Questions about starting a casual warrior.

[Crede]

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

I'm late to the party, but if you aren't loading up on tink bags, then I find strength to be super useful when levelling toons just to haul all that plat/gold and weighty fine steel, etc around.

Is why str is the best starting stat.

[Goregasmic]

Originally Posted by Nickelback8469 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

With the warrior's XP bonus the racial penalties are nowhere near as painful!

Yeah I checked yesterday.

Troll do get 20% penalty but I didn't know ogre got 15%.

With the warrior bonus it turns out:

Ogre Warrior: -3.5%
Troll Warrior: -8%

Which isn't that bad but when you compare it to most race, they get +10% and halfling +14,5% which is quite a big deal. Doesn't matter anymore at 60 though and you get to keep the racials.

[Snaggles]

Soloing a warrior to 60 isn’t difficult but you are more restricted in hunting spots since we live in a post-wooly net recharging world. The gnome haste arms really help not being confined as much to a solo bard diet.

If you are twinked to the gills it doesn’t really matter but it takes a lot of oomph to make up for 40% haste and ultimately a gnome always has that while other races don’t. Outside dps being able to max self haste to 81% instead of 61% is more aggro. For how cheap batteries are half the time it’s not worth bothering a sham to haste you of clicking the arms.

The biggest annoyance of being small aside going up stairs is a lack of 2h slam. If DW you can swap in a shield to bash, or rely on kick for stuns 55+ but that’s a lot of levels where casters are annoying you. Also, bash is a higher skill cap which I’m not certain is a factor with chance to hit/interupt as much as how much damage it does on average (likely the latter).

I do strongly feel the whole “play what you like the look of” thing is paramount in EQ. You can’t easily make up for any stat or racial innate differences but aesthetics can’t be fixed without an AoN.

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

How does bow dps with weighted axe compare to reaver?

Sorry Crede, my last answer didn’t address this properly.

https://lucy.allakhazam.com/dmgbonus.html?setcookie=1

Starting at level 40 a weighted axe adds 40 damage to each shot where DW is one. At 60, it’s 115 vs 11. I was thinking less as a dps build and more for soloing as those are huge hits presuming you can root the target or keep range to cheese a kill with bow kiting.

[Goregasmic]

Ended up making an Ogre, I picked the dumb face. Put all my armor on and I look like a katamari ball of trash, this is glorious. Having like 750hp at level 1 is kind of nice, with HGL and some other stuff I don't have yet you could probably make a warrior with nearly 1000hp at level 5. Took me about 10 minutes sitting to regen to full. I didn't transfer the fungi yet but I don't think the mobs are going to chew through all that any time soon.


Their newbie yard is absolute shit though not even sure you're allowed to call it that. Unless I'm missing something mob density is terrible and the woods look the same all over, not sure what OG devs were thinking. Great introduction for a new player... All I wanted is level 5 and getting ported out at the feerrott ring but that's asking a lot apparently.

10/10 will play again.

[Snaggles]

Innothule Swamp is 10x better. They all suck compared to WC though which is an easy run to train in Neriak (95% sure they won’t murder you unless you go poking around in the wrong guild).

[OriginalContentGuy]

Interestingly a halfling cleric of bristlebane is tolerated even in Neriak's third gate with no faction work by default. Maybe this is because even Innoruuk respects Bristlebane but I was really surprised to see it. Maybe consider Bristlebane if Neriak is important as a newbie. Not even sure if that's a valid option.

[Goregasmic]

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

Innothule Swamp is 10x better. They all suck compared to WC though which is an easy run to train in Neriak (95% sure they won’t murder you unless you go poking around in the wrong guild).

Yeah never did a troll but from going through inno swamp often it definitely looked better. I looked up the newbie quest in oggok and they seem pretty bad too.

I'll farm chardok a bit on my main so I'm getting warrior to level 5 and faction him so he can loot sarnak war bow, HGLs, hardened bone spauldors and maybe even a lightningcaller while I'm there. after that the world is my oyster. I haven't figured a leveling path yet. I wanted to work on chanter epic more serious which means locking your character somewhere so I'm basically outfitting a bunch of alts to play them while waiting for mobs to pop. I think I want to bring him to Uguk after and see how far I can make it just because that seems to be the local dungeon with decent ZEM. Runners will be interesting.

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

Interestingly a halfling cleric of bristlebane is tolerated even in Neriak's third gate with no faction work by default. Maybe this is because even Innoruuk respects Bristlebane but I was really surprised to see it. Maybe consider Bristlebane if Neriak is important as a newbie. Not even sure if that's a valid option.

I think I could only get cazic/rallos so I picked rallos, I'd probably be fine. I was also suprised my agnostic gnome was tolerated there. IIRC the cleric guild hates her anyway but I need nothing there anyway.