Why did you choose a bruiser?

[darkmagic]

<div>I would like to get an idea why the bruiser community decided to make and stick with a bruiser. Was there a specific reason why you like this class so much?</div><div> </div><div>Thanks for your responses!</div>

[ganjookie]

   When starting out my RL friends and I started out together.  2 healers, 2 tanks, and a dirge. I didn't want to be a plate tank, and the other became a Shadowknight.  I had fun with my monk in Eq1, so went with bruiser.  It was tough at the begining.  Nobody wanted a leather avoidance tank, I was fine in my lil group and then guild groups, but most PUGs, used us for DPS and some off-tanking.  Eventually we came into our own.  We now have a good rep as xp groups and as duelists.    I enjoy the idea of an evil monk, which is not what I expected the bruiser to be, but I am happy with our progression and lore.  Utility such as Feign Death, self heal, safefall and stuns/fear/mez has kept me quite happy.  Once you learn how to use your skills to the fullest, and advance them to adepts and master skills, you become quite a well rounded character.Hope you stick with it and enjoy your journeys in Norrath.<div></div>

[Madmoon]

<div></div>I think that it is the constant ability to handle diverse situations.  While certainly not crowd-control, debuffing maniacs, where you have to watch every aspect, I do like how I have to always be on my toes.  Mez this one, peel that one off the mage, sometimes the main fighter, sometimes not, a good scout, probably the best puller (even though that is not as onerous a duty as it was in EQ1,) able to handle things alone, but well sought after in groups - what's not to love.  As far as RP, I like how we are monks, but with a dark side.  A well played monk is contemplative, a mixture of thought, training, action, but we bruisers, well, we know <em>our</em> training is good for one thing - putting a bigger hurt on them than they put on you.  It's a great mixture of dominance and fear, very primal and dark.

[Zigmun]

<div></div><p>A melee that can both mezz and fear what's not to like?</p><p>PVP - Today I got jumped by 4 Q's, I mezzed one, feared another, killed one and then the fourth killed me.</p><p>It was a rush.</p><p>PVE - I can go anywhere.</p><p>Similar strat - have 2-3 tough mobs? Mezz one, fear other - kill one - FD - lose agro, med up - rinse and repeat.</p><p>Bruisers and Monks are very well rounded classes.</p><p> </p>

[Landaros]

My very first Tank char was a Paladin - as a former Ultima Online player I expected this fighter to be the ultimate killing machine, but well, EQ2 has a different understanding of a Paladin than UO, so I became disappointed that I cant kill fast and effectively.My wife meanwhile started out with a monk where I thought that it would really suck due to lack of plate armor, but when I saw her ruling RoV I wanted to try out a bruiser.Till now (he is only lvl 43 yet) I am very satisfied about the combination of abilities of a brawler - dps, taunts, emergency heal and for the worst case FD.In my opinion a very well created character type<div></div>

[galadizz]

i used to play a monk in eqOA. they werent tanks . they were melee.but  when i cam here i wanted high dmg with monk style. so i picked bruiser<div></div>

[Vorham]

I shudder at this question when I realize that most everyone I know has a bruiser altBack in my day when Bruisers walked uphill, both ways, through the snow and ate rocks ... we made our bruisers knowing tanking would be harder than the other fighters but our DPS was king and the evil monkish/thug style was a calling to the faithful.Was great when you'd do a /who all bruiser and get 10 people total.Fast forward to LU13Flavor of the Month<div></div>

[Novusod]

I tried Bruiser because I liked the way they looked. That way probably not the best way to choose a Charactor class.<div></div>

[Gungo]

<div></div><div>i wanted a troll monk. Came to eq2 w a bunch of eq1 friends who all made qeynos characters.  The original betrayal quest was sorta buggy and i died during my betrayal at a key point and was stuck w a bruiser. Not wanting to remake my toon i stuck it out and eventualy grew to enjoy my toon much more then our backwards neighbors. the monks</div>

[ganjookie]

<div>I was the only Bruiser in my guild for MONTHS.  Now due to play time there is one alreasdy 70 and others passing me by. Gis, Masters and other items for bruisers was pretty cheap too! I bough my rujarakin (sp)Gi for like 5gp or less at level 39 <img src="/smilies/283a16da79f3aa23fe1025c96295f04f.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" />Having to work hard, made the difference between a good or a bad bruiser tank, and kept our population low, alothough the bad bruisers gave us a pretty bad name, and was hard to get MT positions in PUGs...or even guild groups.<span><blockquote><hr>Vorham wrote:I shudder at this question when I realize that most everyone I know has a bruiser altBack in my day when Bruisers walked uphill, both ways, through the snow and ate rocks ... we made our bruisers knowing tanking would be harder than the other fighters but our DPS was king and the evil monkish/thug style was a calling to the faithful.Was great when you'd do a /who all bruiser and get 10 people total.Fast forward to LU13Flavor of the Month<div></div><hr></blockquote></span></div>

[wayfaerer]

Because I love the ultra-violence. I want to bodyslam dragons, piledrive undead and suplex lizardmen. There's nothing like a Bruiser for sheer face-smashery.<div></div>

[Xarov]

<div></div><div></div><div>Had my bruiser to 58 [ mind you he was my first eq2 character but have a warlock for raid purposes]  on PvE server so when naggy went live i had to make my PvP main a bruiser.....</div><div> </div><div>The feeling i got is " i beat [expletive haxx0red by Raijinn] up and then say THANK YOU COME AGAIN"</div><p><span class="time_text"></span> </p><p>Message Edited by Xarovix on <span class="date_text">04-09-2006</span><span class="time_text">06:57 PM</span></p>

[Kalem]

<div></div><p>My frist class was a Brigand.  After the big agi nerf (early last year) soloing was just zero fun.  I tried out  a few classes after that (conjurer, zerker, shadow knight), and none really stood out.  Eventually I gave up on the game for a while, and then returned.  I decided I wanted to start fresh, and go with a class that could solo extremely well, and yet bring something to a group.  Thus, I went with the bruiser.  Best decision I could ever make.  Going from 1 to 60 was a real joy.  Rarely did I feel as if I was grinding...I mean it just feels so good to pound the stuffing out of mobs. <img src="/smilies/8a80c6485cd926be453217d59a84a888.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" /></p><p>I love the dps, the tanking, the attitude.  I've been accused in the past of being an altaholic, but I have yet to dust off a single alt since roling my bruiser.</p>