Your Class and Aspirations

To get an idea of how many of each class we may be seeing in Live; post up what classes you're interested in playing.

I'd also like to see some feedback as to each persons aspirations. Ie; are you playing to PvP? or PvE? Or PvPvE? :P

Are you a casual gamer; or do you go hardcore? Or like me, somewhere in the middle etc.

For me, at the moment, I'm going a Sorcerer.
I'm in it for the PvPvE (best of both worlds).

game doesnt really suit PvE focused players from the reviews so far - I'm going Templar and will play whatever aspect of the game is going when i login ;P

Templar for me.

Cleric for me.

Tank. Whatever the class is that I chop shit.

RAWR.

If I'm PVE I really only enjoy group stuff with some effort to role play (no "LOLZ YOU T3H WINN4R!!! type shit). Otherwise PVP.

<-- Cleric

Ranger or Chanter

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Tank. Whatever the class is that I chop shit.

RAWR.

If I'm PVE I really only enjoy group stuff with some effort to role play (no "LOLZ YOU T3H WINN4R!!! type shit). Otherwise PVP.

If the tank class is anything like those in L2 (I hear it is) it will be kinda useless in pvp.

In L2 you would simply ignore the tank classes, kill all the healing/damage classes then kill the tank class :P

Even though the game is RVR you can play it for the pve. It has story quests with cinematic's and I think you can go to max level in pve based zones.Also has extensive crafting and economy system. But pvp ftw :)

gladiator is more dps based but can tank the majority of encounters (excluding raids)

Woot Spiritmaster!

Patch 1.5 is adding a shitload of high-end instances.
This games shaping up to offer a lot for PvE minded people :)

PvE? Sweet, i must admit i wasnt looking forward to pvp as much as pve, partly because i think im scarred for life after playing fail alliance pvp for so long. But now we are asmodians we shouldnt have that problem. Evil = all the good pvpers, imo.

i hate PvP - going up against weirdos like milenko that play the game non-stop and have uber lootz because of it is not my idea of fun :)

that said i'll be happy to tag along and gank the occasional ****ing fairy ;P

Don't worry mate - the craftable gear is said to be as good as raid loot, although costly to craft/buy. :)

Also, I'm not much of a pvper - i actually sucked hard at it in WoW and ran away from fights.

My proudest moment though, was taking down an enhance shaman as a rogue, while i had 10% hp and he had full. That was sadly my crowning moment :p

Was he afk? XD (soz couldnt help myself..)

mine was prot warrior 2 shotting a warlock :P MMM spell reflect

mine was launching a stalker's corpse into space in city of heroes - <3 super strength + vanguard knockback boost + decent physics engine =)

mine was 3 shotting someone trying to gank me. damn that was so awesome.

The MOST fun however, was having Heretic heal me (rogue) while I blitzed through people. So then they would run over to him, so he would bubble, then they'd run back to me, then back to him, then they all died.

I reckon I will be a Ranger. I liked ranged weapons and also still has OK hand to hand.
I am also patient so crafting arrows and making money for trap ingredients shouldn't be an issue.
btw, I have limited knowledge of this so I may be wrong with some of my ideas :)

my best fun was playing eots with jay and me both on priests and mind controlling horde and jumping them off the sides.

So funny.

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my best fun was playing eots with jay and me both on priests and mind controlling horde and jumping them off the sides.

So funny.

hahah yeh did this on my undead priest. Was in shit gear so got pwned pretty quick after the first few people

im going to be a cleric :)

So another MMO.. killing me. Will see how things are closer to release ;)
Will probably spec something pure DPS, most likely a ranger/sorcerer type.
Casual, but then you know me :\

CLERIC

but i wanna make sure lenko is my bitch :P

Haha I will be - Assassins and Clerics get along very well (good pvp combo too).

My wife saw my son playing and had a go. Now we all have a copy of the game. The family that plays together, gets addicted and thrown into debt together :S
My wife is going to be a Ranger also and Urit is going to be a cleric.

I might play Spiritmaster.

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My wife saw my son playing and had a go. Now we all have a copy of the game. The family that plays together, gets addicted and thrown into debt together :S
My wife is going to be a Ranger also and Urit is going to be a cleric.

mmo addiction is one of the best thing you can do to save money. its an addiction that costs "5 a month and thats all you spend money on :D

yeah cos you stop eating and driving to work

awesome, gets rid of work stress also!

yeah because nothing in the real world actually exists or matters anymore.

you do slowly die. but thats ok. its awesome fun.

