by Xanaii » Mon May 15, 2006 7:05 pm
I'de like to add to this.
My first main class in this game, where I first started raiding far back in those golden days, was a warrior. Every single thing Drannor has said is true. Everything Baromen has said is true. Warrior class from lvl 1-70-raiding, is the suck at times, sometimes more often then not, and as Drannor said, they need the good gear to be recognized. High AA's doesn't hurt either.
My warrior having been made back then, as a Dark Elf warrior simply for the unique value of it, back then starting race and stats did matter lol, didn't have all this hp/stat gear we have today...It got so depressing that it depressed me IRL, literally. We didn't get incite, any other aggro+ disc, aggro procing weapons were holy crap rare, we got taunt lol, and as we all know that doesn't always work even now, worked even less then and warriors mitigated less then as well. That's when I said F the warrior and started the SK. I still wanted to tank, but wanted to do more and add more.
Playing a warrior is hard and depressing if you're not right in the game with the gear, with good connections to geat the gear, with good time on your heads to be able to lvl and get AA's all the time. Once you get in a raid there is always 2 or 3 or more warrior ahead of you and you're only job basically is now exempt and you get to laze around feeling worthless and neglected like no one respects you at all because you are entirely looked passed for your abilities, at least that's what it feels like. This however is not true. It is the life of a warrior and it's a f'd up hard life, no warrior will tell you it's been easy, whether they are the uber-shit now, or the lowest of the low. Most people who play the warrior class end up quiting it in general and either rerolling or quiting the game all together because of this. No joke, it's been proven.
Yet even this. warrior is the second most played class in the game, according to EQranking, which of course is not accurate because not everyone uses magelo and is set up on EQrankings, but it gives a pretty good average/average upon classes being played...Cleric of course being the highest because people want to feel needed and no one is more needed in EQ then a cleric, despite what complaints are about druid and so on =P.
I say this is a game and it comes down to, you either can live with the depression and feel like shit and slowly work through it until the other warriors slowly drop either down or go up and your place is finally at the head, or end it now and start again and try and be happy playing another class.
Don't get depressed over this game like I did. Sometimes I still do but I always catch myself and say, "This isn't worth it", and I will usualy go play another MMORPG or just get busy IRL until I feel I can get back into the loop of things with my friends in game again, cause I've never met anyone myself who's totaly quit EQ.
Sounds to me like you're feeling some serious withdrawl though Baromen and it saddens me cause I know how it feels and lots of others do as well, lots of others have felt your pain and still do to this day.
Look inside your minds mind and ask it to look into the future and honestly see what you think it holds for you, without any emotion. If you can do that.
Whatever you find, do what you know comes to you then. And that sounds so ridiculously ghey, but can at least try it lol. Worked for me.
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