Through my years of mmo and rpg gaming I’ve tended to swing between the two extremes of the warrior/wizard dynamic.
Some days I just want to be a dumb tank in full armor soaking up hits and acting as a wall for squishier classes. But then there’s days where I love being a glass cannon that can kill something in 1-2 nukes but a strong breeze can kill me.
The least fun I’ve head with a class was as a healer druid in Everquest. Something so stressful about the party relying on you for heals and if you wipe it’s generally your fault. idk how people dedicate themselves to a class like that.
I always go for gishy spellsword types
It totally depends on the Genre. In diablo style games I go for the kitey shooty usually bow/crossbow class. In tab targeting games its always a heal over time class. In more TTRPG inspired games I love rogues. In party based games I love whatever class lets me stack the most buffs. Thats just the crunch though.
Overall I love druidic vibes. The class fantasy of nature fighting back is too juicy for me. There is something so wholesome about murdering corrupt priests/kings with pagan power. My go to class in just about every game is a wood elf druid.
The druid class hall in WoW Legion is a perfect representation for why I love them so much. Its just this perfect lil grove and someone wants to corrupt it. Stopping them is the simplest strongest motivation for me.
You playing anything cool right now pal? i always worry about you man, you and i lived pretty similarly for awhile (fathers picking fights with us and demeaning us)
Big strong fat guys, I think I kind of just have a type ngl
The proletariat
I generally lean towards classes with more mechanical complexity, so generally casters/status effect types. The gameplay loop needs to sate my ADHD, so if all I’m doing is smacking something with a sword by left clicking I’m quickly going to get bored and drop it.
teamfighter disabler tank
the action don’t stop
or alternatively whatever the worst jankiest loadout is, especially if it’s gimmicky and pisses people off
I tend to be anything that has Ice/Frost Magic. If not that, than any healer.
Paladin because fuck you, you fucking dark fantasy edgelords.
Ngl I figured paladins would be the least popular in this thread, I see them as cops
You bought the edgelord cliche pushed up by the dark and grey fantasy flood https://dnd-5e-homebrew.tumblr.com/post/136812581995/oath-of-the-common-man-paladin-by
My paladin shield is
Roleplaying a hyper religious zealot makes a little more sense at least in universes where gods frequently interact with mortals and grant them magic powers. Maybe you can get your powers from the God of Socialism.
If you stray from the path, you get the Revisionist trait and your God calls you a 
until you finish your redemption quest in front of the rest of your order.
Or something. I’m just shitposting. Paladins are fun to play cuz they’re like less boring fighters that also cast spells.
In a world where magic and gods do provably exist, they would have to have a material reason behind them and as such won’t be excempt from dialectical materialism. It’s not the belief that supernatural don’t exist, it’s that supernatural by definition can’t exist.
Also https://dnd-5e-homebrew.tumblr.com/post/136812581995/oath-of-the-common-man-paladin-by
male human paladin
It’s amazing how much a knight in shining armor can stand out among a bunch of dark cliches.
It’s not even that i do hate all dark fantasy, i like it else i would’t read Glen Cook or the 40k slop (i hate the wh fantasy books for some reason though). It’s i’ve been tired by total takeover of the genre in last 40 years with no signs of any change. Also lack of imagination and “rozmach” (no idea of the word in english, something between momentum and epicness and scale, for example Black Company series have it perfectly balanced) in most books.
I feel the same way; I do enjoy some dark stories sometimes but for fuck’s sake the “this isn’t cookie cutter sunshine and rainbows” pitch is decades stale now. No one told the edgelords that the new “cookie cutter” is grimdark shit.
Yep, whatever let’s me channel my inner-Garen and scream DEMACIA as I call down holy retribution
PvP: healer. Ideally a mix of healing and crowd control abilities. This what I played in Shadowbane and that awful game imprinted itself on my psyche forevermore.
PvE: ranged attacker of some kind like a ranger.
glass cannon, magic user if possible. i want to see how far i can go without dying :::3
Meme classes/builds. I don’t know what’s wrong with me. Maybe I’ve just shifted my younger “don’t tell me what to do” perspective into spite for video game developers and their limitations.
I always want to do the most unorthodox thing because I usually don’t vibe well with the pre-defined classes in a lot of games. I’ve quit MMOs because I just don’t like ANY of their classes as a whole package and wish they were more modular. That’s why I loved Ragnarok Online so much and have played those WoW private servers that let you pick abilities from every class.
I’ll dual wield shields in Souls games, make a battle priest in games that try to force them into being healers (Ragnarok). I used heavy armor, a pistol, and a shield in Grim Dawn to essentially be the Terminator. I loved Puppetmaster, one of the least played classes, in FFXI. Blue Mage in FFXIV. Whatever the class was in Final Fantasy Tactics Advance that let you flip a coin to 50/50 kill yourself or an enemy. Tonfas (the worst weapon in the game) in Nioh.
As long as the least played class isn’t that because it’s so unnecessarily complicated (Feral Druid many different times in WoW, etc) I naturally gravitate toward that a lot of the time. But it’s really based on vibes. If I get a cool combination of race and starting armor, I might just go with a concept, like an anti-mage or something.
Edit: I know I was supposed to hit you up to play Ragnarok sometime soon from a previous thread, but I started a Chinese class and got super busy
Edit: I know I was supposed to hit you up to play Ragnarok sometime soon from a previous thread, but I started a Chinese class and got super busy
No worries comrade! I started up another mmo today anyway so maybe later on down the line we can do some RO
Paladin with a big two handed reach weapon and tries their best but has trouble rigidly following their code.
I’ve enjoyed playing high damage character of several varieties (I used to play a good amount of black mage, red mage and monk in FFXIV) but I have more fun playing tanks (I also find it more stressful unfortunately).
In single player games I tend toward melee classes, I find that if I’m playing a ranged class with enemies chasing me down I feel stressed.
In a current D&D game I’m playing a support focused cleric/sorcerer. I get very obsessive about stuff and have trouble not optimizing. I thought it would be very annoying if someone played a warrior with mighty thews and my warrior with mighty thews was just twice as good as killing guys with a sword than theirs, but nobody is mad at the mage who just makes them better at everything they were already going to do, plus I tend to play my character pretty cheerleadery anyways.
Fast melee. Don’t have to learn any magic system bullshit, and the game is typically designed around using melee weapons. Lots of games have slow hard-hitting weapons that are just too slow to be viable, but if it’s possible I do enjoy me some caveman ungabunga hit with big stick from time to time.
Wizard, wizard, and wizard. Sometimes I’ll be a warrior, then I’ll immediately give up and and be a wizard.
