Advice for a newbie Dwarf Paladin

[DMN]

I'd probably ignore that guide and just go strength instead of stamina on green. The extra strength will be far more useful through most of green's lifespan than stamina. Sta is like endgame minmaxing stuff. 99.9% you will never make it to a point where that 15 stam was relevant. But that str will allow you to maintain aggro a bit better, solo a bit better, and carry some more loot. And when you already lug plate armor around extra carry weight is a big boon.

[Ghamarro]

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

I'd probably ignore that guide and just go strength instead of stamina on green. The extra strength will be far more useful through most of green's lifespan than stamina. Sta is like endgame minmaxing stuff. 99.9% you will never make it to a point where that 15 stam was relevant. But that str will allow you to maintain aggro a bit better, solo a bit better, and carry some more loot. And when you already lug plate armor around extra carry weight is a big boon.

What are the situations in those 0.01% cases like? I'm planning on going at P99 green as hard core as I can, meaning I'll be playing a minimum of 5h a day and 5 days a week for the next 6 months atleast. I have played WoW before and am currently playing Classic so I do have some end game raid experience from that game playing hybrid classes like Paladins and Druids, if that is worth anything coming to EQ1. As I'm unfortunately too young to have experienced EQ1 in its prime when it was in retail and since blue is already a whopping 10 years old, I consider P99 green as my best chance of experienceing the aforementioned to the maximum in it's most authentic form currently available, and that means I have set as my personal goal to try to progress as far as I am able in the end game content. Given that, I hope going your suggested +15 strength instead of stamina won't make me completely useless in those 0.01% scenarios, will it? While I do appreciate being able to solo much better, I still want to be useful all the way to the end, or atleast to not be a dead weight holding the raid group down. I absolutely love hybrid classes like Paladins and Druids etc. in RPGs in general and I don't mind conforming even to some really specific niche roles if that is where I'm most useful for a raid as a Paladin. I do enjoy tanking the most though, healing and utility coming in a close second, and dps as the last, but I don't specifically mind any of those roles - quite the contrary.

[Fammaden]

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

What are the situations in those 0.01% cases like? I'm planning on going at P99 green as hard core as I can, meaning I'll be playing a minimum of 5h a day and 5 days a week for the next 6 months atleast. I have played WoW before and am currently playing Classic so I do have some end game raid experience from that game playing hybrid classes like Paladins and Druids, if that is worth anything coming to EQ1. As I'm unfortunately too young to have experienced EQ1 in its prime when it was in retail and since blue is already a whopping 10 years old, I consider P99 green as my best chance of experienceing the aforementioned to the maximum in it's most authentic form currently available, and that means I have set as my personal goal to try to progress as far as I am able in the end game content. Given that, I hope going your suggested +15 strength instead of stamina won't make me completely useless in those 0.01% scenarios, will it? While I do appreciate being able to solo much better, I still want to be useful all the way to the end, or atleast to not be a dead weight holding the raid group down. I absolutely love hybrid classes like Paladins and Druids etc. in RPGs in general and I don't mind conforming even to some really specific niche roles if that is where I'm most useful for a raid as a Paladin. I do enjoy tanking the most though, healing and utility coming in a close second, and dps as the last, but I don't specifically mind any of those roles - quite the contrary.

Given that this is your approach you should absolutely do STA. STR is much easier to cap with gear and buffs, especially as the game moves into expansions. You like to tank so that STA is going to benefit you more than any other starting stat boost.

As a dwarf you're already starting with 100 str which isn't bad at all. You can carry plenty and the plate won't be terrible on you, and eventually you'll be getting more str on gear to offset it. You aren't a dps class and knight dps is generally terrible for most of the P99 timeline so 15 str isn't going to change that. Paladin isn't generally known for its soloing so even if you end up doing some solo killing 15 str isn't going to make much of a difference in your (slow) kill speed. As far as aggro, paladins have tons of it through spells, that extra str dps isn't a tipping point on holding your threat.

Do the sta and 5 agi path IMO.

[Deathrydar]

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

Hello,

I have never played EverQuest before and am just about to roll onto the new green server to make a Dwarf Paladin, but I don't want to muck my first character up and have to start all over, so I would like to ask some advice in terms of allocating the stats and AA points etc. Are there any good character guides out there that would help a newbie avoid most of the critical pitfalls?

Dwarf Paladin is a good combo. I always put all of my stats into STR and STA when I start a tank. Dwarves already have great Wisdom to start, so your mana pool will be great.

Have fun with it!

[Fammaden]

Looks like dwarf starts at 70 agi so he should definitely do the five points in that though?

[Deathrydar]

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

Looks like dwarf starts at 70 agi so he should definitely do the five points in that though?

Oh yeah! I forgot about that. You kind of HAVE to do this!

[AbstractVision]

A few quests to check out.

https://wiki.project1999.com/Bone_Chips_(Kaladim)

https://wiki.project1999.com/Crushbone_Belts

https://wiki.project1999.com/Shining_Star_of_Light

[DMN]

Ya certainly on green go ahead and grab the 5 agi. you aren't going to want be itemizing for that 5 points of agility all the time. no need to make life even harder on yourself as a hybrid in vanilla.

[Danth]

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

Hello,

I have never played EverQuest before and am just about to roll onto the new green server to make a Dwarf Paladin, but I don't want to muck my first character up and have to start all over, so I would like to ask some advice in terms of allocating the stats and AA points etc. Are there any good character guides out there that would help a newbie avoid most of the critical pitfalls?

When you create your character, you'll notice some stats are in green (and raised above that race's default) and some are in white. This implies that the green stats are your class's critical stats. This is in fact not necessarily the case. Here's what those green numbers really mean: In addition to every race's base statistics, each class at creation gets 50 additional attribute points, with the game automatically allocating some portion of that 50. The green numbers means points were automatically placed in that attribute. In the case of the Paladin, 30 of the 50 are automatically allocated, some into each of Strength, Stamina, Wisdom, and Charisma. You can place the remaining 20 yourself. On a Dwarf, put at least 5 into Agility, even though it's not "green." Having less than 75 Agility carries a massive penalty to armor rating in-game, and the game doesn't warn you about this at all. For the remaining 15 points, almost any combination of Strength, Stamina, Dexterity, or Wisdom will work and there are arguments for any and all of them. You shouldn't need to add points to Charisma, even though it's green. It's only used for a couple Paladin abilities and as such more usually raised (when needed) through items or buff spells.

Don't fret it too much or over-think it. With only 20 points to allocate out of a 255 cap to all of them, it's not really possible to "break" your character. This is something of a big-numbers game, and 20 points isn't going to make or break anything. At worst you have to deal with some inconvenience, like needing 5 agility from equipment if you put nothing there and have only 70 base.

On a fresh server there is an important quality-of-life consideration with respect to strength and weaker races, but that isn't so critical for Dwarves since they start with a decent value there by default.

Danth

[loramin]

Rimson just made a great new http://wiki.project1999.com/Kaladim_Starting_Guide, and you can find lots of other great guides at http://wiki.project1999.com/Player_Guides.