Tips for a new Warrior

[thufir]

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

I have not, mainly due to me having a druid and them being kinda similar. At least that's what they tell me. I'm open to being persuaded though.

If you want to tank until 60, I'd advise against the ranger. They are pretty good at tanking things until the 40s because they have hybrid aggro, but they start falling off after that due to armor limitations. Not nearly as bad of a class as people say they are, just not a preferred main tank for groups. Reasonable solo adventurers, though.

[Teppler]

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

If you want to tank until 60, I'd advise against the ranger. They are pretty good at tanking things until the 40s because they have hybrid aggro, but they start falling off after that due to armor limitations. Not nearly as bad of a class as people say they are, just not a preferred main tank for groups. Reasonable solo adventurers, though.

Group content is a pushover in this game though. In a group setting you can tank stuff into your 50's as a shaman even if it isn't ideal. With a group behind you, Ranger will be absolutely fine tanking anything.

[thufir]

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

Group content is a pushover in this game though. In a group setting you can tank stuff into your 50's as a shaman even if it isn't ideal. With a group behind you, Ranger will be absolutely fine tanking anything.

Anyone can tank anything if it's shaman slowed. Don't mistake this for any group sufficing for group content.

[Raev]

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

Group content is a pushover in this game though

Take away everyone's Cloak of Flames / Fungi / Tstaff / epic / full spell book / bag full of clickies / max xp and all of the content would get a lot more interesting. Not super hard, of course, but more interesting.

[mropey]

PM me if you still have questions and want to avoid forum fodder.

[odiecat99]

gnomes are terrible. thanks for reading.

[Buellen]

Just wanted to chime in.

Raev hit on the nose.

If you want to play a warrior for fun(Grin) you can solo but it take way longer than other classes. BANDAGES are going to be your biggest expense early on. You have to learn what blue con mobs you can take at 50 % health.

Low level cheap HP gear: Alligator tooth earing 5hp x2 (Qeynos sewers Injured rat); 5hp rings from undead knight (qeynos sewers). Velvet chocker 5hp I believe quest from qeynos. WAlk into West karana and see any high level hunting ogers wil sell or gift a chipped bone coller 10hp. Electrium jaded bracers 10hp/mana relatively cheap from jewlers.

HOpe that helps.

[Diogene]

Warriors in xp groups are absolutely fine. Dont forget everybody on this server is no excellent player, a good war is always appreciated, no way people will turn you their back cause of your class, if'you're good they will ask for more. Your skills are more important than anything else. Roll halfling of you wanna add a difference, sneak pull is so OP and being small in dungeons is a great advantage. Tank dps the shit out of these mobs too. Warriors are fun. But I agree a non twink war can be frustrating, 15k is the approx budget to get decent AC / weapons / haste and strenght. You can do with less I suppose... But getting 10k before lvl30 is very feasible if you are patient.

[serjordanmormont]

Thanks to everybody for your input! I really appreciate you helping out. A couple things I'd like to clarify:

I am not in it to solo. I don't mind grouping, in fact it is preferred. I just didn't know if I wanted to raid originally, but after further research have decided that I definitely do. I was frustrated by my inability to hold aggro in groups when I was messing around with a low level warrior but if that really is just a gear/level thing I'm not too concerned. I feel like gear will come with time, at least based on what I've read in this thread. Also my main is a cleric (albeit he's still lower in level now) so once I get a little higher with him I'm sure I can make some easy plat with rezzes and such to help gear my warrior. At least that's what I'm told.

I will make sure I'm stocked in bandages regardless though and I'll for sure take all of the advice on starter gear I can get. I do have a full set of small banded armor which is probably okay for lower levels (I'm speculating here so please correct me if I am wrong about that). I'll make my way to Qeynos for some of the other things mentioned.

As far as race, I kind of hate how Ogre & Trolls's look so I can't see myself ever playing one and I don't care much for Halflings. Barbarian, Dwarf, Dark Elf & Iksar are my top options, but I could be persuaded to play a Half Elf, Wood Elf, Human, or Gnome if there is a good reason to go those routes such as solid unique gear. I've had a lot of people say one race is better than another which is fine but I will take aesthetic over min/maxing any day so long as I'm not going to completely struggle with the option. So rather than asking what race is best for a warrior, I'll ask are there any races I should stay away from if I don't want to completely struggle?

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[Samoht]

Struggling races to stay away from? Wood elf and dark elf. Starting STR/STA are too low. Especially for a plate wearing tank class.