barbrain or wizard please help me.

Depends on what you want it for. Barbs are great tanks, but low damage. On the other hand... wiz's can't tank, but closer to end game really beef up their attack damage - a great nuke class. It's all personal preference really.

Barbarian-
Pro's:

Front line battles
Melee Action
High HP

Cons:

Low Damage
High repair costs
No really significant ranged attacks

Wizard-
Pro's:

High Damage
Ranged Attacks
Elemental Damage
A small heal skill

Con's:
High magic cost
Low HP
No Melee attacks except "attack" which will kill your caster weapon fast.


I play a barb. Hope this helps.

High magic cost? WTF is that?

True , MP cost is significant, but there are pots, Mana regen shields/buffs. Mana consumption starts to get significant around lvl 25-30.


Now to OP:
Best between Barb and Wizard? well depends on a lot of things. But I tell you this: endgame Barbs are the class with the highest drop-out rate. Dunno why, ask high lvl barbs. I can name the barbs I started playing with and are still active(100+) on one hand, but I need my neigborhood to count all the clerics/wizards/archers/BMs. Venos seems to somehow fall into the same cathegory as barbs.
Barb is a very forgiving class, and is best to have a lot of time to spend in game if you want to raise one. Solo leveling on barb is incredibly slow, but the good side is that as barb, you are needed in basically every instance for your buffs and tanking abilities. That's how you raise a barb: doing FBs/BH/TTs/RBs/Zhen.

Wizard...well....wizard will be a challenge at the beginning. It's a crazy ride and will hardly give you time to get bored. You're going to die a lot until you learn to control mobs and kite. But once you figure out what to do, is probably the easiest PvE class after Veno. You can play with skills, change combos, you have soo many skills you will be always pissed off you don't have the SP to learn them because with the exception of 2 or 3, all of them have a purpose. You will always find yourself in a position to do something that 10 lvls back you just couldn't think it's possible, you will always find a challenge to take on. Sure, other classes can do the same things as you do and probably easier (Barb=HP, BM=stuns/aoe. Clerics=survival, Archer=pewpew, Veno=150$ pet, Sin and Psy = meh, who cares), but the fact that you, the squishiest of squishies, can match and pass them in doing those things endgame is just plain and simple NICE.

What would be nice: charge 10$, sell it in game, buy a MP/HP gold charm. Mine lasted me until late 50s or so, and I was doing PvE TWs at lvl 36 (charm **** bishes). Best acquisition you can make at game start is two gold charms.

I would say play both of them until lvl 70, would take you about 2 months, not more. Then decide which one you want to go endgame with.

Cholla - Harshlands wrote: »

Actually, wizards can sometimes tank, like when they are fighting a boss which only uses an attack that the wizard has really good defenses for, and can be attacked with skills that the wizard has good damage per second with.

Of course, barbarians can sometimes nuke, like when they manage to pull off a berzerk crit with armageddon.

But, Darach was basically correct and wizards are usually better for dealing damage than barbarians and barbarians are usually better than wizards for tanking.

I can absolutely agree with you. I meant to mention that and forgot. Thanks for picking up on that! ^^

StUfFeD_uP - Heavens Tear wrote: »

Hey Squab, making fun of people's mistakes and spelling isn't funny, someone is asking for assistance, and all you can think about is their grammar. If you haven't noticed this game is Perfect World "International" which means not everyone can speak english fluently. Stop being a troll and do something meaningful, judging on your post you're not very fluent in grammar either.

English is spelled with a capital e. My grammar sucks as well and who really gives a ****? Just cause it says "International" doesn't mean it caters to non-English speaking groups nor does it discriminate. Forums are a place to voice opinions even if they are not "proper", "right", or "justified". Poster didn't use foul language so I could care less. If they are supposedly a troll, why feed them? Ignore them maybe?

I play both, and really enjoy both classes. They have basically opposite playing styles though (aside from suicidal LA wizzies). Don't underestimate the power of a wizzy heal. Granted a wiz will never replace a cleric, but that healing skill can be a life saver at times.

Best advice given so far, get yourself a hp charm. Don't get discouraged with your early levels as a wizzy, it gets better as you grow.

Barbs and wizzies are the two strongest classes endgame...(oh...and demon fist BM) Dunno bout TideBorns

Both can deal some crazy DPH......and both are nice to play

I prefer wizards.....and I'm kinda biased towards them...but Barbs are great too.

lol.
yeah, wait until u get in warsong/Abaddon BH, or a Delta/Gamma RB.

/facepalm.

Barbrain > Wizard > Barbarian. 'Nuff said. b:laugh