2nd go at a Swashy

[Dragonlor]

<p>With the release of RoK, the new racial abilities, and my return to EQ2 after several months, I was contemplating having another go at making a swashy.  Given the new racials, which races have the biggest upside (I tried a wood elf the first time around)?</p><p> Thanks!</p>

[Dreamo]

<p>I would suggest making a dark elf brigand and then betraying him to a swashbuckler. Dark elves get the following cool racial abilities:</p><p>1. Poison expertise (+25% more charges on your poisons) - which will save you a lot of money2. Fury of Innoruk buff (5 min recast)  5% crit chance, +37 attack speed which owns on a swashbuckler especially at higher levels when you get inspiration.3. 2% double attack bonus4. A deaggro ability which also teleports you to a random location 10 meters away from the encounter (this is a really cool extra deaggro in case all the other are down).</p>

[hellskitten]

No offense by why follow the herd and try to min/max. Play whatever races looks cool or fun to ya. After racials came in I got lucky since my swashy is a inky; at same time my SK is a woodelf, so didnt fare so well as she didnt get jack thats good for a SK. Think that makes her any less fun to play? If had it to do over, Id make the same exact choice. While some bonuses might be cool to have.. they dont make the game. If your in a guild where 1% difference matters then IMO your not playing a game anymore since the "fun factor" is tossed out the window.. your working.

[Deaudlus]

<cite>hellskitten wrote:</cite><blockquote>No offense by why follow the herd and try to min/max.</blockquote>Because this is the way many people play and many people consider it fun.  Tweaking a class and getting the most out of it is a feature a lot of people enjoy about mmorpg's.  For instance, a car guy could buy a 69 mustang and drive it like it is.  Or, he could buy it and tweak it for weeks and months trying to squeeze every last bit of horsepower out of it that they can.  Why?  Do they really need to spend 5 years squeezing out 25 more horse power from the engine?  No, probably not.  But to a car guy (insert character guy) thats the fun.

[Kragon_Doom]

Some folks like cars to go fast... some like cars to look good.... other like cars to look good while going fast.

[Shadowfoot007]

<p> Pick a halfling ....  permanent +2 crit chance, with the poison proc  and since swashies cap haste frequently if not tanking, then that temp +37 haste with recast of 5mins is not that uber (increased ca damage is nice but nothing to get all crazy over) </p><p> Plus you start automatically with a pot belly and hairy feet ! </p><p>Just play what you wanna play.  The racial abilities do not make or break your character when it comes down to number crunching.</p><p><a href="http://forums.station.sony.com/eq2/posts/list.m?topic_id=391574" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://forums.station.sony.com/eq2/...topic_id=391574</a></p>