Class/Race

Xibyn · January 2004

I'm sure this has been asked before, but I shall ask it anyway. From what little is known about the EQII classes/races (we can't rightly assume everything will be dups of the first EQ), what race/class combo is everyone considering to play?

Also Qeynos or Freeport?

Xibyn · January 2004

I forgot to mention I am thinking for myself;

Human, Qeynos, Scout-Predator-Ranger

Serien · January 2004

I was thinking of going into a strong meelee class...

not sure which race

Billius8 · January 2004

Some people thing playing a Predator is EQ2 is sexual. It's not sexual at all, it's innocent, it's very sweet. (Sorry, Jacko, had to steal your lines.)

Maxxx · January 2004

Ogre Defiler

Vardia · January 2004

I haven't decided on being either a human or some sort of elf, but, I'm definately starting in Qeynos and will definately be a scout-bard-troubador.

Intricase · January 2004

Ogre, Fighter / warrior / gaurdian

"Why, Thats jus' my game"

Yordo · January 2004

High Elf or Wood Elf/Scout/Predator/Assasin or Ranger/Qeynos

Can anyone make suggestions on assasin or ranger based on what u know about the game?

makar · February 2004

I think iskar sk maybe orge or troll or even human but sk for sure.

neschria · February 2004

Anyone have any idea of what kind of classes will be available for the ratonga race? Any good guesses? Anyway, I am leaning toward that race, if I decide to play EQ2 after all, so my class will depend on what they can be and what my husband wants to play.

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neschria
Bludgeoner of Bunnies

neschria · February 2004

I guess I will have to pray for Ratty SKs then.

-- Oh, please... let me be a ratty SK.

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neschria
Bludgeoner of Bunnies

aedros · February 2004

Nes,

You rat will be able to be any class it wants, as stated before in interviews, eq2 will be arac, all races can be all classes, so enjoy your ratsk...

Aedros

board lurker master....

Yordo · February 2004

Every class will be available to every race, even if that race is supposed to be aligned with good or evil

::Yordo::
EQ2, UXO, Lineage 2, KO, Guild Wars, City of Heroes

Kiamde · February 2004

I am looking torwards a hybrid class. There are so many new ones though!

neschria · February 2004

Much coolness, then. I will be all kinds of ratty then.

I haven't really been following EQ2, having been a somewhat disgruntled EQ player, thinking I didn't want to take another ride on the SOE train. But now I am gruntled again. And I have a lot more sympathy for SOE CS these days. After looking at the field of upcoming games, EQ2 is looking better and better.

(gruntled...disgruntled... Oh, well. I thought it was funny.)

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neschria
Bludgeoner of Bunnies

Anofalye · February 2004

High Elf (unless they add new elfy races)

If I choose a soloer path, I will go toward necromancy...(already did the drood to much in old EQ)

If I choose a group path, whatever will be the most group wanted(Illusionist? Cleric?) in the long run...my final choice is not set and I will try to adapt it to whatever changes SoE bring(hopefully I wont miscalculate), been harassed to join groups > any individual class. But atm, I tend toward soloing...

My character will be GOOD even if everyone think necromancy is evil... I am looking forward to try to put: Tunare as the God you follow while been a necromancer...Everyone have their own understanding of the will of the Mother of All... *make a sick smile* (those choices make me KoS in 99% of the world althought, KoS to most of the followers of Tunare that cant understand my point of view...been good and sending undeads to save a paladin arse is not the wisest situation to be in, no matter if the paladin or the evils win)

- "Coercing? No no, I assure you, they are willing to bring my bags and pay public transportation just to help me, it is true!''

Akuri · February 2004

I am going to be a dark elf Priest of some type... not sure which one.. but somthing like a cleric..

Akuri

Misti · February 2004

If I play EQ2 I will probably be a wood elf or dark elf swashbuckler.

Dakkanon · March 2004

If and when EQ2 comes out, I may or may not play it, BUT if I do, which I most likely will, for I was an EQjunkie long ago, then I'll probably go with my first character of choice.

