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hail fellow players,

i have just started the trial after many years on eq1 finally felt the urge to move over to here. i will be playing either solo or with my 2 eq1 friends who will play a pally and a rogue of some sort. i wanted something to work nicely with those 2 classes and was thinking of maybe the mystic/fury/warden, we will all want to be good classes just for fluff and i would like to be able to heal but also melee a little when im solo,im not a fan of kiting i like to get stuck in.

hmm i was leaning to mystic but having looked at the warden they look great, although i love the look of chain armour and a spear the warden seems to be able to take a more melee approach than the mystic. would you say thats right? like the idea of a warden using sword and board too, much better than limited to maces and scimitars like eq1

Not even a Chinese plat farmer could pay me enough to make me ever give up my warden!

When it comes to tactics and strategies, I can root & nuke or wade in and melee. And when I'm bored or overly cautious, I can charm a beastie and send them in to do the dirty work for me! Multiple linked mobs are never an issue. Even with three mobs you just root one, snare the next and carve up the third!

I have a mystic and he's fun to play but kind of a one trick pony. (lure the mob in, send in the pet and melee till the mob dies). The difference in damage taken between the two is negligible and the warden is such a good healer that I rarely fail to keep myself standing!

On top of all that, druid ring travel, the healing tree & the dog pack and the evac spell all help make the class a blast to play!

The only problem I can see here is you said you wanted to "heal but also melee a little". See, the problem is that wardens do way too much damage to call it "a little melee"!!!

Besides, if you really want the chain mail look, I'm sure you can find some appearance only (non-stat) chain gear that a druid would be allowed to wear.

I have pretty much every healer class covered as alts, in the 2 accounts I run, and the Defiler and Mystic are the most difficult to solo with. It's fine if you are going to be running with friends all the time in the game. But until you gain enuf AA to actually start doing some decent damage the Defiler and Mystic sort of blow compared to other classes in DPS and soloing.

Inquis rocks in the battle cleric mode, and is a fairly strong healer. Does good DPS too! The plate armor adds to survivability also. They solo well, and add some nice buffs to groups.

Templar is even better healer IMO, but man is painful as all get out to try to solo. Fantastic main tank healers endgame, for raiding. So keep that in mind.

Fury rocks, and is sort of like a Wizzy in leather. Does great DPS, but heals a little less I'd say than a Warden.

Wardens surprisingly to me are pretty much one of the best at everything it seems. I've seen some crazy DPS come out of Wardens that are specced right, and have good gear. I know of one Warden who can solo all but the final boss in the Eurodite Library, which is nuts.

It all comes down to what you enjoy playing. Each of these classes are important, and can be fun. Some have more limitations than others, but offer important buffs, and abilities to groups. Typically the classes that are the hardest to solo, you see the least of in end game. Makes sense don't it? The harder the class is to level, the less of the level 90 ones you see running around. And we all want to play a class that is wanted and needed don't we?

Have fun, enjoy the game. Make some alts, and see which class suits you best. Before long the class YOU want to play will become obvious.

Welcome to EQ2! I hope you enjoy yourself.

my 2 friends have started and they have taken a pally and a dirge, i am leaning more to warden than mystic at the minute, prefer the elem style spells to the desease and poison ones. i havent really looked at the templar are thyey able to melee or are they more like the clerics of eq1 as i envisage them?

other thing completely off topic is i will be starting a toon to solo when my mates arent around, on eq1 i have a chanter and love him was thinking maybe an illy on here for similar style although im not sure they be any good for soloing. im wanting a challenge but dont want to get to a stage where i cant get any real xp. do they use charm to kill mobs like a chanter or do they do something else?

many thanks for all your help

xisor

Illusionists have a pet. They are pretty fun, but not very much like EQ enchanters - more like EQ mages, really, very similar to conjurors except with a short-term mez. They do get some mana replenishment.

Coercers use charm, so if you liked charm kiting they're closer to that play style.

Necros are very like EQ necros. Still overpowered, still have a feign death spell, still use a pet and fear (although fear breaks on any damage, be warned).

Edit: damn you, Dya. /shakefist


Edited, Jun 18th 2010 8:29am by Samira

ok i went with warden and he is coming along nicely, a little too nicely infact i am outleveling the friends i play with. because of this i have decided to start a toon to use when they arent online and save the warden for the group. i am now back where i started last week with the whole what class dilemma. i was thinking i might lvl a tank for if i ever get into the raid scene. i would prefer either a zerker or a guardian so really just wanting any advice on these two classes. i have read the class forums but every class other than sk seems to be unhappy on there so im hoping its just the ussual QQ.

Thanks in advance for any advice

xisor

ahh yes i'd forgotten you could do that, will still start a tank just cos i enjoy tanking and will be a nice change of style from the warden. just trying to decide between guard and zerker really not keen on monks and dont want a knight. can a guardian specialise in shield attacks quite like the idea of my warrior been a shield specialist.

For what it's worth, I rarely see guardians. Berzerkers seem to be the tank of choice.

You may want to try a shadow knight at some point just for plate+AOE ownage. They are so much fun.