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System · September 2021

How Did You Pick Your Favorite Class In An MMO? | MMORPG.com

With The Lord of the Rings Online players able to go hands on with the MMO's first class sincce 2014 today thanks to the Brawler hitting the Bullroarer test server, it got Bradford thinking about how he chose his favorite class in any MMO he plays. Spoiler alert: They are usually ranged.

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Scot · September 2021

I think for most of us this is down to reflecting what we like to play in RPG's and having tried a couple of classes in older MMOs finding our perfect position. Picking the best class for PvP or picking the best class for raids is equally up there.

I started as a tank, then went off tank for the first two reasons; hybrid dps controllers have featured as well. But my main picks reflect thinking on grouping and whats best for that, so no pure melee or ranged dps they are never a good team pick, no pet classes they had various problems in raids and PvP in the early days so I avoided them.

For DAOC a Paladin, for Lotro a Champion, a Druid in WoW, a Monk in DnD online, a Nanomage in Anarchy Online those last two picked for just looking good So my reasons I think I pick a class do not always follow through!

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lahnmir · September 2021

I always look at non standard healers first:

Warrior Priest
Shaman
Astrologian
Beorning
Bear Shaman

You name it, as long as it isn’t straight up healing alone.

/Cheers,
Lahnmir

Iselin · September 2021

lahnmir said:

I always look at non standard healers first:

Warrior Priest
Shaman
Astrologian
Beorning
Bear Shaman

You name it, as long as it isn’t straight up healing alone.

/Cheers,
Lahnmir

Warrior Priest in WAR is one of my all time favorite classes: the harder you bash with your hammer the more you healed. Very active healer play style.

My favorite though was the vanilla Chloromancer in Rift. Same idea as the Warrior Priest but ranged,

I always prefer healing through damage done rather than healing and oh yeah, I can also do some damage now and then.

Theocritus · September 2021

Trial and error.....Each game the classes play differently....A wizard may be great in one game and weak in another.....My favorite class in EQ was an enchanter...it was about the 6th or 7th class I played in the game.......Most people didnt like the class because it was a support class, but it fit me like a glove.

Aeander · September 2021

There's a few themes I really particularly like:

* Martial arts/brawling

* Dark knights

* Bards

* Rogues

* Rangers

* Lancers/dragoons

From there, it's really about picking the most fun one with the coolest skins.

olepi · September 2021

I tend to like classes with utility powers, and an assortment of heals and dps. I also like pet classes.

DAOC was a minstrel, and then a cabalist.

Vanguard was a Shaman.

CoH was an ice blaster and various controllers.

LoTRO was a Captain and Lore Master

ESO I played everything, ESO doesn't really have classes.

Most of the classes I picked have a lot of different options, and part of the fun is picking what power to use in what situation. Unfortunately, newer games, like ESO, limit your usable powers to a small handful, so you can't play that way.

i usually don't play straight healers, I enjoy debuffing more. So I'd rather take 15% off the enemy's damage to you, than heal you for 15%.

For me, the "look and feel" of the class is also important, so i might pick one just based on how it looks in action.

cameltosis · September 2021

My favourite class of all time was the Captain in LotRO.

I picked it because my real life boss, who had been in the beta and was starting a branch of his guild in lotro, recommended it to me. So, I guess you could call it an accident, or following a recommendation, or a guild leader trying to get me to play a rare class.

The Captain was my favourite class primarily due to play style. Jack-of-all-trades, master-of-none. It had the most depth out of any class I've ever played, and had a subtle but powerful effect on the outcome of any given fight. Not many people seemed to know how to play it well, so I took great pride in being really good. Also, heavy armour and halberds. Looked cool :P

Mendel · September 2021

Theocritus said:

Trial and error.....Each game the classes play differently....A wizard may be great in one game and weak in another.....My favorite class in EQ was an enchanter...it was about the 6th or 7th class I played in the game.......Most people didnt like the class because it was a support class, but it fit me like a glove.

I was an EQ enchanter, too. When I started in May 99, there weren't many enchanters around, and few really knew how to play. I really liked the necessity of selecting a target out of a crowd to mez, and the AoE mez was great, always a challenge to make sure you were far enough away to avoid the area yourself. PBAoE stuns were the core of AE groups, 2 enchanters, 3 wizards and a cleric. I didn't do much damage, but I facilitated damage. Good times.

