Veteran players, which class for soloing?

[Razid1987]

I never played a Marauder, but I've seen BOs with 2handers doing some pretty crazy dmg. Guess that could work as well, since they are relatively tough.

[noisestorm]

I never played a Marauder, but I've seen BOs with 2handers doing some pretty crazy dmg. Guess that could work as well, since they are relatively tough.

no they arent if using the 2h faceroll specc

[Razid1987]

I never played a Marauder, but I've seen BOs with 2handers doing some pretty crazy dmg. Guess that could work as well, since they are relatively tough.

no they arent if using the 2h faceroll specc

What I meant with "relatively" was at least as tough as a Marauder

[aeoric]

Find Grulo in game if you can, he was awesome on his BO, both solo and in grps.

Choppas would verbally fellate him on T4 chat in order to have him offtank/guard/WS buff them. He always made the Choppas seem better and made for a great dps silo

[aeoric]

Maras are undoubtedly strong and self sufficient if they can close, but any class with ranged snare aren't troubled by maras if they know how to play. Also Mara often has snare not taking but still going on CD

From a T1 perspective S/B Black Orc, Mara, dps DoK - possibly dps Zealot but I found dps to be far inferior to AM

[Deadpoet]

All right, thanks a lot for the suggestions. It seems Mara is the obvious choice, with kotbs and black orc with one mention each among my minilist. What about blackguard? I thought Blackguard was tougher than any other tank in the game, I'm really curious why people would choose kotbs (who has no self heal unless you count that puny health/ap regen aura) over blackguard, but then again I havent played them at higher levels so I must be missing something. Could anyone explain which is the toughest tank of all races, or the one with the best survivability/offensive power ratio, and why? Thanks a lot.

[Luth]

I'm really curious why people would choose kotbs (who has no self heal unless you count that puny health/ap regen aura) over blackguard

Because most people don't choice classes in an MMO because of their single player capabilities. Tiny selfheals don't matter in a grp vs. grp situation.
That said, the BG is a very valuable tank. With 90+ hate he has the longest knockback (kicks you from GoE middle BO almost back to the start) and the longest knockdown (5 sec.) in the game.
The tank class main role (in PvP) is protecting other players.

[Sulorie]

Don't judge melee vs ranged balance based on T1.

[Aquilon]

I'm really curious why people would choose kotbs (who has no self heal unless you count that puny health/ap regen aura) over blackguard

This aura is permanent and with high parry\block or combined procs all the time. Very handy.

[Bozzax]

Based on your first post I'd pick

Order
1. SW (SOLO monster)
2. IB (tactic inc run speed on disrupt, tactic to reduce KDs 50%)
3. BW (kite kite or die)
4. WH (unstealth, KD and profit)

Dest
1. Melee DOK (snare cov)
2. BG (speed inc on disrupt tactic and auto dispell of detaunts)
3. Magus (selfheal spec and stach toughness)
4. Mara (TE, +10% disrupt tactic + range KD ftw)

BO could possibly be the worst class of all for SOLO play (ex duels). If you go tank SnB with higher offensive stats is normally better (All named Pawrun dont follow this general rule)