Having trouble deciding between a Sorc and an Assassin, big time :/

Originally was going to play a Sorc. Then decided on an Assassin. But now im leaning back toward the Sorc purely for their huge pewpew capability. Grrrr.

Bring on open beta :(

both classes have pewpew what are you talkin about willus?

Sorcs have pewpew and CC though.
And awesome grindability. I just invented a word. Awesome.

Sorry, I'm new to this. What's CC?

crowd control.

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ur DK AoE CC is Fail.

but you still wanna date my avatar

but my bread isnt buttered that side

or so the germans would have us believe...

Just want to confirm Lars.
Are you in or out for retail champ?

i'm in, already bought it. will play the buggery out of it til the 37 days free ends or my wife shoots me - whichever comes first ;) if i get over my QQ about the travel powers and flight feather clipping i'll sub. hard sell though considering how much i'm enjoying champions, but will know better on release :)

yipee :D having a templar around will be massively mega super awesome bbq sauce.

shame the game has no ****ing side-kicking (temporary increase in your level to that of one of your team mates) capacity though :/ is Cryptic seriously the only company that can see the benefit of that feature? inclusion of it would go a long way to wiping my hatred of the travel power shite.

I can see the use in that. Was trying to do the elite quests in altgard, it was acceptable but i took to much dmg as the tank, lvl up would have given hp and def bonuses, so yes i can see that being useful. But how would you limit it? 30min duration? 1min? 2hr cooldown? I think the problem with it would be that no-one would be happy with its limit.

what they do in city of heroes is one player can sidekick a lower level player up to the higher level -1. then play on from there. the sidekick fails if you get too far from your mentor or they (or you) leave the team or either of you voluntarily breaks the sidekick.

Champions allows it across the entire party (one player sets themselves as the mentor and everyone else sidekicks up or down to their level). but i dont know what limitations there are on that one as i havent been on a team with a wide level difference yet.

the big point of it is that you can *always* team with your friends (except in zones that require a certain level).

Well in these heavy pvp games, one level above level 25 makes a massive difference in abilities, damage, mitigation etc. and having that feature would make the game almost too easy. even if they made it pve only (In instances for example) they would have to make the dungeon harder, which would mean groups of even a few levels lower wouldn't be able to do it. and most of the highest level stuff and end game will be level 50. which is static so it wouldn't matter anyway.

But in this game, dinging a level really makes a different apparently (from what i've been told anyway) so it feels more of an achievement.

well the instant scaling of abilities every time you level is sure nice. its easily the difference between a 50/50 fight mob and beating it every time.

wow is going down that path next expansion.

Yeah, it is a good idea. but too little too late for wow imo. I mean all they are doing is recylcing vanilla wow and making you pay for it.

and actually finishing the raids and instance and zones they should have years ago.

I'm quite sure I'll go Chanter, so far then it looks like Heretic and myself will be taking that up. SM is apparently the least popular class over in asia/korea due to pets not being able to fly and dots not stacking between number of SM players in group.

Clerics and templars look popular between our current player list which is good, I think eiely's going to go gladiator.

If need be I might go sorc, simply because it looks like they can cut massive damage into group pvp.

Thoughts and paint images.

Interesting poll to keep an eye on.

http://www.aionsource.com/forum/aion-discussion/50872-infamous-class-poll-thread.html

Two diff Polls currently showing

Post last OB.
Templar 32 11.99%
Gladiator 38 14.23%
Ranger 35 13.11%
Sin 33 12.36%
Sorcerer 35 13.11%
SM 17 6.37%
Cleric 54 20.22%
Chanter 23 8.61%

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Earlier poll
Chanter 145 9.26%
Cleric 219 13.98%
Sorcerer 208 13.28%
Spiritmaster 129 8.24%
Assassin 204 13.03%
Ranger 306 19.54%
Templar 176 11.24%
Gladiator 179 11.43%

i wouldn't listen to the polls. all classes will be pretty closely represented i think. very balanced game. all classes are fun.

I'm goin Gladiator, to serve as an Off-tank when needed, aswell as to pro-dps and smash Dragon for ever on end :p

The polls don't talk to me, I can't hear them :(

Are you German?

protection from what?

Ze germans?