Of all MMO's I've played the two classes I found the most original and entertaining are the Mesmer, from Guild Wars, and the Blue Mage from FFXI, both very unique and surprinsingly fun.
I love this thread, it's interesting to see the difference in tastes people have in MMO's. Well I've played every major MMO out there, and so I will list mine as well after that. (Prolly sad to admit I played everything I know, but I like to get my feet wet and see what's out there)
1. * Tie* Engineer / Martial Artist (Anarchy Online) - This is my favorite all time MMO I've ever played, and I still constantly go back to it, even though it's one of the oldest and most outdated games out there. The reason I love the Engineer is because truly, there's nothing in any game I've ever played like it. I had my pet robots and I had my own skills that I could hone any way I felt, I was one of the rare breeds of Engineers that actually went "MA Engi" (Meaning a martial artist oriented engineer, using fists and such as their weapon). And I made it work well, I topped DD charts and such and had good fun. The tie'd is the ACTUAL Martial Artist profession itself, I was one of these at close to top PVP title level (back in 2003). Sadly I got this toon banned during the infamous Anarchy ban wave of exploiters (I admit I did explot, much like half the server did at the time) so it was my own damn fault. But a profession you can kick, punch, use burning fists to open a can of whoop ass on your enemies is epic. Aside from that I was able to solo mobs on both characters that made most people go "WTF? how?" And I loved that aspect as well .
2. Squad Leader/Outfit General *4475th Ranger Elite* (Planetside) - I had the pleasure of being a commander in the game Planetside for a group of players that I considered to be the most tactical oriented and skilled players in the game. We may not have been major killwhores (getting the best kill / death ratio) but we got objectives done and we did the impossible many times over that would make other outfits in the game just look silly. This outfit was called "4475th Ranger Elite", still kicking today and I do go back time to time to play some good ole' PS, but I usually end up playing alone or just with a few other rangers, and even so last time, we showed that 3 old veteran rangers could hold off a base attack of 15 dudes just fine. Skill and tactics over killwhoring and zombie rushing as they say. Planetside doesn't have classes, but military oriented titles, you got the squad members, squad leaders and platoon leaders (Activitely during operations). Then of course Outfit ranks (or Guild ranks), I enjoyed being a Squad leader and a General in the outfit.
3. *Tie* Jedi (Star Wars Galaxies) / Druid (World of Warcraft) - God, sometimes I wonder how and why I played this game for so long. I admit I sometimes bash my friends for playing WoW too much now (I don't play currently *hence currently, I'm sure I'll play again*). But the reason I love the druid is because of the versatility. And they used to be viewed as the black sheep of the game in every aspect, I've been a feral druid since wow was launched since beta (Not just saying that, it's true) die hard and never went to resto or balance. Just pure feral, even my dual spec is feral kitty and feral bear, and I was able to be a tank back in Vanilla WoW, when Bear tanks were laughed at and disregarded. Well I was one of the few that actually tanked BWL and AQ40, and I must admit that was some really fun gaming times. I had the plasure of grouping with some crazy Australian people and played from 12am to 3am every thursday and friday lol.
As for the Jedi, well I loved being a Jedi Guardian before the Jedi Patch that braught the village Jedi in the game, and then after that of course the stupid NGE thing where Jedi's were dumbed down to a normal class. But I grinded and completed 27 professions in the game and unlocked my Jedi, and being able to take on an entire starport of 20-25 people simply because I forgot to put away my Lightsaber (making me PVP flagged to everyone around me) was Epic and gave a sense of danger in the game, not too forget there was Perma death (Was patched roughly a month after I got Jedi luckily) when I first started and I lost 2 weeks of work simpy because I didn't lock my Tatooine house door to outsiders and a Bounty Hunter killed me after tracking me down while I wasn't at the computer. (That really pissed me off). Anyways good times .
4. Guardian (Age of Conan) - Wow, is all I can say about this class, when I was playing in Alpha and Beta, I was amazed at the imbalance of this class. Even mostly up til 2-3 months after release, Guardians were near industructible in PVP, I really loved exploiting that feeling of invulnerability lol. Having 4-5 guys bashing on you with all they got and you just laughing and sitting there at 60-70% hp like it's nothing and SLOWLY killing them one by one (Over a course of 30minutes mind you) was epic. Couldn't really kill anything or quick for that matter, but being a super tank was awesome.
