Poll "Wich class/classes do you want to play?"

Jinthul

Which class are you most interested in?

I know it's difficult to decide, because we don't have precise information about the individual classes...

- Link to the Poll
https://strawpoll.com/3a5a9ug5w

- Link to the class list
https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/ashesofcreation/images/6/69/Ashesofcreationclasslist-1040x644.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20171216001347

CriminalCupcake

I'm almost certainly going to be a Cleric of some sort, probably a Scryer. Started wow in 04 as a priest and it's something that's stuck with me ever since.

Erdun

Necromancer
Shaman
Warlock
Archiwizard
hawkeye
Paladin
Guardian
Weapon Master.

CakeBanditJr

As it stands the only class I can decisively say that I WILL play is the High Priest because I ALWAYS heal in MMO's. Other than that, I'm pretty sure I will eventually run with some sort of tank and support class. I typically don't choose DPS because it doesn't normally suit my play style BUT this game could very well change that.

Jamation

Depending on how they feel during beta originally been leaning towards Cleric (specifically High Priest), but if the Bard feels good might switch to that. I'll most definitely have a secret RP Oracle character though, love the story I could build with it.

Sathrago

Summoner or mage.

Damokles

Bard or Rogue main class.

Honshu

In descending order of interest,
Paladin (Tank/Cleric)
Beastmaster (Summoner/Ranger)
Bladedancer (Fighter/Bard)
Shadow Lord (Rogue/Summoner)
Oracle or Scryer (Cleric/Mage or Cleric/Bard)
My main will almost certainly be a Paladin, with a Beastmaster my most immediate alt because I am intensely amused by the idea of a Beastmaster who does Taming and/or Animal Husbandry. My interest in Bladedancer and Shadow Lord mostly depends on how those Augments end up actually manifesting in their respective primary classes. I am hoping Bladedancer ends up being able to be played as a quick and agile melee fighter who can provide aoe buffs to people; I am hoping Shadow Lord ends up being a tricky hit-and-run character which can conjure illusions to mindgame enemies. When I inevitably end up making a healing alt, I will end up going with Oracle or Scryer depending on what augments lead to more interesting offensive support gameplay; I hope for things like providing health or temporary buffs when allies hit enemy targets, or debuffing enemies.

Looking forward to some more augment information being released!

OnlyOne

Archwizard all the way! I've been playing as tanks and supports mostly so I'm ready to try out a new playstyle.

akabear

Whilst not many results in the straw poll yet, there is a decent spread trending; that is encouraging!

CakeBanditJr

Honshu wrote: »

In descending order of interest,
Paladin (Tank/Cleric)
Beastmaster (Summoner/Ranger)
Bladedancer (Fighter/Bard)
Shadow Lord (Rogue/Summoner)
Oracle or Scryer (Cleric/Mage or Cleric/Bard)
My main will almost certainly be a Paladin, with a Beastmaster my most immediate alt because I am intensely amused by the idea of a Beastmaster who does Taming and/or Animal Husbandry. My interest in Bladedancer and Shadow Lord mostly depends on how those Augments end up actually manifesting in their respective primary classes. I am hoping Bladedancer ends up being able to be played as a quick and agile melee fighter who can provide aoe buffs to people; I am hoping Shadow Lord ends up being a tricky hit-and-run character which can conjure illusions to mindgame enemies. When I inevitably end up making a healing alt, I will end up going with Oracle or Scryer depending on what augments lead to more interesting offensive support gameplay; I hope for things like providing health or temporary buffs when allies hit enemy targets, or debuffing enemies.

Looking forward to some more augment information being released!

This is when I shall truly get excited for the game!

Wandering Mist

As much as I'd like to, I can't make a decision until I've testing all the classes.

Jinthul

Nice i see, we have a good split of the classes.

Me too, i'm so excited to see how the abilities realy change the playstyle of the classes with the secondary archetypes

BlightEmpire

Summoner hands down. And depending how things go might look at a pure build of summoner summoner. Just depends i really need to see/hear more about how the class will play.

Dream build for it is to farm/find legendaries or skills to make me summon whole armies that will wreck low/mid tier players or at least let me summon a massive hulking raid boss once a week i dunno something badass ya know. But im concerned because almost every game I've played with summoners has... well screwed me over in multiple games at best your a support dps and your dps isn't even all that great. they essentially added a class that had little to no value. And other games just made it out to be a.... i dunno token class like hey look at this cool class it summons! it summons useless monsters lol or you could go out to collect monsters with the class but nothing all that great just turned into collecting. So I'm anxious but hopeful this will be fun and have cool summons and uses. If it sucks might make a mage later dunno yet need to see all classes and get a baseline for it. Summoner is dream though don't fail me dreams don't fail me.

winner909098

Its nice to know that im the only falconer...
Ill cry now.

