) and Falcorr managed to survive until 15% HP remained where we wiped together.

[TL:DR] So yeah, basically I'd love to hear which are really good classes to solo, and also I want to have fun leveling again something, classes I love would be Summoner which already have all summons up to Diablo and the basic gear, other I always been interested in playing is BLU, in both cases I love the armors of SMN and BLU, and I think both would be pretty fun to play too. In the case of BST I really just leveled it to farm Dyna for Ragnarok before Adoulin, I don't dislike the class, but it doesn't bring as much excitement as others would.

I really would love to hear which ones are good classes for this purpose, and maybe the content progression I should make with them to gear them and eventually gear my DRK using one of these. Again I love SMN and BLU, but if there is a class that's far beyond than these in soloing, I'd consider it.

Hey welcome back. Don't need to do the 250 umbral marrows for Rag just the 5 to get to 99 then 300 plutons for 119 and 10k plutons for the afterglow (about 40m on Asura atm)

Drk with trusts can probably solo a lot of stuff just fine, i've seen people do Omen bosses on it. But you'll probably need a lot more gear for that.

If you love Blu i would recommend it for soloing though until your DRK has more best in slot pieces and an apoc :)

BLU is an amazing job for catching up and playing solo.

Fairly easy to gear up and a very high ceiling to work towards.

DRK can probably solo most of the content you're asking about, once you have all your gear sets sorted out. Not necessarily all top-tier gear, just gear for every set. (DT, Hybrid, Magic Evasion, Fast Cast, to go along with your TP and WS sets)

That being said, there are three jobs that can solo almost any content in the game – Runefencer, Blue Mage, and Puppetmaster. I would add in Red Mage and Summoner as strong solo as well.

• Runefencer + Trusts can solo almost anything, even some extremely high tier content. While that takes a lot of gear, the barrier for entry to solo mid-tier content is probably pretty low

• Blue Mage can kind of do a little bit of everything very easily without much gear investment, just takes time getting all the proper spells.

• Puppetmaster has a built in Tank or DD pet, and can DD alongside it.

• Red Mage offers a lot of utility, and once you get it geared enough you can render some monsters near harmless. Similar to how they soloed back in the day, a good Red Mage can nullify the enemy and slowly whittle it down to 0.

• Summoner can walk into any of the older high tier battlefields and face-roll them for gear/gil items.

Any job can solo with trusts though. I solo mostly on Dragoon and Corsair with trusts. Usually the setup I use is WHM BRD BRD RDM WHM, or WHM BRD BRD RDM Ayame. (for easy light or dark skillchains)

I'm sure Dark Knight can do the same.

Thanks so much for all the replies! And yes Aeros, I meant to say to do up to the 5 Umbral Marrow, since 250 it's pretty crazy and unreachable for me, and rather than spend all that money on the last upgrade I'll start working on Caladbolg while having a good weapon to play as DRK. So I think I'm going to try BLU, again one of the reasons too it's that I really felt in the mood to level something again to take a break from Dynamis and I really like BLU and SMN.

Beastmaster is still a great solo job but you need job points and preparation (and some sets, not perfect). You also need to know fights and use the appropriate pet.

I typically solo on puppetmaster because it's safer, though. Stuff like 135 UNMs, last month's Vol 1 Ambuscade on VD, sky gods... puppetmaster can solo stuff other jobs can only dream of.

The two pet jobs kinda specialize in different kinds of soloing, though. For fights with multiple mobs BST is better. For fights against a single mob, where there's no Doom, PUP is generally your ticket.

Blue mage is great solo too, lots of tools, but I rarely use my mythic BLU alt to solo stuff. Pets are just easier and more consistent for me, but I mostly play pet jobs anyway lol.

Bst is a great solo job but it's primarily for really soloing content rather than farming or playing with people.

Pup is a better choice as it does have moments playing with people and works well teaming up with some other jobs.

Honestly, Drg is what I would recommend for totally fresh out of lv99 job to clear content and earn some money from sparks.

Drg isn't amazing in anyway but it is very strong when you don't have top notch gear and soloing. It can solo a fair bit of ambu without anything great.

Next I would recommend would be Whm, Geo or Cor.

Whm has really low gear requirement. Other than Cure and refresh set as 'mandatory' you would only need fast cast and meva set. You might want the magic acc. sometimes but not many people would ask for whm to enfeeble much. What tough about this job is you have to spend time leveling healing, enhancing and probably divine and enfeeble.

