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Community Prediction: Which class is going to be underplayed?
maouw
Member, Alpha One, Adventurer
It's still early days, but let's hear some predictions based on the combinations!
Here's the table from the wiki:
Reason?
My bets are on High Priest - heals on the heals sounds excessive.
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.
I wish I were deep and tragic
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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.
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.
https://www.strawpoll.me/20648367
But the differences are fairly small.
Oh wow, I did not know cleric was #1
Or do you mean 'underplayed' as in not promoted or not as important by Intrepid?
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.
Rogues could tank in Rift 🤷
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)
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.
Argent the tank bard, as usual there will be a shortage of tanks.
I'm going to guess ranger might be a less played class, and bard (even though its polling low here) will pick up over time. Even though its played more I suspect something like tank or healing (even though it has a strong following now) will end up still in demand more in raiding.
this. It's always the tanks that games are perpetually short on.
"I don't know what kind of soldier I'm gonna make, but I want you guys to know that if we ever get into really heavy combat... I'll be right behind you guys. Every step of the way."
Generally though, tanks and support dps are my candidates for fewest players.
The most safe bet would be a tank class I think, because that's the role I see being played the least, and then you spread those tank players out over 8 classes. I would think there is a least one of those classes that will be pretty rare.
Which tank class that will be is impossible to say, but maybe tank + bard or something, if that means you won't be a very "tanky" tank, or have decent dps, you just buff others or something. Then I could maybe see that as a candidate, but then again, we will be able to choose between 4 augment schools, so maybe there's one for bard that is super awesome and not just some aoe buff thing, who knows.
It's just like how I kinda would write off going cleric as secondary if I didn't know much about the augment system, but then finding out that there's a death augment school suddenly made cleric a possible awesome secondary IMO.
A lot of people play tanks - just not necessarily good tanks. They shrivel at the reality of being in the spotlight.
Tank seems actually really fun and viable.
If they keep the weapon arcs for aoe, thn it could be very well one of the best leveling classes in the game.