As more and more expansions came out, the need for in-camp CC was diminished. Zone design changed, and pretty much anyone could pull manageable groups. It became harder and harder to find a group. You ended up sitting in public places like PoK or the Nexus doling out your 3 hour KEI buff, pretty much curtailing any chance you were going to find a group that evening.

Sovrath · September 2021

For me it's what feels good.

I tried a few classes in my first mmorpg, Lineage 2, but in the end I preferred the dark elf mage (whatever the first incarnation of the class was called; I eventually brought it to "Stormhowler" of all things)

But then in Lord of the Rings Online, I wanted to do melee damage dealer. Only problem was I hated how the Champion felt. I then heard a "thwump" coming from elsewhere in oen of the starter dungeons and saw someone with a shield.

I tried the Guardian and never looked back.

For the most part I've been gravitating more toward tank characters such as the Lancer in Tera (loved that) or the two handed Elf tank in Warhammer (don't remember the name) Or the Valkyrie in Black Desert.

Really liked that one.

I would prefer a ranged class but I usually don't like how they feel.

Ungood · September 2021

Well, when Io played Muds, I fell in love with the Ranger.

When EQ launched, I tried ranger, and less then happy, moved to Druid and enjoyed that, until finally making a Munchkin halfling Druid Meta.

That was fun till I made a cleric, and that changed my whole game. I was running with 2 friends at the same, so we played the Trinity, a Warrior, Cleric, Enchanter, and we just destroyed stuff, it was great! I feel in love with that game style.

Moved to DAOC, tried to play a Healer, and it was just off enough that I could not get into it, so played a Blademaster, and I enjoyed that, while my static swapped roles for pretty much the same reasons, just could not get into our previous EQ roles.

Moved through some other MMO's, all short lived, and forgettable.

Moved to DDO, and.. I shit you all not, being able to multiclass just opened a whole new level of gameplay for me, I could play a Barbarian Cleric, and be a self healing great axe using rage monster if I wanted to. I could make Fighter Wizards, that charged things with great swords and wore heavy plate armor, there was legit, no limit to what I could do, to customize and build, and that did not even include enhancements and feats, and gear could do for me, it was almost impossible to go back to boring fixed classes again after playing DDO.

GW2, I played a Guardian and a Ranger the most, but had every class to level 80, because it was stupid easy to do it, and I enjoyed the game for a while, and while it was a fun to play, as in I enjoyed how they set up the game world and the way it worked, it's build makeup was nothing compared to DDO, so, when GW2 went into a direction I didn't like, I just hopped right back to DDO.

Currently playing an Arti Wizard in DDO, 2/18 split, and enjoying being a Lich that is using a Heavy Repeating Crossbow like it's a one handed Machine Gun.. LOL. DDO players will know what I am talking about.

Viper482 · September 2021

90% of the time I look at ranged classes, from there it is just which one feels the best. I do lean toward magic though. In PvP I prefer stealth classes because I like dictating when and where I fight.

Scorchien · September 2021

Whatever Pew Pew the fastest

olepi · September 2021

I still like how Ryzom does it. There are no classes, it is a sandbox.

You have skills, and level the skills differently. You can play with others at the skill level of the skills you use.

For example, you could be level 50 in healing, 100 in melee, 150 in ranged, 200 in magic, etc. And play as a level 50 healer, or a 200 wizard, or a 100 warrior. Your character isn't a "level", but can play at any level you have a skill at.

cutech · September 2021

As long as I can raise armies of the undead...

ashiru_1978 · September 2021

In WoW I picked my first class a female Human Mage, because previously I was playing Diablo with a Sorceress as a main character and I thought that with both games being made by the same company, it will somehow be easier for me if I emulate a "Sorceress" in WoW as well. But that didn't work out too well and eventually the Hunter became my go-to character in Vanilla WoW and to this day I still find it the easiest to play (I still only play Vanilla) even though I've tried pretty much every other class.

In LOTRO, first I tried a Burglar and Champion, but they weren't solo-friendly enough for me and eventually I settled for a Guardian and that's what I'm playing right now and although the Blue build has low DPS, I can survive a lot of encounters on my own, which I wouldn't be able to if I were a different class.

Ungood · September 2021

cutech said:

As long as I can raise armies of the undead...

Troves Tomb Raiser sounds right up your alley.