Geo has a moderate gear requirement. However, most of the equipment would be lv109~119 already so you actually need less steps to gear this job. Geo, Refresh, Fast Cast, Cure potency and magic accuracy. You only need to spend time leveling geo skills.

Cor has a higher gear requirement. At least enough accuracy to melee, a WSD set for Savage Blade and hopefully Phantom Roll +7. It's expensive for top notch gear. Still, it's very straight forward.

For what it's worth, SMN is a fantastic solo job with no multiple characters needed. I tend to prefer it over RUN. I don't think DRK would hold a candle to it, honestly.

And how do you think (or anyone else reading this) it compares to BLU? Since I'd make an empy for either of them I chose, Nirvana or Tizona I should carefuly chose one, it doesn't mean I wouldn't play the other for fun, since I like both, but don't see myself making both mythic (I'm still unaware how long this process will be since never started a Mythic yet).

I'm in a similar place. I leveled Rune and Blu because of the reasons listed in this thread. I'm still working on gearing them both. I have had a bunch of fun on Rune but have run into a wall recently where it just doesn't put out enough damage for solo content. I'm hoping with better gear this won't be much of a problem. I haven't been able to test Blu in those same situations yet because I'm still gearing it up and gathering spells, but I think it might work better because of how self sufficient it is with buffs.

Blu is going to be really good for zerg-style solos when you're geared really well.

You can buff yourself to capped haste/attack bonus/defense up/magic defense up/phalanx/blink. qultada/sylvie attack buff you, and since you can cap your own haste you don't need ulmia out, koru or KoH come in with the dia III and other help, and ygnas does his best to heal and remove sleeps, last trust slot generally another mage/helper for heals or other buffs/debuffs on the enemy.

Pop the mob and cue the Expiacion spam (with 3k tp at start of course that you pre tp'd) for huge dmg while watching for blink to drop for occultation recast. Anything easy enough and without gimmicks just gets destroyed, and you can even handle adds with dream flower, etc.

Anything that drags on too long or is super gimmicky of a fight isn't going to be too fun because of your trusts missing cures or just dying off to AoE dmg or bad statuses, but for the squishy mobs blu definitely makes it easy

edit: And yes, a lot of jobs have the same benefits and can do the same, I only mention blu because it's the only one I have personally :o

If you are limited to spark gear, 0 jp and ambu NQ gear then none of the "great" jobs are worth it imo.

bst!

Give yourself steady progress and no one is limited to NQ ambu gear, only time. You can easily have a full +2 set for one job quickly- as in within 2 months and that's still building capes.

a quick word on RUN soloing. It has felt like for me that initially, you'll progress very quickly as you first start RUN and gather gear/understand the mechanics of the job. Then you'll hit that "wall" you mentioned, even as you slowly build up more gear for it. Then, all of a sudden almost, you'll break through that wall and it'll be a beast. Keep pushing when you hit that wall- its more than worth it.

I've seen pet job specialists do amazing things with their PUP, BST, or SMN at times, and its certainly going to be high on anyone's list. As I don't play those jobs I'll forgo any serious comments on them, just know that across the community they're respected for their solo play without question. The only debate comes when you've spent so much time and gil gearing up one of those three what kind of dynamic you fit in to when it comes to alliance play (outside of the SMN burns you can find more than enough information on, its just that SE is making more recent content "unburnable"). That pet job you build for soloing will always have a role in your personal arsenal, even if just a gil maker, but eventually you'll need other party-friendly options.

I’m biased toward RDM myself.

It takes a bit of work but in the end it’s a job that covers a plethora of potential positions in alliance settings and has superb solo capabilities for tons of stuff.

When someone asks about solo my guess is that they don't mean normal content, all jobs can solo normal content more or less. It's much more interesting to talk about difficult content that might only be solo-able by one or a few classes, specifically PUP, SMN, BST, BLU, SCH and NIN comes to mind.

Pet classes overall has the advantage of the pet tanking for you which is a pretty big advantage.

I'm curious myself between PUP, SMN and BLU who can solo the most difficult content, I'm not too familiar with BLU and SMN solo capabilities these days as I just got back to the game but I've seen PUP do some pretty cool stuff like soloing VD Frog in last ambuscade and pretty fast as well.

Almost all jobs can solo "difficult" content to pretty much the same extent as each other, it just depends who's playing the job.
The limit to pretty much every job is soloing up to T4 in reisenjima with Onychophora being the only soloable T4. Teles is probably doable by smn, but idk, maybe ask Papesse.

Some mobs are obviously harder for some jobs than others aka Yakshi is a *** for almost every job except smn.

