help out this new guy

[Edward420allday]

I have been playing this game for about 6 weeks and almost every dungeon I go into someone is criticizing my game play for not doing something right or not being equipped enough or not having certain actions and traits learned. I would love some help here this is my first online RPG. Any advice is welcome. Thank you in advance.

[Valmar]

In all Honesty Google is your friend, but to help start you off check out this Paladin Tanking link.

http://www.bluegartr.com/threads/118...=1#post5878186

Enjoy

Ps. Granted this thread has not been updated in a while, it is still a useful tool to gain a basic understanding of how to tank on a Glad/Pld.

[Mcshiggs]

First your name, you are free to name you character anything you want as long as it is in guidelines, but I see Tokealot, and I just think, yay another 10 year old that talked his parents into paying for him to play. Second you are a level 34 gladiator, at 30 you can start your job quests and unlock paladin, so level your conjurer up to 15, 34 preferably so you can get stoneskin, and your marauder up to pull a few skills there too. Until you get circle of scorn, flash like there is no tomorrow to get aoe hate, learn your combos and if someone tells you something listen.

[Edward420allday]

Im 30 years old with a job and family I was trying to pick everything up on the fly but playing on PlayStation without a keyboard I just don't have the ability to ask all the necessary question in the heat of the battle. Also don't really have a lot of time to sit on forums all day every day to research everything. With the exception of taking a shot at my name thank you for your help. If there is anything else I could really use it. I really enjoy this game so far and would like to continue that without pissing people off.

[Mcshiggs]

It wasn't taking a shot at your name, when you group with people you don't know, their first impression comes from your gear and your name, not everyone, but quite a few people will see your name, and pre judge you, that's how people are. If I'm looking for a tank, and I see two with the exact same everything, the only difference is in the name, I would pick the one that didn't have a name like yours, you say this is your first online rpg, I'm just letting you know how people are.

[Estellios]

Make sure you have done all your class quests up to level 30 (go back to the Gladiator's guild if you haven't done them) and focus on unlocking Paladin like Mcshiggs has said. Unlocking your job will be necessary in order to contribute in group content.

You should also probably upgrade your sword. Your weapon is very important because it determines how much hate/enmity you get from your skills, even the ones that don't do damage like Flash. Try to make a habit of upgrading your weapon every 5 levels or so, just check the market boards for one.

Your armor itself looks fine, make sure to keep it up to date. Also, I believe there are accessories with Vitality on them that will be available to you in a few levels, if they aren't available already. Make sure to grab all the +Vitality accessories as the added HP will be incredibly helpful in group play. You having more of a buffer for HP is much more important than doing a little bit more damage. The DPS in your group are there for that.

[Edward420allday]

The first thing I read about this game was to still with one class and level that up, now everything that I am hearing completely contradicts that. Outside of paladin is there anything else I need to work towards to be effective tank?

[VisRalis]

Since the others already posted details about gear and what not...

Be confident in what you do.
Lead and defend your party.
Hold fast and survive.
Your efforts show through your actions without words.

It's really hard to say anything bad to a hard working tank showing his/her best effort!

[Megido]

The first thing I read about this game was to still with one class and level that up, now everything that I am hearing completely contradicts that. Outside of paladin is there anything else I need to work towards to be effective tank?

There's a couple of usefull or even mandatory cross class skills. Being a warrior i only levelled paladin for Provoke when i was about to get into coil. Before that it was useful, to tank actual hard stuff Provoke would be mandatory.

Make a lvl1 marauder and check your Actions & traits tab. See what you get from levelling it a little. Stoneskin is a good choice too, but you wont need that pre 50.

Do your job classes asap.

[Vodomir]

The first thing I read about this game was to still with one class and level that up, now everything that I am hearing completely contradicts that. Outside of paladin is there anything else I need to work towards to be effective tank?

Make sure to complete all of your gladiator guild's quests and level your Conjurer to Level 15, then you should be able to accept the quest for your Paladin job crystal, further on you will receive another job related quest every five levels. Once you equip your job crystal you can only cross class skills from either Conjurer or Marauder, so there's no need to level other classes outside from those two. You'll also only want to level both classes as far as to get access to all of the cross class skills needed for your Paladin, which means leveling Conjurer up to level 34 for Stoneskin ... guess you can leave Marauder at level 2 for Foresight or maybe level 8 for Bloodbath. If you have your job crystal and up to date weapon, shield and gear, you should be good to go. You can always level Conj to level 34 after your PLD hits the level cap. Stoneskin is not an essential cross class skill for levelling, but you will want to have it for endgame purpose.

Stat wise focus on VIT and always go with tank armour, not LNC/DRG stuff, as the def values are quite important. Allocate all of your stat points into VIT, too.


General advice:

- learn to mark your targets and always pull with shield lob rather than relying on a body pull
- focus your emnity combo on the first target (as all of your DDs should be on that target, too)
- in multi mob situations flash a few times in the beginning so secure an aggro lead over your healer
- when you have a lead on the first target, you should spread your emnity combo around across the other targets, just make sure to return to the main target every now and then to not lose aggro on it
- it's usually advisable to face targets away from your group, so they don't stand in nasty void zones and your DDs can attack from the rear side
- don't tank your targets next to the healers/ranged DDs, as some mobs create 360° void zones, which would then hit your healers/ranged DPS, if they don't move out in time
- learn your combos and go for the ones with increased emnity, only use mana reg combo when your emnity lead is big enough to allow for such a move