Warrior Weapons on a Budget!

[Samoht]

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

Jarsath trident rock on budget its like 60/70pp and 11/22

Really love the stats I get with this plus Fist of Zek. Good to use when not tanking or before Yak procs.

[Deckk]

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

Really love the stats I get with this plus Fist of Zek. Good to use when not tanking or before Yak procs.

Trident + Cane of Tranquil a good starter dual wield set up?

[Samoht]

CoT has a decent ratio for a starting weapon, and it is magic, but it has no proc or stats. I would recommend upgrading it, but haste is probably the most important thing you can obtain for your hate generation at this point. If you don't have haste yet, start saving.

Priority should be finding first magic weapons with about a .5 ratio (you've done that), 5/55 rings and banded (how are you on this?), and then haste. There aren't many haste choices for a non-twink warrior. Until Velious, it's basically FBSS or nothing, so start saving your 7k. 10k is the market for Sash of the Dragonborn (little faster and at least it has a negligible amount of AC while FBSS has no stats).

Back to weapons, finding decent upgrades can be slow, but there are a lot of options available. Fist of Zek and Jarsath Trident are probably the best non-proccing weapons for under 500p total. Sword of Skyfire is a close third, but you'll need to get rid of that before level 45. After that, it jumps to Wurmslayer and Lamentation for a few K each, and then beyond that Seb Croaking Dirk, Jagged Blade of Mourning, and Edge of the Nightwalker will break your bank.

A pair of Acid Etched Short Swords at 37 would be unstoppable, and cost less than 1k total. Replace one with an Ykeshan War Club at 40. These drop like candy for people camping the Hierophant's cloak in Seb, so they'll be even cheaper. Sure the ratios suck, but you should have haste by then, and the stun proc is an aggro magnet.

[Deckk]

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

Priority should be finding first magic weapons with about a .5 ratio (you've done that), 5/55 rings and banded (how are you on this?), and then haste. There aren't many haste choices for a non-twink warrior. Until Velious, it's basically FBSS or nothing, so start saving your 7k. 10k is the market for Sash of the Dragonborn (little faster and at least it has a negligible amount of AC while FBSS has no stats).

Full banded and bronze combo. No rings.

A pair of Acid Etched Short Swords at 37 would be unstoppable, and cost less than 1k total. Replace one with an Ykeshan War Club at 40. These drop like candy for people camping the Hierophant's cloak in Seb, so they'll be even cheaper. Sure the ratios suck, but you should have haste by then, and the stun proc is an aggro magnet.

This is good info. Now I just need some darn plat [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

[Samoht]

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

Full banded and bronze combo. No rings.

Get those next.

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

Now I just need some darn plat [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

This is why it's hard to start as a warrior. Warriors are fun, and can be effective when played well, but need serious amounts of gear to achieve their full potential. For that reason, you'd probably be better served making a plat making character (druid, enchanter, shaman, necro) first and farming. A lot. And then twinking a warrior with haste/weapons.

[Spider42]

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

This is good info. Now I just need some darn plat [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Like i said....same boat as you. [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

[kaev]

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

A pair of Acid Etched Short Swords at 37 would be unstoppable, and cost less than 1k total. Replace one with an Ykeshan War Club at 40. These drop like candy for people camping the Hierophant's cloak in Seb, so they'll be even cheaper. Sure the ratios suck, but you should have haste by then, and the stun proc is an aggro magnet.

These (and the mechanicly identical SSoY) will be worse agro than fast .5 ratio weapons until you can get your dex up enough to proc them with decent frequency. For reference, a 105 dex gives 1 proc/min main-hand and 0.5 proc/min off-hand, scaling to double that frequency at 210 dex (keeps getting better up to the dex cap of 255.) If your dex is 105 and your group is killing a mob every 30 seconds you won't even average one proc per mob when dual wielding proc'ing weapons and you'll give up a lot of threat and a fair bit of damage output for that occasional proc.

I found with my warrior that proc'ing weapons available before L46 were very weak, you're way better off working with casters who aren't afraid to root and rogues/monks/rangers who have enough sense to back off to max melee range. Root plus better damaging weapons and using Taunt when you have to works so much better than relying on procs.

At L46+ there are significantly better proc'ing weapons available. My warrior gets excellent mileage out of the "noob combo" of Sarnak Warhammer (8/20 procs stun) and Trochilic's Skean (10/25 and proc's a v high agro stun poison but is off-hand only.) Any time I can group with a slower, especially a shaman who can also buff my dex, I'll swap out some hp/ac gear for dex gear and ride the procs. So long as the slower is alert enough to wait for a proc or a couple rounds of my attacks before pissing the mob off it works well. The Sarnak Warhammer sells for around 3k these days, not a huge sum at L46. The Skean is a nodrop dropped 100% of the time by Renux who is killed as part of the Rogue epic, so make friends with somebody who farms Rogue epic or a Rogue actually doing it for himself (or try to buy loot rights I guess.)

[Lorian]

If you dont mind solo green ice goblins for a week or two you *could* get a fbss before 30, even as a warrior. But it will be boring. Someone said in the forum that a thick banded belt (massive STR) would increase damage output just as much as a fbss, and those go for 3k rather than 7k.

[Jimjam]

Have someone root the mob. Stand on it's toes and spam taunt after slow lands.

Root will keep aggro on you to start with and taunting after slow should be equivalent to having a stun proc go off early in the game.

Not all groups will have someone happy to root because the '[30] mana would be better used healing'.

[Deckk]

Honestly starting to really believe in the whole "start another character to make money to twink your warrior" thing. Haven't been able to get a group in 3 or 4 days with my limited play time. Debating necro, shaman, cleric (sticking to undead zones) or bard. I want my warrior as my main but I'm going to need to be able to solo a little with him to make progress *sigh*