New to red, a few questions.
 

I'm not sure if i should post that in the Starting Zone forums, but anyways here it goes.

I started a dwarf paladin on red tonight. Completely new to EQ pvp and paladin as well.

1: I know that you can't fear or charm players in pvp, but what about root/stun/mez/snare? Does these spell land consistently against players with "normal" MR gear/buffs?

2: What is the role of the paladin in PvP? Stand back and heal or actually melee?

3: How hard is it to obtain "standard" gear set? For example: Sword of the Morning, Ghoulbane, Rod of Lamentation, deepwater bracers, how much would that cost? Obviously resist gear costs more, i'm not looking for BiS gear, just a rough estimate for middle-of-the-way stuff.

4: And last, what should i know or expect as a pally on red?

Thanks

Only advice for u is to not play here

1. Root/stun/mez/snare can all land in pvp

2. Paladins aren't great at pvp unless they are geared (from my experience), you should either try to melee our joust, maybe a real paladin can elaborate on this.

3. Paladin gear is pretty cheap, since they aren't very popular. You can check out the trade forums to get an idea of pricing.

4. I guess it would be pretty hard, since paladins without gear don't solo well, and you need some plat to acquire gear.

Some people on this server are very annoying, the majority are cool people. As in every kindergarten, the most obnoxious ones are also the loudest kids. Best left ignored in an attempt to educate them.

Good luck.

Hi Erydan,

1) stuns and roots always have a percentage chance on landing on high resist players, but moreso on players with 60MR or less.

2) Paladins make for a solid support class, with life touch and soul fires, they are able to keep key people alive such as main healers or main assists. You will also harass their healers and prevent them from healing.

3) Not too difficult if you know what to farm, plus there are generous players out there.

4) Xicotl being ninjad ;)

1: Don't expect to land much of this in pvp late end, but if you're righting people in rags sure.

2: Farm soulfire all day and night, if you don't come to the fight with 5 charges of soulfire you're a completely useless piece of shit

3: Not hard, join the zerg and get standard gear setup, then level up, get vp gear and logoff

4: You won't like it, play a wizard, druid or anything that can move around / do stuff

You're welcome

i lol'd

OP, you should also expect some people on this server to speak like this.

P99 pixel-farmers are thugs, in case you didn't know.

Years of incarceration in the secure housing unit known as "the basement" has devolved them into people that take pride into displaying a lack of decency.

Its the R99 way. Being locked away in the basement for years also makes them easily excited;

Give it 6-12 months without light, social contact with real people, and scouring the forums 18/24 while wearing your F5 key down, if you want to get down with these guys.

1 yes
2 yes
3 is a sad mans tears
4 druid is the best starting class for any eq server

Starting as a melee will be tough, get a foothold onto the server then make a melee

Lay on hands, was flat out doing SQL queries at the time... shhh

Drakaris I'm going to install a program on your computer and monitor it to see if you are hacking