Warrior

Description

Warriors are the epitome of a tank class. They wield weapons in both hands, wear finely crafted armors, and are able to absorb massive amounts of damage easily. They have high hit points and armor class right from the start. As they gain knowledge of the arts of war, they acquire the skills of Bash, Dual Wield, Double Attack, Parry, Riposte, Dodge and Disarm. They are the only class that learns all of these combat skills, and nearly always as soon or sooner than any other class.

Despite these combat skills, Warriors are not a class with a lifelong ability to solo. At low levels, they can solo easily, but when they enter their low twenties they begin to lose that edge. Since they have no magical abilities of their own, and a lot of hit points to lose, recovering after battle without the aid of a healer is a slow process. By level 25 they will not survive many White fights without a backup healer. Because of this, the Warrior needs groups. Fortunately, groups need Warriors just as badly.

The Warriors’ duty in a group is not only to absorb damage, but also to pull for the group. They have to absorb damage from a mob as they lead it to their group. In combat proper, a Warrior should be adept at keeping an eye on the rest of the group. He must keep the mobs off of the lighter-armored classes, or it can be disastrous for the entire group. While most of the combat functions of the Warrior are automated, this does not mean the Warrior is a boring class to play. The art of tagging and pulling mobs is in itself a challenging role, and a very important one at higher levels.

Warriors are a very straightforward class that rely heavily on their party in order to perform well. A Warrior will want to become good friends with a Cleric early in life, and develop a trusting relationship between them, as it will be the Cleric who keeps her alive in the levels to come. This class is a fun one to play — Warriors get to beat things up and laugh in the enemys’ face.

by Jason Mash, “Shyden ClawStinger”

Class Titles

Level 1-50	Level 51-54	Level 55-59	Level 60
Warrior	Champion	Myrmidon	Warlord

Creation Guide

It is important to make good decisions on Race, Starting Stats, and Religion. These things combined will allow you to create the Warrior that makes you most happy.

Choosing Race

Male Warrior from Casters Realm ~2000

Choosing a race for any class can be a difficult decision--do not choose a race based on abilities alone. Choose the Race that provides you with the right mix of racial benefits, religion, cultural armor sets, and statistics that benefit your class.

Racial Abilities

See Character_Races#Racial Innates for more information.

Starting Statistics

It is important to note that each race has slightly different starting statistics. For Warriors, your STA is important for a larger number of hit points, and AGI contributes to your AC.

Race	STR	DEX	AGI	STA	INT	WIS	CHA	Bonus
Barbarian	113	70	87	105	60	70	55	25
Dark Elf	70	75	95	75	99	83	80	25
Dwarf	100	90	75	100	60	83	45	25
Gnome	70	85	90	80	98	67	60	25
Half-Elf	80	85	95	80	75	60	75	25
Halfling	80	90	100	85	67	80	50	25
Human	85	75	80	85	75	75	75	25
Ogre	140	70	75	132	60	67	37	25
Troll	118	75	88	119	52	60	40	25
Wood Elf	75	80	100	75	75	80	75	25

Each race gets 25 bonus points to apply to the base stats of their choosing.

Suggested Starting Statistics

The main focus of warriors is to sustain as much damage as possible. Here are our suggestions:

• Barbarian: Add 25 to Stamina.
• Dark Elf: Add 25 to Stamina.
• Dwarf: Add 25 to Stamina.
• Gnome: Add 25 to Stamina.
• Half Elf: Add 25 to Stamina.
• Halfling: Add 25 to Stamina.
• Human: Add 25 to Stamina.
• Iksar: Add 25 to Stamina.
• Ogre: Add 25 to Dexterity.
• Troll: Add 25 to Stamina.
• Wood Elf: Add 25 to Stamina.

Min-maxing Starting Stats

Aside from Stamina, stats are relatively easy to max at end-game Velious, so it is recommended to dump as many points into Stamina as possible. A Shaman can only buff one spell to increase Stamina (Riotous Health 50 STA) while both Focus of Spirit (HP 405, STR 67, DEX 60) and Avatar (STR, AGI, DEX and ATK by 100) stack capping your Strength & Dexterity. Agility can easily be raised above the soft-cap of 75, additional agility provides only incremental AC bonuses.

Experience Statistics

Warriors get a 10% bonus to experience gains when leveling. However, race selection may involve additional modifiers to experience:

Race	Modifier
Troll	20% penalty
Ogre	15% penalty
Barbarian	5% penalty
Halfling	5% bonus

With all factors accounted for, the actual experience modifiers for each warrior race comes out to the following:

• Barbarian Warrior: +5.5%
• Dark Elf Warrior: +10%
• Dwarf Warrior: +10%
• Gnome Warrior: +10%
• Half-Elf Warrior: +10%
• Halfling Warrior: +14.5%
• Human Warrior: +10%
• Iksar Warrior: -8%
• Ogre Warrior: -3.5%
• Troll Warrior: -8%
• Wood Elf Warrior: +10%

What does it mean?

