I need some help deciding what to be. {:D}

If you want to be garunteed a slot in a squad, then you need to be either a barb or a cleric.

Barbs are the main tanks of PW. With large amounts of hp, and several skills designed to keep mobs focused on you, they make the best tanks, bar none.
Clerics are your standard healing class. They are responsible for the lions share of buffs and healing in any squad, and have a rather nice set of atks as well, meaning they can look out for themselves, to an extent.

Now, both of these classes will be rather expsensive to play. Barbs have VERY high repair costs, and youll pretty much be required to purchase hp replenishment charms from either other players or the ingame cash shop in order to do the end game instances. Clerics are VERY mp intensive, seeing as they spend their time healing ppl constantly. Cost of mp potions, food items, and mp replenishment charms is comparable to the cost of playing a barb.

Venos CAN tank, but doing so requires that you either be a VERY high lvl, shell out lots of RL cash or ingame coin to buy a very strong pet (note to Venos out there: i dont mean just Hercs. Any of the rare pets that are worth getting as tanks are rather pricey, especially for someone just starting out in the game), or both. HOWEVER, when it comes to repairs, potions, hp/mp replenishment charms, food items, etc, etc, Venos are the cheapest class. They do hit rather hard, and make certain dungeon runs much easier. They can also play the role of a secondary tank, while the main tank is revived or afk, or whatever.

BMs (blademasters) are secondary tanks, and crowd control in dungeon (or instance, which ever word works for you) runs. They have the widest array of weapons available to them, with each weapon type having its own particular strategies. If properly equiped and built, there arent all that many bosses out there that a bm cant tank. The only thing keeping bms from bein 1st tier tanks is the fact they have no aggression keeping skills worth mentioning. As far as ingame expenses is concerned, they tend to run in the middle of the pack. Theyre cheaper to play than barbs or clerics, but more expsensive than venos. The only other downside to being a bm is the fact that of all the classes, the bm is probably the most looked down upon. BMs are a jack-of-all-trades class. They can do a lot, but dont specialize in anything except causing melee dmg. But they do make for good back up DDs for barbs, as it is rather difficult for a BM to steal aggro (aggresion) from a barb, unless the barb is totally inept. Wizards, Archers, Psychics, and Assassins can all steal aggro from a barb without a whole lot of effort, due to the fact they all hit VERY hard.

So, in the end, if you want to be garunteed a spot in a squad, go with either a barb or cleric. Otherwise, just pick a class, and try them out. HOWEVER, before you start playing, i would suggest you visit the various class forums on this website, and read some of the guides posted within. Those guides will answer a lot o questions you might have, and keep you from making costly mistakes with your character. Hope my wall o' text has helped, and welcome to PWI! b:victory

Dosinn - Dreamweaver wrote: »

Venos CAN tank, but doing so requires that you either be a VERY high lvl, shell out lots of RL cash or ingame coin to buy a very strong pet (note to Venos out there: i dont mean just Hercs. Any of the rare pets that are worth getting as tanks are rather pricey, especially for someone just starting out in the game), or both. HOWEVER, when it comes to repairs, potions, hp/mp replenishment charms, food items, etc, etc, Venos are the cheapest class. They do hit rather hard, and make certain dungeon runs much easier. They can also play the role of a secondary tank, while the main tank is revived or afk, or whatever.

O shut up. Glacial walker/Magmite is more than enough for low game bosses to tank as a veno, and a walker with good skils can replace a herc in most dungeons
PS if you don't know: it's not the veno that tanks, but the veno's pet, while the veno heals the pet

Cleric's aren't as much as a pain to lvl in PWI as they are in most games. There are alot of MMO's where the healer can heal, and can ONLY heal. In PWI, cleric's have a really nice set of DD skils, making them pritty strong in that part of the game aswel.
Because of this mix, a cleric can easaly solo most of his quests, as they can heal themselves AND kill fast.

Note that later on, cleric's are money burners, as they burn through mp like eehm, fast XD
In dungeon runs they'll need to take masive amounts of mp pots to keep up with this, which costs alot of money. Though you won't run into this until you actually start doing high lvl dungeon runs, until that it's just the usual caster's mp burn (also pritty high, but not as bad as a cleric on a 3mil hp boss)

The dedicated tank is the barb, with a load of aggro skils to hold the mob onto them even if an archer is going all out (besides aggro skils, it's just dmg that generates aggro, whoever deals the most dmg has the aggro), though secondary tank is BM who also wear's HA and is pritty capable in holding aggro with DDing.
Certain magic bosses can be best tanked by a caster, for 3/5 magic bosses wiz is the best, cause they have a special self buf that gives them even more defence in 1 element (1 element per buf, 3 bufs)

Yea, i'd have to agree with Glitch above me, try them and lvl them to 20 to see what is your favourite.

I cant judge Barb of BM because i havent played one.

Cleric is a lot of fun for me, but do know you will get a lot of people whining for rezzes etc as well. And yea they burn a lot of mana, it sure isnt a money making class, but easy to solo with. No problem getting in squads either.

Veno is fun as well, with a free pet you can still have fun and do your job, (regardless what some people say) Its easier to make money with a veno since your pet will get the most hits, so your repairs wont be as high, and you wont need as much potions.