Ok so just hit 50 on my SK/CLR/BST, some thoughts:
A lot of you guys are familiar with the emu's and modern EQ and the host of differences but I totally wasn't so a lot of the assumptions I had were kinda off.
First of all, this is a solo/duo server, all the mobs are easier, and the raids are duoable or even soloable with the right build and AAs, so building this ultimate solo-tank was kinda not even required.
2nd I was worried about druid/wizard for Teleports originally but you can basically tp around the map from the bazaar, the cities and some basic locales, and to any zone you have unlocked the teleporter at (by running over it) so ports are not required for anything.
3rd; Class choices:
I chose Cleric for stuns, roots, and heals. The stuns are great, but I probably should of went SHM instead....more about this later but the SK has so much self healing that i'm either at 95-100% health always or if I have a bad pull and can't FD it off, the only time you need to heal is when you have like 5-10 mobs beating on you so you really aren't going to be able to get a Complete Heal off...so smaller heals or HoTs would be better.
I chose Beastlord for the slows and melee abilities, and bonus of a pet. Had I went SHM above for heals and Slows I actually should have went MNK for the melee abilities and the non-cast FD. Monk has far more benefit to my melee focused playstyle than BST does. The pet is nice (it does more dmg than I do) but I forgot you don't even get your 2nd slow spell until 50 and its like the lvl 24 shaman slow...Now BST actual playstyle I guess is proc based and it has these crazy AAs that i'm not too sure about, i'm sure it will be fine in the end, but it's not what I was thinking about when I chose the class.
I chose SK to be sort of my main Class. For plate armor, 2h weapon with snare, lots of snap threat for tanking. keep in mind i stopped playing around the time that warriors fell out of favor (around POP maybe?) and Pal and SK were basically the only viable tanks for groups, warriors were entirely dependent on proc weapons for aggro. Clearly the game has changed a lot, i don't know how warriors are or grouping is but I don't think it matters at all on this server.
So yeah I can tank as SK, I can heal as a Cleric, and I can DPS a bit with my Pet as a BST, kind of a jack of all trades but master of none.....but really what I had envisioned is a DPS SK (MNK/SK...maybe even ROG/SK) with good slows and decent heals to top off in emergencies (SHM).
But there are no bad choices really, i can still solo exp just fine just slower than some other combos, and as I unlock more of these DPS AAs maybe my opinion will change.
