From Experience as a Solo Minstrel

I tested it with dragon's claw and autoskill Al setup.
It works fine, u heal urself for 1k pretty often and u can change between delay set and autoskill/eva set depending if in pt or solo.

Pt set: Malicia, Exe3, barbarotita and wisdom ring
Solo set (autoattack): Dragons claw, Pao IV, doggy ears up and fearsome claw.

I didnt bother with xtal/abi cuz my spina is under 0 lol

Upper and lower blue xtal.
Left, center and right red xtal.

Its from prod, carpentry lv 90ish i think.

Sorry for late reply x.x

Yes I just had 30 points into crt. The skill delay was the hardest part to get over to be honest. I believe skill delay is about 8-9 seconds per song... so soloing its pretty hard to keep to songs going and to keep attacking. Its possible. To be honest I liked my mixed build over my pure build. I tried Int max dex max agi max for magic sword and I wasn't able to solo any more.

Its important to remember that minstrel is mainly a support character. There are some mobs that you can solo, maybe even some low level bosses, (or some poor aiming bosses), but it may be a bit of a head ache if you just only want to solo.

I tried pure agi crt build also, and I died on every hit X.X. I don't know what the secret is there lol. It was great for buff support since you don't lose hp tho if you get ur hp to 1.

If your main concern is damage, I would say throwing is preferable to claws, and special bows with damage up per crt are preferable to throwing... but they all have positives and downfalls... I prefer throwing even though not as far a range as bows because you get some range, which you don't get with claws, and you don't lose damage for adding vit and int. Your main focus would be int max crt max agi (max aspd) vit max, you'd gain some physical and magic resistance and have higher crt damage...

You will need a high level for throwing to be plausible though... You may want to focus on agi crt vit and level as a claw user, then re-stat at a higher level. If you have help leveling up, throwing  may work, I'd max Int then crt and use passionate song for faster attack speed. then work on adding you agi to max attack speed, and the rest into vit for survival. Even when your attack speed is maxed you can use passion song and nostalgia song for the most damage, and use joy and sorrow/song of warrior? when ur hp starts to drop low.

I had the most fun with autoskill build to be honest I spammed healing potions when fighting bosses and that seemed to work with pet heal and joy and sorrow. Its all personal preference though and what you learn from others. I've seen some minstrels solo as agi crt, but I have no idea what their gear was or how they pulled it off I had no luck with that with max agi crt even low level mobs could hit me.

Hello!

That's because of the joy and sorrow song, but sad to say, I spoke to Capicuo about it months ago. He said at that time that 1hp doesnt work with J and S. I haven't confirmed it personally, so I need help from him (or any minstrel who viewed this if you would be so kind ) if this still true.


P.S. to nilthal:

lol, I have'nt become a minstrel yet T-T 

Oh i switched to samurai too? since i cant survive new bosses.

Yeah kenneth u just need dream/wisdom song because they mostly needed that in parties particularly in nommar
Highwizards needed minstrel for fast casting.

Can confirm joy and sorrow does not rez with 1hp. Its great for buff support though, if you decide on just parting with people, then u just need an mp healer