Warrior Race Question

[Slave]

If you want to be a group tank, try a shadowknight, paladin, or monk instead. All three of these classes have gigantic advantages over warrior for holding aggro, which is your #1 job, or in the case of the monk, buttloads of versatility on top of their tanking ability including extremely high dps and great pulling.

If you want to do high level raiding, a warrior is best. And then an ogre is best. They are unquestionably the best merely because of stun resistance, but you can max out stamina eventually in Velious with nearly any race, at a educated guess. Even then, Ogres will still always be best, by a wide margin, and at a mere 15% exp penalty, they are probably the most economical for the power you get, as well.

I'm just thinking that you don't understand the power loss involved in not choosing an Ogre for any single class they qualify for, even considering your underdog predilection. It's more than significant, it is basically game-breaking.

[Fazlazen]

The most glorious tank to ever play Everquest was a human warrior. Maybe you've heard of him.

Play the race you enjoy, not being an ogre certainly won't prevent you from being the main tank in TMO, our main tank isn't an ogre.

[Wolfgang]

yup you have to roll a an ogre or you are not consider a warrior... i would take halfling innate hide ability over frontal stun immunity any day. wanna interrupt? equip a shield.

[Danyelle]

Wood Elf/Dark Elf warrior!

[Bewk]

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

dark elfs look way more badass than humans

Plus they can hide.

[webrunner5]

Another thing to think about here on a Human is the night vison thingy. I have a gut feeling the devs are toying with making them and Barb really suck like they used to in the start of EQ. I have seen them in 2 threads hinting about it. It would be more "Classic"

They totaly sucked ass at night. The tunnel between Everfrost and Blackburrow comes to mind. A lot of Human Monks will be unhappy pullers in Dungeons if that does happen.

[nymphloa]

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

The most glorious tank to ever play Everquest was a human warrior. Maybe you've heard of him.

Play the race you enjoy, not being an ogre certainly won't prevent you from being the main tank in TMO, our main tank isn't an ogre.

Bobbarker...?

Anyways....

This is indeed a tricky one, I have also found myself in the same dilema. I have been here several years now and started off with a Wood Elf warrior, purely for a change as I had been playing an Ogre for 10 years on Live.

Anyway I deleted the Wood Elf at lvl 31 because of my piss poor allocation of his starting points and re-rolled a Gnome and slammed all the stat points into Dex. The Gnome soon got old though, I have it currently at level 48 and I have rolled an Ogre (common I know blah blah) just to jog my memory, again all starting points went into Dex and he is pretty sound, and I am loving the frontal stun immunity.

Agro was always an issue through classic and Kunark, and I know myself from Live that this did not change for me until Velious when I scored a Venomous Axe of the Velium brood (Proc'd lvl 1+ 85dd) and a Frostbringer (Proc'd 40+ 60dd) and even then you were still at the mercy of your dex.

Anyways....roll whatever race you like really, stick it all into Dex as a future proc investment....and have fun.

Peace,

[Wudan]

if you start as Iksar pm me, I can help you out at the beggining. Got some war stuff in bank + mm rings for free exp for first few lvls + shammy buffs. [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

[Stragor]

HALFLING!

[godbox]

troll war looks are the best racial ability.