Class choice dilemma

[emoboy]

<p>Some friends and I just started up. We currently are in the late 20s early 30s. I rolled a SK under the recommendation of another member who played EQ2 back at release. We started a guild, and have been running lowbie dungeons as a group and trying to stay around the same level. Currently.. we have..</p><p> a wizard, a necro, a inquisitor, and a dirge.</p><p>We will be opening recruiting for other people in game soon, but we were wanting to make a staple group from us who knows each other outside of game. I was gonna tank, but apparently SK's are worthless at end game. I really don't want to level a useless class that far into the game only to be benched. But, none of the other tank classes appeal to me in the slightest. So, I'm thinking about rerolling as something else. But what would secure me a spot in most groups?</p>

[liveja]

<cite>emoboyga wrote:</cite><blockquote><p>But what would secure me a spot in most groups?</p></blockquote><p>Paladin, which carries the added bonus of being something you could betray your SK to without restarting.</p><p>If you have to re-start, then Guardian is probably your best choice.</p>

[emoboy]

<p>not trying to come off mean.</p><p>But I thought I mentioned in my first post that none of the other tank classes appeals to me whatsoever.</p><p>Unless I can tank as SK I'm not playing a tank class.</p><p>So at this point its either SK.. or some other non tank class.</p><p>I want something more useful than SK, but equally as cool.</p>

[liveja]

<cite>emoboyga wrote:</cite><blockquote><p>Unless I can tank as SK I'm not playing a tank class.</p></blockquote><p>You can tank just fine as an SK, if you're talking about single-group stuff. You won't, however, be serving as a main tank, or even an off tank, in raids.</p><p>So, the real question is: are you going to care about raiding? If not, then don't worry about your SK.</p>

[emoboy]

<p>If I can't experience all parts of the game as a SK.. then I will want something else. I want to have the option to raid open to me if I choose thats what I want to do..</p>

[Spyderbite]

<cite>emoboyga wrote:</cite><blockquote><p>If I can't experience all parts of the game as a SK.. then I will want something else. I want to have the option to raid open to me if I choose thats what I want to do..</p></blockquote>Any class can and does raid. Every class can experience all aspects of the game.. including the SK. What Flaye was getting at, was that if you want to exclusively tank then you're best off selecting another class. If not, then your SK will do just fine.You have 7 character slots.. why not try a few different classes out and see how they "fit"?

[emoboy]

<p>well right now I'm just tanking for my friends group. </p><p>We started a guild, and will mostly run everything we do together.</p><p>When we raid, as long as we are a guild.. I'll have a spot. So I guess I should just stick to SK.</p>

[DwarvesR]

<p>One of the guilds I've been in used an SK main tank for our raids when KoS was "it."  About then my work schedule made me unable to raid, but so far as I know he also tanked through EoF, before he had to leave the game about when RoK came out.  We never had any trouble with him being MT.</p><p>But he was a) an amazing player and b) becuz he was our MT we always made gearing him up a priority.</p><p>Most SK's seem to buy into the "this class sucks" or "this class is useless at end-game" memes that are on their forum and thus seem to not learn to use all their hate tools, and thus they DO suck, and thus create that lovely self-fulfilling prophecy.  And then as a result, most guilds won't use an SK MT, and thus don't make it a priority to gear an SK up either, assuming they even take one along on their raids.</p><p>You see where this spiral leads?</p><p>FWIW, on my SK I can keep aggro from manaburning wizards and lifeburning necros.  Warlocks going full AE burn might get 1 or 2 mobs off me if we've got 3+ encounters on us, but usually not even then.  And the only tank I've ever been with that could keep aggro off my warlock when I was going full AE burn was an SK.</p><p>SK's have the tools, just few people are willing to use them all.  The guardian is "easier" so they all play guards instead and give the guard the rep as "best tank."  Maybe it even is, but I've never had any of the problems on my SK that so many complain about on their forums.</p><p>If your SK is fun to you -- then play it.  The rest will attend to itself.</p>