What class is best at soloing old raids?

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What’s your opinion?

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Best as in efficiency or survivability/power?

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as in being able to complete the instance quickly.

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Hunter, Paladin, DH, DK

Take your pick.

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Then probably Druid.

They can stealth past trash, they have 2 speed boosts + cat form, they can spam instant Moonfire and Sunfire.

Hunters are good too, but depends on how much having to fight trash bothers you.

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Shammy. if you are soloing them at a low level toon. Great AoE, the self rez, good heals, good sustained and great burst.

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Or I could just blast through the raid and let my pet do all the work.

When it comes to old raids, it really doesn’t matter what you pick. However, I agree with Demo that anything with a permanent speed boost, like Druids and Shamans, is probably the fastest.

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arcane mage with like jeeves for vendoring. you can port all over the place, so travel time is optimal, you have an aoe (arcane explosion) thats instant and spammable, you can invis passed mobs, you can float down from high places, you can add healing to your iceblock and iceblock to remove debuffs, can evocate to return your mana or mana gem back your mana. and there’s lots of extra movement speed talents such as run speed increase while invis, and run speed increase after blink, plus double blink.

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Mage isn’t brought up nearly enough in these types of discussions.

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with clearcasting i can evocate while running lol mages are amazing

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Are there boss fights where Hunters/Warlocks can do that other classes can’t because they have pets? Specifically talking about the hard CC or mechanic fights that require two people.

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which fights?

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Ones where like if you rack up 10 stacks of something you die, or leave an area the boss despawns. Ones where brute force can’t do the job. Forgive me because it’s 6am and I am still waking up.

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alot of old raids are nerfed to be soloable, though bfa raids are still a problem, so presumably shadowlands raids would still be an issue also. they just havent gotten around to nerfing bfa.

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G’huun and a few fights in BoD were where my head first went.

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they just need to spend some dev time on nerfing bfa raids

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i like arcane mage that gets 50% movespeed every time you shoot enemy with arcane barrage

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BM Hunter with a maxed Wind Stone from the Z Vaults.

No contest.

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and run speed increase talents for invis and for after casting blink lol

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yeah, those too. Speed with 2 invises, speed with alter time, extra blink with alter time, and everything recharges on boss kill, very fast

And you also have portals to get quicker to raids

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