New to Mid need advice

[Strybjorn]

Hi guys. I recently took over my wifes bot account which has a 50 cleric on alb/excal. and I wish to start on Midgard prydwen (she wont let me delete her bot)

I want to play a tnak class and have a few questions:

I can start at level 20 she say somehow which will be cool but what class should I be playing?

I cant decide between them except I dont want to be a savage. What class should I pick??

Any help will be great?

Is it worth me playing or is the game dead??

 

[Aeris]

well its definately not a dead game. classes depend what kind you like to play? you like to be support? or just outright deal damage? you like to have utility? many questions need to be answered, or youll do just what i did on my first char and jump into the class that can cast magic and use a sword and shield! (bloody thanes)

 

[Nelex]

well its diffrent from ppl to ppl what class they like best ... for my part its a Zerker tried all others but have returned to zerker everytime ... got a 2h savage which is fun also.... but with a warrior you got your self a god tank and a class the can farm alot with a bb

 

[Strybjorn]

Im looking to be wanted in rvr. Also are any guilds out there accepting total noobs?

 

[leviathane]

ae thane of doom imo, so fun to play in zerg war fare

 

[Strybjorn]

Thane? hmmmm are you sure, keep seeing people laughing at thanes :/

 

[Tesla Monkor]

Thanes art adapt at many things, but master of none. Thanes and Skalds make great all-round fighters that have something special to go for them as well.

Neither will get easy groups in RVR, though, in all honesty.

 

[Strybjorn]

oh not what i wanted to hear....

Berserker or Warrior get grps?

 

[MythieY]

Thanes art adapt at many things, but master of none. Thanes and Skalds make great all-round fighters that have something special to go for them as well.

Neither will get easy groups in RVR, though, in all honesty.

wont get grps


rubbish, i'd rather have a skald with sos then a gimmpy runnie who gonna drop like a bag of poo the second u get hit.

skalds own - stun mezz sos, and u hit like a tank.
warr - good for farming, wudnt bother in rvr with it.
thanes a fun to play and hit hard, but are normaly the 1st tank to fall in 8v8 rvr.

when playing a skald, i never ever had any probs get a grp.

 

[Strybjorn]

Im going to try a skald I think..... Seems to be quite fun.

ANy guilds recruiting too?

 

[Maddude]

Zerker for pure damage dealing, Warrior for good damage and still a nice defensive abilities.

Skald can be a good choise, they dont have any stuns tho as some1 above said but they have some other nice instants...

Dont make a thane...got loads of friends who started as a thane and then made annother character...They are good for PvE, just that other classes can do better on both parts as they can do in RvR.

Savages are a nice damage dealing class, but u said u didnt want to be 1

Oh then we have the valkyria....i dunno anything about this class

 

[Cadelin]

The game is certainly not dead although at certain levels you may have trouble finding anybody else to play with, shouldn't be too difficult to level though if you have catacombs, there are also lots of nice people but even nice people don't power level complete strangers

In PvE all the tanks are fairly solid classes but if you want to be competitive in RvR then you will probably want to pick either a warrior or a zerker.

The warrior will have to get bodyguard though if you want to get invited to groups and that will add extra PvE time. Obviously ToA and Master levels are important for both classes but I sometimes think bodyguard is the only thing my warrior does in alot of fights

 

[poisono]

As much as this may be boring start at Level one if your new to the game... Its worth the extra experience before going against larger Criters

But please note the Game does not start till you hit level 50 :s Yeah I know kind of a bad thing but im pritty sure most people would agree with that point and getting to 50 is going to be hard, tho once clustering is activated it will be a whole new ball game as thier will be a lot more people to play with

Personally from a Skald's point of view who has also played a Warrior and Zerker at high levels and in RvR, basiclly a 2h Skald kicks ass if played correctly, its all about picking your fights carefully, but keeping the major time breaker back thus being the instant Mezz, you feel you cant win the fight, pull your weapon back Mezz and Sprint away till Speed spell can be reactivated you can always use that time to drop a potion use a out of Combat Ability and then head back in to your advantage. In other words yeah Skalds can own

 

[Acibeth]

wont get grps


rubbish, i'd rather have a skald with sos then a gimmpy runnie who gonna drop like a bag of poo the second u get hit.

skalds own - stun mezz sos, and u hit like a tank.
warr - good for farming, wudnt bother in rvr with it.
thanes a fun to play and hit hard, but are normaly the 1st tank to fall in 8v8 rvr.

when playing a skald, i never ever had any probs get a grp.

LoL, wouldn't bother with a warrior in RVR?? omgosh

 

[Konstantin]

LoL, wouldn't bother with a warrior in RVR?? omgosh

hehe was thinking the same ^^

 

[Strybjorn]

Thanks for all the replies guys. I went to thid a bit yesterday and got utterly trashed by lots of red con people.

Luckily I do have catacombs and so can level there.

Hope to see some of you in rvr when i hit 50... eventually.

 

[Cralla]

Thane? hmmmm are you sure, keep seeing people laughing at thanes :/

hehe then this people never seen Trollum "solo zerg" tows, that will silence´em one 4 all :worthy:

 

[Belomar]

skalds own - stun mezz sos, and u hit like a tank.
warr - good for farming, wudnt bother in rvr with it.
thanes a fun to play and hit hard, but are normaly the 1st tank to fall in 8v8 rvr.

Oh yesssss, uber idea, let's ask MythieY about advice for 8vs8 RvR! The man is a walking dictionary on all matters related to DAoC RvR! In fact, I want to propose we raise a small statue in recognition of his awesome knowledge, like so:

Seriously, MythieY, you keep on playing your zerging Hunter and your quickness-capped BD, that's plainly what you do best.

