What You Think Is the Easiest Class To Play?

burningsweetfire
burningsweetfire Posts: 142 Arc User
edited March 2013 in General Discussion
I've read alot of posts saying this class is easy to play and that class is easy to play, but why?

Vote and state your reason!

You can even post what class you think is the hardest to play.

This can help new players decide their classes too, whether they looking for a challenge or a walk in the park.
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  • FaithDread - Heavens Tear
    FaithDread - Heavens Tear Posts: 243 Arc User
    edited March 2013
    Assassin! Tab->Spark->Auto Attack. But watching BP can be hard sometimes b:shocked

    In all seriousness, I would say Sin in PvE only, in PvP to be a competitive sin you really need to know what to use when and in what situation, and not just mindlessly Stealth - Follow Cleric - Stun - Auto Attack, like myselfb:chuckle
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  • xfiltheyrichx
    xfiltheyrichx Posts: 31 Arc User
    edited March 2013
    barb easy to start with but expenive to maintain (hp pots)b:irritated
  • Jaabg - Sanctuary
    Jaabg - Sanctuary Posts: 2,256 Arc User
    edited March 2013
    What if all classes easy? Once you get to a certain gear level, everything is easy pve wise. Before that, everything is challenging.
  • Tide_Surfer - Archosaur
    Tide_Surfer - Archosaur Posts: 1,261 Arc User
    edited March 2013
    Every class is easy to play, playing it WELL is a different matter.
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  • WnbTank - Archosaur
    WnbTank - Archosaur Posts: 1,472 Arc User
    edited March 2013
    Couldnt force myself to level my OPFish (Psy), I got bored around level 30 for just tab killing everything w/o getting hit. I also consider psy easiest class to PK with endgame gear.
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  • HrunsPanda - Archosaur
    HrunsPanda - Archosaur Posts: 1,136 Arc User
    edited March 2013
    Every class is easy to play, playing it WELL is a different matter.

    yup, and also there is a difference between:
    -solo pve
    -squad pve
    -pve

    I dont know about pvp. But PvE, i would consider the barb one of the easiest for solo pve because it is so hard to die but one of the hardest (together with cleric) for squad pve because the whole squad depends on you.

    For the squichy DDs the opposite. Solo PvE, they must be carefull and kite and stuff like that. Squad PvE they can just attack whatever the barb is attacking and watch pron on their second screen pretty much.
  • Infie - Heavens Tear
    Infie - Heavens Tear Posts: 69 Arc User
    edited March 2013
    All the classes are easy to play, PWI is not a skill-based game. It all comes down to how much money you're willing to cash in. b:laugh
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  • Apostasy - Raging Tide
    Apostasy - Raging Tide Posts: 1,197 Arc User
    edited March 2013
    You forgot an option :

    O any class thats R9rr / R9.3
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  • Deadalus - Harshlands
    Deadalus - Harshlands Posts: 546 Arc User
    edited March 2013
    Looking at your join date, you should know by now, which class you are good at.

    But when you are new, the easiest class is Venomancer, still.

    Having a Pet, which can be healed, and has all the aggro, when you dont deal too much damage, is perfect for a newcommer.
    I loved Venomancer for that, very low coin fee for repair equipment, no exp loss, because the monster wont attack you (unless you do 1vs1) and so on.

    Well, Mystic is the same, i guess. Never played one to be honest.

    Sin is only very easy, when you are doing squad stuff or have endgear.
    Spark and doubleclick just works, when the BP makes up the damage you recive.

