You playing anything cool right now pal? i always worry about you man, you and i lived pretty similarly for awhile (fathers picking fights with us and demeaning us)

Big strong fat guys, I think I kind of just have a type ngl

I’ve enjoyed playing high damage character of several varieties (I used to play a good amount of black mage, red mage and monk in FFXIV) but I have more fun playing tanks (I also find it more stressful unfortunately).

In single player games I tend toward melee classes, I find that if I’m playing a ranged class with enemies chasing me down I feel stressed.

In a current D&D game I’m playing a support focused cleric/sorcerer. I get very obsessive about stuff and have trouble not optimizing. I thought it would be very annoying if someone played a warrior with mighty thews and my warrior with mighty thews was just twice as good as killing guys with a sword than theirs, but nobody is mad at the mage who just makes them better at everything they were already going to do, plus I tend to play my character pretty cheerleadery anyways.

I tend to be anything that has Ice/Frost Magic. If not that, than any healer.

Paladin with a big two handed reach weapon and tries their best but has trouble rigidly following their code.

Fast melee. Don’t have to learn any magic system bullshit, and the game is typically designed around using melee weapons. Lots of games have slow hard-hitting weapons that are just too slow to be viable, but if it’s possible I do enjoy me some caveman ungabunga hit with big stick from time to time.

PvP: healer. Ideally a mix of healing and crowd control abilities. This what I played in Shadowbane and that awful game imprinted itself on my psyche forevermore.

PvE: ranged attacker of some kind like a ranger.

teamfighter disabler tank

the action don’t stop

or alternatively whatever the worst jankiest loadout is, especially if it’s gimmicky and pisses people off

glass cannon, magic user if possible. i want to see how far i can go without dying :::3

The proletariat

I generally lean towards classes with more mechanical complexity, so generally casters/status effect types. The gameplay loop needs to sate my ADHD, so if all I’m doing is smacking something with a sword by left clicking I’m quickly going to get bored and drop it.

Paladin because fuck you, you fucking dark fantasy edgelords.

Ranged always ranged no matter the setting. Give me a bow or a sniper or a PPC please.

i prefer DPS style classses but i will always choose the class with 2 handed swords in fantasy RPGs. i would play mages more often but i generally don’t like the ‘big glowing colorful ground markers with area of effect elemental damage attacks’ genre of magic aesthetic, it comes across as gimmicky/fictitious/unimmersive, magic should be liminal/surreal/terrifying imo. i basically kind of hate the WoW style fantasy/videogame aesthetic and genre of RPG, the only one i really even slightly enjoyed was Guild Wars 2 (because huge playable cat guys with 4 ears and 4 horns and no paid subscription)

Meme classes/builds. I don’t know what’s wrong with me. Maybe I’ve just shifted my younger “don’t tell me what to do” perspective into spite for video game developers and their limitations.

I always want to do the most unorthodox thing because I usually don’t vibe well with the pre-defined classes in a lot of games. I’ve quit MMOs because I just don’t like ANY of their classes as a whole package and wish they were more modular. That’s why I loved Ragnarok Online so much and have played those WoW private servers that let you pick abilities from every class.

I’ll dual wield shields in Souls games, make a battle priest in games that try to force them into being healers (Ragnarok). I used heavy armor, a pistol, and a shield in Grim Dawn to essentially be the Terminator. I loved Puppetmaster, one of the least played classes, in FFXI. Blue Mage in FFXIV. Whatever the class was in Final Fantasy Tactics Advance that let you flip a coin to 50/50 kill yourself or an enemy. Tonfas (the worst weapon in the game) in Nioh.

As long as the least played class isn’t that because it’s so unnecessarily complicated (Feral Druid many different times in WoW, etc) I naturally gravitate toward that a lot of the time. But it’s really based on vibes. If I get a cool combination of race and starting armor, I might just go with a concept, like an anti-mage or something.

Edit: I know I was supposed to hit you up to play Ragnarok sometime soon from a previous thread, but I started a Chinese class and got super busy

I love me some magic. If I’m not doing cool Dragon Ball like energy blasts I’m not interested.

But rn I’m playing oblivion where I find it kind of hard to brute force with mage, so I just use some supplementary spells as a nightblade.