What is the best class?

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Originally Posted by Samoht [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Lol @ the guy who ranked rangers above anything else. Hands down worse class. Period.

If you look at the sum total of what a class brings to the table across all styles of play (solo, group, raid) from level 1-60, I wouldn't place rangers at the bottom. Decent dps, can tank in a pinch, can solo (something warriors and rogues cannot do effectively), can pull outdoor zones with an unresistable harmony. Are they a power class? Absolutely not. Are they the worst? No. They don't fit into an ideal 'power group', but neither do a half-dozen other classes. They've got a pretty versatile toolkit to work with.

-Warriors? Outside the raid environment they are easily replacable. A well played knight makes xp group content a snooze by comparison. If very well geared for holding aggro they tank extremely well, but bring zero utility to the table.

-Druids? Before 60 (and even then) in most groups are pretty inefficient to add to any well balanced group. In a less than ideal group they might round things out nicely ... but not really more nicely than any other specific class. Yes, group regen is nice. Yes, thorns are cool. But when push comes to shove they're inefficient healers compared to clerics/shamans and poor overall dps compared to pretty much every other class in the game.


-Wizards? Don't make me laugh. If you're not burning down a raid mob or afking 15 minutes between quad kites they add nothing. An autoattacking, otherwise afk bard will sustain more damage over time.

All that said, the nice thing about EQ is you can easily have fun playing any class, and can make things work with very atypical group compositions. Some of the most fun I've had in EQ and here on p99 were in those oddball groups of weird composition.

But back to rangers: they're a blast to play, and quite versatile. Therefore I wouldn't put them at the bottom of any 'best class' list. The bottom of a 'power class' list? Nope. At the high end that spot belongs solidly to wizards (followed closely by druids).