Assassins from what I read are the BEST PvP / PvE class, as well as the MOST popular class on Asian servers; for many obvious reasons (Ganking factoring in big time). I think it will be the most played class on Western servers as well.
Gladiators are also great classes and I think it is the 2nd most played class on the Asian servers and also excels in both PvP and PvE.
Ranger have the fastest Burst damage out of any class at the moment when using certain cooldown skills. However the Sorcerer has far more consistent DPS and will outshine the Ranger fairly quickly. The Ranger is a very very capable class from what I am reading.
The only classes that seem 'gimp' at the moment are Spiritmasters and Chanters.
Spiritmasters skills and pets do not scale well, or at all, longterm with gear upgrades. They rely heavily on pets but cannot have one out when flying. Their main form of damage, DoTs, will not stack with other Spiritmasters and they will overwrite each other. They however DO have the best CC around, and excel at that, but most classes have decent CC, bar one, which brings me to the Chanter.
Chanters have crap-tastic CC. For a class that relies on melee it will hurt in a game FULL of CC. It will do very well in most groups due to an ability to heal okay-ish, as well as having some great Buffs, but if given the chance the Cleric outshines in the majority of situations (including DPS). From what I know they are Gank bait more often than not in 1v1 PvP, but like I said, they can do pretty well Buffing / Healing in a group situation.
Last edited by tehNihilist; 15-09-2009 at 04:10 PM.