A worthless, weak Melee, useless Cleric wannabe, PALADIN. Half-Elf as well, which again makes it all that more interesting.

But I must admit that I played him well. I could pull almost as good as any Monk could. Though there had been times when I wasn't so good and requested a RES from a Guildie. All in all, I'd do it again. I miss those days back in Karnor shouting "47 Pal LFG, cuz everyone needs a Pal". Most of the times when I get a reply, it was either "why in the hell did you chose a Paladin?!?!" or "do you know any Enchanters or Clerics LFG?".

Yeah, I was the popular Tank, but to the noobs, I was a life saver, healing them with my pethetic lvl 5 cleric heals, when I'm a EQ Vet at lvl55. I say to you all, Never forget that good lookin guy in Gold armor when he heals you. for in the future he could be a good tank to leave behind while everyone else Zones for safty. yeah, who needs Barbarian Warriors, or Human Monks, when YOU TOO can have a Paladin to your 30 second Meat Shield.

May Mithaniel Marr give we Paladins more HP, better armor, duel wield, and a life.

Mallak Kneechopper lvl 55 Paladin of Mithaniel Marr. Ayonae Ro Srever or something like that.

Anofalye · March 2004

Originally posted by Dakkanon

If and when EQ2 comes out, I may or may not play it, BUT if I do, which I most likely will, for I was an EQjunkie long ago, then I'll probably go with my first character of choice.
A worthless, weak Melee, useless Cleric wannabe, PALADIN. Half-Elf as well, which again makes it all that more interesting.
But I must admit that I played him well. I could pull almost as good as any Monk could. Though there had been times when I wasn't so good and requested a RES from a Guildie. All in all, I'd do it again. I miss those days back in Karnor shouting "47 Pal LFG, cuz everyone needs a Pal". Most of the times when I get a reply, it was either "why in the hell did you chose a Paladin?!?!" or "do you know any Enchanters or Clerics LFG?".
Yeah, I was the popular Tank, but to the noobs, I was a life saver, healing them with my pethetic lvl 5 cleric heals, when I'm a EQ Vet at lvl55. I say to you all, Never forget that good lookin guy in Gold armor when he heals you. for in the future he could be a good tank to leave behind while everyone else Zones for safty. yeah, who needs Barbarian Warriors, or Human Monks, when YOU TOO can have a Paladin to your 30 second Meat Shield.

May Mithaniel Marr give we Paladins more HP, better armor, duel wield, and a life.
Mallak Kneechopper lvl 55 Paladin of Mithaniel Marr. Ayonae Ro Srever or something like that.

In EQ, as a chanter, I would always pick a Paladin over any other choice of tank! They add to my HPS, so I have 4 HPS instead of 3 and might give the time to heal me. Paladin hold aggro well, they can save me with LoH(and spells very late) althought they always curse to use it to heal my 2 missing HPS! SK was a poor second choice, he hold aggro fine, but he cant save me and he curse a lot if I am suppose to cast a highly resisted slow(6.0) after I tash and I am only slower(pally stuns rule to buy time while building aggro at start). A warrior was(it is better now), "Hey guys, I need to log for the day, work just call!"(perfect excuse, you can come back and say they *&%% cancel 30 minutes later)! A ranger/monk/beastlord was fun if the cleric can bear it!

Of course, group can have 2 tanks, skilled paladins are wonderfull to hold aggro with stuns without risking to break my mes, thereby they are good to be on back up duty(they can steal aggro on single pull as long as he manage to not aggro the cleric(he can self heal if necessary in a case of very grumpy cleric)).

- "Coercing? No no, I assure you, they are willing to bring my bags and pay public transportation just to help me, it is true!''

Enivel · March 2004

They need to allow Dark Elfs to be rangers. that would be the shiz

neschria · March 2004

Originally posted by Dakkanon

A worthless, weak Melee, useless Cleric wannabe, PALADIN. Half-Elf as well, which again makes it all that more interesting.

