Truth be told, ogre is the best, if you can get your hands on a AoN or Dark elf mask..
I have now played a barb & a Ogre to 60.. these are my thoughts.
Barb PRO:
-Faction, on blue is great, because you can recharge items easily in EC/WC where you can make this your 'hub'.. Im more efficent because of this (can ogre get faction to merchant out there? if so then this is moot point)
- Leveling is easier on a barb, you get an Xp bonus, and you dont get stuck and die in every hallway, its seriously an issue for an ogre.
CONS
-have to go to halas to get spells
-feel like you have a small penis cus evryone tells you how big the ogre's are.
Ogre PRO:
-Frontal stun, yea at 60+ its valuble, but pre60 it isnt. you dont face tank really, perhaps the argument that you can sit and JBB spam on slowed mobs when farming stuff can be made, but you shouldnt be farming stuff till 60 and should just be getting XP and 60.
CONS
-Size makes leveling a pain, you will get stuck in hallways on CR's and are less efficent cus you cant just RUN IN HELLA FAST and snipe a corpse or something the way a barb can, you gotta get in, shrink, etc.
-You will get killed trying to buy spells in grob, cus people that made vannila EQ loved making people cry back in 1999 by making NPC's that one shotthem at level 2 for lol's
A best in slot, lvl 60 ogre shaman, will always have something the barb doesnt have. But all in all, the stuff you do inbetween face tanking, and the times face tanking frontal stun immunity actually saves your life.. Results in a net win for the barbarian, as the 'more efficent race to play'
Can someone tell me if ogre can merchant in freeport?
I do belive that overall, my time was spent making ganes MORE as the barbarian, than it was as the ogre, because 90% of the stuff you do, is moving around, merchanting, banking, etc while 10% of it is actaully face tanking. Meaning that 90% of your time is made easier as a barbarian than as a shaman.
In otherwords, if you are min maxing, trying to be the most efficent everquester, its more efficent IMO to make 90% of your time more efficent than to choose to make 10% of it.
But thats MY opinion, and I love both of my characters.
And I am pretty hard core, and still dont see myself getting an AoN on blue or red in any forseeable future.
maybe well have an event and ill get a guise tho please for the love of god. Id prob go with my ogre, in that case.. altho, having faction on good cities, AND bad cities, is pretty min max too... so shit, i dont know!
EQ.. there is no Right choice, there are a series of bad choices, that start with you logging in.
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Tl;Dr Ogers have larger penises on average.