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Originally Posted by Dunes
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Just need an honest answer because Im in this for the long haul.
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A sincere answer?
Well, playing a warrior here for a month now I can tell you, it's a mixed blessing. The severe lack of tanks makes it easy to find groups, but once level 20+, you will inevitable run into twinked melees, giving you a hard stand to perform your role. To paraphrase it, if you don't get hooked up with toys by a friend, expect a tough and sometimes frustrating experience, in contradiction to early EQ, where most people were on a comparable gear level.
Anyway, if you don't mind swallowing dust, here are some hints to start with:
- as soon as possible, and before death penalty strikes in, get a bind Neriak and run over naked to SolB. Camping zone for some hours and nicely asking in /ooc will reward you with a rotting
Painbringer. It procs at level 0 and hence is the best aggro tool you can obtain at this time.
- play around EC, as there are always people to buff newbies and sometimes even provide some unsalable equip. Just be nice and don't beg.
- replace banded/crafted armor as soon as possible with crafted one. Blue armor pieces won't give you necessarily advantages over i.e. an adamantite band, but other players rather acknowledge you as a tank.
- build your own groups, preferably with casters. It's easier to hold aggro over a necro/wizard/mage, than over twinked melees with haste items and high end weapons.
- if you forgot about zones and spawns due to long absence from EQ, make a toon at EZ server, where people can achieve level 50 within a few hours, and use him for exploring.