What's your favourite class?

[orange<]

Hello, everyone.
I'm interested in hearing what you like to play and how you like to play it.

I'm sorry if this constitutes spoilers, but I was hoping to also hear a general outline of your favourite biuld order.
Perhaps not your most powerful one, but the one you enjoy playing the most.

Please tell me if this is spoilers, and I'll delete and remake in the appropriate board.

[Niegy]

As a newbie discovering the game, not having played much class more than a bit, not have play at all some classes, and not having all classes available, it's :

1 - Rogue
2 - Shadowblade (almost on par with Rogue, magic vs traps)
3 - Summoner (but for now I felt it a bit weak for survivability)
4 - Arcane Blade (well seems rather close to Shadowblade but need dig it)
5 - Bulkwalk (just because it seemed more easy to play, lol)
5 - Cursed
6 - I haven't tried Alchemist/Archmage/Berserker
...
999 - Archer

[TheRani]

Lately it's a tie between Rogue and Doomed.


I play Rogues as trap specialists, and with Doomed I play like a shadowless short-to-midrange caster. If I live long enough I go AM.

[Amphouse]

Paradox Mage for sure; messing with various timestreams is always fun, you get a choice between three different artifact drops when you kill bosses with see the threads(plus it works on the worm bile), and redux gravity well is amazing. Plus they get tons of crowd control area of effect spells, and I love crowd control. And I haven't even mentioned the paradox form + haste super mode they can go into at will.

[jenx]

Slinger <> Solipsist <> Cursed <> Archmage

[Rholor]

Adventurer

[kestell]

Summoner was my favourite, but I've won twice with one now(my only 2 wins), so I'll probably shelf it for the time.

Arcane blade is fun - my last arcane blade had a 74% crit chance or something like that...

I'm currently playing an Arch-mage - and I'm enjoying it. It feels kinda like cheating to learn armour training and put on heavy armours though.

Can't yet get my head around the weirder classes - solipsist, doomed, cursed, Sun-moon mage(anorithil?), sun paladin, temporal warden...

I know people say the alchemist is an easy starting class, but I did not enjoy it that much.

In terms of races, I like Cornac - the XP bonus ( or at least lack of a penalty) and the early additional infusion is great and if you plan using Anti-magic it helps not having a racial tree eating you generic points.

Dwarf and Thaloren are next up.

[Molog]

Cursed is fun.

Arcane blade too, played one as a mage a while back. Got 100% spell critical.

[CaptainTrips]

I used to really like Math class, but now I'm more fond of 17th Century Post-Structuralistical Curtain-Hanging.

[SageAcrin]

I don't really have a strong favorite.

I'm fond of Necromancer, Archmage, Arcane Blade, Berserker, and Doomed, out of the classes I've ran through, but...no really strong favorite.

[Earwicker]

I haven't tried most of the available classes yet, not even finished a single game. But to me the funniest part of ToME is writing addons (i.e, mostly new classes), and my favourite class at the moment is one of my own - namely, the Anarchist, a stealthy bomb-thrower with remote demolition and subversion skills. Even though I always end up blowing myself up with it, since the class uses a new resource (Fanaticism) that causes lots of backfires when it gets too high

[Sirrocco]

I go heavy into the antimagic side fo the force, and the idea of "favorite" is weird, because a lot of times I'll focus in on one or two, and play it until I get sick of it/them.

- Dwarven Mindslayers are pretty awesome. I play three-mindstar mindlash specialists, pushing conduit damage, heavy on both shields and voracity by maturity. Grip yes, reforging no. Generally swap everything over to mind damage eventually via prodigy, since my mindpower is through the roof. The dwarf part brings the saves (like always) and covers that issue they have with HP quite handily.

- I'm also fond of Wyrmics. My particular schtick there seems to be breath weapon (and other str-based area attack powers). I'm still tweaking how to do it right, but it's pretty fun.

Beyond that...
- Oozemancers are interesting, if ridiculously overpowered, but I think that the playstyle I fall into with them isn't actually all that much fun. Further testing required. Of course, they're still due a few nerfs. (They still have an absolutely ridiculous level of equilibrium regen in mucus, and an easy ability to stack two instant-cooldown powers that can insta-cooldown each others, which means that they can essentially spam their most powerful attacks forever, as long as they take a few turns from time to time to pop one or the other refresh power. Also, when I play them, I seem to develop this bizarre obsession with acquiring Spellhunt Remnants.

- Solipsists look like they have potential, but I look at them and try to come up with a build and strategy that makes sense for me, and mostly I just get confused.

- Doomed are interesting (and playing a Yeek Doomed through the first two dungeons is an *experience*) but I think I have to make myself not use shadows with them if I want something that I'll actually enjoy the process of playing.

- I've tried to get back into Alchemist lately (if only to have someone to unlock Corrupters with) but I think i have to choke back my natural reactions there, too. My natural reaction is to tank out the golem until I can't tank him anymore, and then build up my bombs and/or fire. I'm sure that this works, but I'm equally sure that I'll never maintain enough interest in such a character to play him for any real length of time.

[sofocles]

Reavers are my fav class right now, with a very different play style.

T. Wardens also interesting, new upgrade on timeless makes them even more powerful.

Basic classes like berserker and bulwark can also be quite interesting.

I have to try to play a no stealth shadowblade.

Generaly speaking i dont like playing with pets. And some classes although powerful seem boring to me (archmage)

[tylor]

My favorite class is Time Warden, but I suck playing as one.

I like all hybrid classess, actually, but it's hard to keep them alive, because they don't have caster's arsenal of shields or warrior's beefiness.

[5k17]

I like almost all classes (except Cursed and Alchemist), but especially melee-caster hybrids, which I prefer to play as pure melee or pure caster characters, usually contrary to which one they are meant to focus on; I generally like to overspecialise. I remember pure melee Solipsists being very fun, but since 1.0.1, they don't really have anywhere to put their class points anymore.