Class selection and personality types

[enjchanter]

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

Iksar monks with AoNs; your existence is just in the way of this person.

[DinoTriz2]

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

Friendliest race/class combo is without question dwarf rogue

I play a dwarf rogue

[Bristlebaner]

I find that many females gravitate toward classes that can heal, IE nurture. Hard to tell though since gender in game rarely correlates with gender IRL.

[Cen]

I feel like dwarf players are the friendliest for sure.

Ive never heard of a female in P99 but in MMOs with a high female to male population like FFXIV, they are healers and crafters a lot [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

[jolanar]

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

Meyers Briggs is great for bullshitting about EQ race <=> personality connections, but please don't take it any more seriously than that. From that same wiki page:



And that's the famous "neutral wikipedia" language there; they quote an expert shortly thereafter:



There's a lot more detail of the criticism if you care, but the point being people who take this stuff seriously, PhDs who've devoted their lives to understanding human psychology, almost universally agree Meyers-Briggs is (at least mostly) garbage.

And yet all the management classes I am forced to take each have their own stupid personality test you have to take that somehow tells you exactly what kind of person you are with a 20 question survey. They are basically as valid as a horoscope.

Man I hate those classes.

[Swish2]

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

I find that many females gravitate toward classes that can heal, IE nurture. Hard to tell though since gender in game rarely correlates with gender IRL.

"I'm not boxing, wtf are you talking about? My girlfriend still plays I swear"

[Trelaboon]

I’ve always found Monks have a tendency to attract outwardly arrogant people who love the sound of their own voice. A lot of Warriors tend to be quiet and I don’t know if they’re being rude or just don’t talk much. Both of these are of the twink variety, which I guess could apply to lots of classes, but it seems Monk twinks and Warrior twinks almost always have a general attitude in this vicinity. It seems like hybrids are generally really friendly. I guess playing a class that no one respects tends to mean you don’t let people get under your skin and just have a good time with the game.

[Jlpstrtkng]

My main on live was a mage. I think I enjoyed it cause it gave me the option to be as involved as I felt like being that day. I could be lazy and let the pet take care of things or be more active with my spells, group, etc.

[mattydef]

Only class/race combo that has stood out to me is barbarian rogue. One got an AOW mask from the guild and sold it the next day, the other guy got an AON and left within the week /shrug

PS
It could be a barbarian thing because we also had one ninja loot a high end item from the top guild, he got suspended and ended up joining the guild he ninja looted from when he got back.

[Nilstoniakrath]

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

Sorry, it's late and I'm rambling a bit, but after an incident today I've begun to wonder if certain classes attract particular personality types?

I ask this because most of the mages I've encountered in this game are an odd bunch. Generally rude, the primary class that tries to kill steal (from me anyway) and creepy in a 10th alt type of way with little joy in their play but very efficient mechanics. I would think druids would be this way but most of them have been pretty cool. Bards are annoying with their kiting but generally courteous. Necro's are loners mostly and flee from interaction. The rest of the classes have not stood out too much to me. I'm sure someone has written a paper on this.

Many mages are gnomes, which is a totally untrustworthy race. And very creepy too! Which is not surprising due to them being, well, a gnome LOL