I think everyone is forgetting a really great one. The Shaman....decent tanking skills,spells including SOW(at 9),heals,buffs,debuffs and later pets.

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From: Su

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Sent: Monday, June 17, 2002 7:24 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? > > > > Visit the EverQuest homepage at http://www.everquest.com > > > Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ > > > > > > Visit the EverQuest homepage at http://www.everquest.com > > > Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ > > >
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