5. Warden (Lord of the Rings Online) - THIS IS SPARTA!!! Yah... I love the Warden in LOTRO, why? It's a EFFIN SPARTAN MAN!! Seriously, attacks that make you leap into the air with your shield and spear and jab the enemy when you land is EPIC! I loved feeling like I was a Spartan soldier destroying evil monsters in Middle Earth, nerdy I know, but It felt great. Never got past lvl42 I think, but lately I've been thinking of going back. I seem to enjoy playing classes that are hybrids, the warden could deal decent damage but also could tank, not only tank, but tank solo at that. Plus having to memorize all your attack combos shows that you have at least some sort of skill while playing this class.
My list would go like this. My list may also change day to day as I am basically insane, sigh, arghh.
5. Age of Conan Ranger, I in no way intended to play the class and had really no interest in the class. Just made one as an alt and ended up hooked. A devastating class that takes some thought to plan out your strategy in each fight. I mean do you salvo or do you salvo? Hmm or maybe salvo. I should mention I like Bear Shaman and Dark Templar almost as much as Ranger, hehe.
4. Anarchy Online Engineer, much like a poster above me I loved this class. I too was unique and used Assault Rifle as my weapon. Honorable mention to pretty much every other class, AO is still a great game even to this day in my opinion.
3. DaoC Savage, it didn't happen often but every now and then you would have a quad hit go off where all four of them critically hit and you just happened to be hitting something like a Wizard or Enchanter and you get to watch them die pretty much instantly yay! I also loved the Healer class, pure support and CC, could play as nearly a pacifist.
2. Warhammer Online Disciple of Khaine, despite the overall failings of the game it does have a ton of interesting classes to play and the RvR is fun from T1 to T3. Just too bad they completely messed up T4. I like most every class but if forced to pick one I would go with DoK/WP, they are very challenging to get the maximum out of your abilities. To put forth great healing and great damage and have to work to do it is fun.
1. SWG Bio-Engineer/other crafters, still miss it. The most fun I've probably ever had in an MMO because I could be my eclectic self and provide support to many other players without actually having to group with them or run around places with them
No Vanguard classes? Vanguard has some of the most unique classes in any MMO I've played, which is a lot of them.
Bloodmage.
Bill! Have you ever played a Bloodmage in Vanguard? The coolest healing class I've ever played in my 7+ years of MMO gaming. Tempest of Set is chump compared to the Bloodmage.
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No Vanguard classes? Vanguard has some of the most unique classes in any MMO I've played, which is a lot of them.
Bloodmage.
Bill! Have you ever played a Bloodmage in Vanguard? The coolest healing class I've ever played in my 7+ years of MMO gaming. Tempest of Set is chump compared to the Bloodmage.
/concur on Bloodmage being interesting
The only problem was grouping was needed and there weren't a lot of groups to be found.
2. Blood Mage - Vanguard - Fun healer mechanic and could kick some hiney too.
3. Bonedancer - Dark Age of Camelot - 3 skeleton pets of mixed abilities. I loved taking a couple healers and using lifetap. Pretty much unstoppable and a huge aggro generator letting your team open up a can of whoop-ass. Mastermind in City of Villains reminded me a lot of this class mostly just because of the pets though. Still fun.
4. Creature Handler - Star Wars Galaxies (pre-disaster) - What can I say, I love pet classes and these could have been awesome. The Droid Engineer was right there with this one. If those two classes had been given some good loving from the devs... wow.
5. Lugian Sage - Healers are fun, especially when they can dish it out. At some point they nerfed a couple abilities that used to make them absolutley unstoppable (still took a lot longer to kill stuff, just never died) but even then they were still fun.
Honorable mentions to: Jenquai Explorer (Earth & Beyond), Druid (WoW), Beastlord (EQ), Champions Online (just because you can make so many fun characters it's mind bottling).
I've spent a lot of time playing and enjoying CoH controllers but....
For an all time favourite I'd have to pick WoW's warlocks.
Sure they were tragically gimped in pvp for the first 18 months or so, and they didn't really shine until soulbags and extra hotbars were added, but I've never played a class so versatile.
I needed the maximum number of hotbars on screen to accomodate all of my spells - which was fantastic. Playing warlocks well actually took thought, rather than just repeating the same old series of button presses over and over and over....
Druids and shamans were also nice, but....