Edit: for my opinion on best jobs, I'd have to be bias towards RUN, RDM and SMN being the top jobs from what i have seen, however BLU and DRK are beasts as well.

Summoner allows you to solo a lot of stuff.

I would add BST and PUP here. Especially that you have now an amazing meva/dt set for them and you can "throw gils" at your pet to heal it. DNC would be another job with solo potential (both burst and long).

I've not really seen PUP be used to solo anything above 135 without the use of Overdrive, it is more than likely possible, but that's why I haven't put it down.
And BST is good, i forgot to note that.

PUP if mostly single target foes. BLU Dream Flower and AoE is nice if something pops adds.

Looking forward some solo challenges here. Also, I want to learn how to play my RUN better than I do now (and so I'm not confindent in playing RUN in major LS events).

What kind of NMs, HTB or other events would be good choice to practice RUN solo ? So far, I've probably only solo Ramuh as RUN, was not even D I think...

Malignance set actually changed A LOT here. It's the first MEVA set (and I think MEVA is probably the most important thing when soloing, because avoiding all those debuffs/magic damage coming your way is really big advantage) for BLU and RDM, that you can TP in and it has massive - damage taken too. It's basically a set that screams to break solo challenges on those jobs. Store TP on it synergies extremely well with both Tizona and Temper II. Accuracy and magic accuracy is great for enspells. It's a massive upgrade and it's also pretty "easy" to get, because it drops even on VE, tho it might take like a 200+ runs with TH4. Still it's far more accessible than Volte Windurst set which has similar impact and role as Malignance but for WAR, DRK and PLD.

For soloing, start with small stuff, escha t1s etc. Slowly work your way up trying new strategies. I have a lot of gear choices for the public on BG if you need.
If you die while soloing think of why, with rune you have the power to prevent deaths more than other jobs. Aka you get doomed from an NM, check if you were using lux with Pflug, simple stuff like that.

And for major group content, I've always said its best to learn to walk before running.
Learn how to tank before you rush in, rune is played differently to paladin. There are many different playstyles to rune fencer so dont listen to 1 person if they say you must do this or w,e.

And for challenges, these are 2 challenges i like to do and give people who believe they are ready, however they are *** hard, although they are doable:

Solo Vir'ava as the 1st challenge.

Pop Albumen without any trusts except Brygid and try survive for 10 minutes with only meds + gear. It's possible to do both with Aettir only so don't worry about no epeo or nothing.

Have fun!

Any tips / strats for Vir'ava?
Think it's possible to solo Duc Vepar too ?

As a RUN, yes. Duke Vepar is 1000x easier to solo than Vir'ava.
For Vir'ava, my best strat is this:

Use a max acc/M.eva set (I can post mine if you want), and let Vir'ava spawn adds and funnel them all, wearing Relic feet +2/3 is very helpful, but not needed. While funneling watch out for charm, Beautiful Death and Frontal Fadal. Use Tenebrae runes to counter. Barfire/amnesia.

With all the mobs attacking you, you will be parrying the majority of these, which means TP goes from 0 to 1k in a blink of an eye, spam Dimidiation in a max acc set as Vir'ava will sharp get evasive, roughly 1700 acc and higher once she levels up a lot.

With Last resort + Battuta, it is possible to kill Vir'ava in under 2 minutes with all adds attacking and you gaining TP so fast.

And charm in my experience rarely ever lands on you, I've done 30-40+ Vir'ava fights and never been charmed in my M.eva set with Tenebrae runes. You can get unlucky, but easily recoverable in my experience.

It's a simple strat, yet hard to pull off, it may take a few tries to get the hang of it.

If you enjoy challenges and doing hard stuff, the feeling you will get from doing Vir'ava will be so good. I was happy for like a week straight after finally killing her, took me like 50 or so tries testing new strats and finally beat her consistently with this strat above.

You can't use Moogle or Sakura for the extra regen/refresh? Or do they mess things up?

I know you don't have that solo vid up(yet). Is it another funnel adds and keep runes/buffs up, spam Dimi, rotate JAs and juggle meds until one of you falls down? Since you said 10min I'm guessing you want /pld or /whm to keep yourself up a bit better than just using regen. Ignis and barfire/amnesia cause amnesia is butts

I haven't posted it since you can't kill it solo, but it's just a good challenge to learn how to play RUN without any support, since RUN is known for not being able to heal itself and relies on a WHM. But those trusts are fine.

/Blu is ideal for Cocoon. Most of the time you take 0-20 damage from melee attacks tbh.

I use Ignis runes with barfire/amnesia