I was really hoping to find a Barbarian warrior to buddy up with on my gnome warrior so we could complete the quest together around level 20-23. From what I can tell, the quest is really difficult to solo, so it was going to be this "I help you, then you help me" sort of thing where I help him complete the quest twice or more until we both get some nice weapons.
I've never done the quest before, so I'm not sure what the most efficient path is to completing it multiple times. I admit that I'm a noob to EQ questing in general... in fact, I didn't realize you could skip the pre-quests for Red V Clockwork and just hand the completed black box in to instantly complete the quest. Super weird, haha.
I'm mainly looking at the two-hander. Dual wield is basically trash until around level 40 when it starts proccing reasonably often, so a weapon with a hefty 0.43 ratio and stats (
https://wiki.project1999.com/Langseax_of_the_Wolves) is going to be amazing for DPS and aggro until I can get my hands on something like Axe of the Slayers, Ykesha weapons, etc.