Melee and downtime.

I'm new to L2 and was seeing if someone can give me insight on the comparison of all the melee classes according to downtime and PvP reliability. Any feedback would be most appreciated. Thanks.

no such thing as a melee class with low downtime
if you want fast kill speed BD would be the best bet, but i doubt they'd go too far without vr

if i had to guess id say one one the orc classes have the lowest downtime/fastest kill speed ration
someone else can confirm

Tyrant and Destroyer both get a nice selfheal which combined with high hp and high dps makes them have low downtime if you hunt solo and without buffs. If you have SE buffs, you can go nonstop :)

there is no such thing as downtime with my gladiator. but that is because i spam healing pots. if you have the money for pots and SS, then you won't experience downtime with any DD melee class i dont believe. and with VR, i dont use healing pots at all....

Well, I dont know about tyrants, bt destroyers dont really get a self heal... They have relax, which returns hp faster while sitting. Human fighters get this skill too. And every 10 minutes you can throw battle roar which is a small hp boost(Human warriors also have this skill). I have less downtime soloing with my Plainswalker than I do with my Destroyer, especially with the right equipment. With Zubei light and Dex tats I can solo greens and white mobs with little down time(I do use heal pots of course, but not that many).

Battleroar = self heal, duh. It recharges in like 4mins with Haste2 so you can use it when you have the effect already on.
And you call 3k HP a small boost?

Melee don't really ever get to solo in lineage. However, once you have some bufs, (also at higher levels, a BD), and find yourself a dungeon, you'll go non-stop. :D

TK = Best Solo Mele

HP cubic + self heal = 800-900 HP +
Storm Cubic = 450 Dmg to Mobs
Self Buffs like Might 2 , Shield 2 + WW2 + Magic Barrier + Holy Armor + Arrow deflect
360 Shield Def
Fast Attacks ++++++

GOGOGOGO TK WOOT

+crappy pattk and no attack skills :P

Battleroar = self heal, duh. It recharges in like 4mins with Haste2 so you can use it when you have the effect already on.
And you call 3k HP a small boost?

i am not sure what class you are talking about but battleroar does not do what you say for the humans. battelroar is merely a self buff that gives you roughly 200-300 extra HP and it last 9 minutes.

Gladiator gets Battleroar lvl 1, Destroyer gets additional lvls for it. Coupled with high Con, it heals several thousand HP at higher lvls. It is as powerful as BTB of the same lvl, only difference being that it heals+raises the max hp limit.

Melee needs to hunt greens or light blues. Faster and very little down time.

Made a destroyer sub on PTS and I soloed successfully by killing greens and light blues, occassionaly taking a health potion.

Now... the leveling is not very fast but it is constant.