SK vs Warrior in Velious?

[Danth]

Originally Posted by webrunner5 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

You made my point very well. Both a Paladin and a Cleric are pretty sucky Tanks. [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

If I take the joke literally, I don't necessarily disagree. I'll go one farther and say all the tank classes in this game sort of suck. Warriors have good durability but inadequate tools and can't properly do their job without outside help. Paladins and Shadow Knights have the necessary tools but lack a sufficient durability advantage over non-tank classes. Melee classes in this game just aren't balanced very well and this is one area where newer games (even newer versions of EQ) simply did a better job. P1999 is what it is, so I play the classes I like and accept their downsides.

Although I didn't like Planes of Power as a whole, I did very much enjoy watching Warriors scream bloody murder and throw temper tantrums in respect to their inadequacy and near-uselessness during that era. In hindsight it wasn't any more fair to them than the kunark era was to hybrids; I actually consider the EQ Warrior among the worst-designed classes in any online role-playing game ever. P1999 will stop with Velious, which is still better than Kunark for hybrids....Kunark is pretty much the worst period for the hybrid classes and every expansion (at least through Planes) made them a bit better proportionally.

Danth