Primary Class Poll!

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

https://www.strawpoll.me/20648367

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Looks pretty balanced so far, nice! My first class will be Mage/Cleric, to test if I get a good amount of self sustain from it. Hopefully its a good combination for 1v1 PvP.

daxiongmao87

Man to be completely honest, this is the first MMORPG where I want to play EVERY class because I love experimentation, and the primary/secondary class system with augments and whatnot really seems to encourage that

CaptnChuck

DAMN SON. Look how evenly spread the community is.

PlagueMonk

Isn't there a way to do polls with the forum controls so we don't have to leave? The old forums used to have ways.

delghinn

Aardvark wrote: »

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

it's the norm with similar games. there's not enough interest in tanking and healing for there to only be one class to perform each of those roles.

delghinn

George Black 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.

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.

the 64 class matrix is not ideal as it doesnt serve class archetypes well. being able to select some themes from another class or doubling down specializing into the base class results in a haphazard class theme. IMOA

some classes are thematically hybrids of some other concepts however many are not. also some classes are typically considered specializations from a base/foundational class however not every class theme has specializations from them.

delghinn

CaptnChuck wrote: »

DAMN SON. Look how evenly spread the community is.

would be a welcome change if it were this way live however forum community is often quite different from general player population. one need only consider how common this issue is across similar games.

Monorojo

The fact that there are 64 class combinations makes me wonder how all of them will be viable..I feel like some will be forgotten or left behind.

nidriks

If I adventure solely it will be summoner for me.

My passion for Ashes is to be a full time crafter though, and as I want to do animal husbandry I'm toying with the idea of going ranger to supplement that. I can imagine having to go out in the wild to find animals will require some martial skills.

It surprised, yet delighted me, that the results of the poll were so even. I'd been wondering if there would be a skew towards some classes.

dux1

Monorojo wrote: »

The fact that there are 64 class combinations makes me wonder how all of them will be viable..I feel like some will be forgotten or left behind.

This happened with archeage. There will actually be 8 classes. The secondary class will only augment your main class skills.

lunarsky

1. Shaman
2. Enchanter
3. Soul Weaver/Song Caller
4. Scryer
5. Necromancer
6. Templar

Is my current ranking. I need to actually get hands-on before I decide for certain though. I love the healer/support role and pet classes so Alphas and Betas will help me figure it out before release.

I like the relative balance in the poll thus far though. That bodes well for release but I'd be interested in the results post-beta testing.

Raoul9753

Pretty good results, all Classes are represented^^

Damokles

There should only be Bards.... Must be a bug.

ViciousDreams

Interesting to see a lot of people wanting bards in other MMOs, yet in a game that has them they're the lowest picked role nonetheless. Especially healers are surprisingly high up compared to tanks/bards. I'd have assumed non-DPS roles would all be towards the bottom.

Nagash

Damokles wrote: »

There should only be Bards.... Must be a bug.

You mean summoners

PlagueMonk

Nagash wrote: »

Damokles wrote: »

There should only be Bards.... Must be a bug.

You mean summoners

You're both wrong, I saw in a very recent podcast that, due to time and budgeting constraints, the classes were going to be paired down to Clerics and Rogues.

I am surprised Nagash would even consider ALL summoners as being viable. In the before time it was Necromancer or nothing. He's growing as a person

Nagash

PlagueMonk wrote: »

Nagash wrote: »

Damokles wrote: »

There should only be Bards.... Must be a bug.

You mean summoners

You're both wrong, I saw in a very recent podcast that, due to time and budgeting constraints, the classes were going to be paired down to Clerics and Rogues.

I am surprised Nagash would even consider ALL summoners as being viable. In the before time it was Necromancer or nothing. He's growing as a person

I found a new way to trap souls in armour of bone ^^

Algestes

It's hard to decide... There's so many options that interest me. Will probably make several.

Battlemage will probably be the first, but Beastmaster, Necro, and the pet tank class looks fun too!

TheLastNoise

The class split is quite even on the poll. Yet I feel like 10% tank is lacking... Imo it might be hard to find Tanks in game. If tanking matters.

Marzzo

Monorojo wrote: »

The fact that there are 64 class combinations makes me wonder how all of them will be viable..I feel like some will be forgotten or left behind.

I think everything will have it's place in some situations. But remember, your archetype will matter the most since you can change the other stuff

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