Mackaveli44 · September 2021

Vanguard - Blood Mage and Disciple. 2 of the most fun and unique classes I've ever played in my 20+ years of gaming and mmo playing. Still nothing to this day has come close to how fun and unique those classes were and their gameplay.

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Lithuanian · September 2021

Easiest it was in Istaria: free playes can only be Human...

LOTRO: first toon was Human Champion, because of "unrelenting in combat...". Did not like him much. Well, Dwarves are cool, let's make Dwarf Champion. Initially I liked it. Famous shing-shing, almost all best anecdotes - all are about Champion.

Then kinnie adviced to take Minstrel. And oh my, it was really cool. Ranged dps, heals and self-heals even if it at the cost of armour. I could nuke from far, I could take crowd from far, I could heal allies! And I was needed in groups as a healer, I was effective as DPS dealer! Life became nice, I could freely quest with good dps and selfheals.

After that it was Hunter. Yes, ranged one with quality dps, even if with no heals. Very good dps, superb travelling skills and then - traps! Trap that orc, bleed it and shoot it!

So it became clear what type of class was mine. I experimented: took Loremaster, Runekeeper, right now - running Beorning. Loremaster, Runekeeper - just not mine, I could barely enjoy them. Beorning is good from roleplay view, if Bear form is mastered - it's good at melee dps. But right class (for me) is still ranged dps dealer.

Scot · September 2021

lahnmir said:

I always look at non standard healers first:

Warrior Priest
Shaman
Astrologian
Beorning
Bear Shaman

You name it, as long as it isn’t straight up healing alone.

/Cheers,
Lahnmir

I always have to take of my role-playing helm to healers even if you were only a hybrid healer. A thankless task, I can remember talking to a guild member about how good some of the graphical features were in the "dungeons" of the Mines of Moria. She said "Oh when you are healing you don't see whats going on around you just the colours of health bars." That's real dedication for you.

APThug · September 2021

I'm always picking between a tank or a healer usually. Or a hybird of tank and dps for pvp. I did find myself really being drawn towards being versatile. Where I can be helpful doing more than one thing.

Lotro: Captain and Guardian
Swtor: Powertech and Operative
Wow: Druid and Monk
Guild Wars: Warrior, Monk, and Necro
Guild Wars 2: Revenant, Guardian, Necro, and Engineer
FF14: Warrior

Akulas · September 2021

Usually go back line DPS or the lazy pets build because it's easier.

Even though it's cool having tanks that can tank/dps a dps in that slot is going to dps more efficiently. Or mages that can cc tank etc. Or having a group full of druids / bards that can perform all rolls adequately I never really got into hybrid classes too much because the pure version of what they do is usually better.

lahnmir · September 2021

Scot said:

lahnmir said:

I always look at non standard healers first:

Warrior Priest
Shaman
Astrologian
Beorning
Bear Shaman

You name it, as long as it isn’t straight up healing alone.

/Cheers,
Lahnmir

I always have to take of my role-playing helm to healers even if you were only a hybrid healer. A thankless task, I can remember talking to a guild member about how good some of the graphical features were in the "dungeons" of the Mines of Moria. She said "Oh when you are healing you don't see whats going on around you just the colours of health bars." That's real dedication for you.

Let me just quote myself from earlier this year, I also play 100% healers, I just skip straight up ‘toss heals’ classes:

Ahhh the healer. The true lord and master of the group. The educator. The poet. The one who will teach the tank to listen and/or wait because they are OoM, the one who will teach the DPS to not grab aggro or go out of LoS. With teaching I of course mean letting them die horribly.

People live and die by the hands of the healer, and its a damn hard role. DPS and tanks are just fighting against AI, going through the computer controlled motions. A healer however, a healer has to deal with the behaviour of players, erratic, flawed, unlogical and needs to respond appropriately. For healers fights are never the same.

And then, on top of our game we can also DPS in between. We can. But we don't have to. But I am a nice guy so I do, occasionally, and when the group wins by the skin of their teeth I can say 'I saw you guys were struggling so I tossed in some damage' and they'll be even more grateful.

Healers. We rock.

/Cheers,
Lahnmir

Abimor · September 2021

my first class in lotro so long ago was a champion now I mostly play my warden as my wife plays a mini and we have a built in group right there it helps that the warden is really fun to play and there is so much you can do with it.

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