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Favorite Archetype Poll

worddogworddog Member
in General Discussion
I haven't seen any community polls yet for what archetypes people are most interested in playing, so I thought I'd post one here.

https://strawpoll.com/polls/e2navaEkpgB

Comments

  • worddogworddog Member
    For people who chose summoner, could you comment some of your thoughts on the archetype, or what you hope to see from it?
  • LudulluLudullu Member, Alpha Two
    Something on the spectrum from here
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pF51CPgWwqg

    to here
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ChI_4wvLZNk

    Both are summoners, but the first one completely relies on the summon to do the dmg and just supports it with heals and buffs, while the second one is a debuffing mage that uses a summon to just share dmg with (the first one shares dmg too but it's the smaller summon function rather than the big one).
  • worddogworddog Member
    It looks like mage and summoner are popular.
  • DepravedDepraved Member, Alpha Two
    worddog wrote: »
    It looks like mage and summoner are popular.

    thats a high rate private server. but yeah necros are popular
  • worddogworddog Member
    Depraved wrote: »
    worddog wrote: »
    It looks like mage and summoner are popular.

    thats a high rate private server. but yeah necros are popular

    Necromancer would be Cleric now in Ashes right?
  • AerlanaAerlana Member, Alpha One, Alpha Two, Early Alpha Two
    edited October 2022
    Necromancer is summoner main archetype and cleric as secundary archetype.

    For me, summoner could be about one pet, and skills spread in 3 category of close size
    1) buffs for the minion.
    Mostly some short time, for burst etc.
    2) order for the minion
    To do special skills coming from him
    3) some attack skills for the summoner himself, would prefer some dot.
    But those could also be "weapon skill only" and focus class skill around minions

    i dont speak here about utility skills, which is a thing i hope for the 8 classes :p

    Also, for buffs/order, it would be button which adapt to the kind of minion summon. (because minion can be more tanky, more DPS or more support)
  • worddogworddog Member
    I really want to play a Guardian but because of the name I'm worried it sounds like more of a support class. I always want to play the tankiest thing I can in every game I play because I zone out a lot and need more time to react to things lol.

    Dreadnaught sounds really awesome but it requires me to be a fighter and not a tank, so I might end up playing the knight, even though it sounds less cool.
  • DepravedDepraved Member, Alpha Two
    worddog wrote: »
    Depraved wrote: »
    worddog wrote: »
    It looks like mage and summoner are popular.

    thats a high rate private server. but yeah necros are popular

    Necromancer would be Cleric now in Ashes right?

    i think the necro in ashes is summoner with cleric subclass.

    necros in l2 are just tanky mages (from the pet) with ok single target damage and lots of debuffs. its basically a summoner with a nuke
  • worddogworddog Member
    Depraved wrote: »
    worddog wrote: »
    Depraved wrote: »
    worddog wrote: »
    It looks like mage and summoner are popular.

    thats a high rate private server. but yeah necros are popular

    Necromancer would be Cleric now in Ashes right?

    i think the necro in ashes is summoner with cleric subclass.

    necros in l2 are just tanky mages (from the pet) with ok single target damage and lots of debuffs. its basically a summoner with a nuke

    I thought Keeper sounded cool too, which was the Tank primary Summoner secondary. It'd be interesting if putting your shield up summoned a guard dog to go attack your enemy.
  • Savic ProsperitySavic Prosperity Member, Alpha Two
    for me being interested in summoner; gameplay description of essentially being a bit of a jack of all trades based on which summon you use until your 2nd class choice defines your role more tightly sounds interesting to me

    fantasy wise... uhhh i kinda like when you use stuff through the summon or you have an extra bar to manage
    but i also liked how ffxiv did summoner in its current expansion - im not too picky on fantasy of it as much as the gameplay idea sounds fun
  • MyosotysMyosotys Member
    Do you think an archer tank in heavy armor is playable ? Or it will be crap? Ranger - Tank or Tank - Ranger.
    Even if the class “Tank” sound super ridiculous.
  • worddogworddog Member
    Myosotys wrote: »
    Do you think an archer tank in heavy armor is playable ? Or it will be crap? Ranger - Tank or Tank - Ranger.
    Even if the class “Tank” sound super ridiculous.

    tank ranger sounds better, I think its called warden. keep threat on far away enemies seems good to me. ranged peel is good.
  • SeasonShepherdSeasonShepherd Member
    Summoner rouge for sure
  • Arya_YesheArya_Yeshe Member
    Shadowblade for now
    PvE means: A handful of coins and a bag of boredom.
  • GrandHarfangGrandHarfang Member
    SeasonShepherd wrote: »
    Summoner rouge for sure

    What about summoner blue?
  • GrandHarfangGrandHarfang Member
    edited October 2022
    For me Spellmancer (Summoner/Mage) will most likely be the first class I try. My hope is that Summoner plays similarly to City of Heroes' Mastermind. Attacking through my summons and supporting them is a gameplay I found very interesting.
  • koltovincekoltovince Member, Settler, Founder, Kickstarter, Alpha Two
    I think summoner is arguably one of the strongest options right now. As far as I know its the only class that has been confirmed to be all roles in the trinity (could very well be wrong on that). Honestly until more info is out on other classes and the combat system, playing a class that can fill all roles and see what is fun then spec into that role seems very nice in a brand new game with nothing known.
  • BaltanBaltan Member, Alpha Two
    edited October 2022
    For me I think I'm going to play a bard first, either a minstrel (straight up bard) or a trickster (bard/rogue)
    I'm just really excited to see what they do with the bard class, I feel like it's usually left out of games or done really poorly☹️
  • worddogworddog Member
    koltovince wrote: »
    I think summoner is arguably one of the strongest options right now. As far as I know its the only class that has been confirmed to be all roles in the trinity (could very well be wrong on that). Honestly until more info is out on other classes and the combat system, playing a class that can fill all roles and see what is fun then spec into that role seems very nice in a brand new game with nothing known.

    Cleric is always going to be the strongest archetype. Healing is always the highest skill cap in MMOs, and they need to balance it so bad players can still play healers. This makes good healers ridiculously overpowered. Tanks will probably be on par with top DPS classes. Summoner seems to be more jack of all trades, master of none, so they probably won't actually be that strong in reality.
  • DepravedDepraved Member, Alpha Two
    im sure summoners will be the best solo pve character. i just hope they are more useful in a party rather than just being replaced by another (repeated) class
  • worddogworddog Member
    Depraved wrote: »
    im sure summoners will be the best solo pve character. i just hope they are more useful in a party rather than just being replaced by another (repeated) class

    I feel like the Paladin will be the best solo class, tanky + selfsustain + leveling content designed around solo play + very useful in low level group content
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