Orpheus

After trying other MMORPGs I decided to give EQ2 another chance, so I reactivated my account.

I have a lvl 70 warlock who is giving me quite a bit of a headache and I hope some of you can help me with advice.
I left Everquest shortly before EoF was released, so my char is stuck with only 48 AA at lvl 70. Most of my spells are at adept III, with some master I.
Yesterday I tried to do some quests at the dock at Kylong plains. I found these quests quite difficult for me and died several times when my roots broke early. It was quite frustrating to watch a shadowknight and a warden soloing the same mobs with ease (and they were only lvl 67!).
So, what am I doing wrong, is it only the lack of aa ? Should I completely restart my warlock ?

lightcloud

you know you have 2 roots right? and know when your root/nukein. you dont use dots. that would be a start. aa easy to get at your low level. get some friends. mentor. run zones for aa. quest like hell.

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Mezelline

Yeah your big problem is your lack of AA. 48 is really low even for KoS days. You should focus on doing EoF material, and/or mentoring to get your AAs up. I wouldn't bother wasting your time on RoK/TSO stuff until you get AGI, STR, Hastenings, and max magi shielding done at the least.

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LightCC

Get an AA mirror if you haven't (rare you need is some kind of reflective shard, can be purchased on the broker), level 80 crafters with certain amount of faction (I think) can make them, but they are no-trade, so you have to be there when they do it using the commission system.

This will allow you to store your AA spec and have a 2nd spec. Do so and make a solo'ing/survivability spec to use while you are grinding. This will lower your dps a little bit, but make it so you are manyfold more difficult to kill.

This starts with the STA line and 10 points into the magi shielding in the EoF tree. Part of the key here is that the STA line will increase all your casting skills for fewer resists, especially for root. You could go STR or AGI next, or go for hastenings. STR to get the extra parry mainly (and crit), AGI for dps basically, or hastenings for dps. I'd leaving explosives and propogations for last, possibly get the health bonus from TSO as well.

Anyway, a lot more info in a sticky (if still there) on the official forums in the warlock forum on how to be a warlock tank - most of that applies to solo'ing.

The RoK mobs hit *hard* when you first go there if all you have is even EoF stuff. A lot of the treasured you get from the quests there will be upgrades and will increase your solo'ing effectiveness. But you'll have to be very careful how you pull things and making sure you have room, etc.

Of course, all the old tactics on root/nuking apply. If you are having problems surviving a root break, then always save your stun and daze for rerooting, do not chain cast so you don't break the fear after the root drops, stick to your biggest hitting spells, and at the start cast all your debuffs on every mob that give you trouble - the drolvargs are particularly hard hitting as far as RoK goes.

What someone said about dots with rooting may not apply any longer - they fixed dots triggering damage shields on the ticks, but never have tested if the ticks still break root or not.

EDIT: Regarding AA, you may not be aware, but they changed a few things - you now get AA for grey quests, you can turn on an option that will show you dimmed out feathers for quest givers that will give gray quests. Also, when you mentor you get AA bonuses for named kills (if you haven't gotten the AA yet), it's like 50% for 5 levels of mentoring, 100% for 10 levels, up to make of 300% at 30 levels I think (if those numbers still are correct).

So plenty of ways to work on that AA in easier zones.

Sturges

wasnt kos 50 AA? so 48 isnt low for leaving before eof...

also, lightcc gave some pretty good advice for soloing. i never went the route of battlemage when i was leveling from 70-80, i would usually just root, aura, apoc, nebula, second root, dist, thwart (for the 57-70 spells). the mob was usually dead by then.

LightCC

I switched back to battlemage spec for 70-80 and it definitely helped. Easy with AA mirror now. Make sure you keep all the overflow items that are quest rewards too, those help a ton when solo'ing and root-nuking, especially the snake-eye raptor earring. Picked a different piece for my warlock and now that my Illy has it, I'm regretting it... (although my gear is getting quite good these days, tough to swap out that much dps for a bit of healing...)