ntommyb

I a noob to EQ2, this is my first toon. My problem is I really don't know what buffs I should be looking for in the main tank group and the backup tank group because I've only ever played a swash. If someone could please post a typical first two groups of a raid setup and the critical buffs to maximize dps I should be looking for it would help alot.

Nihlathak

Well you should make note to remind everyone that you're limited to Qeynos only assuming your character information under your avatar is current.

In my raid groups I usually only get the benefit of groupwide dirge/zerker buffs, and rarely anything else. Sometimes agitate if I beg real hard.

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ntommyb

I am limited to Q only classes personally, so I need to know the class that provides the buff as well. Thanks M

Leithe

Anything that helps offense is what you should be looking for in the main tank group.

I personally usually want HP buffs too, cause I'm a guardian in disguise. :p


But basically, the key things to being in the main tank group are Blessings (Templar group proc buff), Luck of the Dirge (dirge group proc buff), this red musical note buff I forget the name of that's a group DPS buff, Aegolism (Templar HP + accuracy buff), and assuming you have a defiler rather than a mysic, you should also have Invective, a DOT proc. (didn't see the Qeynos only thing) If you have a mystic instead, you want Ancestry, but don't be surprised if they're stupid and fight you for it for something unnecessary.

If you have a fury in the MT group, I'll be sad, but, if you do, get Feral, a large DPS + haste proc. Wardens get a big accuracy buff too, but if they have that on the tank I wouldn't worry about it too much. They DO need *some* extra accuracy, particularly with stupid hit rates in t8.

If you happen to have a coercer rather than a third healer, obviously you should have a DPS buff on top of all this.

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ntommyb

Good info, I looked up the musical note thing its Riana'a Indigniant Sustain and it does group +CA Thanks!

Pinski

Uhh, no. Riana's Indigniant Sustain gives DPS mod.

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ntommyb

ahh I was just reading the CA notes, it says gives increases combat attack damage. Guess I mixed it up with Combat art damage

Runaf

Just chiming in here, coercers won't be available in an all-qeynos pvp guild :P If they give you an illusionist, you should probably try to pick up their single-target haste buff and illusionary arms (doubleattack).

Leithe

lol, I kept forgetting the Qeynos only thing :P

But yeah, what Runaf said.

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