Oh, man, I feel your pain there, having been a SK when noone wanted a shadow knight, back when warriors were king.

After you quit, Paladins and SKs became the tanks of choice for experience groups, and warriors couldn't find regular exp groups. I know a number of warriors who switched classes or just outright quit because of it. Pallies and SKs became extremely popular for being aggro masters. Paladins do eventually get some good group heals and the like these days. On one hand, it was nice to be popular and to always be able to get a group, but, on the other hand, there were suddenly just hordes and hordes of (*ahem*powerleveled*cough*) paladins and shadowknights out there, which I didn't like.

They made melee changes for warriors (monks and rogues too?) , after I quit, so I don't know how that has affected things. But for a while, paladins and shadowknights were Norrath's Most Wanted.

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neschria
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neschria · March 2004

In EQ, as a chanter, I would always pick a Paladin over any other choice of tank! They add to my HPS, so I have 4 HPS instead of 3 and might give the time to heal me. Paladin hold aggro well, they can save me with LoH(and spells very late) althought they always curse to use it to heal my 2 missing HPS! SK was a poor second choice, he hold aggro fine, but he cant save me and he curse a lot if I am suppose to cast a highly resisted slow(6.0) after I tash and I am only slower(pally stuns rule to buy time while building aggro at start). A warrior was(it is better now), "Hey guys, I need to log for the day, work just call!"(perfect excuse, you can come back and say they *&%% cancel 30 minutes later)! A ranger/monk/beastlord was fun if the cleric can bear it!

I think you'd have liked me as a tank, even as a SK... I never cursed any enchanter or shaman for lack of slow. That's what clerics are for. I could hang in there on any regular BoT exp mob *except Gaukr* until slow came around. Gaukr's proc was the death of me now and then.

*shudder*

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neschria
Bludgeoner of Bunnies

Anofalye · March 2004

Originally posted by neschria

In EQ, as a chanter, I would always pick a Paladin over any other choice of tank! They add to my HPS, so I have 4 HPS instead of 3 and might give the time to heal me. Paladin hold aggro well, they can save me with LoH(and spells very late) althought they always curse to use it to heal my 2 missing HPS! SK was a poor second choice, he hold aggro fine, but he cant save me and he curse a lot if I am suppose to cast a highly resisted slow(6.0) after I tash and I am only slower(pally stuns rule to buy time while building aggro at start). A warrior was(it is better now), "Hey guys, I need to log for the day, work just call!"(perfect excuse, you can come back and say they *&%% cancel 30 minutes later)! A ranger/monk/beastlord was fun if the cleric can bear it!

I think you'd have liked me as a tank, even as a SK... I never cursed any enchanter or shaman for lack of slow. That's what clerics are for. I could hang in there on any regular BoT exp mob *except Gaukr* until slow came around. Gaukr's proc was the death of me now and then.

*shudder*

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neschria
Bludgeoner of Bunnies

Hehe, you are a sweetie. Like I say, SK was a poor second choice from my chanter point of view, it was still a second choice. Also, if we fight chanters mobs I hate to have a SK, when they are charmed it hurt, a paladin that get charmed is a paladin that get humbled at been unable to bypass my Runes. It is nothing to do with the players althought, but chanters and paladins complete each other very very well, pally stuns buy time until I finally slow the mob. On the bright side, shamans and SK complete other very very well also, a shaman will prefer a SK over a paladin, a chanter will prefer a paladin over the SK. Of course, this is a generalisation and I would prolly have prefer you over most paladins on the server, you seem very nice and also skilled, which is vital for making fun!

