Monk vs War in classic era

[Qtip]

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

Well if your group is fine with the penalty, ranger for sure. Yeah they are a meme class, but in all honesty, they don’t lack anything in classic. It’s after skill caps leave them behind and AC, but they are still a great group tank vs slowed mobs post classic.

And I second the ranger especially if the other player rolls mage instead of necro. You will have all the bases covered. Snares, aggro, pulling (clr/enc lull line, ranger harmony), slows, buffs, CC, sow, main heals, spot head etc. the only thing will you will lack is ports. Plus with a mage in tow, you will have summoned weapons for the ranger. (sword of runes wins in classic).

Racial/Class Xp penalties do not effect your group, only you. So if you add a troll Sk or just a troll, you will still recieve the same exp if it was a halfling druid.

[Jimjam]

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

Racial/Class Xp penalties do not effect your group, only you. So if you add a troll Sk or just a troll, you will still recieve the same exp if it was a halfling druid.

At blues point in time line, but not at release.

[El-Hefe]

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

Racial/Class Xp penalties do not effect your group, only you. So if you add a troll Sk or just a troll, you will still recieve the same exp if it was a halfling druid.

XP is split differently before Velious, having a Hybrid (or more importantly someone with greater total XP than you) greatly effects the amount of XP you receive at launch.

[Verityn]

With no one having twink gear I don't think the warriors will have that hard of a time tanking before Kunark at least. I played a paladin to 40 on a TLP server and there was definitively times when the ogre and barbarian warriors seemed to do a much better job than me at tanking damage.

[kotton05]

look At all these eager noobs who never played classic makes my heart swell.

Monk is basically fists and a shield of rainbow hues till late sky raids. Wars suck till 60 will always be outshined till discs are in and even then in small man monk will outshine everything melee. Classic is the caster era.

[Nexii]

Originally Posted by kotton05 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

look At all these eager noobs who never played classic makes my heart swell.

Monk is basically fists and a shield of rainbow hues till late sky raids. Wars suck till 60 will always be outshined till discs are in and even then in small man monk will outshine everything melee. Classic is the caster era.

Yup the only reason to play war/monk is to get 50 before Kunark comes out so you don't have to be level 1 on day 1

[Danth]

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

Yup the only reason to play war/monk is to get 50 before Kunark comes out so you don't have to be level 1 on day 1

There's also fun, that's the best reason of all. Not everyone likes being a clothie, math be damned.

Danth

[Seungkyu]

Aren't they completely different in classic?

As in the Warrior doesn't get crazy DPS weapons, and the Monk doesn't get crazy AC gear.