EDIT: Yay indecisiveness. Paladins?

and as silly as this may sound, i don't really wanna be a monk. i dont really know why, but yeah.

honestly you can get credits easily enough icly, theres not a giant need for them oocly altho it has benifits
i myself have transed skills and have artifacts.. and not 1 dime spent

being a paladin actually leaves the most options still open to you in the way of countering what will be thrown towards you. a geomancer's staff will hit you for three different types of damage, and of course there are always the knight attacks and other straight forward attacks and damage types so it ends up very well-rounded and with no obvious choices, or unbelievably poor ones for that matter.

i would be tempted to just make the choice based on rp. go for something rare like orclach or krokani, or even take a downgrade and try to make a dwarf work. dwarves -have- to be fun to play!

Taurian, Taurian!

Huge STR, good CON, no disadvantages that are THAT important for warriors and health regeneration.

Don't play a dwarf if you want to be good in PvP (or even PvE while we're at it). It's like castrating yourself for fun - hurts a lot, stupid, and not that fun after all.

I recently read this topic and decided to give it a shot. I came from Achaea and made a taurian warrior.. who is now going to master bonecrusher.


Where should I put lessons? Into athletics to try for surge or bonecrusher.. even if my main focus is bashing until later.

Bonecrusher will increase your damage for hunting purposes. Don't generally suggest surge until you've got a decent amount of bonecrusher under your belt (and a few other lower necessaries, like teleport/potionlist/etc.)

Don't trans BC first, but can get it to virtuoso or something. That's a pretty decent start.

sadly taurian arnt vary good. krokani beat them in most respects. for a warrior id pick krokani. only time you can really use your strength bonus from what i've seen is in 1 on 1 arena matches. and duels if they are in the middle of no where.

Hmm, Krokani Bonecrusher has always been good to me (Aragrot). The thing about being a warrior is equipment is expensive. I went dormant for ages and everything i had decayed. Try bashing for gold without a weapon. I was able to borrow a couple of rapiers from Vathael and have switched to Blademaster, didn't really take a loss there since i was only Gifted anyway. I will probably reincarnate into a Taurian now

Taurians are beasts if you're an ur'Guard. 19 strength, 18 con (I think), 12 int...

Bro, you borrowed those raps from Shikha!

you get 19 str how? i can get about 18 on a good day..
Taurians just arnt that great for warriors.. they look good on paper but the low dex does hurt a good bit.
if i didnt rp the way i do id of traded them out for aslaran or igasho long ago.

and i really wish people would stop pretending like enrage is sweet.. its virtually useless if you actually had somone who
could use it youd note it lasts like a half a minute. and then you have to waste your eq to get it again just to stab some random
guy in the head and get yelled at.

-edit-
it lasted a minute and 15 seconds
2nd time it lasted exactly 1 minute.
...worthless also during the first test i stabbed somone and got in trouble even though the area had been clear for the last 20 minutes.. evil

+2 str weight is a great bonus. The side effect is negligible - if someone yells at you because you've enraged them for 100 damage, then it's their fault for being pricks. As for how long it lasts - 1 minute is more than enough for a fight.
If you think low dexterity hurts warriors a lot, you didn't really do a lot of PvP. Did you?
Race comparison:
Strength: Taurians have -1 STR, but they have enrage. So it evens out, and if you don't use other STR buffs it even gives the advantage for the taurian.
Dexterity: Doesn't matter. You're a warrior, not a monk-ey.
Constitution: Taurians have +1 CON.
Intelligence: Taurians have +2 INT.
Charisma: Same.
Size: Taurians have -1 size (that's a GOOD thing).

Krokani racials: Increased chance of seeing through illusions. (semi-useless), Level 2 Resistance to blunt damage. (pretty sweet), Level 3 Resistance to magic. (great), Native Weapon (good for bonecrushers), Level 1 Susceptible to electric damage. (ignorable), Level 1 Susceptible to cutting damage. (only level 1, so your armor should make up for it)
Taurian racials: Level 1 Health regeneration. (nice), Level 2 Resistance to cutting damage. (very good bonus), Level 2 Resistance to electric damage. (now if only more things would hit with electricity...), Level 1 Susceptibility to magic. (ignorable)

Adding it up, Krokani have better magic defense and blunt resistance. Taurians are better in EVERYTHING else. I'm not saying krokani are bad, they are good - only Taurians are better.

If you want to be a Bonecrusher, alternatively you can consider Krokani. For other specs, Taurian.

I believe Taurian ur'Guard can get 19 Strength with Enrage (+2), Flex (+3), Geburah (+1), and Lich (or Archlich) (+1). 20 strength if Lich/Archlich is +2 (I'm not sure).

Lich is +2.

So a total of +8 buff, resulting in +5 to stat.

So, it is 20 strength...pretty insane, for no balance penalty.

Dex - Dexterity - relates to your ability to avoid getting hit in combat
and, for warriors, gives a slight boost to wounding
sounds rather useful to me


i PVP my ass of actually.

and if taurian are soooo great why is there only 1 of us?
and the fact of the matter is krokani can max 1 strength higher than taurian no matter what.

Strength > Dexterity.
For warriors, anyway.

It's pretty useless.



Since when? :P



Probably because people don't realize it. The same could be said for tae'dae (see: Ashterubear).



I'm pretty sure that they both max out at 20 strength, and Taurians have +2 int and +1 con and, arguably, better advantages/disadvantages.

These two statements:


And


Are mutually exclusive.