What are you going to Heroic?Follow

Heroic is coming for real (insta 85's) and the window for the one-time freebie isn't that long. I'm a gold sub at the moment (not sure if they put restrictions on the freebie based on accounts?) but I am not going to waste the "gift" as it were... though I'm not sure I will play it either.

I know I will make mine on a regular server (not FV or zek).

I'm partly tempted to boost Banner (my 27 troll Sk that I was roleplaying a while back) but then again the fun of him was everything being silly hard in old content. So that might be losing the plot...

One thought is recreating my necro that I moved to FV (now level 77). I know how to play it reasonably well. Most of the other classes I have played a lot I have no interest in picking back up (enchanter) or I have high enough characters (beast, ranger) that it would be a waste of the freebie. My FV necro has gear I can never replace (even as an 85), but I just haven't "felt it" in respects to playing on FV in a couple of years.

My brother was trying to talk me into going rogue (which I have played to 30-55 half a dozen times, but never for any sustained depth of play) but I'm not convinced he'll actually come back and play for more than two logins, so that seems like a potential waste... since I don't see solo/molo rogue at 85 being the most fun/viable for me.

Monk (not frog) keeps crossing my mind too. I have played that a bit up to 65, but would have a lot to learn.

I'd probably heroic a pure melee class, either warrior or monk.

Froglok Warrior or Paladin...already have a frog rogue and wiz...I would think one of those would be the rarest of combo's....

(Apologizes to Snailish, but never enough Frog's... )

Not gold, and don't plan on being again for some time, as I started on test and rather liking it there. Played more there the last month or so than the last 2+ years on live servers, and was Gold for over a year of that 2 years. I think it's restricted to Gold, but if not, I may choose something on a live server. Just not sure, as most of my toons are 70+ that I enjoy playing, and even a few I don't enjoy as mains, like my Cleric box.

Maybe a bard, since I got lots of 40s or lower bards, and really like playing them, but tend to use them for traders, since they get run speed so low to avoid getting perma-stuck in a PoK / bind boot out of the Bazaar. PoK at least you can find a SoW most times. Booted to an empty bind spot is a pita, and if it happens to be Kelethin Soulbinder, even worse being up on the platforms and a long way from the bank, or lift, or PoK book (relatively speaking).

Magician maybe. They don't kite, and they seem awesome, I just never could get into grinding one the few times I've started one.

/shrug I don't know. In a schultzy voice, "I know nothing!"

Yther Ore.

Finally I can roll the pocket Ranger I always wanted to compliment my main crew but could never find the time commitment to actually do.

Now its just to learn the class in isolation so I don't embarrass myself grouping him later on.

PS

"OFFLINE ACCESS", interesting how many of those come up. I just did a who all for high elf paladins and got 17, but 16 of those are level 1 or 2 "OFFLINE ACCESS", which of course means Bazaar mules. And the 17th was a level 85 paladin who was also IN the Bazaar. LOL. It's 810am eastern time here on FV so probably NOT a good time to be doing such analysis.

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I have no idea what I'm going to make. BL is just such a natural fit for me that other classes feel awkward, especially parent classes, so, odds are I'll go hybrid but not sure what class.

Yes, please get on this... Need to look you up on FV when I am on...see what a level 100 player looks like...




Man, totally forgot about a ranger and a chanter...the buffs would be sooo cool to have....and never got a ranger past like 10 cause they were boring to me, but could see how they rock later ( like a lot of classes )....

2-3 ranger - best tracker - want high level to track abilty muti accts so i can log into them before deciding to log in and where to go.

bard -

not sure of my other accts yet.
maybe a druid?

The good news is that at HIGH level starting stats are all utterly and completely irrelevant.

It would be rather cool for a raiding guild's main tank to be a female erudite shadowknight! Talk about your "Equal Opportunity" employers!!

Edited, Mar 10th 2014 1:21pm by Sippin

Yeah I thought about using Magelo. But that database is absolutely not a good sample. So many players don't make Magelo profiles, for obvious reasons. Magelo might give you an excellent relative population of raiders and really "serious" players---and I use "serious" here cautiously since I'm sure MANY dedicated and otherwise quite committed players don't bother to do Magelo, nor want to spend the extra money for the service.

I have no idea why Sony wouldn't provide the stats, other than the usual corporate inertia and lack of desire to start devoting employee time and costs to satisfying the first of a potentially endless series of customer inquiries of this sort.

A Magelo sampling would only be reliable if one could make the case that players who raid generally "roll" the same class/race/gender as non-raiders and I don't see how that case could be made convincingly. While some players end up raiding with a toon they originally created for casual fun, many raiders design toons expressedly to max out their raid potential and that would skew any such general analysis.

My stats background from college is starting to show, alas...

Edited, Mar 10th 2014 3:22pm by Sippin

Its like a Census... its not meant to be 100% accurate.. it just takes a small portion of the population and postulates what the average would be and then gives a number. I would say its going to be as accurate a model you can get with the SOE player site down and never coming back.

Nah... I like bastardizing the language... I am from KY =)