I have come to enjoy all of the various roles over the years but tanking will always be my primary choice for PVE content. For PVP, I prefer tanking if there is a "Capture the Flag" mode, but for arena settings or mass-scale PVP, the influence of a healer can be monumental and I love being a difference maker. I also love playing rogues in PVP.
Kilsin said:What is your preferred area of expertise, Tank, Healer, DPS or Crowd Control and why? #PRF #MMORPG #MMO #communitymatters
I prefer DPS.... Specifically the Rogue.... If an MMO doesn''t have a Rogue or equivalent class, I won't play it.
You know, I can say I've done it all, just started my first bard on a TLP EQ server, which is turning out to be fun, I've tanked, I've healed, I've DPS'd, and I have played CC. My preferred role is healing and suppoty tho, which is why I will likely play a shaman when this game comes out, I get the best of both worlds, I can do a little bit of dmg too, plus support and backup heal/heal maybe? if needed. Will be interesting to see how it turns out.
But, in every MMO I've played healers are probably my strongsuit, it keeps you on the edge and your job is never done. I have lots of faith in VR for doing things right. So likely this is why Shaman will be my go to.
1st Healer :- Just enjoy being a good healer finding the tricks to optimise MP, help other people on things, good partying opportunities, good raiding opportunities
2nd Support (CC, Mana Battery) : Enjoy being able to make a difference to the party, be that saving it from a nasty wipe or making sure EXP flows smoothly, good party opportunities.
3rd Mage caster - Sometimes you jusy want to turn your brain off, set the world on fire and watch the rest of the fight from the ground knowing you upheld the fine tradition of over nuking mages.
Crowd control was always my favorite, especially when leading raids. It is a way to control not only the mobs, but the raiders. Focused fire, selective targeting, and pacing are all side benefits of crowd control. Having said this, I posted a concern in the Enchanter forums regarding non-instanced raids. If other raid groups can break CC while you are trying to finesse these variables, then the Enchanter becomes obsolete, at least in raids.
Over the years I've done them all - I am an altoholic and often have had all the roles.
In more recent years most often ranged dps - largely because more and more voicechat is used and my hearing is not very good any more.
Yes a dps can wipe a raid because of mishearing instructions but that is *far* less likely than a tank or healer or cc.
I really like heals, but, going by the pole numbers I saw on twitter, CC and Tank numbers are really low. I may go with Enchanter and Tank. Switch things up on this game.
I will eventually have one of every single class. I will have alts, not progeny's. I won't 'retire-throw away-sacrifice' a character for "bonuses on a new toon"
If each account doesn't have enough character slots to have one of each, you need to sell character slots in the Pantheon Store.
EQ - Enchanter (Crowd Control, situational pull-breaker, weak dps unless charming, great buffs)
WoW - Hunter (High DPS, good CC, situational off-tank if specced/equipped correctly or with the right pet)
Aion - Sorc (High DPS, great CC, limited in other utility)
So my tendancies are CC as a primary playstyle, with damage abilities being nice but not required.
Nanoushka said: Healer. I love the sense of peace and serenity I feel when I’m healing. Even if it’s mayhem. Especially when it’s mayhem! :D
How nicely is that said .
I currently balance entre 3 in that order :
1) Dwarf Paladin . Simply because Dwarf and because Paladin . It is self explaining .
2) Enchanter . I like support and I mostly played enchanter on EQ . If he is second on my list it is because I am annoyed that the races which can be enchanter are either completely unappealing to me (Gnome, Dark Myr and Human) or inconsistent with a mind controlling class (Dwarf) . So it leaves only an elf what is not much choice .
3) Healer . For exactly the reasons Nanoushka expressed much better than I could .
#1 Crowd Control because there's never a dull moment pulling in a group. I love mentally tracking the timers of all my mezzes and stuns, putting them on the right mobs to avoid pulling more than I intend to and "feeding" mobs to the group to kill.
#2 Caster DPS because nothing makes me cackle like blowing up some poor mob at a distance.
Having watched the videos for PRF so far I'm sorely disappointed with what I see for enchanter gameplay. Crowd control spells appear very limited in scope AND duration which means you spend most of your time trying to lock down the same mob over and over. If they don't behave a lot more like they did in EQ I'll end up going with #2 which would make me sad.
Lastly, #3 Tank/melee dps because #1 doesn't exist any more and #2 is totally impractical without a tank, not to mention getting surprised by a mob from around a corner... Clothies get flattend quickly. I don't particularly enjoy melee but it seems all the games push you in that direction lately.
wildenightwolf said:Most often, my main is a healer with a secondary as a tank (of shadowknight-style). Then I have a million alts of all different flavors so I can understand the classes/races better.
Previous mains: EQ - SK Iksar, SWG - Dancer/Teras Kasi/Sniper Human, EQ2 - Warden Dark Elf/Shadowknight Dark Elf, Rift - Cleric/Justicar/Sentinel Kelari, SWTOR - Sith Inquisitor/Sorcerer (healing branch) Pure Blood.
Also, I enjoy pure healers over the DPS healers if given an option.
Totally there with ya man,
So important to know how each roll bangs.
Love alts to explore tactics others may miss with their classes as well.
I have found a love for the Wizard class but also equally enjoy the Cleric.
One thing getting into alpha hopefully will resolve my choice.
For now, I will say cleric.
-Vig
Kilsin said:What is your preferred area of expertise, Tank, Healer, DPS or Crowd Control and why? #PRF #MMORPG #MMO #communitymatters
I generally go tank but I also enjoy being a healer. Those are my two main go-tos. But being a bit of an altaholic, I will probably try as many different classes and roles as I have character slots.
My wife and I tend to do a Tank/healer combo to start new games, I tank for her and she keeps me alive.
however we have been talking and we might try something different to start with, in this game. I think we will get to play around with our combo's a bit in Alpha to see what we wanna do.
I also enjoy blowing things up on a wizzie, or healing, shammy looks interesting.
Wife said she's looking forward to playing an enchanter again.
I think the new Summoner class might be a ton of fun depending on how it's done, and I say this as a person who almost always avoids pet class's, So High hopes that the Summoner is more like actively summoning astral entities that attack, CC or heal depending on what you summon, and then disappear so you can then summon the next cool thing to give desired effects, I'm picturing stuff you summoned in FF7 back in the day.
Instead of just the tired old trope of summoning the correct type of pet before a battle and then blasting stuff as a weak version of a wizzie.
So I can see the Summoner possibly being a helper for all roles, and that would be pretty neat and fun to play.
Tal