Hakaiju

Some variation of Rogue/Fighter. Ill try everything out in Alpha/Beta before making a choice between Duelist/Shadoweblad/Assassin/Weapon Master

SkylarckTheBotanist

I made a visual representation of the current poll in case other people want this info displayed better.

https://imgur.com/a/OsBYyUr

(I am struggling to post a photo though so here is a link^)

Skylarck The Botanist

Sum12hate

Most likely beast master but may go brood warden

Jinthul

Skylarck wrote: »

I made a visual representation of the current poll in case other people want this info displayed better.

https://imgur.com/a/OsBYyUr

(I am struggling to post a photo though so here is a link^)

Skylarck The Botanist

Well done, that's awsome, this gives us a much better overview! Thanks for that, man.

So far, it's realy cool to see, what you guys want to play.

Erdun

Skylarck wrote: »

I made a visual representation of the current poll in case other people want this info displayed better.

https://imgur.com/a/OsBYyUr

(I am struggling to post a photo though so here is a link^)

Skylarck The Botanist

8.08% wow... seems like a lot of people want to play high priest.

Raggen

I have allways gravitated towards Necromancers in games but not so sure here since it is based on the Summoner archtype and I don't like the idea of only my summons doing all the work so will have to see how the class shapes up. Hopefully the choice will be made clear once we see more of the classes ^^

SkylarckTheBotanist

Sholer wrote: »

Skylarck wrote: »

I made a visual representation of the current poll in case other people want this info displayed better.

https://imgur.com/a/OsBYyUr

(I am struggling to post a photo though so here is a link^)

Skylarck The Botanist

8.08% wow... seems like a lot of people want to play high priest.

Yeah lots of high priests but that being said there’s a surprisingly even spread across all base classes

SkylarckTheBotanist

Looks like Rogues are taking a hard lead now

https://imgur.com/a/d1llisZ

Damokles

BARDS ARE 4th PLACE POG!

Maciej

Dunir Paladin or Ren'Kai Cultist are my top choices currently, will probably also try a Highsword in alpha / betas.

Hakaiju

Skylarck wrote: »

Looks like Rogues are taking a hard lead now

https://imgur.com/a/d1llisZ

TBF multiple answers are possible, and for example i voted for 3 different rogue classes, so this sheat doesnt really say a lot

SkylarckTheBotanist

Hakaiju wrote: »

Skylarck wrote: »

Looks like Rogues are taking a hard lead now

https://imgur.com/a/d1llisZ

TBF multiple answers are possible, and for example i voted for 3 different rogue classes, so this sheat doesnt really say a lot

Of course, with <70 people voting yeah it’s not precise by any means, if we had many more than your 3 votes to rogue would be counterbalanced by others but yeah early stage of any stats is always less detailed, none the less interesting to see.

Hakaiju

Skylarck wrote: »

Of course, with <70 people voting yeah it’s not precise by any means, if we had many more than your 3 votes to rogue would be counterbalanced by others but yeah early stage of any stats is always less detailed, none the less interesting to see.

I guess a big factor is that rogue and fighter are pretty close to each other. So everyone interested in a fighter might also be interested in a Rogue. All other archetypes (or base classes) are more unique in the job they have to fullfill
Tank -> Tank (lol)
Ranged Physical -> Ranger
Ranged Magical -> Mage/Summoner (i would still make a big distinction between them regarding playstyle)
Support Heal -> Cleric
Support Buff -> Bard (i guess Clerik/Bard might be a similar connection to Fighter/Rogue)
Melee DPS -> Rogue/Fighter

So more or less every playstyle has only one primary archetype that covers it. So having a high count in Rogue/Fighter votes isnt that surprising imo. Of course the secondary archetype also has its usage, but we dont know that much about the impact of it so i assume most people choose their class with the primary archetype in mind

The Cawckiest King

Falconer top pick for sure. Just hoping we get some choice in the type of bird (not just falcons, but eagles, owls, crows/ravens, etc)

The rest I'll have to playtest and see what I like, but generally the secondary ones I'm interested in are

Predator
Assassin
Beastmaster
Scout
Shadow Lord
Shadowblade
Wild Blade
Shadow Guardian
Strider
Hunter
Nightspell
Shadow Caster
Shadowmancer

(There is definitely a theme here)

JesterLo

I'll be a Soul Weaver (Bard/Cleric)

Any type of bard actually.

Skylarck wrote: »

I made a visual representation of the current poll in case other people want this info displayed better.

https://imgur.com/a/OsBYyUr

(I am struggling to post a photo though so here is a link^)

Skylarck The Botanist

Nice visualization. Gives a better overview of the result.

-Karp

Vhaeyne

Picked "Soulbow"

Seen a lot of polls with the same question, but I don't think anyone took the time to list every class. Pretty cool.

That said, it made me think of a two question poll to do some time. The first question would be what primary class and the second question is what secondary class you plan to take.

Would be interesting to see overall what classes people intend to take for each slot. I suspect summoners would be popular as both a primary and a secondary.