 

[Konstantin]

Oh yesssss, uber idea, let's ask MythieY about advice for 8vs8 RvR! The man is a walking dictionary on all matters related to DAoC RvR! In fact, I want to propose we raise a small statue in recognition of his awesome knowledge, like so:

Seriously, MythieY, you keep on playing your zerging Hunter and your quickness-capped BD, that's plainly what you do best.

olo belo!

 

[Chap]

wont get grps


rubbish, i'd rather have a skald with sos then a gimmpy runnie who gonna drop like a bag of poo the second u get hit.

skalds own - stun mezz sos, and u hit like a tank.
warr - good for farming, wudnt bother in rvr with it.
thanes a fun to play and hit hard, but are normaly the 1st tank to fall in 8v8 rvr.

when playing a skald, i never ever had any probs get a grp.

Plz dont listen to his rubbish. Skalds are nice, but hard to fit in an opted 8v8 grp. And there is plenty of good high RR skalds out there so you'll have a hard time getting grps, and they dont hit like a tank.
Thanes are gimped, and DOESNT hit hard, a warrior does with his 2h though, and have both nice ml line and nice RA.
As mentioned above I would either go for warrior (for deffensive play) or zerker/savage for offensive.
Zerkers have an advantage over savage due to ml line and RA's, but that will change when det changes are introduced and when they give savages charge.

 

[Belomar]

Thanes are gimped, and DOESNT hit hard, a warrior does with his 2h though, and have both nice ml line and nice RA.

Thanes may not hit hard, but they are very useful as BGers and support tanks. That they are "gimped" is just part of the usual propaganda, a well-played Thane in a fixed FG can do very well.

 

[Cadelin]

Zerkers have an advantage over savage due to ml line and RA's, but that will change when det changes are introduced and when they give savages charge.

When are they giving savages charge? I might go back to leveling my savage again if that is the case.

 

[Nelex]

When are they giving savages charge? I might go back to leveling my savage again if that is the case.

dosnt matter so much you get "det" soon ... then charge is more or less usless

 

[Belomar]

Savages are not getting Charge, at least not yet (furthermore, I know of no Mythic plans to this effect--Savages seem to be regarded as the black sheep by Mythic ever since ToA and NF). And while the new Determination is going to be nice, it will hardly render Charge useless ( ); having access to both is still going to make Zerkers better than Savages (but to a lesser extent).

 

[Konstantin]

Thanes may not hit hard, but they are very useful as BGers and support tanks. That they are "gimped" is just part of the usual propaganda, a well-played Thane in a fixed FG can do very well.

problem is whit thane´s is that the good one´s doesnt grow on tree´s

 

[brad]

IMO if you wanna feel different to everyone else make a savage, good dmg dealing abilities and so ect.

If you want to be able to do alot of dmg alo of the time go for a beserker, there kind of fun to play but not much defense and same goes for savages.

If you want more than just pure melle roll a thane, both casting and melle although it can get hard at times. since no one skill is the best as it could be since you have a 3 way spec line, weopon, shield, stormcalling and maybe parry.

Warrior is the most defensive tank of midgard, it can take alot of hits and also deal them out also with a 2H weopon. If you are going to make a warrior i would advis on the normal spec of either hammer, sword,axe ( chose one ofc) and shield, th rest goes into parry.

So the spec at 50 will go 50 weopon, 50 shield 28 parry.

Skalds can be fun, but they don't have any defense at all, and most RVR grps alrdy have set skalds in the groups which are already high RR.

Anyays hope this helps and go have fun, if you need any questions ask me warrior bradlex ina PM and i can help you out. And remind me who you are

 

[charmangle]

Howdi and welcome!

Hi guys. I recently took over my wifes bot account which has a 50 cleric on alb/excal. and I wish to start on Midgard prydwen (she wont let me delete her bot)

I want to play a tnak class and have a few questions:

I can start at level 20 she say somehow which will be cool but what class should I be playing?

I cant decide between them except I dont want to be a savage. What class should I pick??

Any help will be great?

Is it worth me playing or is the game dead??

Howdi mate and welcome!

No the game is most certainly not dead! Well if you dont want to play a savage then you have 2 choices (which probably all here have told ya!

Berserk - A tank with heavy damage output but weaker defence capabilitys than a warrior. Great offencive extra powers. (banelord master levels)

Warrior - Great fun tank. Not as heavy damage output but huge defencive capabilities. Protects themselves with a shield and thief friends too. (Great defencive extra powers. (battlemaster master levels)

Id say troll is best race for the berserker due to the added damage output from their huge strength (but if a real playing serker says otherwise listen to them I dont know the class good enough.

With warriors you have a couple of choises. Kobolds have the highest and best blocking rate. (Which means you block alot). While Dwaves have the highest amount of hp. Personally Id choose a dwarf warrior coz of the HP but Kobolds used to be the most populair warriors in the old days so not sure which is better.

There you got some info mate! Good luck!

/Charmangle

 

[Zebolt]

thanes hit hard

compared to what? a melee RM? xD

 

[Chap]

Thanes may not hit hard, but they are very useful as BGers and support tanks. That they are "gimped" is just part of the usual propaganda, a well-played Thane in a fixed FG can do very well.

What does a thane have that a war doesnt? Crap nukes and ST? Dont bring this up, we might wake Trollums anger.

 

[poisono]

Skalds can be fun, but they don't have any defense at all, and most RVR grps alrdy have set skalds in the groups which are already high RR.

Bull!

Skalds can take Damage just as well as a zerker or any other class imo, due to the pure reason they can crowd controll and determine where the damage is coming from and who its coming from, usually using DD's to constantly intreupt casters and using mez with it also and using slow down on any inc tanks. Giving them the choice of battle!