MMORPG Games - What are you?

[Darkblazer]

I'm sure you've all played it or seen it, games like World of Warcraft and Everquest 2 - The roles of a party that are crucial to have in any raid or for the simplest dungeon.

What i want to ask you is this - When you make a character for these games, what is it you usually want to be?

Possibly the Tanker who runs in and absorbs all the damage to protect the rest of the party?
Or the Healer who supports the Tanker and the rest of the party with life-saving heals and buffs?
The DPS character who inflicts insane amounts of damage in a short period of time to help out the tankers.
Or the Crowd Controller Who could decrease the damage output of the monsters or incapacitate them to make everyone's life easier (Because what harm is an ogre that's been polymorphed into a sheep?)

So what are you?

 

[KaiusCormere]

I have tanked more often than performing other roles. Crowd Control I haven't seen used as you describe it though, I have seen it used as the term for applying debuffs to monsters to limit their damage output.

 

[Darkblazer]

I have tanked more often than performing other roles. Crowd Control I haven't seen used as you describe it though, I have seen it used as the term for applying debuffs to monsters to limit their damage output.

Let me edit that then in fact, i personally have always been a mage and i asked a friend who claims to be a CCer - They were apparently talking out of the arse

Thanks for that though!

 

[YukoValis]

playing a MMO what am I? wasting my time

 

[Erana]

Hrm, I Wonder...
*looks at avatar*

 

[Samman]

I played everything at one point or another in WoW. Depends on the encounter/instance (or season if pvp!) which was my favorite at the time. Although I think that playing more than one role is important for people who want to do well. When you've got first-hand experience with multiple perspectives it makes understanding whatever role you're playing easier.

For example, a healer who's tanked a certain encounter before will be better able to predict damage on the tank. A tank who has DPS'd a boss before will better know where to position himself.

All that said, my overall favorite roll is tanking. Although WoTLK dumbed that down (with a lot of other things).

 

[Abedeus]

Crowd Control doesn't deal much damage. It's the DPS' job.

CC is generally any class that is supposed to hold, slow down, knock down, cripple or in other way stop monsters from attacking. Debuffers are those that lower damage and help dealing more damage. And usually it is tankers job to pull the monsters, healer heals him, then CC and Debuffers go and do their job, finally DPS characters start nuking or slashing enemies.

Don't forget about Buffers who simply cast helpful spells on their teammates, mainly on tank, but sometimes on healers and damage dealers too. There are also hybrids that can do two things at the same time.

Also, don't say that in every game you need tanks. City of Heroes/WoW/Everquest? Sure. Guild Wars? Good players (I.E. more skilled than the rest) don't use tanks at all. They either use a melee DPS character that is buffed to take less damage and a CC to make that character's life easier. Or just use a pet class (Spiritmaster in Aion, Squig Herder in WAR, Necromancer in Guild Wars) to tank. If it dies, they just resummon it without having to worry about losing a valuable member of team.

 

[sooperman]

playing a MMO what am I? wasting my time

Yes, but we are asking what *role* do you play?

Dang; the only "real" MMO I've ever gotten into was Runescape, and you are all of the roles at the same time. But generally I play as a tanker.

 

[Slash Dementia]

I usually just go solo and hack my way into the AI. I always pick a warrior class.

 

[Darkblazer]

I played everything at one point or another in WoW. Depends on the encounter/instance (or season if pvp!) which was my favorite at the time. Although I think that playing more than one role is important for people who want to do well. When you've got first-hand experience with multiple perspectives it makes understanding whatever role you're playing easier.

For example, a healer who's tanked a certain encounter before will be better able to predict damage on the tank. A tank who has DPS'd a boss before will better know where to position himself.

All that said, my overall favorite roll is tanking. Although WoTLK dumbed that down (with a lot of other things).

I completely understand what you're getting at

I'm not a very avid WoW player though, and leveling is usually a slow and arduous process for me, so when i get to the higher levels, i don't generally start a new character because i want to stay in my kind of mage-mindset

 

[MercurySteam]

Meh i'll take a stab at it. In Rappelz I was a CM (Chaos Magician). I mainly focused on debuffs, buffs and a few high damage magic attacks, but a spell caster's armour is always shit so I need to be careful. And when they realesed Epic V, my pixie's healing beacame useless so I temporarily quit. Ugh all this talk is givig me nostalgia.

 

[Beltaine]

I've played it all, but I tend to lean towards DPS caster types.

Longest played character: Magician in EQ1 for a couple years.
Favorite: Paladin tank in WoW before Paladin became FOTM.
Current: Druid DPS/Healer

 

[Chipperz]

I'm a Crowd Control class. I make sure the enemy is permanently immobilised with 100% Health Debuffs.

Yeah, I like killing stuff. Even with my Tanker on City of Heroes.

 

[Kajt]

I'm usually either a healer or tank.
I tend to get a group faster if I'm one of those 2.

 

[Darkblazer]

I'm usually either a healer or tank.
I tend to get a group faster if I'm one of those 2.

Yeah i've always seen that Healers usually get snapped up really quickly in raids and groups.

 

[Lyri]

Crowd control/Damage Dealer.

I'm a debuff whore, I won't lie about it. I love nothing more than incapacitating someone and then fireballing them back to town.

 

[YukoValis]

playing a MMO what am I? wasting my time

Yes, but we are asking what *role* do you play?

Dang; the only "real" MMO I've ever gotten into was Runescape, and you are all of the roles at the same time. But generally I play as a tanker.

geez your thick. I was making a joke. Although it's kind of based on truth. MMO's are a big waste of time, and I've wasted enough of my time to know that. I use to play a CC rogue on WoW, but since CC isn't valued anymore in that game, I'm not wanted.

 

[Darkblazer]

Also, don't say that in every game you need tanks. City of Heroes/WoW/Everquest? Sure. Guild Wars? Good players (I.E. more skilled than the rest) don't use tanks at all. They either use a melee DPS character that is buffed to take less damage and a CC to make that character's life easier. Or just use a pet class (Spiritmaster in Aion, Squig Herder in WAR, Necromancer in Guild Wars) to tank. If it dies, they just resummon it without having to worry about losing a valuable member of team.

I've not experienced quite the broad amount of MMORPGs that you have really, Guild Wars i got bored of after hitting level 10, City of Heroes i couldn't be bothered trying and i thought Everquest might be pretty good, but i wasn't prepared to pay for it.

WoW and a number of other free MMORPGs are what i am speaking of in this instance, and generally in the ones i play, rely on tank etc. for the parties

 

[Go on]

Well for the brief period that I played WoW I played as a tank in my first raids