    Other than that, every class is easy, when you are not crazy like you want to tank the whole field while doing, i dont know riding a horse, wearing boxing gloves and drink unicorn p/iss the same time.
  • Murcas - Sanctuary
    Murcas - Sanctuary Posts: 299 Arc User
    edited March 2013
    All the classes are easy to play, PWI is not a skill-based game. It all comes down to how much money you're willing to cash in. b:laugh

    I disagree with you on this. Before all of the Rank 9, fish, and Earthguard came along, this game was very reliant on skill. It wasn't a matter of money, it was a matter of how you played. If you were nefarious about being a total flake in squad and poor in your class, even if you were in tip top gear, chances are you would not have been selected for the team. The problem with your sentence is that you are thinking about what you're seeing now opposed to what used to be. Believe it or not, not everyone relies on their gear to get them through dungeons. I, for one, had to learn to anticipate who would get aggro by watching which way the enemies would run or, in Pole and Nob's case, turn. If I had an archer in my team, and the were turning toward the archer, I knew to switch my heals to the archer until the Barb regained aggro with whatever aggro skill he had. Nowadays, with the Rank 9 recast and what not, I can see your point, but I very much disagree with your sentiment about how money makes the player good or not...

    As for the actual subject, I'd have to say Venomancer: As long as you don't draw aggro from your pet, your repair bills are low and you rarely die, unless of course they AoE, in which case, well, it's not good.
  • bolocactu
    bolocactu Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited March 2013
    Assassins are not op they're squishy but archers are op.b:victoryb:laughb:shockedb:sadb:cry
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  • Xx_BeLLa_xX - Harshlands
    Xx_BeLLa_xX - Harshlands Posts: 7,231 Arc User
    edited March 2013
    I heard archer was the easiest class to play, when I ask them they say ''you just press one key over and over again'' then I heard psy is the second easiest class to play.

    I just played veno, wizz, mystic and cleric so for those I think, veno is the easiest, then wizz then cleric then mystic.
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  • bolocactu
    bolocactu Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited March 2013
    I heard archer was the easiest class to play, when I ask them they say ''you just press one key over and over again'' then I heard psy is the second easiest class to play.

    I just played veno, wizz, mystic and cleric so for those I think, veno is the easiest, then wizz then cleric then mystic.

    no easiest class to play is seeker but archer is still op im an archer muhahahahahab:sad
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  • Xx_BeLLa_xX - Harshlands
    Xx_BeLLa_xX - Harshlands Posts: 7,231 Arc User
    edited March 2013
    bolocactu wrote: »
    no easiest class to play is seeker but archer is still op im an archer muhahahahahab:sad

    When I see seeker suck so bad on my server I doubt it's a easy class to play or they all just fail.
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  • bolocactu
    bolocactu Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited March 2013
    When I see seeker suck so bad on my server I doubt it's a easy class to play or they all just fail.

    seekers and sins are boss on lost city
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  • Liam_ - Sanctuary
    Liam_ - Sanctuary Posts: 198 Arc User
    edited March 2013
    All the classes are easy to play, PWI is not a skill-based game. It all comes down to how much money you're willing to cash in. b:laugh

    Sadly this is true nowadays. It didn't always used to be.

    I find now that trying to play skillfully hinders more than helping a lot of the time. If I'm making a big pull in fcc I'll take more damage stunning than going immediate "derp aoe" and letting bp handle the rest. Stunning in delta is often unnecessary because the agro holder is holding it with r9 gear and isn't going to die in a million years. Cancelling boss spells, waste of dps, tank's fine. Myraid sword stance? Again dps waste, squads fine unless someone screwed up. Even in pav solo'ing, kiting the head is a waste of dps as long as you've got bp, and earth pav I can just click auto attack mobs without a spark, pot or skill. Even blacky in OHT who I used to hate, there's just nothing more effective now than let bp do it's thing and aps solo.

    Kinda hate it in one way because I feel like it makes me rusty. That said, there's still a good deal in the game that skill can let you achieve, and a lot of advantages to knowing your class/skills, but op gear or even average decent gear by todays standards, will let you away with so much it's silly.
  • Azura - Lost City
    Azura - Lost City Posts: 2,281 Arc User
    edited March 2013
    Every class is easy to play, playing it WELL is a different matter.

