Best Solo Class for New Player

[Darth Recluse]

Hello. Which class would you recommend for a single person playing for the first time with reasons?

[Spotter]

Hunter, Rune-Keeper, and Beorning, are pretty good survivors for New Starters. Their powers grow stronger and faster as you level up. That said, when you start, feel free to ask in WORLD CHAT, for Help, and Gear if you want it.

[Lyric]

The answer is always going to be whichever class you have the most fun with.

You probably have some idea of the playstyle you prefer, whether it's melee or ranged, a heavy, medium, or light armor user, etc. If you can answer that, it'd be easier to narrow it down.

The only ones I'd give caveats to are burg (can be slow-going) and warden (lag hates it and the most complex class). But those might be positives for you, who knows.

[Darth Recluse]

Originally posted by Lyric:

The answer is always going to be whichever class you have the most fun with.

You probably have some idea of the playstyle you prefer, whether it's melee or ranged, a heavy, medium, or light armor user, etc. If you can answer that, it'd be easier to narrow it down.

The only ones I'd give caveats to are burg (can be slow-going) and warden (lag hates it and the most complex class). But those might be positives for you, who knows.

Thank you for your answer.
I'm just starting. I'll play by myself.
I want something that can survive, something nice, not tiring but fun. I know it's tiring if experienced friends actually summarize all the classes in short, but I want to get information. Don't think it's easy.

[FaultyJawa]

Hunter in blue skill tree is great mobile damage with self-heals. Hunter also has the most fast travel skills in the game. Even if you don't totally enjoy the combat style, having the travel skills is great for solo players and makes story questing smoother/faster.

[Lyric]

Originally posted by Darth Recluse:

Thank you for your answer.
I'm just starting. I'll play by myself.
I want something that can survive, something nice, not tiring but fun. I know it's tiring if experienced friends actually summarize all the classes in short, but I want to get information. Don't think it's easy.

You should check out the lotro-wiki as it has pages for each class that will give you a decent idea of their general gameplay.

My idea of both fun + survivability would be the brawler. It's a melee heavy armor class where you can punch things in the face, fling them up in the air and then slam them down.

Another one in that vein would be beorning. You can run around fast in bear form and just maul everything. It's very strong right now and is perhaps the best solo class.

[bri]

I'd highly recommend a ranged class as otherwise parts of the game can be very frustrating.

[Ethan Tokes]

Hunter, or captain, its complex but really good. Truthfully I love all the classes except rune keeper, it is pushing the lore too much. I really love warden, but lag can make it challenging.

[Socal]

Hunter id say, i started as a champion because i thought a tanky class would be better solo but they all solo well, i recommend hunter because before you get a mount and after as well they can teleport around the map using campfires which speeds up the early game walking simulator or back to town slog. Esp if youre trying F2P as your bag will likely fill fast until you buy more slots (in game gold not paid)

[Darkrayne]

Hunter because of the many conveniences it has. Travel skills, campfires which let you set an extra bind location, ranged for faster mobbing on landscape, easy extra run speed, traps and CCs let you deal with pretty much all overworld group content with ease, can move while attacking in blue spec so you can just ping arrows on the go and never stop your momentum.

If you're talking about soloing stuff designed for group play though, including soloing many dungeons @character level, Beorning is probably the strongest for that kind of thing. Makes many of them trivial with the Beorning's heals, even in DPS spec.. but you need to like staring at a bear bottom all day. Overworld content is of course a joke for them. As long as you hit their heal over time on cooldown then you're hitting an "I win" button.

If you don't like bear bottom, then Guardian for soloing dungeons but they don't good at it until much later than Beorning.

[Darth Recluse]

Thank you to everyone who responded individually. I decided to play Hunter.

[bri]

Originally posted by Darth Recluse:

Thank you to everyone who responded individually. I decided to play Hunter.

When you get to Rohan you'll be happy you didn't go with one of the melee only options...