I've only really gotten into a few MMOs. In Neverwinter I was the Warlock class and I loved it. In Guild Wars 2 I favor the Necromancer. I always love being able to summon and control an army of minions. In ESO I was the Templar class. I really enjoyed using sun magic. If I ever play a FF MMO, I'll probably go with Dragoon, as I do enjoy that class in some of the mobile stuff I've played.
I didn't play that many alts in games, so in WoW, I played a Ranger to lvl 60 and quit. Decent class.
In Runes of Magic, I was a mage/priest combo, but preferred my warrior/priest guy
In Neverwinter, I played all classes, but liked the Tank character or whatever you call it the best.
In SWG, I was a weapon crafter, it was nice getting custom orders.
In EVE, back when I first played, I was a trader, I'd buy stuff in my 0.0 at a low price from the alliance, and then i'd ship it up to Jita, was clearing a billion isk that way per week. This was 2006-2008.
In Entropia, I dabbled in all aspects of hunting, mining, and crafting, but mainly my class was actually lose-my-Real-Life-money-cuz-I'm-an-idiot-class. It seems that 95% of people who play that game end up as that class.
In Lineage 2 I was a human gladiator, but it was like the weakest class ever in that game. Got boring, i actually hated the class.
I tend to play melee classes if i have to or be crafter classes.
I played Bard in vanguard but never played past level 12 or something.
In Mortal Online, I was a 2-h spear character, but had alts for other things
In Path of exile (I play HC only), I make hipster builds that suck. Triple-totem Ice nova templar, Righteous fire barbarian, cyclone max block duelist (level 93), dual wield coc-scion which i retired for sucking. Melee witch char using cyclone that died mid 40's. Favorite build so far, but probably would have sucked if it got to higher levels.
Conan Exiles: Just used 2-h spear or sword, but reality is the combat is god awful and retarded.
In the MMO of life, I'm a normal guy everywhere except at home, where I somehow magically become the douchebag class to my wife.
Cryomatrix
Catch me streaming at twitch.tv/cryomatrix You can see my sci-fi/WW2 book recommendations.
1) SWG - Ranger (loved the Master Ranger camp)
2) AOC - Herald of Xolti -- who doesn't love a sword swinging mage
3) Vanguard - Blood Mage
4) TOR -- Operative Agent -- Story line is fantastic and class is a lot of fun to play
5) LOTRO - Loremaster
I just don't have any motivation to log in to TOR. They have really shafted non-force users from a storytelling perspective in that game imo.
Yeah, I haven't taken my BH through the expansions as much as I'd love to primarily due to this. The story just doesn't fit her at all. I love KOTFE/KOTET on my Jugg and Sin, though.
Agreed @MikeB . I personally think the KOTFE/KOTET is tailored best to the Sith Warrior. Some say Jedi Knight. But I always felt it was more personally from the perspective of the Wraith. I also haven't taken my BH through the expansions. Seems out of place.
Masterminds were hands down the best pet class ever. I loved making macros for mine to make my soldiers stand at ease, or to have my robots break out into dance lol. You could also command each individual pet to go stand somewhere with the "Go to" command.
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2) AOC - Herald of Xolti -- who doesn't love a sword swinging mage
Those who love a hammer-swinging healer more, bear shaman for da win!
Kidding, HoX is a fun class too, possessed demon form with fiery AoE aura is pretty kick-ass.
edit: speaking of spellcasters wielding sword and hammer, the moment when Freddy B. realizes he's a HoX by heart and leveling a Bear was a mistake https://youtu.be/LuKGL_kmon8?t=55s (loved that scene in TSW)
As roles and therefore classes have become merged due to the easy mode direction gaming has gone in, each year this question becomes more about the history of the genre.
Class for me has been rather dependent on the game, or if there are race locks, dependant on what race can pick a class.
Everquest - Bard - Twisting songs was great fun. And it ruined my hands! Ok maybe that last part isn't a great thing.
Dark Age of Camelot - Animist - Turret spam!
Anarchy Online - Meta-Physicist - What other game can you have a Happy Fun Ball that you shouldn't taunt?
Asheron's Call 2 - Tactician - In the good old days of setting up camps and pulls, the Tactician with it's walls, turrets, and knockback was just a hoot to play.
Vanguard Saga of Heroes - Bard - Creating your own customized songs was a neat feature.
City of Villains - Mastermind - What can I say, I like pet classes. This was a great one.
Rift - anything - So many different souls and great combinations really let you create fun things to play.
I suffer from extreme alt-itis and really find most classes in every game to be pretty fun. These are probably the only ones that for me just really stood out compared to the rest of the fun classes.
The original iteration of Herald of Xotil from Age of Conan. Shooting around with a huge flaming sword and you could rip out hearts and eat them to regain health - what's not to love?
