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.
Sorcerers et al have always spoken to me, so I beeline for those if no one else is playing them in the group. If magic were real I would be a Shantotto or a Matoya, no question. Leave me alone with my frogs and brooms, all of you are losers. In FFXIV specifically I play the dwarf/gnome race, and small wizards are only a little bit cliche, so Iike being a beefy tank. I am small and fat IRL and if I could swing an axe like that with the rage of a thousand beasts you fuckin bet I would
If magic were real I would be a Shantotto or a Matoya, no question.
Based. I’d probably be out here doing some Quickthinx shit.
healer/support or mage
I play whatever I’m in the mood for, don’t really gravitate towards a specific play style. Although I do tend to like DOT/poison builds.
In MMOs I tend to have at least one high level tank or healer. I like being able to hold the group together. In TTRPGs I always pick my class last so I can fill in whatever the group needs.
I play some kind of wizard usually. The mage/rogue might be the class fantasy i aspire to most, but in most games its just less interesting than full wizard. Youd think that in a magical society more martials would learn at least a bit of magic on the side, but even ones that have the means just don’t
I tend to try and ‘explain that’ in my settings as ‘concepts of pride and honor are both a lot more prevalent and a lot more subjective. “Honor” to one warrior might mean steel and spells, the next might think the one that came before him is a mewling milksop for the one or two cantrips they’ll throw in a fight’; et cetera.
I figure the latterd get offed by the former given enough time
Spellswords and gunslingers; the latter because I love bringing Morricone energy to a table.
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.
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.
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
Yep, whatever let’s me channel my inner-Garen and scream DEMACIA as I call down holy retribution
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
Grim dawn was so for letting you choose your own bizarre mashup.
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
Big strong fat guys, I think I kind of just have a type ngl
When I was a kid, mages - or whatever hacker type equivalent if it was a scifi or near future ttepg
As an adult, gimme a big club to bonk enemies with.
I love me some magic. If I’m not doing cool Dragon Ball like energy blasts I’m not interested.
But rn I’m playing oblivion where I find it kind of hard to brute force with mage, so I just use some supplementary spells as a nightblade.
Why I picked up Kineticists for when my GM wants to run a pathfinder table (she actually outright banned me from “any multi-classing swashbuckler into an arcane caster” (and for the record, Sorcebuckler goes HARD), gunslingers, and eldritch knights for like three years because ‘that’s all you play’); Kineticist is straight up Saiyans meet Benders: the Class and no other setting I’ve played has something like it
NOTE, so y’all don’t think I’m at a table with a tyrant: she had a really good point. I’ve been running games w/ her since I was still in school; and in a solid half of that time, I only reliably leaned back on two or three gameplay mechanics at any given time to a point that it was getting in the way of the character work and social scenes. Branching out into other playstyles and having to bend my mind around the differences in buildcraft and how that can make radically different characters for someone who typically builds from mechanics first, it actually did my character writing wonders.
I usually enjoy tanks, but I am also hopelessly drawn to mechanically unusual stuff
The most fun I’ve had in a tabletop game was when I played an investigator in Pathfinder
I knocked out a bunch of dudes with my sap, broke down the big bad with a detailed psychological analysis and proved a bunch of goblins didn’t burn down a warehouse by noticing the real culprit rode a horse (Pathfinder goblins are terrified of horses)
…I love Pathfinder and I didn’t know Investigators could do that
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