Serious lack of tanks here

[Kohedron]

Tried a SK. Even at level 3 the xp penalty is brutally obvious. Deleted him

Tried a Warrior. Got him to level 6 but it started to sink in that I wasn't going to be able to fund him properly, at least for a good while.

[Tecmos Deception]

OP's perceptions are off, imo. There are lots of monks and not very many paladins, true. But there are a lot of warriors and a fair number of SKs on the server. Rogues (and to a lesser extent, rangers) feel more common than they actually are because they are almost always looking for a group, whereas almost any other class in the game can spend some time soloing if they want to. But in actuality rangers are the least popular class and rogues are bottom half of popularity or lower.

Tank gear isn't really any more expensive than anyone else's gear. You can get cheap cobalt/deepwater/blood ember armor for a bunch of AC and handy clickies while looking for dex (for warriors only, of course) and ac/hp/stam/resist options for the other slots. Hybrids don't even need good weapons or haste items since they keep aggro so well with spells. And warriors may be reliant on gear, but welcome to the life of a warrior.


I mean, you're really just whining. You think there are tons of rangers and monks on the server and that groups like them as tanks. How can you be complaining that there aren't enough tanks on the server when warriors, shadowknights, paladins, monk, and rangers all do tanking in xp groups? Lol.

[Buttermilk]

xp penalty too high on hybrids.

[Clark]

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xp penalty too high on hybrids.

[myriverse]

Gear enough to easily get a warrior up to 30-ish is very easy and cheap to come by. It's only after that when it becomes expensive.

[ncapatina]

There should be less tanks than DPS by a good margin. 6 man groups here bro, this ain't WoW. A full group only has a need for 1 tank but can support up to 4 DPS. If you've got a tank already who would you rather invite, a warrior or a monk/rogue? There are 6 DPS classes and 3 tank classes by my count (rng/war/mnk/nec/mag/wiz vs sk/war/pal). If you do the math and there should be roughly 3-4 DPS per tank that means if you see double the monks and rogues that you do wars and sks then shit seems pretty good to me.

That being said, warrior dps is really good with good gear. Pal/SK dps is always gonna blow but it isn't like 10% of a dps class. Roles are far less strict here which is a huge part of the EQ appeal. An ench for example can outdps anyone if managing a pet well, but can be even more valuable doing no DPS at all. In the right situations shamans can be really good dps or a more valuable healer than a cleric, or help passively with buffs and slows. Monks and rangers can pretty much tank for exp groups all the way through if you do it right. 6 pet classes can make a rapist group, especially with a shaman mixed in, etc etc.

Instead of saying - I can't find a Pal/SK/War so I can't do anything, think outside the box a bit man.

[Sadre Spinegnawer]

The class roster at any given time on p99 =

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This is what happens when you leave an elf simulator on for too long.

[Stinkum]

It seems that way, but Live had what? 2,000-3,000 players per server? Our 500-600 average is small potatoes compared to that.

[xCry0x]

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

It seems that way, but Live had what? 2,000-3,000 players per server? Our 500-600 average is small potatoes compared to that.

2,000-3,000 players on live isn't equal to ~800-900 prime time players where the majority are either logged on as geared level 60s or alts of geared level 60s.

Trak spawns and TMO shits out 5 level 60 ogre warrior dopplegangers, full cobalt, epic 1 hand blade of black dragon eye in the other.

The biggest problem of leveling a tank is the inferiority complex you develop when you end up standing there while the rogue with cof + epic + fungi agro tanks (or similarly equipped monk).

[fadetree]

DPS - stacks.
Tank - does not stack.