I am going to play a shadow knight for my second class, I just want to be able to afford a magic weapon and banded for her first. My first class was going to be a shaman but I am thinking necromancer now, because of the night vision business for Barbarians.

I think a cleric, necro, and sk will be my characters.

DE SK will be main, and an alt mage or chanter for when I dont have time to group..

No, everybody will have enough from that vegan caster folks and they will shiver in lust when they see a real tank coming its way and offering his services.

People will get mad when they finally get a real BBQ serverd by someone with a sword and hands of asbestos serving their meet on a fire of coal and not cooked on gas. :D

This survey is likely to account for up to 25% of the population at launch. One can think that it is a sample indicative of what will happen to the real presences in the game but I believe that it is completely distorted. I say this because the sample analyzed is the one that reads the forum, so the most informed and the one that closely follows the evolution of the game and all its changes. Think of the influence that the reduction of the bard kiting has given or the change for the darkness of the night. Changes that the people following the forum make based on very passenger events - the darkness resists up to 10/12 when they start selling lightstone.
However 75% (more with 4k players) does not take these things into account and will come to play with memories, maybe a few years ago of the blue server, or the old live, so it will play the character it believes closer to his fun.
This is evidenced by the fact that there should have been more enchanters than ever, when in reality they have always been missed.

Hey OP. Are you considering starting a new poll sometime closer to launch to see if we get different numbers now that people know a bit more about bard/chanter changes, night blindness and other factors?

Just curious.

Probably worth doing a new class poll thread a week or so before server launch.

Considering all the tweaks that have been announced to class abilities, absolutely.

Yup! NEW POLL FRIDAY AFTERNOON PLS! (essentially one week prelaunch)

Sure thing, I'll make a new poll on Friday so we can compare the changes. Good idea!

Then everybody choose a tank, due the lack of them now.

Then everybody thinks: "omg nooo, only tanks and at server start"
and they go back to their previous class.

and then the confusion is complete.