What will be your primary class on Green?

[Palemoon]

I wonder if night blindness will influence race and class choice now that its out? I predict a whole lot more monks are going to wait for Iksar.

edit: also what a shame they never transferred/fixed the xp bonus from halfing to humans. Humans sorely needed it, not the race (Halfling) was solid stats and tons of racial abilities.

[Fammaden]

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

I wonder if night blindness will influence race and class choice now that its out? I predict a whole lot more monks are going to wait for Iksar.

edit: also what a shame they never transferred/fixed the xp bonus from halfing to humans. Humans sorely needed it, not the race (Halfling) was solid stats and tons of racial abilities.

Well it was never "fixed" during era right? If so no reason to expect that it would be changed, there's no good reason for hybrid xp penalty either but here we are.

[Deathrydar]

Since this morning, 14 more people have voted and 6 of them chose Enchanter, putting it far in the lead ahead of Druid.

[Seungkyu]

I've decided to change my mind to playing a rogue from warrior.
+1 Rogue / -1 Warrior

[Deathrydar]

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

I've decided to change my mind to playing a rogue from warrior.
+1 Rogue / -1 Warrior

Aww no. We ain't gonna start this crap where I have to keep a count off to the side of a number of people that changed their minds. Make a new thread! [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.][You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.][You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

[Nagoya]

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

As of 2019-10-05;

The Top Tier: Enchanter Druid
The Tier 2: Cleric, Shaman, Bard
The Middle Boyz: Warrior, Wizard, Necromancer, Magician, Ranger
The No Thanks Boyz: Paladin, Rogue, Monk, Shadow Knight

415 votes is starting to be quite a significant sample, even though poll answers maybe won't correlate to what the person will actually start.

No surprise on the top tier in my opinion. I am surprised Cleric and Bards are so high, but many people had selected bards before the AoE nerf I believe. My only other surprises so far is how high the warrior is, and how low the monk is. But we will see.

I think I have finally set up my mind on a Wizard for my main on Green.
Still hesitating between High Elf, Gnome and Human for the Race.
This is so difficult. We are so pathetic ♡

Here is the situation as of 2019-10-15, 10 days before launch.
Now at 637 votes.

The Top Tier: Enchanter Druid
The Tier 2: Shaman, Cleric, Bard
The Middle Boyz: Magician, Wizard, Necromancer, , Ranger, Warrior, Paladin
The No Thanks Boyz: Rogue, Monk, Shadow Knight

which means almost no change. Only Paladin to raise to Middle Boyz status.
Shaman & Magician going up. Bards slowing down, hinting at maybe the AoE change was indeed a break to its popularity.

All in all, still pretty standard to what we should expect.
Tons of Enchanters and Druids trying to "solo" their way to the top.
Other WIS casters (Sham/Cler) playing the slow naked game, and Bard fucking around naked as well.

Everyone else is basically a warrior and will hurt through classic 24/7 for the glory of everyone else.
Special mention to the remaining three INT casters, Medium-Easy on the scale.

But Rangers, Paladins, Shadow Knights, Rogues, Warriors and Monks will be very rare and very brave. It will be a tough world for them.

[ldgo86]

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

Aww no. We ain't gonna start this crap where I have to keep a count off to the side of a number of people that changed their minds. Make a new thread! [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.][You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.][You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

With all the changes and possibly changes since this thread started, not a bad idea to start another one.

I’m sure a lot of people have changed their mind. I definitely have!

[Seungkyu]

I think a good time for a new poll is 1 week before launch, after everyone's gotten their new names from blue.

[Tecmos Deception]

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

Here is the situation as of 2019-10-15, 10 days before launch.
Now at 637 votes.

The Top Tier: Enchanter Druid
The Tier 2: Shaman, Cleric, Bard
The Middle Boyz: Magician, Wizard, Necromancer, , Ranger, Warrior, Paladin
The No Thanks Boyz: Rogue, Monk, Shadow Knight

which means almost no change. Only Paladin to raise to Middle Boyz status.
Shaman & Magician going up. Bards slowing down, hinting at maybe the AoE change was indeed a break to its popularity.

All in all, still pretty standard to what we should expect.
Tons of Enchanters and Druids trying to "solo" their way to the top.
Other WIS casters (Sham/Cler) playing the slow naked game, and Bard fucking around naked as well.

Everyone else is basically a warrior and will hurt through classic 24/7 for the glory of everyone else.
Special mention to the remaining three INT casters, Medium-Easy on the scale.

But Rangers, Paladins, Shadow Knights, Rogues, Warriors and Monks will be very rare and very brave. It will be a tough world for them.

I'm kinda surprised by how few necros there are. I guess too many people think iksar makes or breaks the class. The number of necros on blue has always been like double what this poll is reflecting.

I'm guessing SK is low because the "good" races to be a SK have extra exp penalties on top of the class penalty besides and folks have gotten used to it not being that bad on blue?

Like 50+% of the votes are for support-ish classes. I know of course that chanters can do a lot of damage and that druids and shamans aren't just heal and buff bots, etc, but with low melee damage in vanilla (especially early on) and so many folks playing the lower-damage casters, it'll be interesting to see if the grind is in big (and often not especially efficient) groups of 5-6 ends up being more painful than people are expecting.


edit - I don't think you can call int casters "Medium-Easy" in classic. They're just downright "easy" in terms of power vs. the content. Gear is a bonus, pets are relatively strong compared to mobs, basically nothing summons or is extra resistant or is immune to fear/root/snare/mez/stun, etc.

[Evia]

Originally Posted by ldgo86 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

With all the changes and possibly changes since this thread started, not a bad idea to start another one.

I’m sure a lot of people have changed their mind. I definitely have!