Paladin: high elf or half elf?

[falkun]

Assuming you are dead set on HIE or HEF, pick Tunare, simply for the Nature's Defender. One of the best looking weapon graphics ever, and a good sword to boot.

Then the next decision is based on looks. Here are the Velious armor textures for Half-Elf and High Elf. High Elf is better in my opinion, but you can make your own conclusions.

From a min/max perspective, HEF get slightly better base stats, but both are inferior to DWF. ERU bring up the rear in paladin starting stats.

Good luck!

[HeallunRumblebelly]

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

Assuming you are dead set on HIE or HEF, pick Tunare, simply for the Nature's Defender. One of the best looking weapon graphics ever, and a good sword to boot.

Then the next decision is based on looks. Here are the Velious armor textures for Half-Elf and High Elf. High Elf is better in my opinion, but you can make your own conclusions.

From a min/max perspective, HEF get slightly better base stats, but both are inferior to DWF. ERU bring up the rear in paladin starting stats.

Good luck!

From a min-max perspective, it's a paladin <_<. Brellsbot~

Also, nature's defender is...okay? But it's absolutely destroyed by most velious equivalent weapons. Even something as silly to attain (and droppable, so save ya plats) as Narandi's Lance vastly outperforms the weapon. Also, it's a spear, and fuck yeah spears.

link for lazy: http://everquest.allakhazam.com/db/item.html?item=6249

edit: I should also point out that paladin's did make fairly good group healers, often forgoing melee stats for simply caster stats to spam more aoe heals in melee groups. Even with hybrid fixes, without defensive, it's simply a trash tank for the most part.

[Ferok]

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

Also, nature's defender is...okay? But it's absolutely destroyed by most velious equivalent weapons. Even something as silly to attain (and droppable, so save ya plats) as Narandi's Lance vastly outperforms the weapon. Also, it's a spear, and fuck yeah spears.

link for lazy: http://everquest.allakhazam.com/db/item.html?item=6249

A couple things:
While ND is a fine weapon, the lack of 2H Bash means it's inferior to FD. It is, as you point out, also inferior to some Velious weapons. However, I take issue with your use of 'Equivalent', as ND is ridiculously easy to get - especially compared to Epic.

Further, I saw only a handful of Narandi's during live - hardly a common weapon.

Finally, aside from Epic (much more difficult) and raid loot, it's a difficult weapon to upgrade in Velious. I raided NToV, Sleepers, PoG, etc - I didn't completely obsolete my epic until Ssra, though I missed that roll on the Tunare sword once.