Straightforward Class Role
 

Just looking for some opinions on what would be considered a pretty straightforward, easy class to play?

I play a druid as my main and my role is constantly changing which is cool, except I'm still getting used to that and have taken some recent heat in groups for not doing what I should be doing situationally speaking. It's probably because I'm getting out of newbie level range now. I've been reading druid guides to be better but sometimes I just want to log on and mindlessly smash stuff (or something similarly straightforward) and not think too much about it.

Classes that come to mind are mage, wizard, warrior, rogue, monk, ranger but I'm too inexperienced at this point to have an educated opinion on that.

Any help is appreciated. :cool:

Takes time to learn a class bud - I wouldn't get put off. And if people are being jerks about it then maybe they aren't your friends after all.

The most straight forward class that requires the least amount of game knowledge is Wizard.

My first toon ever in EQ was a Wood Elf Druid. I thought it would be the perfect mix of melee and spells. And then around level 10 I started getting by butt kicked when I melee'd heavily and had to switch tactics. By level 20, I was pretty much kiting and rooting & nuking and having a weapon in my hand was just for show. By level 30, my hands had totems or what you will in them and I kept a scimitar or a club in a backpack for giggles.

I mostly solo'd my druid, so whenever I found myself in a group with others, I buffed the party and then was either a healer/patch-healer or a DPS nuker, depending on the other classes present, and always "on call" for evacs.

Learn your druid through soloing, duoing, and grouping and you'll figure out how to rotate your duties.

Every account has 8 character slots per server, might as well use them imho :D

Fair enough and thanks for the kind encouragement. This has only happened in the odd pick up group anyway. Just thought it might be fun to turn my brain off a bit and just smash stuff.

Oh for sure. I'm not giving up on the druid by any means. I'll take your advice and solo a bit and see how that goes. I've been almost exclusively grouping so far. The post was meant more for an alt.

Haha indeed! Perhaps not all 8 for me, but an alt or two sounds about right haha. :D

FTFY... playing a wizard well managing mana and aggro, assisting in CC, determining what spells to use etc. is not trivial. I'd say a melee class like Rogue would be less demanding ie stand behind the mob and hit the backstab button when it comes up, but even then to play it well you need to evade, manage aggro etc etc etc.

Regards,
Mg

Everyone is different obviously, but after playing a cleric for most of my EQ life, when I switched to a rogue it was AMAZING, there was much LESS to pay attention to, I basically had to worry about myself, not 53 other people, which was pure bliss. A rogue is pretty straight forward, there's not any CC to do, just watch yourself (& your tank obviously, but that comes with aggro management) & you're pretty golden.

I was actually kinda thinking rogue. They seem very straightforward in that sense. I get managing aggro is a big part of playing one, but that is a far cry from keeping a bunch of people healed for sure. Thanks!