State of the Beastlord classFollow

The beastlord is more fun for me to play, but I solo/2box alot. Beastlord solos well, and makes a good duo partner for a druid. The rogue is a tougher class to solo, and positioning issues make it a little tougher to box than other melee classes. In the end, play the class you have more fun with, or just play both and alternate depending on your mood. Heck, between my 2 accounts I have 8 toons that I'm actively playing, which one or two I log in depends on my mood that day.

Don't listen to justinjolt, a bst can do fine for himself solo and is a great asset to a group. They have decent slows, solid dps and their buffs are not that bad. I don't see why you couldn't solo while having your lfg tag up. If you get all the expansions you don't have, that will just open up more content for you to find groups in and solo in. Plus if your hard up you can do MM's until you level up some more.

As for your rogue, you will need a group for him, it is just so hard for them to solo, or that's been my experience at least. Depending on what level he is you could probly find a group for him too. I see lower levels trying to put LDoN's together on my server a few times a week. You should consider coming back and at least see how things go for a month. I mean you'll be out a little money but then you'll know for yourself instead of listening to other people.

With the advent of justinjolt's 5 posts on these boards, I need a question answered. Is there a certain rating one must be below before their stupidity is no longer viewable through default settings?

I played a bst up to lvl 70 before my current hiatus from the game and I have a friend who has a 75 bst...I used to and he still gets tells asking to group...WHY? Because if you truly KNOW how to play a bst, your reputation will get around and you WILL get invites (which is true with any class for that matter). A good bst is a definite plus for a group...

Like someone said earlier...go solo (because you can :) with your lfg tag up.

My main is a 75 beasty Ogre... I am by NO means UBER but I am no noob either. I do rank in the top 100 beastlords.

Would I make my beastlord over again if I could go back? Very though provoking question indeed.

I would love to have comprable gear that my beastlord has on an SK or a Necro and give them a whirl (same AA count also please).

But no, I think I would stick with my beasty. I can solo mobs that melee me for 2k a punch, I can handle 3 at a time pounding me for 500-700 each, I can explore ALOT of content solo, and I never have a problem picking up a top end zone group.

Do I contribute ALOT to raids... from my view point I dont think I contribute that much, from others they say I am a welcome addition. If they are just being nice or not I do not know.

So to answer your question.... You would enjoy the current state of the beastlord very much.

BUT, seeing as how you left before the GoD explansion all off your gear is obsolete and you have to replace it. With that said your only level 53.. thats a good weekends work to get a new toon back up into the 50's so you wont be that far behind.

So, pick which toon you would like the best, your going to have to replace all the gear on it anyways and the levels are so low you quickly get them back.

and before I forget.. how does the beastlord compare now to before GoD? Remember when you were in the teens and eating mobs alive while everyone else was like WTF? But then you got left in the dust and your powers petered out? Well you gain momentum back up around level 70... be warned, Necro's and SK's are the Toons right now, but expect a re-alignment soon (also clerics are getting pretty dang tough)

Peace

thanks boys (jj excluded)...might come back and give it a try

say...you didn't happen to start out playing EQ with a ebay'd dark elf wizzie looking for a SoW to get to burned woods did you?

Edited, Feb 14th 2007 2:14am by joev

Yay me, I rated posts, before I did I could see some of JJ's posts, now I got the honor of pushing him to sub default. I love my druid, wife's mage and beastlord.
Blast, he still has one on the board. When 2 out of 3 of your posts are nuked off the forum it's a good idea to move on to another website. Why does ebay give them this address when they buy an account?

Edited, Feb 14th 2007 10:43am by Srakeats

If you are looking at Beastlords from a Raiding point of view:

1. Give me a paragon button for the guild window and I will never need another beastlord in the guild.
2. Beastlords dps is horrible
3. Beastlords slow is pathetic

Call me shallow.. but I could do without a single beastlord in a raid environment.

Beastlords are good for groups and soloing (to a point). I dont see any real raid utility but then the game is not all about raiding either. You can level a beast and have fun in game without ever setting foot into a high end raid and that's a good thing if you play a beastlord because there is no need for them on high end raids these days.

The sweet spot for soloing for a beastlord is between 60 and 65. Unless you've worked aa's, it gets way tougher to solo after that. Most of the mobs start mitigating slow, which isn't that great to begin with and we dont' tank as well as we once did. We are now on the same mitigation tables as druids. Because Beastlords were so overpowered around the time of POP and GoD, we've been subject to some neglect until recently when we received some major dps upgrades, but sadly our raid utility is lacking. Beastlords are like bards, in that we do several things passably well, but not one thing exceptionally well. I went back to my shaman after playing my Beastlord to 74 and getting his 1.5 and 550 aa's. Not that highend by today's standards, but not too shabby either. It's still a fun class to play, just make sure you don't scream to 75 without getting any aa's. I played a 75 beastlord with 1100 aa's, anguish geared, and 2.5 in beta and I don't want to go back to my gimped beastie *sigh*