What character class should I make, I'm new.

I would recommend either blademasters (they have a variety of builds you may want to look into speccing, also great for a little crowd control in PVE instances), Archers (wonderful in PVE/PVP), Psychics or Assasins (also good DPS classes, Assasins being the best 1v1 in PVP play) from the "gist" I got from you there. b:chuckle

Hope this helps a bit

if u want to have a good warrior i will say get a BladeMaster or a Barbarian
the BladeMaster deals good dmg and is good for loads of things and the barb is a tank a warrior with loads of hp easey to solo things withb:victory

The true jack of all trades class in PW is the venomancer... able to cast and melee (though not the strongest caster or meleer), debuff and summon a battle pet (the last being the only unique feature of the class, at least until the new expansion comes out, and the mystic summon will operate differently than the venomancer pet.) Moreover, it's the only class that can make effective use of any of the three armor types.

I think that the venomancer class (which I should note is female only) has the greatest potential at jack-of-all-trades ability, though it won't excel at any area if you actually try it.

The venomancer can go either an arcane armor + magic route and do well, or a heavy armor + melee route and do OK, but trying to do both will likely come up mediocre unless you seriously pimp her out (with a high level tome and lots of gear bonuses). Venomancers have both magic skill trees and melee skill trees, and the venomancer "spark" skills are the only ones that boost both their own magic and melee skills. They're the only class well suited to two totally different styles of play, but again, I'd recommend focusing on only one path, rather than trying to do both.

Still, venomancers can also have a variety of pets, each with their own skills, so you could tame and train pets versus each of the five elemental weaknesses and give them various useful skills and debuffs for different party types. For example, I have a tank pet that has two magic skills and a magic defense debuff, that works great versus mobs/bosses weak to those two types of magic attacks and/or in squads with lots of magic users. I also have another pet that has a melee attack debuff and a channeling disrupting skill, which helps the tank take less damage and helps prevent some nasty boss AoE attacks. And I have yet another pet with a ranged attack and all sorts of physical attack skills, which often comes in handy versus bosses with strong melee attacks, but weak ranged attacks. The user/pet dynamic basically makes you a healer/tank all rolled into one as well.

So, that's why my vote goes to the venomancer for the most jack-of-all-trades class.