Rank Epic 1.0's in Order of Difficulty

Easier to hardest, curious how people rank all of the the TLP epics in order of difficulty.

I'm guessing easiest would be Rogue, hardest would be Enchanter, what do you guys think?

I think cleric epic would be 2nd easiest besides skyfire part

I think a better thread would be Which pieces can you OBTAIN on TLPs in Classic

I think you'll end up with several different types of lists depending on a couple criteria.

I would agree that cleric is fairly easy BUT there are two pieces that are competitive and one piece that is boring AF. That causes some people to list it as difficult. Camp the Lake Rathe and Sol A pieces while doing xp and all through classic til you get them and it's not so bad, if there aren't already armies of people them like you! Skyfire isn't hard it's just boring as hell. Do xp there while you are leveling and farm spells and it's not as bad as if you wait til you and your friends are 60 and they all want to be doing more exciting stuff.

I always played warrior and to me it seemed fairly easy. You can do most of the raid pieces before Kunark - if you are in a raiding guild that is going to keep the targets dead on cooldown during classic. If you aren't in a raiding guild then it's damn difficult even through the end of Kunark and into Velious.

I haven't done them all, nor consider myself any bit of an expert - but here's my shot at EASIEST to HARDEST (epics in bold are ones I've actually done - and I'm also assuming you are in a raid guild since no epics are really doable w/o one):

Easiest
Rogue / Shaman - by far the easiest - not "epic" at all honestly.

Easy
Druid - lots of running around and whatnot, but generally nothing too difficult - you can solo 90% of it.
Ranger - similar to druid epic, but you'll need SEoC as well - maybe a bit less running around.

Moderately Difficult
Bard - Trak guts used to be really tough - but this has since changed I believe? Could be wrong.
Warrior - Lots of raid drops needed - but honestly nothing really difficult here.
Cleric - Some pretty hotly contested camps, but otherwise nothing crazy here.

Quite Difficult
Paladin - I don't know much about this epic, but getting Soulfire, FA, and then epic is lengthy
Magician - some tough items here - staves, cloak
Necro - Slime blood seems to be the big holdup here - cape is kinda tough too.

Stupid Difficult
Shadow Knight - Marl Kastane - maybe this was fixed? Not sure. Brutal.
Wizard - Broken Golem is the hangup - OW only. Super Brutal.

Don't Bother
Enchanter - Vessel and Verina are huge poopsocks. I believe they added Wraith to instances?

Easiest to hardest? I'd have to say:
Rogue
Shaman (can skip almost the entire thing)
Monk
Druid
Ranger
Cleric
Warrior
Necro
Bard
Mage
Paladin
Wizard
Shadowknight
Enchanter

Very similar to the above list. Most of them are similar in difficulty. Some just have 1 or 2 really annoying parts. For example, necro is a really easy epic if you get lucky on slime blood drop.

YOU CANT SKIP THE SHAMAN EPIC ANYMORE. THEY FIXED IT.

Marl now accepts several hand-ins before despawning. It is no longer a significant bottleneck.

Oh, I've been away for a bit, didn't realize they changed shaman epic.

If you are one of those people that like to do epics for the nostalgia, for completion, or just because you want to, then by all means do so. Other than the cleric epic, though, I wouldn't bother. By the time you complete it, three weeks later it's obsolete.

Some epic 2.0s, on the other hand, are useful forever. Most of you will never get there, though.

I am not sure Marl even despawns. I was able to talk to him and get the medallion for his brother, run to Paineel and talk to his brother and do the turn-in. Then brought the note back to Marl, who was still there. I turned in the note and he still did not despawn.

The only NPC that despawned so far, (I am not fully completed) was the guy in Paineel to obtain the corrupted Goulbane. I still need to kill the NPC in the Hole, and then the final fight in CoM.

But yes, this quest sucks because of the spawn times of the turn-in NPCs, sometimes days, which makes them highly contested. I quit the quest after I won the DKP bidding for the 2H off a Tunare raid.

That's huge - probably drops the SK epic into the "Moderately Difficult" range.

That's also pretty huge - probably only moves the epic into the "Easy" range though.

No. Duriek, the guy in the tower of Paineel still despawns immediately on turn-in. Long spawn time, days, and highly contested on TLPs in Kunark era.

Fair enough - never bothered to even try the SK epic honestly - the Marl roadblock of past always just shut it down for me.

Hardest to easiest

Hard epics
1) Enchanter
2) Shadow Knight
3) Mage
4) Wizard

Avg epics
5) Monk
6) Warrior
7) Bard
8) Druid
9) Ranger
10) Necro
11) Cleric

Easy epics
12) Shaman
13) Rogue
14) Beastlord
15) Paladin

I have zero clue about Zerker 1.0

I've always wanted a mage epic pet

hopefully RNG gods are kind

Mage epic is easy if you actively raid during classic and kunark.

Shaman epic was patched. It cannot be skipped like before. Now it requires you do all the steps.

Yeah the only truly obnoxious part is the feather cloak where you're better off farming anything else to sell for krono and buying the silly thing from a farmer who knows what they're doing.

ya SK epic still has bottlenecks, it just has 1 less of them... it's still a

Mage epic still had 33 total dropped items that you need to gather and several annoying things like Tarbul and Quillmane. It's still the harder then everything other then SK and Enchanter epics.