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cyanbane · 06-15-2007, 03:35 PM

Servers: PVE: Antonia Bayle
PVP: Nagafen

Grouping:

Agree with everyone, tank healer DPS

Adv Packs: Fallen Dynasty for sure, but you really won't use till 50+, I like splitpaw because it scales to any level post 25. Don't waste the money on bloodlines.

2 accts is better than 1 Station Access as of right now, as more games are added to the line up that might change. But you can always move a char from one acct to the other for $50 if you absolutly had to minimize down to one acct.

Racial abilities really are not huge imho, except Faye glide might be considered pretty cool.

Classes: The non-hybrids will always be needed, healers for sure. But I personally really enjoy playing hybrid classes, my main is a dirge on PVP and it isn't the "best" class by far (i get my ass handed to me all the time) but it is a blast to play and groups always seem to want me to join after they get the basic classes out of he way.

I know this is also a total plug but I host an eq2 podcast, we are on show #43 right now but back in the 20s we did a segment on each class pairing (wizzy/warlock, warden/fury, etc). Here is a link to the directory if you want to just download some of the older show the show numbers are listed below with the class pairing we talked about on the show, if you dont want to listen to the other parts of the show I would skip to abotu 1/3 of the way through it and the segments shoudl start around that time:

Directory: Index of /podcasts

Guardian/Berserker - Podcast 5
Temp/Inquis - Podcast 6
Wiz/Warlock - Podcast 7
Brig/Swashie - Podcast 8
Monk/Bruiser - Podcast 9
Warden/Fury - Podcast 10
Illusionist/coercer - Podcast 11
Troub/Dirge - Podcast 12
Pally/Shadowknight - Podcast 13
Mystic/Defiler - Podcast 14
Necro/Conj - Podcast 15
Assain/Ranger - Podcast 17

If you want the notes for any of those shows:
EQ2-Daily.com : Weekly Podcasts, Daily News about EQ2 and just click on the title of the show.

These are all pre-pvp though so take that into acct (and also pre next week's GU 36 update which changes stuff around also).

Also, you didn't mention tradeskilling but if you are interested listen to this show for an entire walktrhough of how it works, you can
go to this page (a web based player) and scroll to the last entry on the playlist "Vaddir's Crafting Segments 1-4" or listen to any of our other shows since then. Show 33 also had a segment on Tinkering and show 34 on Transmuting (Secondary tradeskills).

and yeah the last part of this turned into a plug, but hopefully it will help you decide on classes. one thing that I can say is that atleast in pvp (and can extend to pve) some classes are really alot better in some tiers and really suck in others. My dirge was awesome in T2, then T3-T5 blew goat nads, and is just starting to come back around in T6, my wizzy has been awesome post T5 also. So I guess it really goes back to your playstyle in the end.

06-15-2007, 03:35 PM	#9 (permalink)
cyanbane Registered User Join Date: Sep 2006 Posts: 149	Servers: PVE: Antonia Bayle PVP: Nagafen Grouping: Agree with everyone, tank healer DPS Adv Packs: Fallen Dynasty for sure, but you really won't use till 50+, I like splitpaw because it scales to any level post 25. Don't waste the money on bloodlines. 2 accts is better than 1 Station Access as of right now, as more games are added to the line up that might change. But you can always move a char from one acct to the other for $50 if you absolutly had to minimize down to one acct. Racial abilities really are not huge imho, except Faye glide might be considered pretty cool. Classes: The non-hybrids will always be needed, healers for sure. But I personally really enjoy playing hybrid classes, my main is a dirge on PVP and it isn't the "best" class by far (i get my ass handed to me all the time) but it is a blast to play and groups always seem to want me to join after they get the basic classes out of he way. I know this is also a total plug but I host an eq2 podcast, we are on show #43 right now but back in the 20s we did a segment on each class pairing (wizzy/warlock, warden/fury, etc). Here is a link to the directory if you want to just download some of the older show the show numbers are listed below with the class pairing we talked about on the show, if you dont want to listen to the other parts of the show I would skip to abotu 1/3 of the way through it and the segments shoudl start around that time: Directory: Index of /podcasts Guardian/Berserker - Podcast 5 Temp/Inquis - Podcast 6 Wiz/Warlock - Podcast 7 Brig/Swashie - Podcast 8 Monk/Bruiser - Podcast 9 Warden/Fury - Podcast 10 Illusionist/coercer - Podcast 11 Troub/Dirge - Podcast 12 Pally/Shadowknight - Podcast 13 Mystic/Defiler - Podcast 14 Necro/Conj - Podcast 15 Assain/Ranger - Podcast 17 If you want the notes for any of those shows: EQ2-Daily.com : Weekly Podcasts, Daily News about EQ2 and just click on the title of the show. These are all pre-pvp though so take that into acct (and also pre next week's GU 36 update which changes stuff around also). Also, you didn't mention tradeskilling but if you are interested listen to this show for an entire walktrhough of how it works, you can go to this page (a web based player) and scroll to the last entry on the playlist "Vaddir's Crafting Segments 1-4" or listen to any of our other shows since then. Show 33 also had a segment on Tinkering and show 34 on Transmuting (Secondary tradeskills). and yeah the last part of this turned into a plug, but hopefully it will help you decide on classes. one thing that I can say is that atleast in pvp (and can extend to pve) some classes are really alot better in some tiers and really suck in others. My dirge was awesome in T2, then T3-T5 blew goat nads, and is just starting to come back around in T6, my wizzy has been awesome post T5 also. So I guess it really goes back to your playstyle in the end. Last edited by cyanbane; 06-15-2007 at 03:37 PM..