Thanks for the replies everyone, it's been very helpful.So far I've played...Paladin to level 10: He was easily able to kill everything in his path and even 3 blues at once, it just took a while to kill them.Shadowknight to 12: This guy was a monster, good single target damage, good AE damage and healed himself enough to kill even 4 blues at once. Sadly I can't play on Freeport
all my friends are on QeynosBerserker to 11: He seemed to be the least capable at taking on multiple targets at once. I'm attributing this to the fact that I don't have any good AE spells yet and my gear/spells in general. From the looks of it, zerkers and guardians don't "get good" until higher level. Everything that was my level and lower though went down very easily if I didn't get an add although I admit it was frustrating not being able to heal or escape if I got into trouble (you can always just run away but by the time I realized I was outmatched it was already too late to run)Monk to level 8: All I have to say about monk is "WOW" from level 1 his single target DPS was crazy just from auto attacks, no AE attacks to speak of so far but that wasn't really a problem even when I got adds, I was able to just kill one and move onto the next. I found that I didn't even need to heal while fighting 2 or 3 mobs at once but it was necessary to heal if I was fighting something higher level than I.I didn't even try guardian and don't plan to since I want a class that can tank and DPS when needed. So my first impression from the classes I've tried (excluding SK) is that... Monk seems to be the best soloer especially since he gets Feign Death later on. But when factoring in Grouping later on I'd have to say Berserker looks the most appealing. While I admire the Hybrids Paladin/Monk's ability to solo and take on multiple targets without dying, I'm very attracted to Zerker's Tank-ability in a group setting and the lure of the Hybrids isn't enough to pull me away from them. So really it's just a choice between Guardian and Zerker and I've chosen Zerker. Thanks for everyone's input.I'll likely have to come back later and ask about Zerker specs because even though I've been reading about these so-called "AA's" alot, I still don't know what the heck they are or how to get them!
I assume they are the achievment abilites that show up on the skills screen that require level 20 to get. And when people say 4/4/8 or whatever... I've also heard people say that Zerkers best DPS spec is 1-hander something or other that adds %76 extra dps or swing speed or something. I'm totally confused about where it is you spec this and when. Naturally I'll just level up the class and hope I don't misspec and have to pay extra money to switch back
Oh and thanks for the ability link
Taeolen, that'll help out alot.
Message Edited by JesseDLewis on 10-27-2006 03:17 PM