I've always loved the subtle 'bardy' classes that don't fit into the trinity but can turn the tide of battle by nerfing opponents, CC, buffing allies and generally doing a wide variety of sometimes unusual things, often unnoticed....yet can hold their own soloing. One of the best examples is the Lore Master from LOTRO, particularly at launch when there was a lot of whacky situational flavor skills and trees before they 'standardized' it in later years. I think it says a lot about the lack of imagination or innovation of most MMOs that all classes have to be canonically trinity with very defined 'minmax' specs with a focus on balance. I also think it's what makes all MMOs feel samey and perhaps one of the reasons they're flagging. But I don't expect companies to make a game specifically for my tastes obviously.
Remember soloing the spiders in the Trollshaws for your 45 quest? Man that was amazing at the time. Guardians could maybe pull it off even back then, but soloing on level elites or groups of them, that was LM territory. I had never loved a character so much. I still love my LM and even though he's not the same as his former glory, he's still pretty powerful.
I recall soloing a great deal of things that shouldn't have been soloable! There's something so perfectly Tolkien about that class that they just got bang on and such a pleasurable flow to the way it plays. And truly godlike when mastered, which took a lot of time to do (another thing that's vanishingly rare in the MMO world these days: hard-earning your class play chops).
My favorite experience in any MMO was when things went bad in an instance and everyone wiped except the LM, quickly jumping into CC beastmode, playing your skill bar like a piano on 4D chess and whittling down the elite mobs to the amazement of your dead group. Then ressing the healer by smoking a pipe and saving the day to lots of 'wtf just happened?'. Ahh memories...
OG Lore Master in LotRO. My god, if you played it right you felt like such a boss. Best class ever, proving once more that there is so much more possible then the typical trinity. It has been mutilated beyond repair though. Also, just about every class in WAR, it was always the biggest draw for me.
Edit. How could I forget Astrologian in FFXIV, love it!
/Cheers,
Lahnmir
'the only way he could nail it any better is if he used a cross.'
Kyleran on yours sincerely
'But there are many. You can play them entirely solo, and even offline. Also, you are wrong by default.'
Ikcin in response to yours sincerely debating whether or not single-player offline MMOs exist...
'This does not apply just to ED but SC or any other game. What they will get is Rebirth/X4, likely prettier but equally underwhelming and pointless.
It is incredibly difficult to design some meaningfull leg content that would fit a space ship game - simply because it is not a leg game.
It is just huge resource waste....'
Gdemami absolutely not being an armchair developer
Druid in WoW. Best implementation of druid for me has been done by Blizzard.
Bard in Lotro.
Bear Shaman in Age of Conan.
Mesmer in GW2.
Templar in ESO.
Also always trying a rogue like class in every game (being able to stealth and sneak seems appealing to me) either it is mmo or not.
WOW - Druid (why be anything else, can do every role!)
EQ2 - Warden
Vanguard - Ranger
SWG Elder Jedi (before DDAY when Jedi was fun)/also TKM/Doctor
Warhammer - Witch Elf
FFXIV - MCH
Age of Conan - HOX
with both I had huge fun in supporting the group, managing the "traffic" of larger group pulls. Never again saw Crowd Control implmented as well as in those two games, unless someone can recommend another game thats doing it well now.
I usually always pick agile melee classes which was mainly rogue back in the day. If I had to pick a favorite tough, I'd probably say the mesmer in guild wars 2.
Creating clones of yourself that can distract or fight with you is a pretty cool mechanic.
Any Vanguard class ............still the best assembled group of classes in any MMO to date
UO doesn't have classes per say but if we are going template then mine would be the necromage. If we are going before Age of shadows, then Treasure hunter. Loved my t-hunter.
I been playing UO for 20 years , it most certainly does have classes ,...
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DaoC - ranger (before the archery revamp)
AoC - Bear Shaman
WAR - White Lion
Warframe - Inaros
SWG - Shipwright
Vanguard - Bard
EQ2: Illu/Coercer. One of the few TRUE supportclasses out there
SWTOR: Operative as a whole package. The stroy was awesome, the aesthetics, the gameplay too.
WAR: Knight of the Blazing Sun purely for the aesthetics
EvE Online: (almost) all ships ;-)
I didn't play that many alts in games, so in WoW, I played a Ranger to lvl 60 and quit. Decent class.
In Runes of Magic, I was a mage/priest combo, but preferred my warrior/priest guy
In Neverwinter, I played all classes, but liked the Tank character or whatever you call it the best.
In SWG, I was a weapon crafter, it was nice getting custom orders.
In EVE, back when I first played, I was a trader, I'd buy stuff in my 0.0 at a low price from the alliance, and then i'd ship it up to Jita, was clearing a billion isk that way per week. This was 2006-2008.