And while I found Aion to be a well-polished and very playable mmo at release, and I loved the idea of elemental pets instead of demonic ones, I found spiritmasters to be a bit simplistic and dull compared to warlocks.
I was even moreso disappointed with CoH's kheldians after playing WoW's druids.
I really loathe WoW - 5 of weeks of MC raids just about drove me wonko and did drive me to cancel my subscription - but they know how to design good, fun classes.
1) Alchemist: Transmuter from EQOA also one of the most unique classes i ever played. throwing explosive potions,popping pills to turn into an ogre,chain casting aoe nukes, throwing potions to turn mobs into rats (debuff), and wearing leather as a caster.
2) Herald of Xolti from AoC just a very fun unique class. caster/melee that turns into demons and uses 2 hand swords and casts fire based spells.
3)Necromancer from Vanguard they just really did the classes right in Vanguard they all had unique twists to them. harvesting body parts and organs off dead mobs you've killed and attaching them to your Abomination pet giving it buffs and all new abilities was very cool.
4) Deciple of Kain from Warhammer one of the funnest healers i ever played.
5) Druid from Warcraft,a friend described this class to me at launch its what made me even want to play wow at all. back then when i played atleast they was fairly balanced you was only good at what ever it was you where specced in. well at the start the only good spec was healing.
Absolutely no way I could put these in order and/or be limited by 5......
EQ - sks, necros, enchanters, monks
EQ2 - warlocks, guardians
WAR - IBs, Bright Wizards
AoC - Barbarians
WoW - dks, mages, warlocks, druids
VG - all classes. And on that note.....
I can say that I hold the firm opinion that VGs healers (blood mages, clerics, disciples namely) are done better than any other mmo's healers, bar none.
I really really hope that as another poster said, mmo devs emulate some of the targeting and spell/ability systems used in VG. Healers are active battle participants. The main focus is the mob for them, without their focusing on the mob, they don't have the power they need to heal. Clerics and disciples do this through melee, while BMGs use ranged,but feels more like a healing necro or warlock than a dd magic user.
To a lesser degree this holds true for VG tanks as well. Aggro control, crowd control, damage opportunities are all intertwined in the combat unlike other taunt, smack, re-taunt tanks from many mmo's.
The Necromancer class from DAoC, nothing and I do mean nothing beats it's leveling speed. It was THE class you could level fast, and level friends and alts on different accounts fast as well, it was a powerleveling machine, nothing ever come close. I wish another MMO would do something like that class, it was the best leveling, powerleveling, grinding toon of all time for me!
#5 EQ1 - Iksar Shaman === EQ was my frist mmo and I always loved the game but when they introduced Iksars I just couldn't help myself but be a tribal style lizardman. I felt awesome.
#4 WoW - Undead Priest or Undead Warlock === I loved the feeling of being evil to the core. Shadow Priests and Warlocks, especially the undead versions. I felt evil.
#3 DAOC - Troll Skald or Celt Reaver === The Troll Skald was amazing because it was the only bard style class that used warrior damage charts. I might have had the worst songs of the bard style classes but I hit like a truck! And then of course the Reaver had no comparison to tanking. Lifetaps. Weapon taps. And let's not forget a CHAIN weapon, I mean come on. Evil? Yea.
#2 Vanguard - Goblin Disciple === To this day I have never found a class that was more engaging and difficult to play effectively. Yes, anyone can play a Disciple, but to play at your ultimate best? You REALLY had to know what you were doing. I did some amazing things with that class. Easily the best healing class of any MMO I have ever palyed.
#1 WAR - Female Archmage === My #1 pick is the Archmage because of several reasons. With my playing style it was like handing me sticks of dynamite to throw at people passing by. I couldn't miss! I felt epic beyond belief, with healing, damage, and just overall awesomeness. I mean seriously... I shoot lazers from my eyes and rainbow beams of death from my hands.
5. Night Elf Hunter from WoW: First class I played in WoW. Enjoyed everything about the class and most notably...the pets.
4. Ranger from Aion: Most recent class played. Had fun for the 2 months I played the game during beta and release.
3. Squig Herder from WH: Most unique "ranger" type class I've played. Had some cool abilities to boot.
2. Goblin Rogue/Shamen from Vangard: Pretty cool classes to play in this game, especially as a sneaky lil' bugger. I like most classes as long as they let me play my favorite race from this game.
