The Half Elf

It really depends, Half Elves have average STR and STA. They have nice DEX and AGI which also helps but have low WIS.

Just boost the WIS a little and add some more STR and you'll make a decent Paladin, just get STR, STA and some WIS items in game and you'll be a good Paladin.

By the way, stat wise, Dwarves mae good paladins but stink too much...

I'm a half-elf rogue at level 22. This is my prime character. I have experimented iwth other classes but keep coming back to this one. Playing a rogue is not for everyone. It requires a lot more strategy since you are a blend of several classes. You fight like a warrior but cannot take the damage a warrior can. You can wear good armor but not plate armor like a warrior or cleric. You have 'simulated magic' capabilities with Hide/Sneak which works like an Invisibility spell but with no time limit. With poisons at level 20 you can root, do more damage, snare, weaken, and stun much like a necromancer can. But, you have to be in melee range to do it. You strike as quickly as a monk but you have to have weapons to be effective. You can use Instill Doubt like a monk, but not as well. We are the only class that gets Riposte. To top it all off most NPC's don't like you. Vendor's may not sell to you at first until you raise faction (hide+sneak helps here though since we can trade while invis and faction becomes indifferent).

Half-elves make great rogues since you have good dex and agi and you do not suffer the STR penalties of the halflings or gnomes. Dwarves and Barbarians have better STR and STA but take hits in AGI, DEX, and INT. Humans are about as balanced as the Half-elf but they cannot see in the dark. They do level a little faster than a half-elf but I have not had a problem with that.

I could go on for another couple of paragraphs but I think you get the idea.

Slipskin Ashenheart
Rogue, lvl 22
Bertoxx Server

if you look up someone posted some advice on that very subject

wood elf ranger of the 7th season
erudite mage of the 4th element
soon to be half elf druid of tunare

"eagles may soar, but weasles don't get sucked into jet engines."

Hail, Noble half-elf palidan. I belive I know what is wrong with your fizzles! As I once too was the fizzle king! I can teach you in this simple 3 step program! Step one: Go to your local palidan trainer. Step 2: Train in Abjuration and Alteration. Step 3: keep casting and watch your fizzles go away, After a while you will be able to cast...well, thats the problem with many Hybrid players, they don't even know the basics of their spell casting techniques.

Well hope this helps! Good luck Palidan!

IMHO go for rogue. I did. You get the AGI and DEX stats you need to excel as a rogue. You can solo or group as you wish and you don't need a light source.

Bards are nice. I like bards. Some of my best friends are bards. But they seem to have a tougher time going it alone than I do.

Rogues are the most flexible class. They can serve as a 2nd class tank. They can solo into their low 20's (albeit slowly). When you get to making poisons you can serve as a snare/root/debuffer (although not as good as a caster class). Rogues can go places bards can't go by using Sneak+Hide. They can trade with vendors a bard can't trade with. With Safe Fall watch the mobs choke as you jump off a cliff and either they can't follow you or they take gobs of damage if they do. And you should see the money you make opening doors for people stuck in Befallen :)

I hope someone else sees this post and gives the bards' advantages. I don't want to dis bards. Its just that I know rogues best.

Slipskin
Lvl 19 Rogue, Half-Elf
Bertoxx Server

Aye, if any HE Paladin would like to start in Felwithe, pick your deity as Tunare, only followers of the mother can start there.

By the way, HE Paladin's rule, Dwarves may be good but they are too short and smelly, humans look stupid with their bucket helmets, only with the right looking armor can a Paladin triumph over evil (of course with faith in his gods and friends as well)

Who cares what race you pick tho, pick one you WANT to play in and forget about the little numbers, they help but the true fun of EQ is actually playing it.

Daekim Orcbane,
30th Paladin,
Xev

The answer is to become a troll. A simple response, I know, but think of the benefits of such an action: evil wraps its' cold touch around your heart leaving you immune to the weak sensitivities of the "morally righteous" creatures which pollute this game. You can wreak havoc on all of Norrath's spawn from the bastardly half elves to the slimey lizards to the *cough* "noble" high elves.

Trolls are born without a conscience, but with a huge appetite. We live not for the fine arts and higher avocations (such as your vaunted fletching skill), but for the feast. We fill our belly with our domesticated cattle, the elves. Our plentiful farms in Faydark such as Kelethin and Felwithe grow these plump and delicious meals with little to no interaction with us until our teeth crunch through their bones.

So I encourage you again-- raise a troll and feel your bloodlust rise at the sight of food roaming the cities and lands of our fair home. There is no emotion more powerful!

--Pusbag Infection, King of the Trolls

Dwalven Axe goes for 10pp or so. Drops From Lord Darish In CB

Thats called a Fine Plate Helmet or maybe its just steel fine plateis better the guy is in full FP

Greetings fellow Half Elf Paladin,

In response to your question, I would say go to Highpass. The loot there is decent for your level and the exp isn't bad either. Maybe you could pick up a Cracked Darkwood Shield while hunting the Gnolls as well, the extra STR while using a 1HS is nice.

About the armor, it will come, believe me, i was still wearing bronze at level 27. RyGorr costs a fair bit and if you can't afford the several hundred plat per peice, you will either have to save up or level up quickly till around level 34-35 so you can camp the orcs (Will need a higher level party tho).

Good luck to you and keep your fiath where it should be!

Daekim Orcbane,
30th Season Paladin,
Xev