Warrior Weapon Progression in Kunark?

[Ponden]

Wurmslayer is kind've bad. How did you use it as offhand, its primary?

[Troy]

It worked in either hand when it first came out, was later nerfed to primary only. Much the opposite of the Moss-covered Twig.

[Ponden]

Its still pretty bad though =/

[Harrison]

No, as an offhand it was pretty damned amazing.

Moss covered twig in primary and then a wurmslayer in offhand = rape.

[Ridic]

Sarnak Warhammer is one of the best aggro gens, for a warrior. Kinda tough to get tho.

[Noselacri]

The thing about using non-proc weapons is that you'll only hold aggro from people who don't out-damage you. Aggro dump abilities here are notoriously shitty, and while that can change between now and Kunark, it might not, making things even worse. I suspect that a lot of you either were tanking for peoplpe who didn't really out-DPS you, or forget the fact that back then it was customary to let the warrior beat on the mob alone for 5-10 seconds before everyone else engaged, something that nobody does here. With rogue epic being nearly soloable and generally so easy that every rogue will have it within the first month, and people knowing how to play better as a whole, I do not expect warriors to be able to tank just fine with wurmies, lammies and jade maces.

As for weapon progression, mine has/will look something like this:

1-10: whatever

10-16: Polished Granite Tomahawk in main (lets you solo from 10 to 20 if you want to)

16+: 2 Obsidian Shards, keep PGT handy until 20ish

37+: 2 SSoY

Kunark: stick with SSoY until I get the next generation of aggro procs. I'm not gonna use a lammy, they generate significantly less aggro than yaks. Aiming for Sarnak Warhammer and Silken Whip of Ensnaring until epics; the latter has -5 AC, but if you're not tanking anything that requires better weapons, that tiny penalty won't kill you either. The snare proc is both excellent agro and nice utility.

Note on Gnoll Hide Lariat: these suck. It's a pet weapon. The ratio is pretty much like a rusty weapon, and since you will sometimes get screwed on procs and not get any for 30 seconds at a time, you'll want weapons that also have a reasonable ratio. Obsidian Shards are better in pretty much every way; far better ratio, similar proc, procs at lower level. Lariats make no sense; by the time they proc (lvl 25) a 3/20 weapon is unacceptable.

[Dantes]

I used the Wurmslayer offhand with a spear from Karnor's in my main for a while. I forget what the spear was, but it looked like a tri-fork. The two weapons together looked kind of ridiculous. Later on I ended up with a Defiance in mainhand after Velious and Bloodpoint offhand.

The idea of having to train 1H blunt now bothers me. But the great 1H slashers are all so rare and hard to get.

[HeallunRumblebelly]

http://everquest.allakhazam.com/db/item.html?item=745

That's the spear you're talking about? I must say i'm more of a blood point man, as far as cheap weapons go D=

http://everquest.allakhazam.com/db/item.html?item=739

Just gotta get past the whole vanity aspect ^_^ 80 lifetap though!

[Dantes]

Yes, that's the one. It dropped while I was in an experience camp, so I got it. I paid for my bloodpoint later when I had the available funds. I honestly wouldn't mind dual-wielding bloodpoints and proc 80dmg lifetaps like mad. The only problem is it's a relatively low aggro proc, but better than no proc at all.

Had a Sarnak Skullsplitter for a while too... more considerations for the low-budget Warrior
http://everquest.allakhazam.com/db/item.html?item=331

[Seeatee]

sorry for such a necro post but was searching for something and this caught my eye.

I played a warrior for the first 5 or 6 years I played EQ, and my favorite weapon to come out of Kunark besides BoTBDE and epics was

http://everquest.allakhazam.com/db/item.html?item=571

I always held agro like a champ with it, yea a warrior going with a 2 hander is a bit unorthodox but its got a pretty sweet ratio and a nice agro proc.