Community Prediction: Which class is going to be underplayed?

maouw

It's still early days, but let's hear some predictions based on the combinations!

One month after launch day, which class will be the least played?

Here's the table from the wiki:

Reason?

My bets are on High Priest - heals on the heals sounds excessive.

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Bricktop

Usually people don't play bards because the class isn't very fun or engaging in other MMOs. I played a tanky bard in archeage and all I did was ate damage for my group and kept buffs up in PvP.

maouw

@Bricktop
Right! Is that coz bards are seen as lesser clerics?

Vyraka

I want to say Bard/Summoner.

Bricktop

maouw wrote: »

@Bricktop
Right! Is that coz bards are seen as lesser clerics?

Yeah because bards are typically support instead of direct heals

In archeage you had really good buffs as a bard but they only lasted like 4 seconds if memory serves best. So the entire time your group was PvPing you would just be rebuffing and sending out the 1 mediocre heal you had. It was very important to the success of the group, but very boring for the bard.

Hopefully they can make bards a unique and interesting playstyle in Ashes.

Damokles

Grievousness

Probably soulbow and acolyte.
Ranged classes usually are more squishy and could prefer going tank as secondary over cleric to offset it.
Getting more tanky usually scales just better than some low level healing.
It boils down to balancing though so we don't know until release.

CaptnChuck

Ranger and Bard.

https://www.strawpoll.me/20648367

But the differences are fairly small.

maouw

CaptnChuck wrote: »

Ranger and Bard.

https://www.strawpoll.me/20648367

But the differences are fairly small.

Oh wow, I did not know cleric was #1

Dolyem

Battle Mage

BobzUrUncle

The class that will be underplayed is the one that almost nobody plays.
Or do you mean 'underplayed' as in not promoted or not as important by Intrepid?

Blueh

maouw wrote: »

CaptnChuck wrote: »

Ranger and Bard.

https://www.strawpoll.me/20648367

But the differences are fairly small.

Oh wow, I did not know cleric was #1

There are alot of healers in most games but for some reason most of em are "casual" there are very few that pick suppport with the goal in mind of being top ranked. Feels like most play it since its "chill" just press Healthbars and relax.

Demidreamer

Nightshield -hard to imagine combining threat generation with the rogue style combat for being an opportunist

Hurf Derfman

Demidreamer wrote: »

Nightshield -hard to imagine combining threat generation with the rogue style combat for being an opportunist

Rogues could tank in Rift 🤷

Dolyem

Demidreamer wrote: »

Nightshield -hard to imagine combining threat generation with the rogue style combat for being an opportunist

Dodge tanks my dude

Damokles

Dolyem wrote: »

Demidreamer wrote: »

Nightshield -hard to imagine combining threat generation with the rogue style combat for being an opportunist

Dodge tanks my dude

DoT tanks my friend.... DoT Tanks.

Steven said that Daggers could inflict a bleed effect on the target, i can see a tank going daggers for the bleeds on multiple enemies, and if they get some bleed augments from rogues then they go plus ultra.

It would be nice if Rogue had these four augment-trees:
-Bleed (Single target dot, reducing healing etc)
-Shadow (Survivability/Stealth, most likely not stealth but something o do with shadows)
-Assassination (single target/isolation damage)
-Poisons (AoE dots)

Promptling

Lol Darkshield is what I've been planning on playing, with Predator / ShadowBlade/ Highsword being the others I am interested in. Problem with Highsword and Paladin though is that there names make it seem likely they will be merging with the life aspect of cleric and I was hoping it would be the opposite - Soul drains, or Blood Tank etc.

Archaeon

Its probably still too early to tell. Entirely depends on how they build out the class/sub-class fantasy. A lot of the combinations we've not even seen in an MMO. How will class/sub-classes be visually distinct? Will they have a specific armor type? etc.

Chronocross

if I could I would bet bard haha

Demidreamer

Evasion tank could work, all depends on the type of resource the archetype has(is everything going to be mana?). The other hang up is what the stealth augment will do. Most of the time i hear stealth i think of dropping combat(threat along with that). imho

Grievousness

Demidreamer wrote: »

Evasion tank could work, all depends on the type of resource the archetype has(is everything going to be mana?). The other hang up is what the stealth augment will do. Most of the time i hear stealth i think of dropping combat(threat along with that). imho

Dodge tanks are a weird thing, needing to rely on a chance to evade an attack is just not a solid approach.
Depending on how hard bosses are hitting you can have some really bad damage spikes that are fairly annoying to your healers.
At least in PvE you can usually differentiate a good tank from a bad tank by how "spiky" his damage taken is.
In PvP it probably won't matter that much.

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