Tips for a new Warrior

[Rygar]

On live I had a warrior. Some mistakes I made was spamming taunt as soon as it was off refresh. If you have agro, do not mash taunt, you want to save it for when someone else agroes the mob then hit (has a chance to immediately turn mob to you, else mob will beat on your wizard for 5 seconds or whatever before your taunt is off refresh).

For holding agro, I found DoT weapons to work wonders. Black Blade of Tormenting + Bloodfire was a good choice for when they started procing. I hear short sword of the ykesha is good as well. Only problem with DoT weapons is if you need to switch targets they won't mezz your mob. Also not sure if your DoT on those takes hold if another class has a higher level DoT? Maybe someone else can comment.

At higher levels I found a Frostbringer to help hold good agro too.

[serjordanmormont]

Thanks to everybody for your input! I really appreciate you helping out. A couple things I'd like to clarify:

I am not in it to solo. I don't mind grouping, in fact it is preferred. I just didn't know if I wanted to raid originally, but after further research have decided that I definitely do. I was frustrated by my inability to hold aggro in groups when I was messing around with a low level warrior but if that really is just a gear/level thing I'm not too concerned. I feel like gear will come with time, at least based on what I've read in this thread. Also my main is a cleric (albeit he's still lower in level now) so once I get a little higher with him I'm sure I can make some easy plat with rezzes and such to help gear my warrior. At least that's what I'm told.

I will make sure I'm stocked in bandages regardless though and I'll for sure take all of the advice on starter gear I can get. I do have a full set of small banded armor which is probably okay for lower levels (I'm speculating here so please correct me if I am wrong about that). I'll make my way to Qeynos for some of the other things mentioned.

As far as race, I kind of hate how Ogre & Trolls's look so I can't see myself ever playing one and I don't care much for Halflings. Barbarian, Dwarf, Dark Elf & Iksar are my top options, but I could be persuaded to play a Half Elf, Wood Elf, Human, or Gnome if there is a good reason to go those routes such as solid unique gear. I've had a lot of people say one race is better than another which is fine but I will take aesthetic over min/maxing any day so long as I'm not going to completely struggle with the option. So rather than asking what race is best for a warrior, I'll ask are there any races I should stay away from if I don't want to completely struggle?

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[Samoht]

Struggling races to stay away from? Wood elf and dark elf. Starting STR/STA are too low. Especially for a plate wearing tank class.

[serjordanmormont]

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

Struggling races to stay away from? Wood elf and dark elf. Starting STR/STA are too low. Especially for a plate wearing tank class.

Will do, thanks for all your help!

[fugazi]

There are plenty of cheap weapon options that will serve you well into your late 40s. Green Jaded Broadsword, Jarsath Trident, and up to 20 Vilks Dark Defender will also serve you well. You can probably get a defender for free [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

And once you do hit 50+, buffs will see your str and dex maxed in no time. But, up until that point, stats from race and item will sure as hell matter.

(I vote wood elf warrior because they look sexy in plate and we alrdy got too many ogres!)

[MavstabYoudead]

lammy, jade mace, sword of skyfire all good starting weapons. will hit for max and have lower delays.

[serjordanmormont]

So I've been contemplating this and reading over all of the responses. I think despite not having much in the way of starting gear, I will fumble my way through as a Barbarian Warrior.

I'll grab a couple of the best cost weapons I can find to get started. A few of you have said a set of bronze will do he trick for a while so I'll likely purchase a set when I can. Anybody know what a full set of bronze is going for these days? Or perhaps where bronze armor drops? If I can't afford that I'll probably grab banded to start cause I think that goes for around 90pp and I can for sure afford that.

Thanks again for all the input!

[Jimjam]

Large bronze drops in Najena off of Officer Groosh (something like that). Shaman, single pull so soloable as an untwinked 30s warrior.

Regular bronze, can drop in Mistmoore IIRC and in SoldungB amongst other places.

Banded will be fine for many levels in old world and isn't much worse than bronze but weights much less.

[Samoht]

Don't even bother with bronze. Just hang out in EC and pick up random pieces of cobalt, crafted, kylong, seb scale, rygorr, etc when you see them for cheap. You can probably find some random pieces of human RZ cultural, too.

[khanable]

I have some RZ armor I don't need. Pm me if you want it (free).