What Class do you Feel most comfortable using

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In cRPGs I tend to avoid the sort of classes that are popular among the powergaming set. It's not a conscious choice, it's just that because I'm much more of a roleplayer I find that the kind of classes powergamers love tend to bore me. You'll never catch me playing a kensai/mage, for instance, mostly because being an Oriental Adventures player from the old school, I find the very idea patently ridiculous.

Oh, do I love rangers. More than half my PnP characters have been rangers of some sort, including my current one. I've been in love with the idea ever since reading LotR for the first time many, many moons ago (I am not a Janey-come-lately). I just love them.

In BG2 it's the stalker for me. They just "feel right". I have always preferred stealthy characters who use cunning and finesse to take down enemies as opposed to the Hulk method. I like the silent, deadly bad ass as opposed to the philistine in a tin can. Even the name is cool. Say it with me now: stalker. Makes you want to look over your shoulder, doesn't it? I am also partial to blades for the very same reason. If I have to kill, I want to do it with style.

 

Couldn't agree more - any idiot can break stuff and blow things up; it takes style to do it stealthily or a bit of class, or to avoid violence entirely. They just have so many more options than a regular fighter, and there's only so many times you can use a cheesy combination of spells before it gets dull. Rangers (and Stalkers in particular) deliver all this, plus dual-wielding, minor clerical abilities and a well-documented ethos/code of behaviour.

For similar reasons, the rogue classes are great IMHO. Sure, you can abuse their abilities and make them hideously powerful, but the whole idea of them is fantastic; they have no one stand-out attribute and aren't the best in a fight, but they are excellent all-rounders and let's face it... they gots more style than Jansen AdventureWear.

 

fighters. i dual and stuff now and then but i generally stick to fighters

 

People really are different. I don't think I've ever played a single class fighter in all my years of gaming. The idea bores me to tears.

I need more versatility than, "PAINE SMASH!", but to each his/her own I guess.

Ooh, thieves are so much fun. If I wasn't such a ranger fangirl I would play them more often. Mage/thief is probably my favorite one besides stalker and blade. I could never play a character without some access to spells (even limited like a ranger), and I love to sneak around. It's like the best of both worlds.

 

A Sorcerer, a C/M and a Blade.

 

Out of what I've played so far, the Monk is by far my favorite. It takes a real man to kill several enormous, bloodthirsty demons with his bare hands


Coming in a distant second, but still pretty far ahead of most vanilla classes ('nilla fighter, thief, druid, and clerc) is the Inquisitor. I've never seen such a force of righteous fury

 

For me, its the Kensai. I'm new to crpgs, and when I fired up BG2 for the 1st time and was poking around the character design screen, I came across Kensai, thought "That sounds cool" and for some reason its become my class ever since. Playing anything else just seems wrong, though I have experimented with some others.

 

Sorcerer, wild mage and kensai, though I've had fun as a thief.

 

Mostly assassins, otherwise Sorcerer.