Bad idea to make a Halfing Warrior?

[Bayho]

I played a Human Warrior originally, and at the end game it does not matter that much, even when the end game is level 50. You do not even want to know the number of hateplane raids I tanked just to get full Indicolite, with every other race as an off-tank.

[Humerox]

We have a wood-elf warrior that has mad tanking skillz and can MT with the best of them.

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[VincentVolaju]

Seems like most people are saying its gear dependent, if thats the case should I not make a Warrior until Ive already got a high level character with money to twink it?

[StinkyGreenBud]

halflings are gay...need proof? lord of the rings.

[Bayho]

Halflings are scary, they can crawl up inside of you and do all kinds of damage from the inside out!

[ride the spiral]

Originally Posted by VincentVolaju

How exactly do you become a "better tank" then others in EQ. I thought in EQ the only things you really do for aggro is Kick or Bash, and then Taunt. Or is there more to it then just that? I really dont know much about the game, most of what I know is from asking/reading stuff on these forums. Are there other ways you gain aggro as a warrior other then Bashing and Taunting?

positioning, "battlefield awareness", anticipating aggro changes, using taunt the correct way.

as for the thread, you're going to be off by 40 sta compared to ogres (with starting points spent in sta, for both ogre (to a cap of 150 sta) and halfling (110 sta)).

I believe at level 50 it's 6hp per stamina. 40x6 = 240hp.

large races also can bash which is invaluable with caster mobs, allowing one to continue duel wielding or 2h.

so go ahead a be a cute little halfling, just remember to comb the hair on your feets.

[Humerox]

I can add - under battlefield awareness - things like knowing when and why to switch targets, knowing when to call for assist - knowing what adds have come in and assigning ST's -

Any idiot can stand in front of a mob and swing. It takes skill to be a good tank.

[buffug]

On live, pre-Kunark, the only thing I noticed differently about the midgets was that in regards to some mobs, you had to close more distance...for example, I would have to be pretty much directly under the belly of a griffawn to hit it...with the game upgrades, though (such as the ring around the target) it may no longer be necessary.

If you're going halfling, get the rantho rapier as soon as you can kill the fish in RV. Definitely worth having. a 2hs with 4dmg seems really stupid til you see it in action.

[buffug]

should also put in the time to grind gobbos to get your squad ring also...

[guineapig]

As posted by many before me, it's all about gear and skill, not race.

I had a halfling warrior alt on live and even got to be MT on a pickup raid in PoP and nobody thought twice about letting me tank.

Just concentrate on your hitpoints and armor class and when you have additional choices add it to dex for procing weapons. You only need enough strength to be able to carry around your gear. Warriors generate heaps more aggro from procs than they do from DPS, so don't try to fall back on that.