Certain races and classes require differing amounts of experience points to attain the same level. For example, a Halfling Warrior requires 85.5% of the experience that a Human Cleric would require to be the same level. An Ogre Warrior would require 103.5% of the experience that the Human Cleric would.

Note: Class-based experience penalties were removed in the January 17, 2001 patch on live during the Scars of Velious expansion. While this change was not explicitly mentioned in those patch notes, it was mentioned in the January 14, 2001 Producer's Letter in which Gordon Wrinn stated they would be "going in next patch." The experience bonuses for Rogues and Warriors was left in so that the changes wouldn't be interpreted as a nerf, and because they weren't enough to be considered unbalancing.

Religion

Generally speaking being Agnostic is a fairly safe bet in Everquest. Religion serves only to get you into trouble in many situations. The disadvantage to doing this is that some items, such as deity-specific Cultural armor sets, and some quests can only be done by followers of certain religions. Following a religion will at worst get you killed in some areas, but generally you can avoid these. Following Innoruuk is probably the most dangerous religion as they have the most places in the game where they are Kill on Sight. In the end it will not make an enormous difference to your character which Deity you choose.

Deity Specific Armor

• Cazic-Thule-only Warrior Armor
• Rallos Zek-only Warrior Armor
• Innoruuk-only Warrior Armor

Skills

Berserker Frenzy

Going into a berserker frenzy is an innate, passive ability of the warrior class that is present from level 1 onward. Anytime a player character warrior's health falls too low, he or she enters a berserker frenzy, converting all of his or her critical hits into more powerful crippling blows.

A warrior will go berserk when falling below 40% health and will remain berserk permanently until his or her health reaches 45%. While berserk, the warrior will score a crippling blow whenever they would normally have scored a critical hit. Going berserk is accompanied by the message, "Soandso goes into a berserker frenzy!" which will appear in the chat boxes of both the warrior and any other nearby players. "Soandso is no longer berserk" signals the end of the effect.

Berserking is a hard-coded mechanic of the class and stacks with all buffs, disciplines, etc.

Magic Resistance

Warriors will gain a progressively stronger resistance to magic as they level, at a rate of +1 MR every 2 levels.

Primary Hand Damage Bonuses

This is the same for all melee classes, but listed here for reference.

Level 28: 1

Level 31: 2

Level 34: 3

Level 37: 4

Level 40: 5

Level 43: 6

Level 46: 7

Level 49: 8

Level 52: 9

Level 55: 10

Level 58: 11

Combat Skills

Level	Skill	Trained	Pre 50 Cap	Post 50 Cap	Oct 8, 2001 Patch
1	1 Hand Blunt	No	200	250
1	1 Hand Slashing	No	200	250
1	2 Hand Blunt	No	200	250
1	2 Hand Slashing	No	200	250
1	Archery	No	200	240
1	Bind Wound	No	175	210
1	Defense	No	210	252
1	Hand to Hand	No	100	100
1	Kick	No	149	210
1	Offense	No	210	252
1	Piercing	No	200	240
1	Slam	No	220	240
1	Taunt	No	200	200	230 at lvl 60
1	Throwing	No	113	200
6	Bash	Yes	200	240
6	Dodge	Yes	140	175
10	Parry	Yes	200	230
13	Dual Wield	Yes	210	240
15	Double Attack	Yes	205	245
25	Riposte	Yes	200	225
35	Disarm	Yes	200	200

Miscellaneous Skills

Like all classes, Warriors can raise the following skills:

Level	Trained	Skill	Pre 50 Cap	Post 50 Cap
1	No	Alcohol Tolerance	200	255
1	No	Beg	200	200
1	No	Fishing	200	?
1	No	Sense Heading	200	200
1	No	Swimming	200	200

Disciplines

Discipline Name	Level Obtained	Description	Duration	Reuse Time	Expansion
Resistant Discipline	30	Grants +3 to all resistances increasing to +10 at 50th level	1 Min	60 Min
Fearless Discipline	40	Immunity to "Fear" and all spells that cause "fear"	11 Sec	60 Min
Evasive Discipline	52	Places you in a evasive combat stance, increasing your chance to avoid attacks [25%?], but also lowering your hit rate. [25%?]	3 Min	15 Min @L52 to 7 Min @L60	Ruins of Kunark
Charge Discipline	53	Increases your chances to hit with any melee attack.	14 Sec	30 Min	Ruins of Kunark
Mighty Strike Discipline	54	Fills your arms with rage, causing every attack to land as a critical hit.	10 Sec	60 Min	Ruins of Kunark
Defensive Discipline	55	Places you in a defensive combat stance that causes you to take less damage [35%], but also lowers your damage output. [35%]	3 Min	15 Min @L55 to 10 Min @L60	Ruins of Kunark
Furious Discipline	56	Allows you to perfectly time your counter attacks, riposting every incoming blow.	9 Sec	60 Min	Ruins of Kunark
Precision Discipline	57	Places you in a precise combat stance that increases your hit rate, but also lowers your chance of avoiding attacks.	3 Min	30 Min @L57 to 27 Min @L60	Ruins of Kunark
Fell Strike Discipline	58	Fills you with acute rage, increasing the damage done by your attacks.	12 Sec	30 Min	Ruins of Kunark
Fortitude Discipline	59	Heightens your combat reflexes, increasing your chance of evading attacks.	8 Sec	60 Min	Ruins of Kunark
Aggressive Discipline	60	Places you in an aggressive combat stance that increases your damage output, but also causes you to take more damage. [%? increase]	3 Min	27 Min	Ruins of Kunark

