Race Stat Help - Wood Elf Warrior

[Dantes]

The encumbrance of armor is only a temporary problem. Using your starting stats to boost STR is not worth it. You will be able to get items like a Hero Bracer (10 STR), TBB (15 STR) or Mithril Plated Girth (9 STR). There's jagged bands, the jewelry you mentioned, and much more.

The problem is: bronze sucks. Avoid it like the plague. Get yourself a full set of small banded and wear that until you can start questing crafted. You can wear more armor before you'll be encumbered and get more AC for your buck. When you start questing crafted, resize all of your pieces to small via the dwarves in WC. Get some weight reduction bags to carry your spare weapons in.

Low STR was a problem for me as a DE starting out, but at level 37 with the gear I have now it's never a problem. I don't think you made a mistake. DEX and AGI are important, more so than STR. Your role as a warrior is not to DPS, it's to take damage. If you can't proc, you won't keep aggro. If you have low AGI, you'll get the shit beat out of you.

And novelty guy, I'm not so sure you HAVE to be an Ogre or a Troll to solo. I didn't get that memo, because I can solo Cyclops and Hill Giants just fine in mid 30s. Course I have to sit on my ass for a half hour to get all the health back, regen is a good point but I wouldn't go so far as to say smaller warriors are less capable. We can hold our own.

[Tronjer]

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

After doing some reading on the forum, people meantioned Dex being helpful with warrior aggro so I set my stats at 80/75/100/100 Str/Sta/Dex/Agi

Do yourself a favor and start from the scratch, as long as you didn't invest too much time into this toon. WE is a rather bad choice for a warrior, but if you want to stick with it it anyhow, put all 25 points into stamina. Even by totally disregarding dex for now, you will easily exceed 150 dex at level 50, with full gear and Shm buff. Which is thoroughly sufficient for holding aggro by dual-wielding yaks.

Aside of aggro management, the other part of the tank role is surviving and for this you need as much hp as possible. At lower levels there is not much difference between races but it will become significant once you hit 50. Talking about numbers: a level 50 full geared and buffed Ogre warrior, who put everything into stamina at char creation, max out at aprox 3.8k hp. Barbs and Dorfs have about 90 hp less under comparable conditions. However, your template with 75 sta will bring you below 3.5k and this is a huge gap toward the top in regard of absorbing hit spikes from later raid encounters. On top of that, the gap will still increase with a sta modifier of 6hp at level 60.

[toffty]

Ok I've decided to reroll with
80/95/80/100 Str/Sta/Dex/Agi
Seems more rounded then before

[Tronjer]

Level process should be of lesser concern, as, considering one sticks with EQ and his toon, he will spend considerable more time at max level anyway. Agi, hoewever, just gives a small ac boost with a 5:1 ratio and hence one shouldn't waste points into this stat.

I rolled a Barb warrior here, since I can't 't stand ugly races. As trade off I took a 20 stamina malus in comparison to Ogres, but that is at least still in range. Even though I find myself rather trading ac for hp/sta gear in most situations.