Which Ashes of Creation Class Are You Looking to Choose?

I have created a StrawPoll to start the year 2023, so that we can see what the player's current interest is class-wise in the game.

I understand that as of the making of this post, not much information is available regarding secondary archetypes.

However, let's have some fun and see what's on our minds:

https://strawpoll.com/polls/kogjkv8LPZ6

We will revisit this later in the year with a new poll, Fall/Winter time, to see if anything has changed to sway your choices!

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RazThemun

Not that you would repost... but putting them (percentages) in order of preference would have been helpful. Makes it much more apparent for people of what is the community looking to run if not doing a pie chart.

Spif

Great poll, and I'm surprised the results are as spread out as they are.

Just a note on secondary archetype, they've said we will be able to change secondary archetype in towns/cities as often as we want. Same with respec. So tanks, clerics and bards can run a DPS secondary for gathering or solo grinding, then switch to a group-spec for dungeons or PvP.

I'm likely to run several rogue archetypes depending on the activity.

Dolyem

Spif wrote: »

Great poll, and I'm surprised the results are as spread out as they are.

Just a note on archetype, they've said we will be able to change archetype in towns/cities as often as we want. Same with respec. So tanks, clerics and bards can run a DPS secondary for gathering or solo grinding, then switch to a group-spec for dungeons or PvP.

I'm likely to run several rogue archetypes depending on the activity.

From my understanding, we don't get to change secondary easily. It's a potentially long process of switching your secondary class so it wont be as simple as switching back and forth as needed

bloodprophet

Spif wrote: »

Great poll, and I'm surprised the results are as spread out as they are.

Just a note on archetype, they've said we will be able to change archetype in towns/cities as often as we want. Same with respec. So tanks, clerics and bards can run a DPS secondary for gathering or solo grinding, then switch to a group-spec for dungeons or PvP.

I'm likely to run several rogue archetypes depending on the activity.

Primary archetype is set and not changeable. Secondary archetype is changeable but we don't know yet how easy/hard it will be. It could involve a quest of some sort. All you active abilities come from your primary archetype.
https://ashesofcreation.wiki/Classes

Unfadeless

Pretty much all the up-to-date information we have on anything is on the Wiki. We have actually gotten a bit of attention on the Ashes Reddit just recently in response to this poll running! Thank you all for participating and providing your comments and thoughts!

bloodprophet

I answered Arch-wizard as i Usually play mage and or heals. This answer may change as more information come about, specifically in regards to augments.

Spif

Changed my comment to be more clear.

Aside from the wiki:

A player may choose a secondary archetype when they reach level 25.[4] The combination of primary and secondary archetypes is referred to as a class.[4][1][5]
The secondary archetype does not provide additional skills.[11]
Secondary archetypes may be changed, but not "on-the-fly".[9][12]

I'm pretty sure that some comments on livestream have suggested that changing your secondary was something that could just be done in town. You may have to talk to someone, and there may be a cost, but my impression from the way it was talked about, it was something you might end up doing more than once a day if you were switching your objectives around (IE, solo farming to caravan PvP to PvE boss killing). I believe resetting skill point distribution had a similar limitation

All subject to change of course.

Kilion

I think the numbers will be different once we get a reveal of the Bard. For now it's almost impossible to clearly say whether playing a primary Bard will be cool or not, which is why I also wouldn't vote for it.

Vaknar

This is such a cool thread 😮

Kilion wrote: »

I think the numbers will be different once we get a reveal of the Bard. For now it's almost impossible to clearly say whether playing a primary Bard will be cool or not, which is why I also wouldn't vote for it.

I agree that once the archetypes we have yet to see are revealed, we will probably see a change in similar poll results.

You received so many responses, and the breakdown of data was SO interesting to see. I've mentioned it a few times here and there, but from the moment I heard about the Bladedancer class, I knew that's what I wanted to play. Looks like not many others are with me, but we aren't alone, either! ^_^

Solvryn

Vaknar wrote: »

This is such a cool thread 😮

Kilion wrote: »

I think the numbers will be different once we get a reveal of the Bard. For now it's almost impossible to clearly say whether playing a primary Bard will be cool or not, which is why I also wouldn't vote for it.

I agree that once the archetypes we have yet to see are revealed, we will probably see a change in similar poll results.

You received so many responses, and the breakdown of data was SO interesting to see. I've mentioned it a few times here and there, but from the moment I heard about the Bladedancer class, I knew that's what I wanted to play. Looks like not many others are with me, but we aren't alone, either! ^_^

How to get people to play bard? Bigbys hand, complete with *all* of Scanlans emotes.

Kilion

Vaknar wrote: »

This is such a cool thread 😮

Kilion wrote: »

I think the numbers will be different once we get a reveal of the Bard. For now it's almost impossible to clearly say whether playing a primary Bard will be cool or not, which is why I also wouldn't vote for it.

I agree that once the archetypes we have yet to see are revealed, we will probably see a change in similar poll results.