In Entropia, I dabbled in all aspects of hunting, mining, and crafting, but mainly my class was actually lose-my-Real-Life-money-cuz-I'm-an-idiot-class. It seems that 95% of people who play that game end up as that class.
In Lineage 2 I was a human gladiator, but it was like the weakest class ever in that game. Got boring, i actually hated the class.
I tend to play melee classes if i have to or be crafter classes.
I played Bard in vanguard but never played past level 12 or something.
In Mortal Online, I was a 2-h spear character, but had alts for other things
In Path of exile (I play HC only), I make hipster builds that suck. Triple-totem Ice nova templar, Righteous fire barbarian, cyclone max block duelist (level 93), dual wield coc-scion which i retired for sucking. Melee witch char using cyclone that died mid 40's. Favorite build so far, but probably would have sucked if it got to higher levels.
Conan Exiles: Just used 2-h spear or sword, but reality is the combat is god awful and retarded.
In the MMO of life, I'm a normal guy everywhere except at home, where I somehow magically become the douchebag class to my wife.
Cryomatrix
You can see my sci-fi/WW2 book recommendations.
1) SWG - Ranger (loved the Master Ranger camp)
2) AOC - Herald of Xolti -- who doesn't love a sword swinging mage
3) Vanguard - Blood Mage
4) TOR -- Operative Agent -- Story line is fantastic and class is a lot of fun to play
5) LOTRO - Loremaster
Agreed @MikeB . I personally think the KOTFE/KOTET is tailored best to the Sith Warrior. Some say Jedi Knight. But I always felt it was more personally from the perspective of the Wraith. I also haven't taken my BH through the expansions. Seems out of place.
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Kidding, HoX is a fun class too, possessed demon form with fiery AoE aura is pretty kick-ass.
edit: speaking of spellcasters wielding sword and hammer, the moment when Freddy B. realizes he's a HoX by heart and leveling a Bear was a mistake
https://youtu.be/LuKGL_kmon8?t=55s
(loved that scene in TSW)
Class for me has been rather dependent on the game, or if there are race locks, dependant on what race can pick a class.
Dark Age of Camelot - Animist - Turret spam!
Anarchy Online - Meta-Physicist - What other game can you have a Happy Fun Ball that you shouldn't taunt?
Asheron's Call 2 - Tactician - In the good old days of setting up camps and pulls, the Tactician with it's walls, turrets, and knockback was just a hoot to play.
Vanguard Saga of Heroes - Bard - Creating your own customized songs was a neat feature.
City of Villains - Mastermind - What can I say, I like pet classes. This was a great one.
Rift - anything - So many different souls and great combinations really let you create fun things to play.
I suffer from extreme alt-itis and really find most classes in every game to be pretty fun. These are probably the only ones that for me just really stood out compared to the rest of the fun classes.
ESO Stamina Dk/Templar
GW2 Warrior/Paladin
SWTOR Knight/Bounty Hunter
BaS Destroyer
„Melee PVP Class“
My favorite experience in any MMO was when things went bad in an instance and everyone wiped except the LM, quickly jumping into CC beastmode, playing your skill bar like a piano on 4D chess and whittling down the elite mobs to the amazement of your dead group. Then ressing the healer by smoking a pipe and saving the day to lots of 'wtf just happened?'. Ahh memories...
Edit. How could I forget Astrologian in FFXIV, love it!
/Cheers,
Lahnmir
Kyleran on yours sincerely
'But there are many. You can play them entirely solo, and even offline. Also, you are wrong by default.'
Ikcin in response to yours sincerely debating whether or not single-player offline MMOs exist...
'This does not apply just to ED but SC or any other game. What they will get is Rebirth/X4, likely prettier but equally underwhelming and pointless.
It is incredibly difficult to design some meaningfull leg content that would fit a space ship game - simply because it is not a leg game.
It is just huge resource waste....'
Gdemami absolutely not being an armchair developer
Bard in Lotro.
Bear Shaman in Age of Conan.
Mesmer in GW2.
Templar in ESO.
Also always trying a rogue like class in every game (being able to stealth and sneak seems appealing to me) either it is mmo or not.
EQ2 - Warden
Vanguard - Ranger
SWG Elder Jedi (before DDAY when Jedi was fun)/also TKM/Doctor
Warhammer - Witch Elf
FFXIV - MCH
Age of Conan - HOX
DaoC : Skald
Classic WoW: Hunter
with both I had huge fun in supporting the group, managing the "traffic" of larger group pulls. Never again saw Crowd Control implmented as well as in those two games, unless someone can recommend another game thats doing it well now.
Creating clones of yourself that can distract or fight with you is a pretty cool mechanic.