Just hit 80 and thinking about completely revamping my class layout

[Frosty]

As for the dilemma, I can see why I didn't pick up on the Troub, melee is just not my choice when it comes down to it. Warlock seems alright >< but Wizzy perhaps seems more powerful in that situation.. I'm just going on here thinking my thoughts through as I type

Last night in an instance, I placed my casters a little back, and moved my Troubador up closer to where I was pulling the mobs back too. It worked out very nice. :thumbsup:

I've still found my warlock to be more effective than the wizard, even in single target situations, but maybe I'm doing something wrong?

I just started powerleveling a SK and got that feelin.. *ugh* so I'm gonna log on my Guardian, make sure I have all adept 3's for my abilities and try again ;p

Not sure if you "feeling" was about the ability to tank or going through the same content. :P
if it's the tanking power, it get's better!

[Khatovar]

My train of thought for 'lock vs. wizzy was simply that I have an SK tank. He's doing AOE, may as well help the mass destruction along.

My troub is really getting to be second nature. I think I might swap back to /follow tank for initating combat with the troub as well as the 'lock. That should keep my warlock in range for his PBAoEs and if strafing is working, make my troub a little more hands off.

I can't comment on the paladin, since I've not played one, nor has my husband. I don't even recall playing with one. I do know the mystic and defiler both felt like totally different classes on the damage end. Possibly just my perception, but something to consider prior to betraying them. You might find they are a lot closer to what you want as you level them and betray them.

[Zerocool2024]

Not to trying to hijack the thread, but I should be up and running this week Ellay .
Going to be evil of course, lol, and 4boxing it as well. Taking some advice and using this word *Slow* which for some reason befuddles me, lol. Doing it all on one box, though I may spread it to two comps so I can ramp of the graphics a little more to make the game have just that much more appeal.

Not sure on the combo I will be using, but for some reason I keep looking at the SK/INQ/DEF/LOCK or WIZ.

Seems like a decent starter group just to get the ball rolling and see if I like it. I have 4 trials right now, so I guess I could putz around and see if I like it.
5 seems to be the max on my system (though, I still have graphics turned on) before the games starts having FPS issues.

Using Innerspace/Isboxer and swtiching between screens is hella fast just like WoW.

[Ellay]

Sounds good I took it slow from the get go so I could understand the layout of the game now I think I'm in my groove^^

As for the SK dilemma, I grinded out a few levels last night - at 30 with 7 aa.. lol ! need to betray to the evil side to become a SK. I jumped on my Guardian last night and ran through a few instances - it went a lot smoother.
Low and behold this morning though reading more information on SK's it appears I have no other choice than to play them.

The huge benefits that the Guardian can't touch with a 10 foot pole are as follows:
Fear Immunity - it's bad in WoW, it's bad here. Just straight up being immune is awesomesauce, the Guardian epic weapon has a proc chance of 1.8 times per minute which gives you immunity to pretty much everything but only lasts for 10 seconds. I'd rather have 100% always uptime.
I don't even know what the name of the spell is but it's massive overpowered... It's a self buff "Until Cancelled" with a recast time of 3 minutes which if you were to die in combat, plops you back at 100% hp. It's kind of like uh.. dayum? lol
My group is caster heavy which I seem to enjoy casters more than melee for multiboxing, and the SK gives 2% spell bonus power, and really high in the AA's offers 10% casting speed/10% reuse time that is always up. I'm a huge fan of always up buffs none of this 20-30 seconds stuff.
Besides the increase in damage which better suits a smaller array of characters - I consider 4 much smaller than 6 :P it allows me I think to diversify better if I am just playing solo (is that considered solo?)

The ugh feeling yesterday was that I felt I was missing out at the 80 level but I also solved that problem, at least within my head
I can still work on getting void shards and only spend about 1-2 hours a day doing that, the rest of the time I can work on bringing the SK up since the void shards are transferrable between characters on the same account.
All in all, I feel I'm at peace now with my gameplan and the synergy between this combo is off the wooza, HoTs from Warden + Lifetaps from SK = 1.5 healers ^^, the casting speed improvements from the SK / Illusionist = omg wtf bbq caster group.

and that's that!!


