Class Populations?

[Slave]

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

best dps out of all melees are deff the monks, then rogs, wars/ranger/bard,

The best dps out of the melees are Rogue, then Monk. This is not really debatable except where the devs ruined Rogue backstab the last patch. And next patch it will be fixed again. (hopefully)

Bards cannot hope to match Paladin and Shadowknight dps, nor ranger/warrior.

[VincentVolaju]

Yah lately Ive been seeing Rog as the lowest on the list, next to Wizzy then Ranger. Ive actually been thinking bout making a Rog lately and trying them out since its 1 of the only class's I havent played yet. But I mean, if there pretty much main and only attack is nerfed then, eh, prob not the best idea to roll one now lol.

[Kope]

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

Yah lately Ive been seeing Rog as the lowest on the list, next to Wizzy then Ranger. Ive actually been thinking bout making a Rog lately and trying them out since its 1 of the only class's I havent played yet. But I mean, if there pretty much main and only attack is nerfed then, eh, prob not the best idea to roll one now lol.

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[quellren]

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

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At this point if you're just rolling, your DPS will be about the same whether you have a Trak tooth or a Dragoon Dirk.

[Uthgaard]

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Here you go. Broken down into level brackets, limited to only players active since midnight gmt June 1, 2011. Deleted characters weren't limited by a timestamp or level bracket.

[FAHall]

CURSE YOU COLORBLINDNESS!!!!


I play a necromancer though, so that one's in bright yellow, which is my favorite color because I can see it.

And, in all honesty, it looks like Pallys, Rangers, Bards, Wizards, SKs, and Druids are the only "underrepresented" classes in the endgame.

The rest seem to be 10% give or take 3... Enchanters sure have a bunch though. I guess that only surprises me because Enchanter is the class that by far interests me the least.


Pally's Rangers, Bards, and SKs all have the experience penalty, so a smaller endgame population for them makes sense.


Now, if you look at the lowbie game... the playing field evens out quite a bit, with only the much mocked Ranger being underrepresented and Necros/Warriors being a bit above the norm.



What does this tell me?

Play whatever the heck you think will be the most fun.

If you play a hybrid, it's going to take longer to get to 60, but that shouldn't come as any kind of surprise.


My thoughts on the whole thing? Think like an 10 year old. My 10 year old brother decided to play this with me (which should be super fun).

He picked a Half Elf Paladin... you know why?

Because he wanted to be a guy that wore armor (War, Pal, SK), he wanted to be a super duper Good guy (okay... Paladin), and he wanted to be an elf of some kind... the obvious choice for him was Half Elf. He spent maybe 5 minutes thinking about it, and he loves his character.

[Uthgaard]

If you're colorblind, they all begin at the vertical shear line at the top. So you can just count clockwise from that.

[Anger]

Interesting chart!

[Obsidus]

Looking at that chart I can only think "lol 40% exp penalty", and that tanks must be a pita to find.

[Uthgaard]

And that there are a shitload of druids who stopped levelling at 40-49 just to port.