    I agree completely.
  • tweakz
    tweakz Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited March 2013
    I disagree with you on this. Before all of the Rank 9, fish, and Earthguard came along, this game was very reliant on skill.

    Half the fish we get on HT for BH metal die (sins) repeatedly for lack of skill. Some of the fish (psys) cause mobs in metal to kite killing some melees who are glued to them. Sin's aren't horrible aoe dd's, but we see all the time the hate in WC for them when bh rb comes along because of lack of skill.
    Believe it or not, not everyone relies on their gear to get them through dungeons.

    Why just today my barb in G15 gear was getting insufficient heals from a cleric with G12 (L85) +3 weapon, non pure cleric in a BH100 and the cleric had the nerve to say that most people had no problem with their heals. Heavily relying on other people's gear shouldn't be a solution.
    I, for one, had to learn to anticipate who would get aggro by watching which way the enemies would run or, in Pole and Nob's case, turn. If I had an archer in my team, and the were turning toward the archer, I knew to switch my heals to the archer until the Barb regained aggro with whatever aggro skill he had.

    DDs in the old days learned to control their aggro, and use support skills!
    As for the actual subject, I'd have to say Venomancer: As long as you don't draw aggro from your pet, your repair bills are low and you rarely die, unless of course they AoE, in which case, well, it's not good.

    Controlling 2 toons instead of 1, having 2 forms, having poor defense in mage form and poor offense in fox is easy?

    I don't think this survey is going to yield any good results when half the clerics out there think that spamming chromatic healing beam or regeneration aura is the best way to heal. -Cleric must be easiest!
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  • Tide_Surfer - Archosaur
    Tide_Surfer - Archosaur Posts: 1,261 Arc User
    edited March 2013
    You forgot an option :

    O any class thats R9rr / R9.3

    You're only saying that due to the fact that you're a demon psy and an arrogant one at that. The OP was meaning the class in general.
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  • Zheii - Archosaur
    Zheii - Archosaur Posts: 2,732 Arc User
    edited March 2013
    When I see seeker suck so bad on my server I doubt it's a easy class to play or they all just fail.

    >_>" Come to my server and meet the seekers there, and also, that's a very harsh judgement :x
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  • Longknife - Harshlands
    Longknife - Harshlands Posts: 4,843 Arc User
    edited March 2013
    Sin: 5 APS Trip spark HUUURRRRDURRRRRRRRR

    Aside from that?
    Archer is pretty much point and click, veno is surprisingly simple given that they need little chi management, in my experience.
    Wiz and Psy are by no means complicated, but I'm surprised to see how they're RELATIVELY complex compared to a lot of other classes.

    Seeker seems like a class you need to REALLY know how to play or you're toast, cleric would definitely have it's hands full in group fights, albeit it's not exactly complicated in most PvE instances (BB) and in no way complicated for 1v1.


    On a side note I'm proud to see some of Harshlands adopting the term herpderp as a way to refer to APS.

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    "Some sin popped out of stealth and herpderped."
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  • SoniMax - Sanctuary
    SoniMax - Sanctuary Posts: 529 Arc User
    edited March 2013
    damn shouldnt have voted for psy thats the only class i play lol there might be easier ones :D
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  • Longknife - Harshlands
    Longknife - Harshlands Posts: 4,843 Arc User
    edited March 2013
    damn shouldnt have voted for psy thats the only class i play lol there might be easier ones :D

    Trust me, there are.

    I've never considered Psy complex, but then again let's be honest: none of this stuff is rocket science. But archers by comparison? Holy ****, they have the easiest job in the world in TW.
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  • Zheii - Archosaur
    Zheii - Archosaur Posts: 2,732 Arc User
    edited March 2013
    "What got you?"
    "Some sin popped out of stealth and herpderped."

