----- Original Message -----
Sent: Tuesday, June 18, 2002 12:26
AM
Subject: Re: [EverQuest] getting
started
Let's look at this. I've played most of the
classes into the teens, most to the lower 20's finding out grouping and
soloablity of each, to decide what ones I wanted to play. Shadowknights
and Paladins make good backup tanks, and main tanks. both get the same
weapon skills, as the Shadowknight is the "anti-paladin". Both get Dual
Attack at level 20, which means they get a free hit from time to time.
Dual wield (1 hand weapon in each hand) is only gotten by monks, beastlords,
rogues, rangers, and warriors. as far as spells, paladins get some of
the cleric line of spells, including the buffs, heals, and resurrection
spells. Shadowknights get necromancer spells, and even though they are
powerful spells for the necro when he gets them, they just add to the power of
a Shadowknight. at level 9, the shadowknight spells are some of the
necro level 1 and 4 spells. the pet is a level 4 pet. throughout
his career, the pet an Sk has will never be much more than half his level, and
rarely will it be that (more easily thought of as a walking DoT).
Neither class gets the spell gate.
for soloing and grouping, it depends upon
tactics, and knowing the strength and weaknesses of your class, in order to be
successful with either, or both.
Rich
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Monday, June 17, 2002 8:24
PM
Subject: Re: [EverQuest] getting
started
Another class that might be good is shadowknight. The
drawbacks: Good races
won't want to sell to you and some may even want to
kill you. If you play a
darkelf the newbie grounds completely and totally
suck but you get pretty
cool armor when you can manage to find all the
stuff you need for it. People
don't think of shadowknights when they
think of tanks. They don't often
invite them to group. I don't think they
get the spell "gate".
The bonuses: You make a decent tank, you can summon
a pet to tank for you
while you med, you can lifetap to heal yourself,
and you get a spell that
snares and dots a mob at the same time. You can
solo alot and are a good
asset to a group. Way later in the game you get
to summon your own horse
called an Unholy Steed.
My brother started a
shadowknight and got him to lvl 35 in 8 days.
Paladins are welcome in
all good cities. Don't usually have problems selling
to merchants. Get
good damage, duel wield, disarm. Are thought of as tanks
and can get into
group. Can also heal and buff. Can even resurrect. But they
cannot gate.
They can solo pretty well with a good weapon and armor. There
are newbie
paladin armor quests for humans and halfelves in freeport.
Druids,
not really great tanks but can snare/root and dot from afar. sucks
alot
of mana. Sometimes they can charm an animal to attack a mob for them.
But
then the animal turns and attacks them when charm wears off. They
can
also track, port, and heal.
If you like things to be more
difficult, there's clerics. They can pretty
much get into any group
because people always seem to want a healer. But
they can't really solo
much and have alot of downtime from medding.
luv,
-Su
>
It depends on your playstyle. Solo or group, this will matter a lot
later,
> the druid you can solo all the way to level60 with if you
want and can
group
> up, but the warrior will have problems
crossing the road without getting
> killed without a healer back him
up. But the warrior is in need in numbers
> in the highe end raiding
game where the druid is an assist class.
>
> Answer is: it
depends on your goals.
>
> -----Original Message-----
>
From: eclipse4449 [mailto:perrenoud@...]
> Sent: Monday, June
17, 2002 4:58 AM
> To: EverQuest@yahoogroups.com
> Subject:
[EverQuest] getting started
>
>
> I choose to be a Ranger
right at the start, maybe a bad choice
> because i'm dying more often
then playing.
> What is the best way to get started, & and which
character is a good
> newbie character?
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