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I'am in the process of making a guardian myself. I hear sheilds and one handers for groups, then whatever you like for soloing. But as far as wood elf tanks are concerned. It doesn't matter later in the game.

Regarding stats, you want to focus on your primary stat to give you the most benefit. Power pools are determined by your primary stat. For a fighter, its Strength.

The higher strength you have, the more damage you will do and the bigger your power pool will be. Other stats may help a little, but not enough to change the tide of all battles. A fighter is a tank designed to take a beating and inflict low-to-medium damage.

The party will not expect you do do lots of damage. However, they will expect you to taunt the mob onto you, keeping it off the casters. And while you are taking a beating, the healers will keep you alive while the scouts and mages DPS the mob down.

Best thing for you do to is ensure your armor is the best you can afford, and your taunt skills are the highest level you can afford.

You will get armor, weapons, and jewlery that will boost your stats into the 200's. It will come with time. :)

My pleasure.

Keep in mind that there are several flavors of Fighter and they all do things a bit differently. When you begin, you'll be on the Isle of Refuge and you'll pick your starting class - in your case, a fighter (if you so select).

On the IoR you'll do quests to get a beginning set of armor and weapons, find a little loot, learn the mechanics of play, then at level 6 head to your main city in Qeynos.

From there, talk to every NPC you can find to do as many quests as you can find. You'll get even better armor, exp, weapons, cash, food/drink, and even some furniture for your room. You could almost get to level 13 just by doing quests.

When you are level 9 about to make 10, you'll need to go find the Fighter Trainer. He'll give you some mini-quests to discover what the different archtyes do. Your choice will be Warrior, Brawler, or Crusader. Check out this link for a breakdown. Depending on what archtype you pick at level 10 will determine what final choice you get at level 20.

At level 19 you go back to the Trainer and he'll send you on more mini-quests for you to decide what your final choice will be. If you picked Warrior at level 10, then your choice at level 20 will be Berzerker or Guardian.

If you want a full list of skills for each class, check this out.

Good luck and hope to see you on Najena. :)

One last thing to remember, beginning stats only matter for the first few levels. After that, you begin to get gear that gives you boosts to your stats. So any beginning difference is overshadowed by massive boosts, and in the long run, doesn't matter.