what do you do when you are undecided about which class to play?

Arthas

I feel like I'm truly undecided about what I would like to play.

I have to do a no-reload run for the whole quadrilogy but I'm undecided for a character that is a good pick both for a good and a evil party.

Choices are:

Barbarian\druid dual class

Barbarian\cleric OR berserker\cleric dual class

Kensai\mage dual class

abacus

I'd suggest starting all three and playing them side by side... maybe a chapter at a time, or a map at a time and then dropping the ones that you enjoy the least.

By the way, you shouldn't be able to dual class from Barbarian without using eekeeper or some other save editor... unless they changed that in v2?

Arthas

Got tweak anthology that makes me able to dual class. Three playthrough at once is pretty hard. Especially because for the barbarina I would still wait for level 13, the same cna be said for the berserker and the kensai.

Also, the stat allocation is different according to the class I should be getting..

abacus

Yeah, I guess that's trickier for late dual-classes... I tend to forget about them as my personal preference is to play the character I want all the way through. Different strokes...

Another alternative would be to create all three in a party together and see who survives the longest?

JumboWheat01

When I can't decide what to play, I go to the net for wikis and guides and start reading this and that about the classes I want to play.

Then three days later I actually finish and still have no idea what to play. Sometimes I just roll a dice.


On a side note, a good party seems to always lack the best mage, so being a mage yourself may be a good idea, though I am more partial to being the one in control of healing, because the AI is dumb about it. An evil party most likely has Edwin and Viccy, so there's no real need to be either a mage or a cleric. A good party probably has Jaheira, so another Fighter/Druid may be a bit too much.

SirBatince

I do crazy stuff in EEkeeper.

For instance, a human fighter/wild mage/cleric is entirely possible and playable without external mods

ifupauline

druid would provide the most versatil gameplay
cleric will be buff and tank
kensai/mage no comment...

Druid of course.

jesterdesu

Doesn't any of them pull on your heartstrings more? They'd all beat the game pretty easily, if that's your worry and deciding which is stronger is a bit like deciding whether 9mm or.45 is best, in that it depends what you're using it for

Aerakar

I have solved this by doing as @abacus suggests and playing 2-3 games side by side for a time until one Charname absorbs me more than the others, then we're off to the finish.