Tips for a new Warrior

[Naethyn]

1. Race: Human looks the best. Gnomes have 40% haste click on arms.

2. Taunt sux.

3. A warrior in cripple mode with a good 2hs will out damage monks and even rogues on raids. Warriors hold aggro through dps.

4. Get a full set of the cheap hp gear you can find. HP > all.

Some other notes:
Warriors get stunning kicks at 55. This is an amazing ability because of the high cap in kick vs slam. Larger races get slam, but after 55 it should not be used anyways.
Archery is super important for initial aggro. Make sure to throw an arrow at every mob that is pulled.
Bind wound is your friend, level it.
Alcohol tolerance is awesome. Any time you lose aggro drink 5 brandies.
Carry a bag of 10 wooly spider silk nets. Root is awesome.
Put your initial points into stamina. STR, DEX are really easy to cap in velious with buffs.
Use a Jarsath Trident + Green Jade Broadsword till 40. Buy 2 yak clubs at 40. At 50 get two Blood Points and a Truncheon of Doom.
Use all of the utility weapons (snare, slow, dot)

[Samoht]

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

Warriors hold aggro through dps

Lol. No.

DPS classes like Rogues, Monks, Wizards, and Rangers will outdamage you and eventually pull aggro if you're simply relying on damage to hold aggro. Warriors use procs and clicks to gain and hold aggro, particularly procs with stuns (like ykesha or sarnak war hammer), slows (truncheon of doom or willsapper), snares (silken whip of ensnaring), poisons (trochlic's skeen or botbde or skorpikus claw impaler), and AC debuffs (wavecrasher) or clicks with slows, roots (wooly spider silk nets), or charms (puppet strings).

[Rygar]

On live I had a warrior. Some mistakes I made was spamming taunt as soon as it was off refresh. If you have agro, do not mash taunt, you want to save it for when someone else agroes the mob then hit (has a chance to immediately turn mob to you, else mob will beat on your wizard for 5 seconds or whatever before your taunt is off refresh).

For holding agro, I found DoT weapons to work wonders. Black Blade of Tormenting + Bloodfire was a good choice for when they started procing. I hear short sword of the ykesha is good as well. Only problem with DoT weapons is if you need to switch targets they won't mezz your mob. Also not sure if your DoT on those takes hold if another class has a higher level DoT? Maybe someone else can comment.

At higher levels I found a Frostbringer to help hold good agro too.

[azeth]

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

3. A warrior in cripple mode with a good 2hs will out damage monks and even rogues on raids. Warriors hold aggro through dps.

naet has lied to you all here. boo this man

[Troxx]

All elven races have bad overall starting stats, not the easiest races to pick if you're new to p99 and will probably have the hardest time. Having said that ... if you play your warrior long enough and make friends and social_contacts ... any race will find plenty of success.

Levels > gear > sill racial arguments.

If you like the way you look, you'll be more likely to keep playing and find success. Most of the minor perks in the long run are meaningless. Sneak can never be overstated though ... so races with racial sneak will always have this perk. It's good for banking/selling/questing/pulling, but for warrior-ly duties, its still not a game breaker.