Absolute noob Paladin
 

Just starting to play EQ again, First time on project1999 (Used to play EQOA frontiers on ps2) and im going to be building a paladin.

Which type of skills are worth ranking up 1H slash/etc. I will be playing as a tank paladin

also any macros, binds and things that'd be ideal to help me get started off? any help would be greatly appreciated, thanks :)

There is no other kind of paladin :D. Work on keeping all your skills maxxed though. You can let a weapon skill or 2 fall off if you know what weapons you will be using later on. Not really informed on what high level pallies choose other then 2hs though.

Use flash of light to hold agro, it's much better than taunt.

A baton of faith is a godly weapon for under 300pp, the ratio is way better than the mitigation a shield would have, but if you're adamant about being as tank as you can be, get a sword of skyfire for 100-200pp and then eventually sword of the mourning. (So to answer your question, 2hb, 1hs... 1hb for some neat but expensive paladin maces comes in handy later)

Save your skill points, level things up by doing them. just make sure you put sense heading on a hot key and bind that hotkey to your left or right turn key so it skills up as you walk.

Train all the weapon skills! Narandi's Lance 2hp in Velious, epic is 2hs, sword of the morning is 1hs, baton of faith is a dirt cheap & fantastic 2hb, and smouldering brand is a quick 1hb. If pally is your main, BOF + banded/bronze can hold you until the late 30s when you start picking up Ro gear and then Valorium (planar). The good news is pally gear is CHEAP, because they are such an underrated class.

Ro gear is pricier than deepwater I believe with much less AC. I'd aim for deepwater, imo.

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One of the main characteristics of the Paladin is sword-and-board. You have to get a 1hs and a shield. I recommend for a nub Sword of Morning, Ghoulbane, and Crested Mistmoore Shield, which has great stats for those undead procs in Unrest as well as some nice saves.

You have to make sure you keep up your bash skill. Its tough to skill up and you have to keep up on it constantly. It is a key skill even at low levels because you don't get your first stun until 30 and there's many caster mobs you'll run into before then. You are stuck with only one stun until 49 - you will absolutely need both your magic stun and your bash to deal with casters in Mistmoore, Sol B, and Lower Guk etc. When you're all grown up and tanking Frogloks and Erudite ghosts you will need it then too.

Baton of Faith is dirt cheap and very decent. Use the Baton on melee mobs, sword-and-board casters. Make sure you're keeping up on your skillups every level.

Also, when you get level 9 make sure you use Flash of Light liberally. It is your main snap agro tool all the way on up to 60. When you finally start stunning you will learn when to use Flash and when to use Stun.

Guys, thanks very much for all the quick responses.
I'm currently riollin with a 2H weapon, just to get me goin.

I'll probably switch it out soon for a 1 S+B and start gettin my weapon skill ups.
Only level 4 atm, but I will save up my skill points for now so i can max bash + FOL asap

IGN is pallypowah high elf :) running around like a bit of a scrub in Kelethin atm :D

The Ro gear to pick up are the BP and legs, which are cheaper than DW (since those are the stat pieces and they drop from raid targets). Otherwise, you are correct, DW gear all the way.

That name is aweful, reroll before that 40% exp penalty really starts biting you in the ass. However, HIE are awesome, but be male for the cat helmets:
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Also, get to 55, and enjoy this sexiness:
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