What do you care for more in classes?
DragonKing
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When playing an RPG, what do you care for more when it comes to classes?
Do you care for;
Thematics- classes not look or feel the same.
Or
Max min potential- power game, power game, power game.
It goes without saying, I want thematics, I will play a game multiple teams if the gameplay loop atleast feels somewhat different from my last play. I understand sometimes you have to share things like spells and abilities across classes but overall I want enough difference that if I'm playing a necromancer that half the spells I'm using aren't still the same spells I used when trying to play an elementalist or a pew pew everything gets blown up mage.
If I'm playing a battle mage, I want to feel like a battle mage, I want to feel that sword and sorcery are magically perfectly woven into my playing style.
I will literally play a gimped character who will die 90% of the time over min/max omg this is broken haxxor build just because it feels different and not like oh look... I'm a battle mage now buck I mult classes mage and warrior, stone skin, mirror image, threw a single fireball (maybe) now chop chop everybody dies. (Yes, that is shots fired).
What about you guys.
Do you care for;
Thematics- classes not look or feel the same.
Or
Max min potential- power game, power game, power game.
It goes without saying, I want thematics, I will play a game multiple teams if the gameplay loop atleast feels somewhat different from my last play. I understand sometimes you have to share things like spells and abilities across classes but overall I want enough difference that if I'm playing a necromancer that half the spells I'm using aren't still the same spells I used when trying to play an elementalist or a pew pew everything gets blown up mage.
If I'm playing a battle mage, I want to feel like a battle mage, I want to feel that sword and sorcery are magically perfectly woven into my playing style.
I will literally play a gimped character who will die 90% of the time over min/max omg this is broken haxxor build just because it feels different and not like oh look... I'm a battle mage now buck I mult classes mage and warrior, stone skin, mirror image, threw a single fireball (maybe) now chop chop everybody dies. (Yes, that is shots fired).
What about you guys.
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My priorities are:
1) powerplaying,
2) powerplaying, and
3) powerplaying.
In that particular order….
But I have some rules:
- No sleep/rest abusing (you’re supposed to be in a hurry - not reinacting “Sleeping beauty”)
- All charnames have to be a fighter type (paladin, fighter or fighter multi - rangers and monks are not an option),
- Always max hp on level up,
- All tomes, manuals and such goes to charname,
- I have to get the deck of many things and the Machine of Lum - and use them on charname,
- All exploits are viable to use, but I dont use PI, Simulcarum from spell slots, timestop, shapechange, and wish
- And lastly: NO ROLEPLAYING!!!
When I first started to frequent this forum, I was more or less shocked to see that others didnt play the game the same way as I do. I am quite positive that you all have misunderstood the game - afterall it’s an RPG, not a RolePlaying Game
I dislike ToB because for it’s underwhelming grasp on dishing out divine powers. Ascension rectifies that a bit, but still.
I am a fan of the Old OP mods (check the Bodies, Shadows over Soubar and such). They knew balance is an option - not a necessity
And I am equally positive people like you misunderstand these games.
And Owlcat and Larian most certainly do as well based on playing their output.