WurmSlayer SHKFollow

you're a knight....get used to it.

wasn't trying to be a smartass but the fact remains that being a knight, you're dps is nil. Get used to missing...a lot. You can try to increase you attk rating with buffs and/or vengeance items.

dps = damage per second. Paladins and Shadowknights will never put out (assuming equally equipped) as much dps as a warrior, monk, ranger, etc, etc. I believe Strength buffs will also increase your attack rating.

Don't get discouraged...SKs and Paladins have there place. Your ability to maintain aggro and at least keep a mobs attention can be a big help in group levels 35-50. As you progress you will find that the role you play will definately change to more of a support class (ie. 2nd tank or off tank). I have a 65 (Pre-Elem)Warrior and a 37 Dark Elf Shadow Knight and the difference between these 2 "melee" classes is night and day.

Pretty much agree with the rest. You might as well filter out your misses since all it does is depress you. There's no real benefit to be gained by being spammed with a bunch of miss messages.

To answer your question literally no one weapon will help you miss less than the next (assuming the same type: 1HS, 2HS, etc). So your ratio of swings:hits should be the same with a Wurmslayer, Icetooth Claws, Blackened Alloy Longsword, Centi Longsword, Rusty Axe, etc. You may want to look into getting a haste item if you haven't already to help increase the damage you can do per second, especially with a slow weapon like the Wurmslayer.

Rein -
I believe he was mistaken and meant to say that a ranger is a Warrior/Druid. The melee skill tables, as well as parent class for spells seem to suggest this. He was simply referring to the two classes that make the "hybrid", and mistakenly identified the melee class portion of the equation.

I may be dead wrong on this issue, so if I am please someone correct me. I haven't done any parsing and I'm only conveying info that I've read (sometimes you can trust the info and sometimes you can't). From what I've read on Paladins of Norrath and other sites skills and abilities can be summarized as follows:

Dexterity - Determines the probability to hit the target (especially with ranged weapons). In regards to melee I've seen conflicting info where people claim a higher dexterity helps with the probabilty to hit. Dexterity also helps in learning a new weapon skills

Agility - In a 5:1 ratio it increases AC, and also adds a bonus to the probability to dodge an attack. A higher agility will help you get hit less if you can successfully dodge. A higher agility also determines if a weapon processes it's innate effect

Strength - Increases the armor class of the individual and adds a bonus to the damage incurred to a mob. Damage you do to a mob will have as a component: weapon damage + strength damage + weapon bonus + level bonus

Armor Class - Is used in the equation to determine if a mob succcessfully hits you, and if a successful hit is scored determines the amount of damage invoked. A higher AC over the mob means you may take less damage from the mob's hits.

Attack (ATK) - Determines the shape of the damage distribution curve. A higher ATK will flatten the bell curve, allowing successful hits to potentially land more damage.

The exact equation used to determine if you hit a mob is shrouded in mystery, but it is believed that the componenets of the equation are: Random number, your ATK, Mob AC, your Dexterity, Weapon Skill level, your Level. Verant obviosly would never release the exact equation, thus it is up to the EQ mathmaticians and parsers to reverse engineer it.

As a shadow knight (or paladin) you get dual attack, but you will never get the ability to dual wield. This means in an attack sequence you get attack + dual attack + bash (if equipped). Warriors get the ability to dual attack and dual wield. This means their normal attack sequence is primary attack + dual primary attck + secondary attack + dual secondary attack. A warrior can generate more damage per second because they have they ability to strike twice as often. Knights and paladins offset this through the use of our spells.

If anyone else has anything else to add to the subject feel free to add. Since this info is hardly 100% trustworthy...please take it with a grain of salt. Sorry if the quailty of the information is a little low. I'll use this post as a "springboard" for others to follow up on.