    I laughed so hard when i read this, I'm going to see if I can get that to stick on my server xD
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  • xardiounium
    xardiounium Posts: 9 Arc User
    edited March 2013
    To be honest, not all classes are easy to play. How we can try it on normal way?. Well i know, all players play others, it's simple, but in this case, we took all classes on the same lvl and same gear quality, to be justice. Let's start with Barbarian:


    Barbarian Lvl 30: (As a free player, nothing form cash shop)

    Needs:
    - HP/MP potions(huge cost),
    - Repair costs(huge cost),
    - Assist of cleric to heal or other heal classes(depend on gear, low gear=HP going down quickly)
    - Money for skills


    Good at:
    - HP. Heal Points, most HP character in game + HP buffs
    - Very good buffs
    - Tanking
    - Taking damage
    - Running(tiger form, don't need mount)
    - Survival character, can survive most damage

    Bad on:
    - Damage, 60% misses, very low dmg(lowest in game)

    How is easy to play now:
    Very difficult, no money in game at all, DQ cost 1 coins each, repair cost to huge, no HP potions to buy. Can be played only by: Players who has already other high lvl character in game and/or best friend who give you money in game or guild.





    Venomanser Lvl 30: (As a free player, nothing form cash shop)

    Needs:
    - Very low needs, all do combat pet
    - Money for skills

    Good at:
    - Solo playing: Heal pet, pick up drop...
    - Can playing as any character(low pet heal), BM(I sow some venos in game, huge defense stats), archer etc.. all job do pet, you need to keep it alive, that's it.
    - Catching animals and have a fun with it.

    Bad on:
    - Can't help others player lot, just luring other mobs and heal own pet + as a fox buffs and debuffs bosses.
    - Boring after..time.
    - Easy to kill, depend of playing character role(pure vono got low hp and low physical defense)

    How is easy to play now:
    Extreme easy to play. No cost for repair as a normal veno, no needs from HP/MP potions, even bad weapon is not so bad(over-agro pet). Easiest to play. Very good HP/MP skills for own.





    Blade Master Lvl 30: (As a free player, nothing form cash shop)

    Needs:
    - HP/MP potions(huge cost),
    - Repair costs(huge cost),
    - Money for skills


    Good at:
    - FC to stun
    - Fists attack, OP
    - PvP
    - Physical resistance

    Bad on:
    - Close combat, you took all time damage
    - Magic resistance
    - Ranged attackers, need to run, lot of times, use a genie as a personal skill :D

    How is easy to play now:
    Very difficult, no money in game at all, DQ cost 1 coins each, repair cost to huge, no HP potions to buy. Can be played only by: Players who has already other high lvl character in game and/or best friend who give you money in game or guild.
    Attention: Seekers push lot BMs away from server, case they can be better then BMs and got more damage(magic and physic + aoe)

    Wizard Lvl 30: (As a free player, nothing form cash shop)


    Needs:
    - HP/MP potions(normal cost),
    - Repair costs(low cost),
    - Money for skills


    Good at:
    - Solo playing, long channeling but you can do this.
    - Tanking magic mobs and bosses
    - Standard heals, which can heal others as a heal support in team
    - Good damage
    - Playing with a style


    Bad on:
    - Channeling
    - Wizard armor/weapon prices
    - Can't do lot solo(bosses), need help all others classes to support them.

    How is easy to play now:
    Difficult, low money in game. Can be played only by: Players who has already other high lvl character in game and/or are very patient and farm ages for own goods.
    Attention: Psychic class, push Wizards away from game. b:angry


    Cleric Lvl 30: (As a free player, nothing form cash shop)

    Needs:
    - MP potions(normal cost),
    - Repair costs(low cost),
    - Money for skills

    Good at:
    - Solo playing, can do almost all solo.
    - Tanking magic mobs and bosses
    - Heal support, best healing class in game, can revive
    - Good damage as a cleric style
    - Playing with a honor and blessing to all kind of players.