You received so many responses, and the breakdown of data was SO interesting to see. I've mentioned it a few times here and there, but from the moment I heard about the Bladedancer class, I knew that's what I wanted to play. Looks like not many others are with me, but we aren't alone, either! ^_^

Ha, same! I think if the Bladedancer gets anything close to what I suspect it will, it will be one of the most fun classes to play in a group. One of those comrades everyone loves to have with them

And the potential versatility from a roleplay perspective is amazing. It could be like the name indicates a very fluid/elegant warrior or a "right hand of the commander" type who leads a smaller unit and grants them bonuses in, during and out of combat and possibly some others!

Definitely my first choice as well

SirChancelot

Gui10 wrote: »

Percimes wrote: »

x/Cleric 21.33%

People want self-sustain for the overall solo PvE experience!

However, I am positive this number will be far less in reality when looking at PvP comps and group PvE.

It kind of looks like that statistic is just skewed because of the necromancer and paladin being the two "hottest" classes and both happen to be cleric.
Cleric looks like it's not as common on DPS classes.

But I love this thread. I hope you can post updated stats each month.

Percimes

SirChancelot wrote: »

Gui10 wrote: »

Percimes wrote: »

x/Cleric 21.33%

People want self-sustain for the overall solo PvE experience!

However, I am positive this number will be far less in reality when looking at PvP comps and group PvE.

It kind of looks like that statistic is just skewed because of the necromancer and paladin being the two "hottest" classes and both happen to be cleric.
Cleric looks like it's not as common on DPS classes.

But I love this thread. I hope you can post updated stats each month.

High Priest draws a lot too. 3 classes in the top 5 (or 6 if we consider dreadnought at the same % than high priest) have the cleric secondary archetype.

But, as many have already pointed out, not enough has been officially announced for us to conclude anything at this point. I'm sure we'll have many exiting surprises when more will be said about rogues, bards and summoners. And what each archetypes' augments are!

Still a fun exercise though.

SirChancelot

Percimes wrote: »

SirChancelot wrote: »

Gui10 wrote: »

Percimes wrote: »

x/Cleric 21.33%

People want self-sustain for the overall solo PvE experience!

However, I am positive this number will be far less in reality when looking at PvP comps and group PvE.

It kind of looks like that statistic is just skewed because of the necromancer and paladin being the two "hottest" classes and both happen to be cleric.
Cleric looks like it's not as common on DPS classes.

But I love this thread. I hope you can post updated stats each month.

High Priest draws a lot too. 3 classes in the top 5 (or 6 if we consider dreadnought at the same % than high priest) have the cleric secondary archetype.

But, as many have already pointed out, not enough has been officially announced for us to conclude anything at this point. I'm sure we'll have many exiting surprises when more will be said about rogues, bards and summoners. And what each archetypes' augments are!

Still a fun exercise though.

That's cleric cleric though... Also makes sense.

I'm just saying those 2/3 are kinda skewing the "popularity" of cleric as a second.

We have cleric/cleric for those who want to double down on healing
Tank/cleric for those who want the extra self-sustain
And then summon/cleric because necromancers are edgy and cool and people want the class identity.

But amongst the DPS archetypes (mage rogue ranger fighter) cleric is ranked 3rd at best for a secondary choice....

Iskiab

I’m not surprised there are so many clerics. Most MMOs have smaller groups where more healers are required. With a group size of 8 and only 1 cleric required, there will likely be a surplus of clerics.

This is assuming bards aren’t healers, once people know more about bards the distribution will likely change.

I voted bard-rogue, but it depends on what the secondary brings to the main class.

Daddydiesel

I want to play a hunter-style class like wow or like a fury warrior from wow but all the videos look like all they are working on is casters

Morg7x7

Percimes wrote: »

Protector* (C/Ra) 0% :'(

I Expect this will be more popular as a secondary spec than a main. It was said somewhere that Ranger augments would increase the range of your skills so this could be a viable kiting build for PvP healing but pretty meh in a dungeon.

I voted for Highpriest but i'm interested in Protector as a back up class, I think the extra range will be particularly useful on caravan runs which is one of the things i'm looking forwards to the most.

Strevi

I am not sure I would like to be a squishy healer staying as far as possible from the enemies and shooting healing arrows... unless they are homing arrows. With all those players moving and jumping around each-other, hitting your half damaged team member with an arrow which also has travel time can be a lottery.
But I've seen some funny video clip from another mmo posted by somebody to highlight how homing arrows can act. So while increasing the range, the healing spells should still remain "magically realistic". (magic is not illogical)

Deba

What if the Cleric/Ranger instead of being called Protector, it would be called Druid

Azherae

Deba wrote: »

What if the Cleric/Ranger instead of being called Protector, it would be called Druid

That might create the wrong types of expectation of the class, but you're not alone in thinking this, quite a few people seem to want it to be like a Druid, even if they don't call it a Druid.

But it might be better to leave the name alone for now.

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