Edit ** 1 more thing, just from reading the illusionists Epic weapon... it's insanely amazing !

[Khatovar]

I can still work on getting void shards and only spend about 1-2 hours a day doing that, the rest of the time I can work on bringing the SK up since the void shards are transferrable between characters on the same account.

We're already up to 20 from just the daily solo one. I love that they're transferrable and can't wait to start crafting pieces.

Fear Immunity - it's bad in WoW, it's bad here. Just straight up being immune is awesomesauce, the Guardian epic weapon has a proc chance of 1.8 times per minute which gives you immunity to pretty much everything but only lasts for 10 seconds. I'd rather have 100% always uptime.

My other half is debating on this one. It's kind of hard to want to go down for it since we have a Templar with improved Sanctuary, I suppose we'll just have to see how often we end up running across fears.

Glad to see you so excited about the new makeup. Soon all of us are going to have to start theory-crafting on AAs for the ultimate groups. :P

[Zerocool2024]

Already doing so, lol.

[Frosty]

Soon all of us are going to have to start theory-crafting on AAs for the ultimate groups.

Hurry up, my AA's are starting to pile up! :whistling:

[Khatovar]

Hurry up, my AA's are starting to pile up!

Don't worry, I finally got my guild hall and I'm running out of Tradeskillers to finish off...soon I'll have too much time on my hands. Unfortunatly that means wading through the crap on EQ2Flames *shudder*

[abodeofravens]

I saw over on eq2wire that they hotfixed the daily shard quest. I have not looked at the patch notes to see though personally...
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A Cleansing This Temple Needs (Shard of the Day Quest) - Players who
are not on the quest and not in Void Stalker form can no longer assist
with killing the void-touched invaders.
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[abodeofravens]

khatovar and I were going to get the t2 shoulders (most expensive piece first to get it out of the way) and work down from that. I actually wanted to ask you tweed...

which t2 armor set did you get for your shadowknight. I did some numbers on the two... Holy Bastion vs Void Knights Bastion...

armor 3278 3278
strength 290 152
stamina 153 181
wisdom 90 290
agility 30 86
intelligence 20 290
attack speed 7 0

melee crit chance 2 12
Heal crit Chance 0 12
spell crit chance 0 12
double attack 4 1
critical mitigation 10 10
Spell combat art dmg 205 0
damage per second 23 0

Shield Block 15 0
Armor Mitigation 0 10
health 1045 995
power 560 635
Defense 5 16
parry 0 10
focus 4 9

The holy set has +spell and combat art damage and two heals on combat spellcast vs the bastion having mitigation more. holy set also has another 15% block. knights has raw stats and crit. I am just curious what you chose and your reasoning behind it. some reading i have done on eq2flames suggests that 15% block = ~2% avoidance so i am rethinking that vs the 10% mitigation you pretty much get from void set.

Our 5+1 team (khatovar does 5 and I play the SK tank) will finish up the outdoor stuff in kunark (finishing jarsath) this weekend and probably the outdoor TSO zone. after that we plan to start doing our epics for the team which will also help us gear up further through doing seemingly all the Kunark Dungeons and instances before we really try to push into shard instances.

we did make one quick stab at the first befallen instance (with the swarms of zombies). we wiped on a bug named in the tunnels due to not having experienced it before. when he went under ground we did not know his aoe damage would be so nasty and when we ran to get away from it it was too late to recover. it was a fun experience... I learned that i should definitely aggro radius body pull instead of spell pull... we had some very large pulls with 2-3 "groups" of the undead to battle through but it was a blast. definitely a good day to be a shadowknight that day.

I have a 30 zerker and 50 bruiser i am thinking of bringing up but for our play style i am unsure if either will be any better than my shadowknight. mostly thinking of powering one up to do the daily shard quest. Our focus is not on shards yet but the daily is a nice way to get a small stockpile for when we do start up shard runs. Epics and Kunark Dungeon progression first seems like the better idea for us at this point.

any thoughts from you all are always appreciated.