Returning after 5 years and need class advice

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That said, seekers tend to be very hard to kill due to their high defense levels, and deal out a lot of damage, especially in AOE situations.

Also, assassins are, at high level and with very good gear, the premier solo farmer. The first 30 levels are not representative of their abilities. They struggle until about 59 (when they get double spark) and don't really shine until after 89 (with triple spark) or 99 (when much of the interval gear becomes available.)

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I play on a lot of different classes, and I can say that a BM is still as sexy as ever. They have always been and always will be one of the best solo grind/farmers in game.

Seekers are runner up in the HA. They can't put out as much damage as far as APS is concerned, but they can easily out DD with Vortex. So if you like the idea of being locked in a single skill for most of your killer moves, go for Seeker. It's like a lazy version of BM, or perhaps an HA archer with more magic attacks.

Veno's can't solo half as well anymore. Their pets are still great, and now even upgrade-able, but they are not the solo farmers of end game gear as they were in 08-09.

Mystics, psychics and wizzies are all very sexy, but as you're veering away from the AA, I would still recommend a BM. Useful as hell, desired in every instance. Go with a seeker, however, if you want to try something new.

I do not recommend sins to new players. Sins are costly to gear and pretty useless at lower levels except for BP. They can't solo farm until decently well equipped. Sins are an investment.

You might want to consider your end game future most of all:

The seeker is one of the most OP chars in game for PvP if you ever get top equipment. PvE it is magnificent in squad and to solo lower level stuff like TM69 and TM79. But not so much to solo farm. Will take years to get to that level though for everyone but the most special players (active farmer + merchant)

BM, Sin and Barb can each be good solo PvE when you get the required APS equipment. This is medium expensive equipment. When starting out it is reasonable to expect this within a year if you are an active player with some brains.

When you cannot affort APS equipment the sin lost most of his functionality, the BM lost half of its functionallity and the barb can be a fully functional char in cheap equipment but then it is not to be considered a DD. So ye a DD costs money either way. As said though, it is an amount of coin that is a realistic goal for many.

In eind game PvP, the BM is considered to be one of the most disadvantaged classes. The barb can be pretty OP although IMO that very much depends on getting those expensive or lots of work to get lvl 100 skills. The sin is very good at 1v1 PKing but often one of the first to die on mass battle fields like TW and NW.

For the questing your way to level 100:
The Barb is most wanted in squads, but it is very slow to solo.
The sin is fastest to solo, but maybe a bit one-dimensional as you noticed.
The BM i think is a very interesting to play as it has a nice combination of tankiness, single target DDing and aoe DDing.
The seeker is a good DD and tanky, it kills and levels fast. It is actually kind of the perfect combination. Ranged skills both physical and magical, like the glass cannons archers or casters, but with HA like a barb. But to me it was also a bit boring. Too simple to play. After lvl 75 this gets worse as you get a skill that allows you to do great AOE damage continuously but being unable to move while using it. So most seekers in PvE just start this skill, eat mana pots till everything is dead and then move to the next spot where they are expected to start this skill.

Archers are pretty good at PvP. I think if you make a poll and ask whats the best PvP class, they may come out third after the seeker and psy. (all considering the real end game equipment)

Archers are not very wanted in squads. (not specifically disliked either, but you simply got no key features for squad play like the barb, cleric, seeker, BM, sin)

Archers are absolute **** at soloing end game stuff (TT, card bosses etc) except that you can put APS on them as well. I dont know if they are very good at it though and if they are more or less costly to make APS than a barb/sin/bm

Archers are an interesting, but probably not one of the easier classes to quest your way to level 100.

About the leveling from 1 to 100 btw; most players nowadays use higher level characters to help level the new ones. They get to level 70 in 2 hours and to level 100 in 1 to 3 weeks after that.
I do not advise you to do this since playing the game at lower levels is fun if you didnt do it (multiple times) recently. Just so you know that the option will be there and that because of so many people doing it, it will be a bit lonely at the lower levels which in turn might compel you to do it as well. If you think you are the type that will succumb to such temptaion, you dont need to consider what it is like to play the lower levels

Take care in your considerations what server to choose.

Most importantly for the event times ! You dont want NW at 05:20 like me b:cry

If you happen to end up on archosaur, feel free to give me a shout if you want advise or help

Yes it is.

I have always between 300 and 500ms because of the atlantic between me and the server.

This i assume is the reason i cannot usually use my skill alacrity of the beast to interupt a mobs casting. It also sometimes just the delay that causes you to activate your Absolute Domain (5 second god-mode skill) just a fraction to late and have it activated after you died and respawned. (while you cant cast it after you died and respawned since then you dont have the energy for it, so it must have been casted before death). I also asume that this is the reason when a mob runs away from me, i can follow it but i cant hit hit before it stops while if i run away from a mob, the mob will hit me while i am already meters away from it.

So while the game is perfectly playable for me, this amount of lag is definately noticable. The numbers you are talking about however should not realy be very noticable.

Still, i would factor it in my decision yes. Event times just seem more important to me though and server population and economy differences are also very a very interesting factor. I dont know much to say about this last factor though. Archosaur has the lowest gold price in game coins and thus it is cheapest for the farmer/merchant to buy his CS stuff, but i imagine that probably means the stuff we farm and merchant may also be worth less.

Since you seem to like the seeker or archer idea, I'd suggest you make 2 accounts, one with the seeker (or bm), and one with the archer. Make one female and one male, for easy travel
Since they both use different gear sets normally, you don't need to worry about sharing gear between them too much, and if you have access to 2 computers or you are able to log both simultaneously, you can help yourself as well.
It would also save you time on the questing front, since you could just do every quest once together instead of twice separately.

Even if you don't find plvl in fc, early levels are very easy now for any class with free daily charms till level 60 helping alot and dreamchaser pack providing gear. From lvl 20 (or 40?) till lvl 80 pwe also added daily quests at jolly jones giving some decent coins.