Warrior stuff

[Polk]

It just seems so hard to get above 30/30 hit dam with a warrior, and still have meaningful saves. You can't go mostly saves, cause then you sacrifice alot of your chance of hits. I mean I can use weapons that are hard to parry against and vuln weapons, and weapons the opponent doesn't but, it just seems impossible to do that without going into how much hit and dam you have. If you don't have at least 30 it seems like you don't even hit your opponent, and if you have less than 30 dam, it seems like you don't do any damage. I do prefer the hit over the dam though considering I would rather be hitting my opponent and doing little damage, rather than not hitting him but once every so often and doing merely a bit more damage. I'm not asking where to get the eq and weapons, or enchanting or such, just how do you other warriors do it really? I don't see how you can survive or even bring an opponent down. Its very hard for me at the time, and I know I'm new to the class but this is just frustrating. Seems like you have to know every little aspect of the lands and every peice of eq just to be a descent warrior and get the eq, because without it, your a waist of time.

If anyone has any warrior fight logs, I'd sure appreciate seeing them, I'll be been rummaging through the logs as frequently as possible in the forum. Any ideas on what is best to focus on to make a better warrior besides the warrior essay would be a plus, minus any talk thats not allowed in the forum about rare eq, or skills/spells/items and such.

[Designated_Driver]

Roll an ogre warrior.

It's always nice to see -40 saves across the board, with 60/60 hit/dam.

[Polk]

you must be kidding, I don't see how on earth you could get that without being 50 and going to somewhere/somewhere else and getting all the baddest rares. Which is what I mean, unless your an elite player who knows everything about the lands, your just not gonna get that kind of saves and hit/dam, are you?

[Chief]

Warriors are dependent on eq, you may want to try a class with identify to learn the nice equipment and where to find it, warriors are hard at 50 if you don't know the right stuff to wear, but you only learn from experience.

[Anume]

To get good saves and good hr dr as a warrior you need to be at 50. Look at what other pinned warriors wear (only those who do not die all the time ) and ask for advice.

[crackwilly21]

There are a few easy to get items that should boost your saves, and even more easily/moderately obtainable items that will boost everything else, just get to know your equipment, and take it from there, and if you don't know something, just ask in game, someone will be able to tell you, take you there, or help you get it. Thats how I know as much as I do.

[Designated_Driver]

There are a few easy to get items that should boost your saves' date=' and even more easily/moderately obtainable items that will boost everything else, just get to know your equipment, and take it from there, and if you don't know something, just ask in game, someone will be able to tell you, take you there, or help you get it. Thats how I know as much as I do.[/quote']

Not a compelling argument to follow your advice.

But anyway, my point was that it's not at all hard to get above 30/30 hit/dam as a warrior, and maintain decent saves. Yes, you do have to know a bit about eq, but once you get the hang of it, and find yourself a nice set (one that you know where everything in it is), you'll never have a problem equipping/re-equipping. It's all about experience, with a warrior. That's why most advice about them usually reads something like "Good for getting to 50, but takes knowledge of the lands to excel with".

[crackwilly21]

Not a compelling argument to follow your advice.

I'll kill you.

[Ghrialton]

This is why I advocate a Healer as a learning class for newbies/learning the lands. ID + Locate + Gate will learn you much about equipment.

[Deykari]

You're right, but there's nothing like getting yourself into the fray straight off with a character like a warrior and having that feeling that when you first hit fifty, you might not know as much about EQ, but a lot further into your char, you're regularly decked out and know where a lot is. Of course, I'm a sucker for pain..

I use (and still do, because there's still a good few things I don't know about) use Eshaine's method, which is to look at/ask how other people of a similar class equip themselves, either generally or against specific foes, and ask them. In-character of course. Providing you ask in-character, many characters will help, or at the very least, point you in the right direction, even evils. It's the "I really want to help you as a player but I'm going to put an IC-evil spin on things!" type of thing.

And do you remember your guild quests as a lowbie? Got a new sparkling piece of armour, or a great big cleaver, and you don't know what it does? *wink wink* (although that won't work for all items, for reasons as you'll probably find out when you try to identify some things)

Lastly, try to get yourself involved in trips to the powerful EQ areas. You will get to find out where the big boys toys can be found, you can always ask to have a look at something (though you'll be annoyed if it's cursed!). Alternatively, it's very likely that at least one person will be along who has some method of identifying things, you could always ask them to 'IC-ly explain' what something does.

Dey

[Goomf]

Unless you actively and aggressively pk often, you probably won't get great hit/dam/saves untli you get to 50. And even then, you need to go on eq trips/pk. My best advice is to pk often and learn from your mistakes. If you listen to all these other douchebags and go ogre warrior, don't go good because evil clerics will just mess you up. You'll have nearly no chance against them until you become an elder in knights, and even then, not much chance.

For warriors, I like halflings. However, their inability to lag opponents continuously means you have to track well. Ferals are decent also. Of course there are those qclasses that are, needless to say, awesome.

In any case, if you're a newbie, I'll have to agree with Behrens: go human.