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Originally Posted by 7thGate
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Whatever you do to XP though, and there are different methods that will vary in speed, you do it 20% faster on a Barbarian. Its much more debateable how much regen improves things vs. FSI, but the Barb should definitely be much ahead of the Ogre.
Almost nobody reaches actual end game everquest, where you're BIS and have no more progression. End Game for most people is raiding with some mix of high end/BIS pieces, or farming items. You're going to be ahead by some noticeable amount on both of these goals if you're using a Barbarian vs. an Ogre, and it will likely take a very substantial amount of time for the Ogre to catch up.
They will never catch up in a raiding context until you reach BIS, you will always be a fixed amount of DKP ahead on the Barbarian until you run out of things to spend DKP on. If there is a quantifiable difference in farming speed or success rate with having FSI they will eventually catch up with the Barbarian's head start, but it needs to be quantified to see whether it is actually reasonable for that to happen.
As a more concrete example of what I'm talking about, if you ask the question "which race lets me farm the most stuff by 2030 on this new shaman I'm making", the answer is probably Barbarian. I'm really skeptical that the other racials do enough to make up for having potentially weeks of additional time with Torpor.
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Again, Min/Max is not about leveling speed. That isn't the normal definition for any item based game like Everquest where you get to max level and then play the endgame. In a game like Everquest plenty of people play the endgame longer than the leveling game.
Changing the definition of Min/Max to "who can level the fastest" is not the correct way to approach this debate.