1. Enutrof from Dofus: Not a famous mmo by any means, but I absolutely adored this character of mine. Unique, greedy, lucky, deadly, and fun.
Although I enjoy reading the lengthy reason why many of you chose your top five classes, I'm going to just name the class (and the race when it matters) and the game. I'm not sure why, but I've always preferred playing the "underdog"...the class that everyone says is nerfed. That, and I seem to always find myself in the "underdog" game as well, with a few exceptions. Anyway, here's my list (with a surprise ending):
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Of all MMO's I've played the two classes I found the most original and entertaining are the Mesmer, from Guild Wars, and the Blue Mage from FFXI, both very unique and surprinsingly fun.
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EQ1 - Necromancer was insanely fun and powerful. I have never experienced anything like that in any mmo. Druids, enchanters, shamans were fun as well.
Vanguard has lots of interesting classes, like disciple, bloodmage and others.
If WoW wasn't such an ugly and boring game to me.. the Druid was really nice class to play.
I love this thread, it's interesting to see the difference in tastes people have in MMO's. Well I've played every major MMO out there, and so I will list mine as well after that. (Prolly sad to admit I played everything I know, but I like to get my feet wet and see what's out there)
1. * Tie* Engineer / Martial Artist (Anarchy Online) - This is my favorite all time MMO I've ever played, and I still constantly go back to it, even though it's one of the oldest and most outdated games out there. The reason I love the Engineer is because truly, there's nothing in any game I've ever played like it. I had my pet robots and I had my own skills that I could hone any way I felt, I was one of the rare breeds of Engineers that actually went "MA Engi" (Meaning a martial artist oriented engineer, using fists and such as their weapon). And I made it work well, I topped DD charts and such and had good fun. The tie'd is the ACTUAL Martial Artist profession itself, I was one of these at close to top PVP title level (back in 2003). Sadly I got this toon banned during the infamous Anarchy ban wave of exploiters (I admit I did explot, much like half the server did at the time) so it was my own damn fault. But a profession you can kick, punch, use burning fists to open a can of whoop ass on your enemies is epic. Aside from that I was able to solo mobs on both characters that made most people go "WTF? how?" And I loved that aspect as well
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2. Squad Leader/Outfit General *4475th Ranger Elite* (Planetside) - I had the pleasure of being a commander in the game Planetside for a group of players that I considered to be the most tactical oriented and skilled players in the game. We may not have been major killwhores (getting the best kill / death ratio) but we got objectives done and we did the impossible many times over that would make other outfits in the game just look silly. This outfit was called "4475th Ranger Elite", still kicking today and I do go back time to time to play some good ole' PS, but I usually end up playing alone or just with a few other rangers, and even so last time, we showed that 3 old veteran rangers could hold off a base attack of 15 dudes just fine. Skill and tactics over killwhoring and zombie rushing as they say. Planetside doesn't have classes, but military oriented titles, you got the squad members, squad leaders and platoon leaders (Activitely during operations). Then of course Outfit ranks (or Guild ranks), I enjoyed being a Squad leader and a General in the outfit.
3. *Tie* Jedi (Star Wars Galaxies) / Druid (World of Warcraft) - God, sometimes I wonder how and why I played this game for so long. I admit I sometimes bash my friends for playing WoW too much now (I don't play currently *hence currently, I'm sure I'll play again*). But the reason I love the druid is because of the versatility. And they used to be viewed as the black sheep of the game in every aspect, I've been a feral druid since wow was launched since beta (Not just saying that, it's true) die hard and never went to resto or balance. Just pure feral, even my dual spec is feral kitty and feral bear, and I was able to be a tank back in Vanilla WoW, when Bear tanks were laughed at and disregarded. Well I was one of the few that actually tanked BWL and AQ40, and I must admit that was some really fun gaming times. I had the plasure of grouping with some crazy Australian people and played from 12am to 3am every thursday and friday lol.
