New Player To Perfect World, What Class Should I Pick?

It should be noted that you can only fly outdoors (much of the game happens in dungeons) and that monsters WILL reset and practically instantly heal if they realise they cannot reach you.

Still, the archer is a fine choice for "Pew pew you're dead"


Assassins haven't really been in the game long enough for people to know exactly what they're good for. But yes, if you plan to PVP they can to the whole "Drop out of stealth, hit you, vanish back into stealth" thing.

Both archers and sins tend to have a problem with dealing too *much* damage in a party and stealing aggro from the tank.

Clerics are indeed vital components of most squads. They even have fairly decent attacks.
On the downside - you'll spend maybe 90% of your time using a single spell (ironheart blessing, a heal-over-time which you can stack multiple copies on and is by far the most efficient single-target heal there is)
- and the rest of your time resurrecting people

It's all up to you. For what it's worth, I got a cleric to level 12 and got completely and utterly stuck there.
It gets a lot better after about 20 though.

Vitenka - Dreamweaver wrote: »

A couple of minutes with the 'search' button found me this link:

http://quizilla.teennick.com/quizzes/result/13994741/7228762/

Which... seems to claim I'm a blademaster without actually asking any questions

But read around on this forum for a bit, you'll find a whole bunch of opinions.


Edit:
This game follows a fairly standard Tank/Healer/DamageDealer split, with Venomancers and assassins getting a tiny amount of crowd control ability.

If you take the 'result' part out of the URL you'll get the quiz questions..it says i'm a Cleric which makes sense as i usually play a healer in MMO's.

Actually, the main tanking class in PWI is the barbarian. BMs (blademasters) are more melee DD/secondary tanks/crowd control, due to the wide variety of skills BMs possess. Assassins are a btch to level up till the low 30s, when you start getting your really good skills. Of the 4-5 pre lvl 30 skills, only Puncture Wound and Slipstream Strike are worth keeping. Archers are pretty much pure ranged DD and crowd control. Venos are your pet class, and while they can tank a lot of stuff, its still better to have a barb do so, unless you wanna drop $200 to buy yourself a Herc (THE best tank pet a veno can get, bar none). Clerics are your healer class, but they do have some pretty nice atk skills as well. Wizards and Psychics are your standard magic casting classes, with Psys casting faster, but having fewer and somewhat weaker spells, and Wizards having more dmging spells, but taking longer to cast them.

The best advice i can give you is to just pick a class, and start playing. If you have detailed questions, check out the class discusion section of the forum, or check out the PW Wiki, which has a link on the main PWI webpage.

hello unforgivein,

I came from wow as well, now, PW isn't' wow, so there were a lot of differences when I started PW. Here are the differences that I learned about between PW and wow:

1: you can only spec into 1 build. Unlike wow where you can change specs anytime with a click of a button now they have the dual spec thing. On PW, respeccing means you gotta pay using millions of in game coins or recharging zen to obtain reset notes from the cash shop.

2: Clerics healing aren't like Priests on wow. (I missed penance ...a lot!) There are no skills (Like Penance) where you can use it to heal your allies or blast your enemies with it! You will notice a big change in healing because it feels you're not even healing enough. (sadly it doesn't say how much you're healing, like in wow they show green text about the amount you're doing). Might I also like to mention before picking this class, clerics are very expensive class to play, meaning you have to do extra work. One of them is farming herbs to make MP food, or you can always be lazy like me and buy charms (which costs gold, real money). b:chuckle

3: socketing your armor and refining it costs quite a lot.

4. There is no such thing as Attack Power and Spell Power bonuses here

5: PvP here is not balanced. You have people who have gear/weaponry straight from the cash shop (meaning l33t gear) and you have people who doesn't have that luxury to obtain expensive gear items. Not to mention, you can also lose your gear if someone decides to kill you off guard.

6: You lose exp (yes I mean exp, the points that ding you!) upon deaths.

7: spirit points aren't like spirit points on wow. These are points you need to use to level your spells/skills.


These were the only major changes for me when I had to switch between games. There are minor changes, but I guess I'll let you find that out when you start playing. Good luck and happy gaming!