So as a long time player (lurker)- raider at times, super casual at times when I was focusing other titles, content rusher at periods, and now settled down into I play EQ in one way or another almost every day but completely at my own pace. No more raiding or rushing, and I play on live - TLP - and on the P99 servers. In all that time I have seen the rise and fall ( and re-rise at times) of the various DPS classes in game. I raided as a rogue at the end of vanilla and into Kunark - but then fell off in favor of tanking or healing ever since as my focus toons. So overall I have stayed pretty far behind the times so to speak in "meta" dps selections and have kind of picked what seemed interesting or useful to the group. I always run the trinity myself - Tank - designated heals - CC. Then I tend to add an off heal and 2 pure DPS. Mostly just the set up I have had the most success with overall.
Having said all of that - I also run numerous groups as I like to see them advance together and come into their own as a team. What I have noticed as I dig deeper into the forums and other people's group make-up posts, is that the DPS side of the house is almost always zerkers & bst lord. Some times rogues or mage (which I am fond of myself), but I rarely see wizzy or ranger. Occasionally monk comes up. And yes I understand that right now for most group content necro has fallen into slight disfavor because they take so long to ramp up, but are they that bad? Keeping in mind that I am not looking to min-max my groups - but my main discussion question is this:
What criteria do you look at when selecting your DPS'ers? If you are in the double zerker camp - why? what makes them so popular at present?
Having said all of that - I also run numerous groups as I like to see them advance together and come into their own as a team. What I have noticed as I dig deeper into the forums and other people's group make-up posts, is that the DPS side of the house is almost always zerkers & bst lord. Some times rogues or mage (which I am fond of myself), but I rarely see wizzy or ranger. Occasionally monk comes up. And yes I understand that right now for most group content necro has fallen into slight disfavor because they take so long to ramp up, but are they that bad? Keeping in mind that I am not looking to min-max my groups - but my main discussion question is this:
What criteria do you look at when selecting your DPS'ers? If you are in the double zerker camp - why? what makes them so popular at present?
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