Primary Class Poll!

New one since a lot of new players are coming in!

https://www.strawpoll.me/20648367

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Marzzo wrote: »

Aardvark wrote: »

I hope your poll is wrong 6% tanks, 11% healers and 83% DPS would be a grouping nightmare

Well, I dont think you need to be a "tank" class to tank.

A fighter/tank, rogue/tank, Cleric/tank summoner/tank will probably also be able to tank

I really hope this is the case. And i hope, like you said earlier, that most classes will be able to throw on a sword/shield pre 25 to pseudo tank. Other wise its going to be so irritating getting groups together. We'll have to wait and see how its going to work once the alpha is released.

Aardvark

Healawin wrote: »

Marzzo wrote: »

Aardvark wrote: »

I hope your poll is wrong 6% tanks, 11% healers and 83% DPS would be a grouping nightmare

Well, I dont think you need to be a "tank" class to tank.

A fighter/tank, rogue/tank, Cleric/tank summoner/tank will probably also be able to tank

I really hope this is the case. And i hope, like you said earlier, that most classes will be able to throw on a sword/shield pre 25 to pseudo tank. Other wise its going to be so irritating getting groups together. We'll have to wait and see how its going to work once the alpha is released.

I would think a main tank would be tank/something and if you just want to sorta tank you could maybe get by with something/tank

Fathym

Aardvark wrote: »

Healawin wrote: »

Marzzo wrote: »

Aardvark wrote: »

I hope your poll is wrong 6% tanks, 11% healers and 83% DPS would be a grouping nightmare

Well, I dont think you need to be a "tank" class to tank.

A fighter/tank, rogue/tank, Cleric/tank summoner/tank will probably also be able to tank

I really hope this is the case. And i hope, like you said earlier, that most classes will be able to throw on a sword/shield pre 25 to pseudo tank. Other wise its going to be so irritating getting groups together. We'll have to wait and see how its going to work once the alpha is released.

I would think a main tank would be tank/something and if you just want to sorta tank you could maybe get by with something/tank

Ya and thats fine post 25. Im just alot more worried about pre 25 when you dont have a secondary. Like can a fighter put on a sword and shield to hold aggro or will his lack of taunt make it make it nearly impossible to do?

Aardvark

Healawin wrote: »

Aardvark wrote: »

Healawin wrote: »

Marzzo wrote: »

Aardvark wrote: »

I hope your poll is wrong 6% tanks, 11% healers and 83% DPS would be a grouping nightmare

Well, I dont think you need to be a "tank" class to tank.

A fighter/tank, rogue/tank, Cleric/tank summoner/tank will probably also be able to tank

I really hope this is the case. And i hope, like you said earlier, that most classes will be able to throw on a sword/shield pre 25 to pseudo tank. Other wise its going to be so irritating getting groups together. We'll have to wait and see how its going to work once the alpha is released.

I would think a main tank would be tank/something and if you just want to sorta tank you could maybe get by with something/tank

Ya and thats fine post 25. Im just alot more worried about pre 25 when you dont have a secondary. Like can a fighter put on a sword and shield to hold aggro or will his lack of taunt make it make it nearly impossible to do?

In most MMOs at low levels CC is your tank

BobbyBick

Going with whatever gets closest to a 2handed Berserker themed class, which I assume is going to be Fighter base.

Cold 0ne FTB

Marzzo wrote: »

Cold 0ne FTB wrote: »

So many freaking Summoners. Where are my fellow rogues at!?

If you knew where they were, they would be bad rogues

You aren't wrong.

darthaden

Aardvark wrote: »

I hope your poll is wrong 6% tanks, 11% healers and 83% DPS would be a grouping nightmare

With a standard party of 8 it might not be as bad as you think. 1 tank, 1 melee tanky dps to offtank, 1-2 healers depending on the amount of support, 1-2 support depending on how many healers, 3 pure dps is how I'd see a standard party looking.

darthaden

I just remembered something Steven said a while back ago about parties. The reason a party is 8 people is so that each class has a spot. If the numbers on survey hold true as does his intentions the numbers are just about perfect as almost every class is within a few percentage points of one another

HazardNumberSeven

What do you guys think the best representation of a Shadow Knight or Death Knight would be in AoC?
A sort of dark knight, with spooky powers.

