Comments on: What’s more Important, Races or Classes?

By: Ulgrish

Ulgrish — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 12:39:52 +0000

Both matter to me, generally, unless I keep my character in an illusion all the time. It depends on the looks of the race its specs, then the sort of specs one needs for a certain class. In EqII, for instance, dwarves make -great- priests, warriors, and scouts, while they’re okay mages (my dwarf conj can attest to this). Though to be honest, most everything anyone does in MMORPGs is to try and make their character look as awesome (in their eyes) as possible. That’s half the reason I keep my ogre zerker, Ulgrish here, in an orc illusion all the time (damn, I wish they’d let us be able to put the armor on the orc illusions). Appearance.

People will even pick classes or betray to classes for appearance. Who has ever seen an ogre conjuror, or a dwarf necromancer? No one. Who has ever seen a Thule-worshipping Iksar Paladin? No one. (Though, this can be done; just accept Thule as your deity before you betray. It can be done with any evil god or good god before betraying to the other side; I’ve always thought how funny it’d be to see a Bertox-loving Paladin.)

And there’s nothing that’s more like a smack to the face than a troll mage of any sort, seeing how low their intelligence is when you start out as one.

But, that’s the fun of game mechanics.

By: Olde English Gaz

Olde English Gaz — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 09:28:20 +0000

I always pick some kind of Elf and a caster class ,just can’t help myself that’s always my first toon in any game.

By: Gothun

Gothun — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 18:13:43 +0000

It really depends on what game you’re playing and how they interact with each other. Even though the racial buffs were just changed in EQ2 to be more class specific, they play a bigger part than what they used to. That’s actually something I like to do is mix and match and make the best possible combination for my character’s skills.

I guess if race doesn’t do anything to or for your character buff wise, then it’s all about what you want it to be at that point, whether you role play, or just want it to look like what you think is cool. It’s nice to have a variety of choices too, unless you’re like me and you couldn’t make a decision if someone gave you the right answer.

By: Pete S

Pete S — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 04:32:38 +0000

Classes. I almost always play human characters. I’ve always wondered what it’s like to be human and MMOs are the closest I can get to experiencing that.

By: Green Armadillo

Green Armadillo — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 03:28:51 +0000

For me personally, class matters most simply because that’s what determines how I’m actually going to play the game. In EQ2 in particular, many classes simply didn’t click with me. That said, I do value being able to play what I refer to as non-Tolkein races, and I typically go that route whenever I can.

By: Magson

Magson — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 19:50:08 +0000

For me it’s the classes. Sure there are only the 3 archetypes, but what the game does with a class within the archetypes is what interests me. My shadowknight and my monk are both “tanks” but they’re also worlds apart in how they play. My dirge and my brigand are both technically dps, but again… very different. Heck, my warden and my fury are not only both healers but they’re both druids, and yet they play completely differently. And of course, I absolutely love to play my coercer (mage dps) but don’t really care for my necromancer (mage dps). I like my warlock (mage dps) but still prefer the coercer overall.

What difference would my race make to any of these? Would a high elf or sarnak warlock really be any different than my dark elf? Would an ogre be a different shadowknight than my high elf? I don’t think so. Race just doesn’t mean anything to me other than looks. It’s the class that affects how I play.

By: We Fly Spitfires

We Fly Spitfires — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 19:29:03 +0000

I think they’re both hugely important not only in the fun you having playing but also in establishing your character. I could play a class I didn’t like nor a race, to me they are equally important

By: RichY

RichY — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 18:10:00 +0000

It’s the Races….. I played Eq2 on release for awhile but the characters all seemed to blend into the same visual after awhile.
As someone else pointed out in a great little blog; afterawhile, the only difference between the classes are the spell effects.
Playing ‘humans’ in MMO’s never interested me. It’s a bit like going abroad on holiday & having fish & chips for Tea (something of a missed opportunity)!
Trolls or Iksar seemed to win hand’s down, perhaps because they were so obviously ‘different’.

By: jaffa_tamarin

jaffa_tamarin — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 14:58:02 +0000

For me it is definitely the races. I play EQ2 because I can be a ratonga — if they only had human and human-like races I’d probably have stopped long ago (if I had ever decided to start). I persisted with Vanguard for as long as I did because of the raki, and if they had better animation, and tails, I might still be playing. I’m seriously considering going to play WoW (at least for a while) when they introduce the worgen.

By: Blue Kae

Blue Kae — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 14:50:33 +0000

Before I started playing LotRO I would’ve said races are more important, that was one of my gripes with Guild Wars and I never played a human in EQ. In LotRO though I mostly play Men, and I’ve played nearly every class to level 20. Most of the classes have very different playstyles and almost all of them have some hybrid abilities.