im a human fighter and im coming up on 20 here and i have some questions about class to pick. basically i want to use heavy armor and a big sword or heavy armor and a sword and shield. right now im leaning towards Warrior > Warlord > Dreadnaught, but the thing is they get alot of polearm specials and Galdiator > Duelist gets alot of dual weapon specials. i don't want to use poles or duals so am i just screwed or is it just not viable to do what i want to do? please help. thank you. ^_^
This kinds of questions should go to "Player question" forum.
Warlors is pure polearm class.
Gladiator can use a 1handed sword. It's just it probably the worst choice for them. They dont get PAtack of duas, nor stuning ability of blunts. Most gladiators prefere duals and just carry al lowby blunt for stunning.
The classes with sword+shield are Knight with both its evolvments (Dark Avenger and Paladin).
All of those classes get heavy armor mastery, for knights heavy mastery is the only choise.
As a human you should go the tank route then. With sword and shield. The only class that truly benefits from having a twohanded sword is the Orc-Raider.
Tanks however do not make mighty warriors. The way of the shield is a more defensive role where you protect others by positioning yourself between the damage dealers and their opponent.
And a SK gets his *** handed to him by a nuker, so whats your point? Tanks are still defensive, SK is just the most offensive one of em but is still a defensive class.
Besides he is not playing a DE, he is playing a human. He lieks to have a sword and shield or a twohanded sword. Ergo, the knight (human/elf/de) or the orc raider.
And no, I am not impressed by the prowess of any tank. Show me a video of him killing a necro and then we are talking perhaps.
ok so humans aint good with big two handed swords. what if i go warrior > warlord, i get that power smash or whatever at lvl 20 err 40? i think, then i could have both a polearm and a big sword or sword and shield. paladin or dark avenger isnt my style i want to be able to deal damage.
so whats my next best option? seems to me that gladiator is all about duals, so i guess im stuck with polearms then? gah! oh yea and thanks for all yer guys help too. ^_^
for human melee DD you can go gladiator (duals/heavy preferred by most), warlord (polearm/heavy preferred by most), or treasure hunter (dagger/light preferred by most)
i have seen some dagger users wearing heavy armors claiming they work better, having never played a dagger much i cant comment on that. if you really like the 1-hand combat style a dagger wouldnt be a bad choice though. no longer godly in pvp, but TH still does well in pve... certainly is as competant in pvp as any other average melee when played right if you look past the nerf complaints :P
Before SK's get Lightning Strike, they are pretty easy to take down if you're a Ranger. After they get Lightning Strike, well, I get rolled very easily if it lands.
Plus they have shield masteries, so arrows are very innafective from time to time.
But in your case, Dagger classes are very fun to play, but unless you can get the surprise jump on the enemy, your role in PvP is to Die, in most cases before you reach your target.