I want to play warrior but it's overwhelming, need advice

[theguyy]

So I wanted to make a useful group toon and maybe raid in the future so I made a Ogre warrior. I enjoy melee and such but this seems like an impossible task without some healer friend in the same room as me.

The amount of deaths and binds you have to ask for, no invis, shrink, gear dependency seems overwhelming. This is my only toon and I don't really want to play anything else but it seems like too much of a hassle to even be fun. I tried making a throw away necro just to solo grind gear and such but the boredom of an OP solo class made me wanna off myself.

How do you evil warriors survive on off hours of p99, or in general? I realize I'm supposed to group but I can't even run to my groups without multiple deaths half the time.

Need help

[Ravhin]

If you have a sow and are careful I can't see how one would die running anywhere, ever, except maybe across fear or hate. If you don't have sow buy a sow potion?

[Dr4z3r]

What level range are you in right now?

[theguyy]

I'm at the level 10 range, I can't buy anything cuz this is my only toon. I'm using a fine steel 2 hander and all my armor slots are empty lol.

I'm asking for advice on a warrior account that hasn't used some other toon to fully gear the warrior. I have like 5 plat and I can't see how you 50 warriors do it without being tweaked or having ALOT of help. Even when I have SoW some madman/ghoul/caster eventually will aggro+root kill.

[Dr4z3r]

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all my armor slots are empty

Like... not even cloth? You should be able to fill up your slots pretty quickly killing things like Orc Pawns and Decaying Skellies, and every bit helps!

[Dantes]

Dantes was my first toon here, made it to 39 so far as an evil Warrior. It's been challenging, but that's part of the reason why I chose this combination, that and it's unique. I don't even benefit from Ogre and Troll perks, but I am still KOS everywhere.

You pretty much have to give up the idea of soloing and always find a group. Figure out where the most people are around your level and go there to LFG, don't sit in EC with the LFG tag on. Be patient and /shout or /ooc for a group while you have /lfg on as well. Most groups will take a tank replacement who's already in the zone over somebody who has to get a port or walk across several zones to get there. They want to keep exp rolling. If it's off hours and nobody is there, start your own group. Send tells, YOU are one of the vital pieces of the group. Add a healer and you are set. The rest is just filler. You don't NEED CC at lower levels, but it can be nice. Most people who are LFG, if told "we have a tank and a healer and we're starting a group in XYZ..." will want to come join.

Join a guild. You'll need the support. People to port you, hook you up with SOW, etc. Otherwise just beg it off other people. It's no secret that if a Warrior is your main and you are not a twink, you are broke. People know it, they will usually help you. Being KOS was a real eye-opener for me, having played a Wood Elf during live. I couldn't get to half of Antonica without going all the way down and around through Rathe Mountains. High Pass = KOS. Rivervale = KOS. I actually joined groups in HHK while I was KOS to guards. If the group had a bad pull and had to run to guards, I had to either just die or try to make it to the zone. And those goblins don't give high pass faction, go figure! I had to have a druid wolf form me so I could turn in goblin ears. Ended up being dubious in Rivervale and HHK after that.

But look at the bright side. Hunting in Guk? Bind in Grobb. Solusek? Bind in Neriak. The only dungeon that was really a challenge for me to get to was Unrest, because I had to stock up on food before going to Faydwer. I had to jump the boat before the dock and swim around the edge. I had to be careful not to pass any guards on the way there. But I got a bind in Gfay and once I was set over there things worked out. The most popular dungeons at higher levels are actually near evil cities. Faydwer will always suck for you, but the higher level you get the more you'll just get picked up by porters anyway. It becomes a non-issue, just make sure you have what you need from the bank + food before going. Lguk > Mistmoore anyway.

[guineapig]

As an ogre start out agnostic and get to the commons as soon as you possibly can.

Bind outside of Neriak
Then basically level at nothing but the orc camps. As an agnostic it shouldn't take you too many levels in order to be dubious in Freeport. Keep an eye out for Deathfist slashed belts but be careful of the ratio at which you turn them in to (evil version and good version). At some point you could technically be doing both if you kill enough orcs.

Alternative methods include scalps and goblin ears in Highpass and Highhold Keep. Both of those quests net + faction hits with no negative hits.


By getting in good at Freeport and being agnostic you can basically play an ogre like any neutral race as long as you don't try to venture to the other Continents... and let's face it there is really no reason to have to venture to other continents if you don't want to.

This doesn't answer all your questions I know, but at the very least you can not have to worry about being an evil race.

[theguyy]

Thanks for the advice but being an evil race is only a tiny fraction of my concern. The main concern is just being a warrior with no other toons/plat or resources. Relying on people can only go so far especially on off hours and I can't always have someone port/invis me past guards and crap.

That's a good idea being neutral but I need advice about how to not quit p99 as a warrior. How to afford getting gear with no other toons and so on. How to minimize running across half of norrath on so many corpse runs only to enter a dungeon you can't invis past. Not like I can afford invis potions let alone Sow ones. Do people without a friend account or high level farm toon just not make warriors?

[Estu]

You can farm up some plat pretty easily. Kill decaying skeletons in North Ro and sell bone chips for 5-10pp per stack. Kill bears and sell high quality bear pelts for 10pp each. Hunt spiderlings and sell their silks. Once you get 100-125pp you can buy a polished granite tomahawk, an excellent newbie aggro weapon. This should be more or less your first priority, as you won't really be able to hold aggro otherwise, and there's no use getting damage mitigation (armor) if you can't hold aggro in the first place. After that, get a suit of banded or bronze - they sell for about 1pp/ac.

Always group, as others have said. Dying shouldn't be an issue if you're trying to get from place to place and are careful and know the zone. If you don't know the zone, you might run into mobs around tight corners sometimes and get owned - this is part of learning to play EverQuest. Get SoWs and invisibilities off people for travel. EC is an excellent place to level as a lowbie since there are people who can buff you up - you can solo effectively if you have regeneration and a damage shield. After that, hit up some dungeons - Befallen first, then Guk. Both have places you can bind nearby (Freeport, Grobb).

Starting an evil warrior from scratch is probably the hardest possible thing to do as a newbie in EverQuest, but it's certainly doable. If it's too much of a hassle, play another class, earn some money, and twink out your warrior later. This will make you more desirable to groups, though it won't really help you get from place to place without dying, except that you'll be able to pay for ports (but people are generally happy to port newbies for free).

[odizzido]

You could always play your warrior and a solo class. Try to group with war, if not solo with your druid or whatever and keep LFG with war. Always worked for me.