Celeatus don't know shit

don't listen to him

Dex is gonna be the way to go. In velious, every weapon has a proc, and there's only one way to increase the amount of procs. At this point, I personally would go 25 dex on all melee as well as shaman. But, as stated, it's not a huge deal either way.

Not EVERY weapon in Velious has a proc. Swifblade of Zek is one of the best melee weapons in the game. http://everquest.allakhazam.com/db/item.html?item=5745 Tons more just like it that don't Proc.

Melee's are meat puppets in Velious not really DPS machines. Even now that is their role just to take a beating and have others beat or spell cast the mobs down. Even a Paladin is good at taking a beating, I know, you are shocked I said something good about them lol.

Gonna have to go with STA. I had high DEX on my live WAR and never saw any benefit and when talking to other warriors at the time 99-03 I was always told STA is king.

But that's just like my opinion man.

As its your first character I'd be tempted to put points into STR to help you carry more loot (so make more money)!

Dex doesn't really come into its own till fairly high level, and even then it isn't as consistent as simply putting out potential damage through weapon swings.

A fairly easy weapon combo to attain at low level yourself is Iksar Berserker Club and Polished Granite Tomahawk.

If you want to make some money off players save your bone chips, spiderling silks and HQ bear pelts as these all sell pretty quickly in east common lands. There are plenty of decent ration weapons you can buy fairly cheaply; fist of zek, green jade broadsword and so on for circa 50pp. Alternatively you can try get a rotting scimitar of ykesha and trochilic's skean from rogue epic farmers. These weapons will take you through your 40s easily.

Becareful of Kithicor forest!

go STA. if you're in a group, have them root mobs and tank using proximity. that way dex isn't such a big deal. STR handy when you're broke as fuck levelling but it realy bottoms out toward end game

Swiftblade is really not good at all... it was kind of notorious for it's mediocrity. Curious what the "tons more" are - I can't think of a single viable Velious-era non proc tanking weapon, thanks in part to the fact that very good tank weapons become very easily available (frostbringer, lodi club, etc)

Gubbins woman isn't with him for the charisma...she is with him for his stamina :o :o

Kudos for rolling Hobbit. Sod the Mix/Max lark.

what about frontal stun immunity? omg