    Bad on:
    - Physical mobs/bosses
    - HP, very low

    How is easy to play now:
    Difficult, low money in game. Can be played only by: Players who has already other high lvl character in game and/or are very patient and farm ages for own goods.
    Attention: Mystics push Clerics away from server, case they can be a good healer too. b:angry




    Archer Lvl 30: (As a free player, nothing form cash shop)

    Needs:
    - HP/MP potions(huge cost),
    - Repair costs(normal cost),
    - Money for skills
    - Money for arrows/bullets etc.

    Good at:
    - Solo playing, can do almost all solo.
    - Tanking mobs and bosses with little help of cleric.
    - Speed support, before genie arrive to game..
    - Good damage and critical hits
    - Playing with a honor as a honorable old player.


    Bad on:
    - Bosses, all what come closer then 5 meters..damage is reduced!
    - HP, low
    - Not perfect defense gear at all, 50/50 magic and physical mix.
    - No heal skills, need to use tons of HP potions.

    How is easy to play now:
    Medium, low money in game. Can be played only by: Players who has already other high lvl character in game and/or are very patient and farm ages for own goods.
    Attention: Assassins push Archers away from server, case they can be a good archers too(+ OP close combat). b:angry



    I don't comment new classes added to game, read attention by some classes to know why.
  • Zheii - Archosaur
    Zheii - Archosaur Posts: 2,732 Arc User
    edited March 2013
    ^Wowa at the post above me, not reading all dat stuffs, no way in hell. @_@&quot;
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  • looken
    looken Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited March 2013
    This like making a hen out of a feather, easy class to play? which class isnt easy? the skills got a description of what they do, all you need is common sense to see where it fits.

    this game doesnt acquire skills, its click a target, press skill or whatever, munch potions if you doesnt have a charm that takes care of that, and hope the horrible lag doesnt get you.
  • Brillance - Raging Tide
    Brillance - Raging Tide Posts: 1,643 Arc User
    edited March 2013
    A Mystic is probably the hardest char to learn to play well.

    To play well enough you can probably just limit yourself to healing, and then its easy peasy,; or, you could get R9T3 and just spam NV. *winks*

    Otherwise, there are a lot of things you have to think about with using your spells. Not only just how your own spells react with each other - you also have to be thinking about how your spells effect the skills of others your squad.

    At low levels you are squishy, and also pull aggro if you happen to be strong, which can be easy to deal with, unless you insist on playing backline.

    I havent made that many chars ingame, but of those I have, I would say a Sin is the easiest to play. Please keep in mind, my Sin is only level 40. b:chuckle


    EDIT:

    "Attention: Mystics push Clerics away from server, case they can be a good healer too."

    A Mystic cannot push clerics away from server, unless its a bunch of fail clerics and mystics. A good Mystic player uses all their skills to fullfill their support role, so they would be DDing most of the time, buffing the tank with FP, and healing as needed.

    A Mystic does not have a reliable purify. Big thingy there, until you get a purify weapon anyways.

    A primarily healing mystic is not using half of their spells, and more than half of their summons and plants. It is not a well-played Mystic.
  • Desdi - Sanctuary
    Desdi - Sanctuary Posts: 8,680 Arc User
    edited March 2013
    Every class is easy to play, playing it WELL is a different matter.

    Pretty much this, although what you consider "playing well" may come down to knowing the game's mechanics, the class' mechanics, learn when and how to time your skills and be able to cooperate with your team when needed.

    I think every class is easy to play, PWI doesn't have any complex game mechanics or gameplay. There is also a difference between playing a class lazily (Venomancers sending their pets to do the job for them, Assassins just macro triple sparking etc.) and playing a class to its full potential.
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  • Sylvae - Sanctuary
    Sylvae - Sanctuary Posts: 1,018 Arc User
    edited March 2013
    stuff

    Considering in your example none of the classes were using the free 50 HP/MP regen pots, I can only assume whoever is playing them and wasting the coins is worse than newbie players who used them when the game first came out. Even my cleric was using the MP regen over the buff, for how much more it gave. And BM fisting with MP regen at 29+ has free heal. Not a very good synopsis of proper play really.