Warrior race

[Stonewallx39]

I’ll also make a pitch for barbarian, if your dead set on not being one of the other big races. (Though I’d recommend Ogre for the #fashionquest but to each there own). Slam is incredibly valuable when leveling especially now that push has nerfed beyond the pale. One of the most frustrating things in the game when I switch from my warrior to monk is mobs healing themselves and friggen gating like crazy now.

[Trazic]

Originally Posted by Stonewallx39 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Slam is incredibly valuable when leveling especially now that push has nerfed beyond the pale.

Any race of warrior can interrupt. Carry a shield and when a spell starts casting you simply swap it in, press your bash keybind, and click the mouse again to put offhand weapon back. You won't even miss a beat. It is pretty easy and seamless. (admittedly it is a fair bit of annoyance when you are using a 2hander though)

In my opinion dwarf is the best warrior on paper if you are ogre/troll averse. In addition to their generally good stats they get a bonus 5 MR and PR which not many people consider. I guess you could make an argument for iksar in velious though.

[Stonewallx39]

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

Any race of warrior can interrupt. Carry a shield and when a spell starts casting you simply swap it in, press your bash keybind, and click the mouse again to put offhand weapon back. You won't even miss a beat. It is pretty easy and seamless. (admittedly it is a fair bit of annoyance when you are using a 2hander though)

Thank you for reminding me, it’s funny Ive been slamming for so long I pretty much forgot about this. I will say I’ve grouped with lots of little warriors and I can’t remember seeing them pulling out the shield a ton.

I have a half elf warrior on green created with grand visions of busting out the shield and bashing at that critical moment, really bringing the “skill” back to warrior. It didn’t work out for me at least and I ended up selling my shield. It was definitely tricky with the green UI, and I was usually too busy trying to keep aggro. Not to say someone more determined than I couldn’t do it really well.

[axisofebola]

Iksar
- some of the animations could only be described as hideous
-- significant exp penalty
- worse item selection.
++ regen
+ AC bonus

Gnomes
- fasionquest males look like pedophiles, females look like children. both look like they are ready for tea time with their weaponry
- comprehensively awful warrior stats
+ wall hack
+ eventually can self haste with tinkering
+ small without shrink

Halflings
+ hide
+ sneak
+ multiplicative exp bonus (5.5%)
+ghetto wall hack
+small without need for shrink
- fashion quest: dudes are ugleeeee armor is plain. (chicks are thiccccc tho)

Barb
- blind
- exp penalty
- still gonna want shrink in a lot of places
++ slam
+ fashion quest


Those are the only good choices out of non ogre/trolls.

It's obviously a female halfling, though.

[Crede]

Dwarf with the dwarven armor has pretty crazy starting war stats. I love barb warriors though. Great fashion, slam, and being tall and not fat is cool.

[Snaggles]

It.doesn’t.matter.

If one were to nitpick racials though sneak (halfling) is very handy as is 40% spell haste arms/wall look (gnomes). Even as nice as these are though pick what you like the look of.

Do keep in mind ogres and trolls in many cases will need a cobalt bracer ($$$) or ant potions (about 20p a click). Picking a medium or small warrior will make your life easier or at least cheaper.

[Keebz]

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

Do keep in mind ogres and trolls in many cases will need a cobalt bracer ($$$) or ant potions (about 20p a click).

Troll is appreciably smaller than Ogre in tight spaces in my experience, but still large and in charge. I've pulled a decent amount in Sol B and Guk as a troll.

[Baler]

Some resources for trying to min/max fashion quest
https://wiki.project1999.com/Fashion
https://wiki.project1999.com/FashionQuest_Guide

[Jimjam]

Halfling in Dwarf armour. Great all rounder. Looks great too imho.

You’ll find all warriors have some issues with tanking so early in the server. It gets better with Velious gearflation.

Which weapons were you using?

[radbeard]

dwarf cultural armor doesn't come out until a month or two before velious release.