Crone
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Everquest - Agnarr Server: Sunset Mode
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Sterling
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SKs will do a lot more dps, Paladins offer group heals and have DA hammer so make for better rampage tanks, SKs also increase the group's mana regen. SKs are also one of the strongest pulling classes in the game. Paladins have a group hp buff that stacks with cleric/druid buffs so you'll want at least one on your raid. There's a reason that there's probably 4 or 5 SKs for every paladin on Phinny and it isn't all just RP flavor.
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Zog
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Paladins don't offer much until brells, in pop. Sk has feign death. They both are great snap aggro tanks. I'd say the biggest difference between them is paladins can't be big races so the health pools will be different for a while. Big races can slam when using 2handers, while paladins have stuns so it's a wash.
I would say it's more of a personal choice but I would rather have feign death to save myself in situations with a bigger health pool.
You also might factor in whether getting your epic is important to you, the difference between these two for epics is insane.
Sterling
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Not disagreeing, just saying for our raids no one really bothers to Pot9/Symbol over Virtue. Mana really isn't an issue for most.
Sterling
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Even aside from that, they still offer fire/cold and ac debuffs not offered by other classes. Not suggesting you should stack druids, but the first one is important.
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Phinny exp cap rises with # in group. That's why soloing on phinny = teh suck. You get very little on phinny if soloing.
I have not seen that penalty mentioned in regard to agnarr, and anyway, they have said exp rate will be similar to ragefire, which was ridiculous easy.
Maybe they will find their sweetspot, eventually. But agnarr gonna be a fast exp server.
I have not seen that penalty mentioned in regard to agnarr, and anyway, they have said exp rate will be similar to ragefire, which was ridiculous easy.
Maybe they will find their sweetspot, eventually. But agnarr gonna be a fast exp server.
Sterling
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Between instances and pickzones etc almost all epics are really easy now with a few exceptions.
Enchanter epic is the worst in that it has 2 2+ day spawns that happen inside cities so no pickzones or instances, these tend to be very highly contested.
Enchanter and Wizard both also have a multi day spawned mob in PoFear that can't spawn inside instances because the beginning of the spawn window is well after the 6 hour instance. These can be highly contested and due to the nature of the zone often end up being trainfests.
Shadowknights have to visit Marl twice. He's on a ~ 36 hour or whatever spawn and he despawns once used. He does spawn in pickzones, the way pickzones work there's almost no chance that they'll stay up long enough to matter.
You might have to end up spending hours farming something like Pearl shards or one of the various embers for Mage epic or whatever, but those 3 classes epics are orders of magnitude worse than the rest.
Vaclav
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I can't recall if she got the forages in classic, but the planar drops absolutely are available in classic. (The forages take like 5-10 min a piece with max forage anyhow)
Zog
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Using a lvl 1 halfling rogue in misty thicket.
Phinny xp:/ yellow 8% / white 3% / Yellow 9% / yellow 8% / white 3%
Ragefire xp:/ yellow 9% / yellow 8% / white 5% / yellow 8% / white 5%
For whatever reason, I was not able to get more than 9% for a yellow kill on either server, while there was obviously a slight difference in white con mobs in ragefire's favor.
I said I would do more tests and here it is, there is in fact an XP cap per kill and there isnt a difference between phinny and ragefire in that regard.
Phinny xp:/ yellow 8% / white 3% / Yellow 9% / yellow 8% / white 3%
Ragefire xp:/ yellow 9% / yellow 8% / white 5% / yellow 8% / white 5%
For whatever reason, I was not able to get more than 9% for a yellow kill on either server, while there was obviously a slight difference in white con mobs in ragefire's favor.
I said I would do more tests and here it is, there is in fact an XP cap per kill and there isnt a difference between phinny and ragefire in that regard.
Heallun
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Oh man, those UDB races. Having guts from day 1 on agnarr is going to be strange. Going to have more guts than bards, even with the boxes...
