best overall character?

[Mizublu]

i think the barbarian is pretty strong early in the game, but now its starting to fall off(just hit lvl 100)
what is the best overall character from around lvl 100 and up? i dont know who i should focus.

[AlphaNexus]

I would put maestro and hunter on the top spots.
Hunter with looty gives insane dmg + Smeltin' Erryday for faster forge progress + Robbinghood for more dr.

Maestro will be your only choice if you want to farm crystal mobs / their loot in combination with lab / choco chip + thanks to crystal spawns your Maestro will outlevel every other class. Maestro will also give you 92% effi for other chars + 123% skill xp for other chars.

--> I would suggest using Maestro for active afk play. Will take time reach the last map in w4 because of his "low dmg" (Maestros paper dmg will make it a struggle to reach multikill in the later w4 maps but still oneshot every mob) but the boosts he provides are strong.

[Mizublu]

thank you very much

[Ov Å̪e̞oη̣s]

The hunter can get some great total damage for AFK gains, pretty much turns into your 'always fightin afk character', scales nicely with new content.

Shaman is one of the best damage spikers, great for farming colosseums with the AoE.

I think Bowman is great too once you are able to mad stack movement speed. Alpha covered Maestro quite nicely.

[Mizublu]

legends both of u<3 going to focus on hunter, not completely ready for maestro yet

[Tegga21]

Originally posted by Cakeboi:

i think the barbarian is pretty strong early in the game, but now its starting to fall off(just hit lvl 100)
what is the best overall character from around lvl 100 and up? i dont know who i should focus. :2017stickycrab:

Its falling off? but you have Zow zow dmg

[Ov Å̪e̞oη̣s]

Even with zow at 132 and all the monsters from world 1,2 and 3 feeding it i am still under 2million unbuffed, my hunter is quite comfortably sitting over 7million top end. Barb is really good while active if you are not crystal/giant/droprate farming with maestro but yeah he kinda sucks at AFK.

[Salmon Snake]

Barb is gonna be strong again within a couple weeks when the new subclass comes out for cooking, hopefully as strong as the ranger subclass.

[kone]

It's hard to say what's the best. Each of the classes excel at specific tasks beyond skilling but there are a few outliers. Bowman, Hunter, Shaman and Barb are especially good in easy to explain and intuitive ways.

Both Bowman and Hunter have naturally great damage talents and move speed for strong AFK gains with that sweet forge talent. Hunter possibly competing with Maestro for active gains too. Shaman is simply put very strong without much investment and excels at colosseum. Barb, while weaker in comparison and requiring ZOW, is invaluable for pushing and racking up death note numbers aka multikill bonuses for cheap. Truly pays off once you push ZOW more and more.

Then you take a look at Squire and Wizard. All Squire has is refinery talent while his main damage talent is dependant on accuracy and refinery level which is a terrible combination. Wizard is Shaman but without the niche in colosseum and also requires the mana talent combined with its damage talent.

You can try focusing on the first four subclasses I mentioned because they have intuitive endgoals but if I had to say, really only Squire is the one that doesn't benefit a lot from powerleveling. Wizard is still helpful to level up for worship talents.

Also never stop leveling Maestro, while I didn't forget about him there's too much to say about him. He should always be on your mind.