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The recent melee fix made things easier. It's supposed tobe more accurate now. And you want it even easier?
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It's still not right. I'm not exactly sure what ac is doing right now. But from my group experiences of the past few days, except for having more hp's warriors, sk's, and paladins don't tank any better than rogues.
No parses, but last night in Unrest a warrior was just taking too much damage from light blues and above. The guy was definitely experienced, and it looked like he was wearing bronze (didn't inspect him though). It just wasn't right, is all I can tell you.
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Originally Posted by stormlord
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I understand where you're coming from. Live classic servers had about 27x more players than I see when I play at project1999. That made a big difference. Everything from getting bufs, advice, groups, and so on. All of that was elevated greatly.
My opinion is that as the server matures, more and more items will be in circulation and more and more porters will be available as people make alts. The impact of all this will mean that levelling up will be easier for new people - assuming that all this wealth trickles down. In theory! If there're more druid alts (in theory) then that means that you should be able to find a bind/port because people could go on their alts to give you it. And if you're shopping for new gear, there should be a greater supply (items are tradeable and don't need repair). Additionally, all of these high levels running around will be able to buff you. A druid DS helps significantly. A cleric hp buff helps too.
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This server reminds me of test server in old eq. Population when I played was almost exactly what we have here. When I jumped in it was year 2000 or so. Most of the population had played long enough to have maxxed level characters. The only people running around were alts (usually really twinked) and the occasional true noobie. There weren't as many people running around handing out buffs as you might think. You had a better chance of getting some if someone's friend showed up to pl, or someone two boxed a main. The high levels just weren't going through the areas the low levels were exp'ing in.
The sheer lack of people made it difficult to play a melee class. You were forced to solo. You could go days trying to find a group sometimes. Especially after level 10 or so. People made alts and played them, then a lot of times lost interest in them.
Also your location is a big deal. Last night I made a human sk of Bertoxxulus (I hate Innoruuk, pansy god.). I was the only person in N. qeynos for the 20 or so minutes I played him. Just like test the whole population works out of Freeport until kunark comes out. I'm sure at some point I can get someone to give me a port (I don't care what anyone says, that cross country run is not trivial unless you can invis), but qeynos, halas, and erudin are awful starting spots on a low population server.
Test really didn't have a market for low level items. Of course I wasn't hanging in EC to hear most of the time. You would be more likely to just have someone hand you some bronze than to see someone selling banded.
If there aren't any groups of your level, you can pretty much forget about upgrading your gear. Since most of the people you did group with were alts of mains, and had gear their mains got for them, they weren't interested in dungeons for the most part. Crushbone, and BB being exceptions. When they hit the teens the groups were in oasis pulling crocs. Not sure what happened in the 20's because I had enough by then.
I can also tell you a lot of times low level people didn't bother to group, not even melees. I'm not sure what kind of gear a rogue could be twinked with in classic so he could solo at level 15 or 20 but some of them did.
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I'm not kidding you, however. Warriors, more than everyone else, will find it very difficult to solo. Best you can do is to grind platinum so that you can buy yourself great gear. This will in turn allow you to solo better.
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I don't think it will help. There are some warrior items that soloing warriors used from later expansions. You need some way to get hp's back. Warrior soloing gear is the dagger that procs summon bandage, or just maybe a fungi.
An indispensible tool is some sort of slowing weapon. Truncheon of Doom is best, but good luck getting that.
You really have to pick your spot as a warrior, because you can't control adds or stop runners.