[Help] Returning Player | Which Class to Choose?

My advise is to try all 3 at a lower lv. Up till lv 20 may be as you still in the starting area. Your then get used to the skills and may even find a class that likens to your play style. Will give you a good range of toons as well to pick from.

I got to be fair out of the 3 I would find it hard to choose myself.

Thanks.​​

I want to caution you on choosing your toon based on its ability to farm vitae. Most of your vitae will come from quests anyways so this "farming" is not as important. Furthermore, any class that can run an aps set (like blademaster and sins) are fully capable of farming vitae on their own. So as far as farming vitae is concerned, all 3 of the classes you listed are A-OK. To add on to this, a helpful faction will go a long way. I think factions in general will help farm vitae if you are the same sky level. The biggest worry is people who come and steal your vitae mobs!

I think that kind of eliminates seeker from your list, so now we are choosing between BM and sin. You really can't go wrong with either choice. Both have their purpose in PVE and PVP. If you are completely new to the official server/starting from scratch, I highly recommend you start with a sin, especially given your focus on PVE and solo play. You can always go back and make a BM but I think investing in a sin from the start is a wise choice. The reason being that a sin can accomplish a lot with minimal investment. It is surprising how much content a sin in tt99 gear can accomplish. Not only will you be able to solo a lot, but you will also be able to farm a lot as well which can help you make money to progress your toons.

Having said all that, if you are spending money on this game, what I just said may be irrelevant. Any toon with the proper gear can solo most game content. I just think that sins are the most multi purposeful toon for a new player.

At the end of the day pick the class you love. Hopefully you find some of this helpful!​​

If one's not a BM/Veno/Cleric/Seeker (or maybe an assassin, but not always), they're sort of left high and dry for squad recommendations in later endgame instances unless they're exceptionally geared....or running with friends. Just something to keep in mind

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I should point out that if your experience about 'which class is favored in pvp' is mostly influenced by your time spent on PRIVATE servers... then your information is not entirely correct.

The majority of private servers seem to have a real love affair with the assassin class. In general, the servers are set up with settings such that assassins are highly favored, and the *type* of pvp that is performed on private servers is very beneficial to the assassin class. I recall one private server where it was nearly impossible to farm Revelation Apoth (giving you stealth detection +31 for 30s), and how most of the pvp was '1v1' or other very small-scale pvp, maybe never exceeding 10 players on each side. In these low-# situations, yes sins are indeed very strong. (Think: why are people on private servers? Often these people have something to prove---they have an ego, they want to show they are 'best', and this means that 1v1 is the favored type of pvp, which is what sins do excel at.)

However, on official servers, what types of pvp do most players actually engage in? Open world pvp? 1v1? Sometimes. Not so much nowadays. I would suggest that the majority of players who pvp are doing so on weekends during large-scale pvp events such as SvS, xNW, or TW. In these situations, assassins are not at all the strongest class. I know several people who have g17 armor and weapons; assassin, seekers, and mystic. The mystic is by far the most dangerous to the most # of people due to the huge aoe of comforting mist. The seeker also probably gets way more kills than the assassin, and is a huge distraction due to the incredibly powerful debuff and the fact that they can mitigate insane amounts of damage. Assassins do have a great chance of killing any individual target they chose to, but what they are not nearly as good at is killing a lot of people all at once like either seeker or mystic can. And this holds true still at other gear levels as well. Sins are just going to struggle to have the same effectiveness as other classes when the # of ppl fighting gets too high.

Anyways, when it comes to which class you should pick...

On Tideswell, a bm is a surefire bet. You'll be able to get into nearly any instance you want with ease, because there is a lack of bms on our server. BM hf turns any 'maybe a nuke' squad into 'easy nuke' squad. The bm is also totally fine soloing vit mobs (granted that you have an assassin alt for bloodpaint) even if it won't do them *quite* as fast as a seeker, they'll do with a lot less mana consumption. Seeker vortex will burn through mana pots/charms like nobody's business.

And as far as soloing stuff goes... I mean, yeah, sins are still best at that. But precisely *what* do you want to solo? If you want to solo TTR 4-1, then yeah, an OP sin can do that where few other classes would even dare try. But if you are going to that extreme level, you need a whole team worth of alts anyways. Soloing TT 1-1 through 3-3? A bm with bloodpaint can do that just fine tbh. So could a seeker.

And when it comes to bm, they are no slouch at any form of pvp either. Even if they aren't quite as good in 1v1 as sin, they are incredibly more impactful in mass pvp situations. An unkillable bm holding a chokepoint can stop an entire enemy faction in its tracks in SvS or TW situations, for example.

BM is also just a whole lot of fun to play. Hotkey your leaps and its such an agile, versatile class. The new glyphs mean you can stun your target from really, really far away, with proper weapon switching techniques.

The only problem I'd say with choosing a BM is it is NOT the easiest class to get to a stage where you'll be competitive in endgame pvp. As a bm, you will be a front line class, and unlike a ranged class, your armor really, really does matter. You can't really avoid taking hits. (In comparison, a class like a stormbringer or a cleric or archer could, with proper positioning, be essentially a one-shot but still have ok survival if they just avoid ever getting hit, and still have a positive impact on fight). So to be competitive as a BM, you should be pretty tanky. And secondly, to be competitive, you really should have a variety of weapons. The class is called the blade MASTER after all... you don't become a master with just a single weapon! Axes, pole, spear, and fists all have their place for the complete blademaster depending on the situation.

But as a result, the bm is a class that can be a lot of fun to play, due to how high the skill ceiling is for this class there is a lot of room for development I feel. In comparison, a seeker feels a lot more straightforward to play nowadays. Your combos as a seeker are powerful but rather repetitive.

I'd definitely put in my vote towards bm.

leziar#5056 wrote: »

Hi there!

I also happen to have the same question as the original poster of this thread and I'm planning on playing Tideswell server. However, I hear that out of all the PWI server, Tideswell seems to be going downhill on how many players are online.

With that being said, I'm hesitant to play PWI because I live in the East Coast and there is only one server for it. I don't want to play on West Coast or EU server because it will not match my time zone and it will cost me to miss a lot of events in the future.

Welcome on Tideswell server

Yes, most people only willing to spend coins or work free of charge (by testing the new app from PWE) but I've noticed while playing on Tideswell server I never needed any of those lamebrains to help me with my quests. I just solo most using the free armor.