Warrior-Specific Quests

Original:

• Crafted Armor Quests
• Hero Bracers Quest

Original - Plane of Sky Era

• Warrior Plane of Sky Tests

Kunark:

• Warrior Epic Quest
• Trooper Scale Armor Quest (Iksar)
• Warrior Pike Quests (Iksar)

Velious:

• Warrior Thurgadin Armor Quests
• Warrior Kael Armor Quests
• Warrior Skyshrine Armor Quests

Gearing

Best in Slot

Classic Pre-Planar

• Ears – Diamondine Earring
• Fingers – Platinum Fire Wedding Ring, Djarns Amethyst Ring
• Neck – Golden Black Pearl Choker, Fine Plate Collar
• Head – Skull-shaped Barbute
• Face – Grotesque Mask
• Chest – Crafted Breastplate
• Arms – Crafted Vambraces
• Back – Werewolf Skin Cloak, Cloak of Shadows, Hooded Black Cloak
• Waist – Mithril Plated Girth, Thick Leather Apron, Thick Banded Belt, Flowing Black Silk Sash
• Shoulders – Crested Spaulders, Carnal Pauldrons
• Wrists – Crafted Bracers, Hero Bracers, Granite Bracer
• Legs – Crafted Greaves
• Hands – Crafted Gauntlets
• Feet – Crafted Plate Boots
• Primary – Gloomwater Harpoon, Obsidian Shard, Short Sword of the Ykesha
• Secondary – Obsidian Shard, Short Sword of the Ykesha
• Range – Runed Bone Fork

Classic Planar

• Ears – Ivandyr's Hoop, Black Sapphire Electrum Earring
• Fingers – Platinum Fire Wedding Ring
• Neck – Runed Wind Amulet
• Head – Lustrous Russet Helm, Indicolite Helm, Crown of King Tranix
• Face – Grotesque Mask, Polished Mithril Mask, Split Paw Hide Mask
• Chest – Lustrous Russet Breastplate, Indicolite Breastplate
• Arms – Lustrous Russet Vambraces, Indicolite Vambraces
• Back – Cloak of Flames
• Waist – Belt of the Four Winds, Runed Bolster Belt
• Shoulders – Pauldrons of the Blue Sky
• Wrists – Lustrous Russet Bracer, Indicolite Bracer
• Legs – Lustrous Russet Greaves, Indicolite Greaves
• Hands – Lustrous Russet Gauntlets, Indicolite Gauntlets
• Feet – Lustrous Russet Boots, Indicolite Boots
• Primary – BladeStorm, Katana of Steel Sleet, Short Sword of the Ykesha, Soul Leech, Dark Sword of Blood, Fangol
• Secondary – Short Sword of the Ykesha, Dagas
• Range – Runed Bone Fork

Kunark

• Ears – Ivandyr's Hoop, Twisted Bone Earring, Earring of Essence, Stonemelder's Band, Shrunken Goblin Skull Earring
• Fingers – Gem Encrusted Ring, Platinum Fire Wedding Ring, Ring of Dominance
• Neck – Pulsating Gem, Runed Wind Amulet, Kunzar Hex Amulet, Necklace of Defiance, Sebilite Scale Neckguard, Necklace of Superiority
• Head – Cobalt Helm, Crown of Rile
• Face – Targishin's Bone Mask, Gangrenous Beetle Mask, Grotesque Alloy Mask
• Chest – Cobalt Breastplate, Incarnadine Breastplate
• Arms – Cobalt Vambraces, Blazing Vambraces
• Back – Shroud of Veeshan, Hierophant's Cloak, Siblisian Berserker Cloak, Cloak of Piety
• Waist – Belt of the Four Winds
• Shoulders – Poisoned Mantle, Imbued Granite Spauldors, Pauldrons of the Blue Sky
• Wrists – Cobalt Bracer, Indicolite Bracer, Lustrous Russet Bracer, Dragon Hero Bracer, Bracer of the Hidden, Blazing Bracer of Fennin Ro
• Legs – Cobalt Greaves, Incarnadine Greaves
• Hands – Cobalt Gauntlets, Lustrous Russet Gauntlets, Indicolite Gauntlets
• Feet – Cobalt Boots
• Primary – Blade of Strategy, Blade of the Black Dragon Eye, Sword of Rile, Maelstrom, Blackstone Maul
• Secondary – Blade of Tactics, Feverblade - Bane of the Shissar, Sword of the Shissar, Spear of Constriction
• Range – Idol of the Thorned

References

Classes

Bard :: Cleric :: Druid :: Enchanter :: Magician :: Monk :: Necromancer :: Paladin :: Ranger :: Rogue :: Shadowknight :: Shaman :: Warrior :: Wizard