As for the Jedi, well I loved being a Jedi Guardian before the Jedi Patch that braught the village Jedi in the game, and then after that of course the stupid NGE thing where Jedi's were dumbed down to a normal class. But I grinded and completed 27 professions in the game and unlocked my Jedi, and being able to take on an entire starport of 20-25 people simply because I forgot to put away my Lightsaber (making me PVP flagged to everyone around me) was Epic and gave a sense of danger in the game, not too forget there was Perma death (Was patched roughly a month after I got Jedi luckily) when I first started and I lost 2 weeks of work simpy because I didn't lock my Tatooine house door to outsiders and a Bounty Hunter killed me after tracking me down while I wasn't at the computer. (That really pissed me off). Anyways good times
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4. Guardian (Age of Conan) - Wow, is all I can say about this class, when I was playing in Alpha and Beta, I was amazed at the imbalance of this class. Even mostly up til 2-3 months after release, Guardians were near industructible in PVP, I really loved exploiting that feeling of invulnerability lol. Having 4-5 guys bashing on you with all they got and you just laughing and sitting there at 60-70% hp like it's nothing and SLOWLY killing them one by one (Over a course of 30minutes mind you) was epic. Couldn't really kill anything or quick for that matter, but being a super tank was awesome.
5. Warden (Lord of the Rings Online) - THIS IS SPARTA!!! Yah... I love the Warden in LOTRO, why? It's a EFFIN SPARTAN MAN!! Seriously, attacks that make you leap into the air with your shield and spear and jab the enemy when you land is EPIC! I loved feeling like I was a Spartan soldier destroying evil monsters in Middle Earth, nerdy I know, but It felt great. Never got past lvl42 I think, but lately I've been thinking of going back. I seem to enjoy playing classes that are hybrids, the warden could deal decent damage but also could tank, not only tank, but tank solo at that. Plus having to memorize all your attack combos shows that you have at least some sort of skill while playing this class.
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My list would go like this. My list may also change day to day as I am basically insane, sigh, arghh.
5. Age of Conan Ranger, I in no way intended to play the class and had really no interest in the class. Just made one as an alt and ended up hooked. A devastating class that takes some thought to plan out your strategy in each fight. I mean do you salvo or do you salvo? Hmm or maybe salvo. I should mention I like Bear Shaman and Dark Templar almost as much as Ranger, hehe.
4. Anarchy Online Engineer, much like a poster above me I loved this class. I too was unique and used Assault Rifle as my weapon. Honorable mention to pretty much every other class, AO is still a great game even to this day in my opinion.
3. DaoC Savage, it didn't happen often but every now and then you would have a quad hit go off where all four of them critically hit and you just happened to be hitting something like a Wizard or Enchanter and you get to watch them die pretty much instantly
yay! I also loved the Healer class, pure support and CC, could play as nearly a pacifist.
2. Warhammer Online Disciple of Khaine, despite the overall failings of the game it does have a ton of interesting classes to play and the RvR is fun from T1 to T3. Just too bad they completely messed up T4. I like most every class but if forced to pick one I would go with DoK/WP, they are very challenging to get the maximum out of your abilities. To put forth great healing and great damage and have to work to do it is fun.
1. SWG Bio-Engineer/other crafters, still miss it. The most fun I've probably ever had in an MMO because I could be my eclectic self and provide support to many other players without actually having to group with them or run around places with them
No Vanguard classes? Vanguard has some of the most unique classes in any MMO I've played, which is a lot of them.
Bloodmage.
Bill! Have you ever played a Bloodmage in Vanguard? The coolest healing class I've ever played in my 7+ years of MMO gaming. Tempest of Set is chump compared to the Bloodmage.
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/concur on Bloodmage being interesting
The only problem was grouping was needed and there weren't a lot of groups to be found.
Lugian Tactician.. What a friggin awesome class.. you built a friggin mini tower and ran around with a wrench!
Oh from Asheron's Call 2..
No particular order:
1) EQ - Magician
2) DAoC - Friar
3) LoTRO - Warden
4) WoW - Ret Pallie
5) EQ - Beastlord
Other notables - WoW huntard, and WAR Disc. of Khaine
eq1 - Bard coolest and fastest running class, could kill just about anything with enough time not even loosing mana,
and being able to run while casting(singing)
eq1 - Necromancer my first class in my first mmo back in may 2001, great fun.
ao - Engineer, bad ass robot pets and nice tradeskills and cool looks, love my engi
vanguard - bloodmage only got mine to like lvl 6 but it sure is different
aoc - bah think all classes are fairly different, but i vote for demonologist since it is my highest char.
DAOC - Thane / Skald
GW - Monk
AoC - Herald of Xotli / Bear Shaman
WAR - Marader / White Lion
I usually play healer classes, but they are for the most part not memorable.