My chanter can tank Gaukr and the others BoT mini name runes droppers(once they are slowed, but with a charmed pet, it is easy to buy time, then slow, then tank to turn the mob back on pet so he cant finish the pet, if charm break you go to bind point or zone althought, there is no way you can re-charm with a summoner that is harmed and start beside the broken charmed pet), in fact, I solo them and I solo the Diaku Supplier/Armorers as well(I solo them as well, but I cant tank them long, only for enrage), and they also drop Runes and they are rarely camped ever. But, my chanter was on the top of the grouping system in PoP time and I love grouping AND soloing, which explain why I can do what most raid geared chanter cant do in solo, they have no idea of what their toons could do or they just dont care for the soloing game(usually, a few exceptions will confirm that rule). How I tank, chain casting a 1500 rune (2.5 casting time with the AAs), and when I cannot recover concentration(rare with maxed AAs), I hit my right click 1200 rune...can always back off and see the mob turn on pet as ultimate solution, but I seldom need to do that! This is not mana efficient and you cannot XP with a chanter tanking, but you can farm Runes that way, it work just fine. And when you have 5 corpses, pay 1k for a cleric to zone in and hit the clicky stick, this is nothing considering you earn Runes and Ornates and that type of loot. You can duo with a druid and it is a cakewalk, it get very boring and sleepy if the druid is skilled.

Yet, on a pure rhetoric base on which class I prefer, well, paladins are just made to go with chanters and SK to goes with shamans. I think SoE design it that way because they know evils have more shamans/sk and goods more chanters/paladins and they try to help making roleplaying group.

Now, my rogue(65 as well) prefer a SK over any other tank, but my rogue is quiet and dont argue about anything when she get a group, while chanter can afford to argue. But a SK hold aggro better then a paladin, it increase my DPS and it dont mess with rangers buffs ever! But again, a rogue that have a group is usually not arguing much on anything else, they are just happy to have a group after the hours of been LFG! When a SK tank I remove evade from my easy access hotkey, it is useless and if I have aggro I am prolly trying to get a mob of cleric and the last thing I want is to evade and I have plenty of time to get the hotkey back for when the SK is rdy to take over. Yet...I think a cleric tank better then a rogue...dont read me wrong, if turn auto attack off no cleric tank like my rogue(until they heal themselves or use DA), they are way behind a rogue in tanking power, but a cleric that is tanking is usually not attacking and even if he is, he does not even attack 20% of the times I does, and each time I melee I can get a riposte and those really hurt a rogue. Rangers that tank use 2h weapons. I dont have any 2h weapon because I honestly didnt plan to willingly tank, usually I leave the cleric to handle the add and kill the mob asap to free the SK faster, anyway, the SK can switch and I just need to evade a little and SK will have the 2 mobs on him/her. (and I have plenty time to switch to hard access hotkey back to fast access and so on, anyway both hotkeys place have the MA and the Backstab, so I can go to hard access hotkey just for evading purpose on multiple adds)

Yes, they made nice changes on the rogues, basically I crit more then a warrior which was a long time due thing. Rogues are DPS, it was very infuriating to see warriors crits when they are a Tank, not dps! The changes are nices, but they are far from complete!

- "Coercing? No no, I assure you, they are willing to bring my bags and pay public transportation just to help me, it is true!''

Dakkanon · March 2004

But just remember, Warriors are the best Melee Dmg dealers out there. Only a Shadow Knight can Out dmg a Warrior once every hour with Harm Touch. Warriors has TONS more HP then Hybrid classes, and always will.

If I were to make the ideal group:

Enchanter, Cleric, Warrior (key players)

Bard, Necromancer and Either Pal or SK. I say ME over Pal or SK though :P

I've been in this combo once, and we destoried L-Guk in a sickly fassion, I was the bard. my Paladin was stuck somewhere, and couldn't get a group to save his life.

-Dakkanon

Unknown · March 2004

Originally posted by Xibyn

I'm sure this has been asked before, but I shall ask it anyway. From what little is known about the EQII classes/races (we can't rightly assume everything will be dups of the first EQ), what race/class combo is everyone considering to play?
Also Qeynos or Freeport?

Check out

www.eqii.com

it is closer to having official info about EQ2 than this here site MMORPG.com.

To answer your question one would have to cut n paste all the info from eqii.com to here lol.

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