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Most likely no unless you're a CON/THM, because typical NM do more damage than you can heal yourself outside of these two jobs (and THM has superior DoT to kill the NM so they are the best NM soloable job). They have lots of HP btw, at least for their rank.

I'd say with proper sub skills you could tackle Koko anywhere from the early 40s up. A lot of these NMs vary greatly in their difficulty regardless of gear dropped. Some are extremely easy solo, some are very difficult, a couple are impossible without being the proper class.

It's not really CON as much as THM, and the reasoning behind it is THM is kinda a broken class at this point in how over-powered it is. The thing is, the dots available to THM (Poison, Dia, Bio) don't scale the same way the mobs do. So, for example, you can do a regular hit on a marmot for say 500 damage, but on an NM you'll only do around 40ish. That does not apply to these dots, so if your Dia ticks for 100 damage each time on the marmot, it'll still tick for 100 damage on the NM. That, coupled with over-powered abilities like Emulate, Shadowsear & Firm Conviction and you've got yourself one powerful little mage.

As for all abilities being cross-class, well, yes and no. Some abilities do require the weapon (ie: Lancer's Speed Surge, Archer's Trifurcate) to be usable, but anything that -is- useable cross-class also takes a penalty. Usually the affect/attack power is not as strong, the cooldown is usually longer, and the buff timer usually shorter.

My point is not that thm is not OP'd but that as someone with both CON/THM/LNC @ 50 I most often solo on my LNC.

Also the THM dots CC @ 90/tic & CON CC @ 30/tic both full strength.


Edited, Jun 3rd 2011 7:28am by aj7418