No order, but:
1. Lugian Tactician - Asheron's Call 2 - Walls, turrets, knock-backs.. waaaaaay fun!
2. Blood Mage - Vanguard - Fun healer mechanic and could kick some hiney too.
3. Bonedancer - Dark Age of Camelot - 3 skeleton pets of mixed abilities. I loved taking a couple healers and using lifetap. Pretty much unstoppable and a huge aggro generator letting your team open up a can of whoop-ass. Mastermind in City of Villains reminded me a lot of this class mostly just because of the pets though. Still fun.
4. Creature Handler - Star Wars Galaxies (pre-disaster) - What can I say, I love pet classes and these could have been awesome. The Droid Engineer was right there with this one. If those two classes had been given some good loving from the devs... wow.
5. Lugian Sage - Healers are fun, especially when they can dish it out. At some point they nerfed a couple abilities that used to make them absolutley unstoppable (still took a lot longer to kill stuff, just never died) but even then they were still fun.
Honorable mentions to: Jenquai Explorer (Earth & Beyond), Druid (WoW), Beastlord (EQ), Champions Online (just because you can make so many fun characters it's mind bottling).
This message was edited on 8/16/15 at 5:30:00 AM
I've spent a lot of time playing and enjoying CoH controllers but....
For an all time favourite I'd have to pick WoW's warlocks.
Sure they were tragically gimped in pvp for the first 18 months or so, and they didn't really shine until soulbags and extra hotbars were added, but I've never played a class so versatile.
I needed the maximum number of hotbars on screen to accomodate all of my spells - which was fantastic. Playing warlocks well actually took thought, rather than just repeating the same old series of button presses over and over and over....
Druids and shamans were also nice, but....
And while I found Aion to be a well-polished and very playable mmo at release, and I loved the idea of elemental pets instead of demonic ones, I found spiritmasters to be a bit simplistic and dull compared to warlocks.
I was even moreso disappointed with CoH's kheldians after playing WoW's druids.
I really loathe WoW - 5 of weeks of MC raids just about drove me wonko and did drive me to cancel my subscription - but they know how to design good, fun classes.
When I think of "awesome unique classes" the Tempest of Set is the first to mind... agree 100% on that entry.
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In all of the games I've played, I still have the fondest memories of my Monk in DAoC.
Just once I would have liked to have seen the face of the stealth class that tried to take me on thinking I was a squishy caster.
for me its
1) Alchemist: Transmuter from EQOA also one of the most unique classes i ever played. throwing explosive potions,popping pills to turn into an ogre,chain casting aoe nukes, throwing potions to turn mobs into rats (debuff), and wearing leather as a caster.
2) Herald of Xolti from AoC just a very fun unique class. caster/melee that turns into demons and uses 2 hand swords and casts fire based spells.
3)Necromancer from Vanguard they just really did the classes right in Vanguard they all had unique twists to them. harvesting body parts and organs off dead mobs you've killed and attaching them to your Abomination pet giving it buffs and all new abilities was very cool.
4) Deciple of Kain from Warhammer one of the funnest healers i ever played.
5) Druid from Warcraft,a friend described this class to me at launch its what made me even want to play wow at all. back then when i played atleast they was fairly balanced you was only good at what ever it was you where specced in. well at the start the only good spec was healing.
5. Pally Archer -UO : more arties in Doom please!
4. Parry Mage - UO : the joy of hearing a dexer miss over and over and over...
3. Barbarian -AoC : sneaking up on someone and smashing them before they knew what hit them
2. Warrior Priest - WAR : Stop! Hammer time! and how freaking cool do they look!
1. Death Knight - WoW : yeah, I said it! if you are not having fun on this toon you have no soul.
Absolutely no way I could put these in order and/or be limited by 5......
EQ - sks, necros, enchanters, monks
EQ2 - warlocks, guardians
WAR - IBs, Bright Wizards
AoC - Barbarians
WoW - dks, mages, warlocks, druids
VG - all classes. And on that note.....
I can say that I hold the firm opinion that VGs healers (blood mages, clerics, disciples namely) are done better than any other mmo's healers, bar none.
I really really hope that as another poster said, mmo devs emulate some of the targeting and spell/ability systems used in VG. Healers are active battle participants. The main focus is the mob for them, without their focusing on the mob, they don't have the power they need to heal. Clerics and disciples do this through melee, while BMGs use ranged,but feels more like a healing necro or warlock than a dd magic user.
