Trollita

Try it with an adorned ring and a non adorned ring, the +100 adornment gives you more than 100 HP straight ( and i am wood elf ).

Actually the adorned Jewel of animosity gives me 105HP. ( edited for the jewel stats. )

Lizerd Keng

Ok then I'll have to try it again. It's been awhile but I do remember wondering about this and testing it before.

Crabbok

Race DOES matter. Don't ever let anyone telling you it doesn't matter. Race fucking matters huge. Don't make an elf guardian if you can help it. You really should make a guardian out of a race that at a minimum gets the 3% HP, because 3% HP is huge at 80. I used to be an ogre, and now I'm a kerra because I made a bad decision..... and I fucking regret it every day..... Race matters ... it matters huge!

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boccfus

ogres also get a +vs phisical damge... How can that not be important to consider as a tank.

Trumak

Make an ogre. Max hp trait, mit trait, and stun immune trait which is really handy.

You can always use illusions or lon items if you don't care for the appearance.

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Lopann

Morph was a woodelf* but ya it dosent matter at 80

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grandmasterub

play what race you want. only reason i'd choose a barbarian over and elf is TUNDRA SLAM. only cuz its my fav stun in the game. :P

ps I roll with a wood elf zerker

rotax

RE: HP / Mana % additions (traits)

Coming as a vet from EQ1, when AAs were released to "increase HP %".. Similar dispute/discussion manifested.

In EQ1 it was on BASE HP.

Naked.
No gear.
No buffs.


If I were to guess or assume, w/o digging into it, or dev chats and so on..I'd say EQ2 is the same case.

Abstract

First of all- don't ignore the SOGA models. Ogres are ugly as sin, but with the alternate models enabled, he looks like a baller--kinda like the incredible hulk~~RAWR

BTW- The TINY edge you will get by picking a "better" class isn't worth it. I have a baby mage(50 or so) as an erudite, and they have BEASTLY 5%casting speed bonous- much better than three per. HP. I would trade his ugly ass for anything---

Remember- to 80, you'll spend at least 20 days on your toon. Go half elf if it appeals to you.

(BTW- Half elf tanks rock. They arent ugly as sin like the rest of 'em)

~~Hope

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LordRoache

you should roll a dorf tank and scroll his size down as much as possible so no one can find you on raids.

better yet,

you should roll a fae tank, and constantly use the out of combat ability that makes you tiny as a bug and fly faster (or whatever it does)

and then learn to dual weild shieldz ftw!