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.