To a lesser degree this holds true for VG tanks as well. Aggro control, crowd control, damage opportunities are all intertwined in the combat unlike other taunt, smack, re-taunt tanks from many mmo's.
My twocents.
1. Tank-Mage (UO) - Not alot to say here, they just rocked
2. "The Lumberjack" (UO) - "Say hello to my little friend!" Well, it was a Warhammer and not a machine gun. But it made a nice macro.
3. Thief/Fencer (UO) - Nothing like sneaking up and sticking a deadly poisoned kryss in someone's backside
4. Doctor (SWG) - What can I say, noting like setting up at your favorite space port to sell the best buffs on the server.
5. Commando (SWG) - As mentioned by others, Commando was a fire spitting, grenade chunkin death machine.
Bonus Class: Defiler (EQ2) - I ran with a Shadownight, Warlock and a Necromancer, was a match made in Hell.
Oh, and for clarification, the UO and SWG were the "Pre-*" versions.
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The Necromancer class from DAoC, nothing and I do mean nothing beats it's leveling speed. It was THE class you could level fast, and level friends and alts on different accounts fast as well, it was a powerleveling machine, nothing ever come close. I wish another MMO would do something like that class, it was the best leveling, powerleveling, grinding toon of all time for me!
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Trueshot ftw!
If i had to list them in some kind of order
1. Enchanter (EQ1:pre-PoP)
2. Ranger (EQ1) Hunter (WOW)
3. Cleric (EQ1) - this is what they can real Heal training!
4. Priest (Wow)
5. Necro (EQ1)
Tried so many games, but in the end EQ1 then WoW captured me the most!
Let's see...
#5 EQ1 - Iksar Shaman === EQ was my frist mmo and I always loved the game but when they introduced Iksars I just couldn't help myself but be a tribal style lizardman. I felt awesome.
#4 WoW - Undead Priest or Undead Warlock === I loved the feeling of being evil to the core. Shadow Priests and Warlocks, especially the undead versions. I felt evil.
#3 DAOC - Troll Skald or Celt Reaver === The Troll Skald was amazing because it was the only bard style class that used warrior damage charts. I might have had the worst songs of the bard style classes but I hit like a truck! And then of course the Reaver had no comparison to tanking. Lifetaps. Weapon taps. And let's not forget a CHAIN weapon, I mean come on. Evil? Yea.
#2 Vanguard - Goblin Disciple === To this day I have never found a class that was more engaging and difficult to play effectively. Yes, anyone can play a Disciple, but to play at your ultimate best? You REALLY had to know what you were doing. I did some amazing things with that class. Easily the best healing class of any MMO I have ever palyed.
#1 WAR - Female Archmage === My #1 pick is the Archmage because of several reasons. With my playing style it was like handing me sticks of dynamite to throw at people passing by. I couldn't miss! I felt epic beyond belief, with healing, damage, and just overall awesomeness. I mean seriously... I shoot lazers from my eyes and rainbow beams of death from my hands.
-Karnage
5. Night Elf Hunter from WoW: First class I played in WoW. Enjoyed everything about the class and most notably...the pets.
4. Ranger from Aion: Most recent class played. Had fun for the 2 months I played the game during beta and release.
3. Squig Herder from WH: Most unique "ranger" type class I've played. Had some cool abilities to boot.
2. Goblin Rogue/Shamen from Vangard: Pretty cool classes to play in this game, especially as a sneaky lil' bugger. I like most classes as long as they let me play my favorite race from this game.
1. Enutrof from Dofus: Not a famous mmo by any means, but I absolutely adored this character of mine. Unique, greedy, lucky, deadly, and fun.
Although I enjoy reading the lengthy reason why many of you chose your top five classes, I'm going to just name the class (and the race when it matters) and the game. I'm not sure why, but I've always preferred playing the "underdog"...the class that everyone says is nerfed. That, and I seem to always find myself in the "underdog" game as well, with a few exceptions. Anyway, here's my list (with a surprise ending):
#5. EQ2 - Mystic...wards=cool
#4. PotBS - French Privateer
#3. Auto Assault (oh yeah!) - Mutant Avenger
#2. DaoC - Norse Thane...nothin' like Hamma Time!
#1. Ryzom - Whatever the heck I want...because there are no classes!
Honorable mention: WAR - Witch Hunter and Warrior Priest