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for really solo take a chinese full str glavie I think, but no parties for you.

Bard/warlocks dont need to use nukes.. just put one dot on each mob u can see, run a little, dot, run, dot, use vapire kiss or touch when your hp is low

You clearly can see, if you read what I wrote, that I added it more like as an option, not an obligation or anything even close to that. Nevertheless, true, they don't need to use nukes, but most of them somewhat frequently use it, from what I've seen.

I disagree with what is written in bold above. My wizard/cleric does very well soloing. Hell, just last night I took out the level 85 Unique that spawns in Cave B1 by myself... twice. It just took some caffeine, and lots of weapon switching: nuke, nuke some more, switch to Cleric rod, cast healing cycle and other buffs, switch back to my +5 staff, nuke some more... rinse and repeat. Wound up getting two level 85 chinese swords (although both were repair invalid.)

bard/cleric FTW

bard/rogue (xbow) since it requires low sp, easy to grind with long range and perfect against uniques.

I didn't vote because my personal favourite isn't there.
70:70 Ice Light Hybrid Bow with Protector
Whole build up to lvl 100 requires 1,182,711SPs
From my personal experience, not some made up bullcrap.
It kills faster than a full int nuker at equal level and same weapon.
Damage output is slightly lower than a full int nuker.
But because Bow skills execute faster, u always end up ksing nukers around you.
Guarantee a 1 hit to mobs your lvl to 2 lvls higher with a decent weapon. +6 would do.
Down side to it is arrows.

Skills to Max
Pacheon
Anti Devil Bow Series
Arrow Combo Attack Series
Hawk Training Series
Break Heaven Arrow Series
Explosion Arrow Series
Strong Bow Series
Mind Concentration Series
Ice
Cold Force Series
Frost Guard Series
Snow Shield Series
Cold Armor Series
Light
Piercing Force Series
Wind Walk Series
Concentration Series
Heaven's Force Series

Don't take nukes at all, its a waste of SP.

Usually not everyone has a +6 weapon for grinding >_>.
W/ a +6 spear a fire/light spear nuker can kill mobs ~5 mobs higher. W/ a +6 weapon rogues can kill mobs 10 levels higher. But yeah i guess that build is more fun than grinding w/ a nuker w/ only nukes or xbow rogue

Best solo in terms of what?
Fun? = Warlock/Cleric (can tank and kill plus debuffing bots is a nice break from grinding)

Speed? = Rogue/Cleric Rogue after level 40 or 50 can basically kill mobs 10 lvls above it with a +4 xbow. While some people say bard i disagree because if champ spawns on you and crits you might get squished while with cleric and healing usually lasts an extra hit. This is from my own experience. As well moving march is unnecessary as a good rogue in a good spot shouldnt have to move at all.

Next high speed one depending if there are other people...haha people... in the area would be warlock cleric. With zerk, dots, aoe dots, and aoe nukes, everything dies all you do is run around =)

I used to be a warlock/bard, I also used to be an S/S nuker. I would know. Basing an opinion off of videos is fail. It takes about 5-6 hits for the dots to kill the mob. Unless your ABOVE the mobs level, in that case, your getting shit exp anyways. In that time, you could've agro'd about 5-6 mobs, and be aoe'ing the **** out of them.

wizz/bard... like someone b4 said: great dmg + speed + noise
or (my second choice) blader. yeah sh1ty dmg but at least u r sure that u gonna survive against GP ur lvl...

wizzes die too often to be a good solo build imho.

yea if u lure to many mobs on u or use aoe attacks on mobs that u can't "one shot"... just use crozen spear then fire bolt and it's all ok. works for me...

What? Anyways, 5-6 hits from the DoT doesn't mean you must stop and wait for it to kill, and you can also cast 2 DoTs on one mob, which would kill twice faster. You can go running around with the speed from the bard and killing the mobs, they probably wouldn't be able to reach you. You should know that if you've had a warlock/bard. I had a warlock/cleric and it's grinding was very fast, with berserk it was insane, and it was low level using weak weapon, I imagine how would it be with a strong weapon at a high level using AoE attacks.

I have to doubt your skill as a warlock.

On one mob you put 2 dots, which has no casting delay, then run to the next mob, do the same. You regain zerk in less than 1 minutes, activate zerk, then just run around at an insane speed and put 1 dot on mobs only.

Warlock is THE fastest solo grinder in sro. I play Vsro, and everytime there is a new server, there is a offcial race ( held by the game operator ) for the guy who reach level cap first. For the latest 4 races, the winner has always been lock/cleric. I have also seen screenshots in which a level 90 solo lock/cleric gains 7000 SP for 3 hours at mob 85/87. I highly doubt that a SS nuker could do that.

Warlock is the fastest Solo build out there.
Nothing beats it in terms of "lvling speed"
Mobs your lvl die in 1 DoT.
Again, thats when you have a decent weapon or when you are 0 gapping.
+5 would do.
DoT, move to next, DoT, move to next, DoT, move to next, Vampiric Touch when you are low on HP.
Giant? easy, DoT, DoT, move to next and back, DoT, DoT move to next and back until it dies.

Edit:
I forgot to mention what I hate about the Warlock.
Its the fact that my pick up pet can't keep up with the kill leaving items behind sometimes.
Also, sometimes my pet got stuck behind obstacles after picking up an item.

STR Glaive.

Very hard to kill.

i vote warlock because i played warlock to lvl 23 and i remember once i hit 20 oh man i was killing mobs left and right. used 2 dots for mobs to kill them fast and they were above my lvl and i had lvl 16 dark staff. then when i had about 3-4 attacking me at once shadow armor or what ever thats an attacking buff with absolute dmg. i ran out of mobs so fast i couldn't use zerk (even while i was picking up the gold and items by hand o.0)