What is your favourite EVER class and why?

[Meado]

Any sort of medic, preferably the heavily armoured variety (in other words, paladins)

 

[Nutcase]

Rogue in WoW.
He's a wimp that relies on aces in his sleeves, so you can do all kinds crazy shit with him from epic pwnage to hilarious escapes.

I don't think "wimp" fits a class that is the game's top damage dealer, but yup, the design is pretty awesome. I have never seen one like it in other games.

My personal favorite is the warlock class. In particular I love the destruction spec, which (attitude-wise) plays like a ranged rogue with almost no defensive or escape options. Therefore, the destro playstyle is aggressive, double or nothing, all-in. By default you lose to everything, but when you do the exactly right things, you can occasionally manage a truly satisfying pwnage where the other party is left with the (false) impression that your class is impossible to beat. Destrochain ~~~ stunlock.

The cool thing about both of these classes is that they have plenty of interrupts and crowd control, which allows interactive, back and forth play and for player skill (what little there is in WoW) to show through. Not banging out one canned dps/heal sequence and waiting to see whose gear was better.

It's a kind of a shame that these classes are in this game instead of some other game. The lock tends to be either severely underpowered or severely overpowered, in a large part thanks to the game's basic mechanics which are at odds with balanced and interesting PVP. The rogue, played in PVE, becomes a rather dull and one-dimensional damage dispenser. Its interesting (control and mindgame) aspects are purposely made useless by mobs' immunities as well as radically different mechanics (facing, out-of-combat, etc.) compared to player characters.

 

[Ethereal]

]Oooh...
In most JRPGS (well, Final Fantasy) my favorite class is the Dragoon.
Kain was a Dragoon and my favorite childhood RPG was Final Fantasy II (IV).

In Diablo II, I loved the Sorceress. Was Frozen Orb and as soon as it was nerfed and synergies were put in I made a fire sorc and it was pretty wicked.

In D&D (I've only played it maybe twice) I always played a rogue.

So, Dragoon, Sorceress, Rogue.

Kain was my favorite character too. I just quit playing Final Fantasy IV once you lost control of him, which was not to far in the game. The dragoons from, "Legend of the Dragoon", were equally awesome though. I wish more games would have a Dragoon of some kind.

As for my favorite class in a game I would have to say Undead Priest from WoW. I always went for the healer types in games that had them and being a Zombie with a mohawk was cooler than anything I could have imagined.

 

[vxicepickxv]

In LARP I like Fianna Galliard Garou. I enjoy storytelling and singing at a moot. In Tabletop and online games I prefer the role of healer; cleric, or whatever. All time Favorite is Empathy/Kinetics Defender on CoH.

Funny. I was kind of partial the Child of Gaia Ahroun.

My absolute favorite class of all time though would be the Healer Class from Dark Age of Camelot.

Ok, I can't DPS, but I can heal everyone else AND I have Crowd Control? That's almost as good.

 

[Jupsto]

I tend to go long ranged or sneak. So, using CoD4 as an example, the class I use the most (assuming I'm playing Hardcore) is either Sniper-Silenced MP5, Claymores, Overkill, Dead silence, or the same thing split into two classes, one for each gun, with UAV Jammer instead of Overkill.

Also worth mentioning, I always set out to be a different kind of character every time I play Fallout 3, but damn if I don't always end up putting all my points into Sneak, Lockpick, and Speech.

I read theres a fallout 3 build that lets you complete the game without ever fighting anything, ie persuade people, friends with animals perk etc.. kind of lame but slightly epic.

 

[Ultrajoe]

*vanish*

The three rules of a rogue

1) Rogues never die, but they might give their lives for a cause
2) Rogues don't act nor react to opportunity, they make their own
3) Vanish is always an option, because wipe doesn't need to include you.

 

[Zenode]

ANY class that can deal out as much DPS as a nuclear bomb to one character so they can FEEL THE BURN

 

[Magus44]

Funny how many people say stealth.
Its not really my thing, I'm more of a smash face person. Lotsa health and armour preferably. Epic fighters in oblivion and other RPGs, Barb in D2, Heavy in TF2, assault in Battlefield games.
Second is healers.
WOW was my only strange class choice, I had an awesome mage. Prolly coz my internet was terribly laggy when I was playing years ago.

 

[Kajt]

Pyro from TF2.
MFFF! MFFFF!
Or a Warrior with a big battle axe.

 

[IxionIndustries]

As many people said, the Necromancer was my favorite, also with the things showed in other games like Oblivion and such.

I also really enjoyed Druids, even before I started playing classes..

 

[Beefcakes]

I like the type where I can stealth, be it rouge, stealth, or ninja, I like to stabby stabby when people aren't looking ^-^

 

[doctorwhofan]

Cleric- Dungeons and Dragons Online- the most powerful caster in the game! It heals, it buffs, it kills,it heals, it kills undead, it heals, it melees, it heals...

 

[Monkfish Acc.]

Whatever the mix between Mage and Warrior is called.
Swords + magic = good times

 

[zauxz]

Thrown weapons + insane acrobatics skills + stealth = Awesomeness in its purest form.

 

[Hyperactiveman]

Whatever class you call owning snipers by rushing passed them and shooting their face off with my shotgun while they're trying to find me in scoped mode.

 

[Sporenut]

Hmmmm... well if you're talking about ANY game with classes I would have to say a Swordmaster from the Fire Emblem series, but if you're talking about FPS and stuff I would have to say TF2 spy

 

[asiepshtain]

WOW - Druid.

A fun, diverse and challenging class.

 

[reyals]

Nukes or other super weapons.
Nothing says 'f-ck you' better than blowing up someones entire army and or base with one shot with an obscenely expensive thing you should never have had time to build in the fist place

Not really a 'class' but I'm an RTS guy and it is a 'class of'

 

[Banana Phone]

Agreed, spy kicks ass. There is just nothing like getting a chain backstab spree. I also love sniper classes, though.