New player tanking options

[aegeryen]

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

As a top 5 warrior on the server I can honestly tell you that Warrior threat is not broken what so ever. I can pull off with 2 taunt hits a slowing shaman. So its working well.

SK and pally have an advantage of being able to snap agro fast. Warriors can also do the same but we require items to do. (wont give away the tools of the trade) =-)

As far as growing up in levels, as with any class its going to take time for your skills to come into full swing. This holds true with any class.

It all depends on your play style and what you want to do. If you want to be MT for raids and tank dragons and gods. Go with a warrior. If you want to pull off great pulls and do some off tanking go with SK. If you want to be a backup healer and emergency resser and off tank go with pally.

Also keep in mind. A tank is only as good as healer that keeps him up. They go hand in hand. =-)

Thanks for the input man , I accually rolled a warrior yesterday , and someone gave me a executioners axe for doing them a favor , I realise this is not the idea weapon for a warrior , but I could probably sell it and get a decent proccing 1 hander to get me started , right now the warriors lvl 5 , so hard to say .I went wood elf with the race so i would have some natural dex think thats the stat that determines proccing ....

As far as the healers go , I been there , and was pretty good on my cleric back in the day , I generally play tanks or healers in mmos .

At this point in time, doing as much as I can to make sure I am going to be happy with the toon I choose for the long term .So I am doing the research early . I really appreciate all the feedback .

[Flash]

Get yourself a suit of banded armor and an obsidian shard.

[Gmal]

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

Get yourself a suit of banded armor and an obsidian shard.

bah forget that get with me later today when you see Sabbath on and we see if we can get you into a full suite of bronze armor maybe some other goodies. I dont want to twink you to much as it would ruin your experience leveling up but a bit of AC and some toys that will assist you with we can start working on for you.

[aegeryen]

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

bah forget that get with me later today when you see Sabbath on and we see if we can get you into a full suite of bronze armor maybe some other goodies. I dont want to twink you to much as it would ruin your experience leveling up but a bit of AC and some toys that will assist you with we can start working on for you.

Cool thanks man , Silph is my warriors name

[Messianic]

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

I am pretty sure race doesn't affect group's xp like class does. Only affects the individual char.

They do at this stage in progression.

http://everquest.allakhazam.com/edit...rs_letter.html

3. Penalties, in any form, should not be shared with the group. Players know that no one class is immensely more powerful/valuable than another, and as such it is not fair to ask them to share a burden. If classes with penalties were really more powerful or valuable than the other classes, then it might be right, but that isn't the case here. Furthermore, sharing of penalties causes people to reject potential group members on the basis of them "sucking" too much experience.

In context, that is the producers letter stating the radical changes they were making to everquest. Before the subsequent patch on 1/17/01, racial penalties were shared.