Fathym

darthaden wrote: »

I just remembered something Steven said a while back ago about parties. The reason a party is 8 people is so that each class has a spot. If the numbers on survey hold true as does his intentions the numbers are just about perfect as almost every class is within a few percentage points of one another

It is only perfect if every class is equally important to the group. The problem arise when Tanks and Healers are significantly more important than the other classes. If its possible to do content with ,say, 1 tank, 6 mages and a healer or literally any combination of dps, we'll be in for a hell of a lot of supply and demand problems for tanks and healers.

George_Black

hazardnumberseven wrote: »

What do you guys think the best representation of a Shadow Knight or Death Knight would be in AoC?
A sort of dark knight, with spooky powers.

This is what worries me about Ashes.
If you look at the classes table, no combination shows that you will have Dark themed abilities, playing as a tank.

You want to play Rogue/tank, tank/rogue? You can only hope that there will be some identity of evil atks.

HazardNumberSeven

Some classes have multi-purpose too. Going to bring up necro again because it's what I am most hyped for, but they're described as having spells that can take life from enemies (dps) and give it to allies (heal).

And PvE is just one aspect, we'll need to plan for all contingencies .. So you're doing a raid/dungeon, you may still want some non-PvE types to come with, because only 20% of the dungeons will be instanced so chances are the dungeon you're going to is going to be open world, and that means you may run into other players who are not so friendly or happy to be sharing the treasure of the dungeon with you! They might even be enemies of yours already for one reason or another.

These sort of situations are what I love about PvX so much, because it breaks us out of those ruts where we just optimise like hell for 1 thing and ignore everything else.

Zeamin

If they had a Pugilist or Monk class that would have been my number one choice.

But looking at all the classes then maybe i will try for Rogue and then later on, go for the Predator class. (Rogue/Ranger)

Amel

Im thinking Ranger-Rogue. I like the Scout class fantasy

lance10ca

I was a bard in EQ. I was a druid in RoM, I was druid in Wow. I am a Ranger in GW2. I haven't decided yet but primary will be one of bard, cleric or ranger.

GreatThodric

hazardnumberseven wrote: »

What do you guys think the best representation of a Shadow Knight or Death Knight would be in AoC?
A sort of dark knight, with spooky powers.

Do you mean like an undead summoner type melee class, as in WoW? I don't think you can get that specific tbh. The closest I think you can get is the Summoner/Cleric (Necromancer) type. Using heavy armor and close combat weapons. Although the class itself might not synergize well with that gear, but idk.

U5urPator

So, I normally am a tank/support player. And I plan to go along these lines. I don't really want to be a hard tank or hard support but rather a utility version of either of these. With CC and maybe even mobility instead of shielding or straight healing/buffing. I'll have to see how each class plays out for that.
Another point is leveling. Don't want the need to hard force leveling because your class sucks at clearing mobs. If that's the case I will most likely take a dps main class and add bard/cleric/tank to it.

thorgar runemaster

For me it will be full healer (highpriest) or healer/tank(apostle).

HazardNumberSeven

GreatThodric wrote: »

hazardnumberseven wrote: »

What do you guys think the best representation of a Shadow Knight or Death Knight would be in AoC?
A sort of dark knight, with spooky powers.

Do you mean like an undead summoner type melee class, as in WoW? I don't think you can get that specific tbh. The closest I think you can get is the Summoner/Cleric (Necromancer) type. Using heavy armor and close combat weapons. Although the class itself might not synergize well with that gear, but idk.

Nothing too specific, just daydreaming. I was thinking more like the necromancer/warrior hybrid-class Shadow Knight from EverQuest, but the Death Knight from WoW is pretty similar thematically.

Summoner+Cleric (Necro) is by far the class I am most excited about.

GreatThodric

hazardnumberseven wrote: »

GreatThodric wrote: »

hazardnumberseven wrote: »

What do you guys think the best representation of a Shadow Knight or Death Knight would be in AoC?
A sort of dark knight, with spooky powers.

Do you mean like an undead summoner type melee class, as in WoW? I don't think you can get that specific tbh. The closest I think you can get is the Summoner/Cleric (Necromancer) type. Using heavy armor and close combat weapons. Although the class itself might not synergize well with that gear, but idk.

Nothing too specific, just daydreaming. I was thinking more like the necromancer/warrior hybrid-class Shadow Knight from EverQuest, but the Death Knight from WoW is pretty similar thematically.

Summoner+Cleric (Necro) is by far the class I am most excited about.

Then, yeah, Necromancer is what you're looking for. It's just the gear synergy that might mess it up a bit. Shifting you into a more ranged approach.

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