Have you settled on a main yet?

[Feaniad]

Good gawd I'm having nothing but trouble deciding.

I tried looking at various polls to pick a class that wasn't popular but there's a fairly even spread out there.

Maybe I'm not looking in the right places but there doesn't seem to be many Marauders. That's kind of tempting.

Every class I've played so far is fun, but I really need to stop making a bunch of alts and just focus on one.

Anyone else struggling with this? How did you decide?

[wgrant]

Nope. I envy those people who can just read the descriptions of the classes, pick one and level it to cap in a game. I always end up floundering and creating multiple alts. I have done it in pretty much every game so far. Eventually I settle on one to advance.

So far I have a Squig Herder (Hasting), Magus (Sneev), and Witch Elf(Cathula) that I am leveling up. The Squig because I like Archery classes, the Magus because it looks the closest to my DAOC favorite of the Dark SM although its not a great match, and the WE because every time I play a game like this I find myself wishing 6 months down the road that I had rolled up a Stealth class of some sort :P

Right now the competition is between the Magus and the Witch Elf, with the Witch Elf winning for the most part

[malcolm_mccallum]

In pretty much every game I play, the first character that I pick will forever after be my main. It isn't even much of a choice for me. I like to play defensive tanks, my Warhammer miniature horde is led by the Black Orc Malglum Leadmangler, and I needed a shield. Black Orc plays just like I expected it to and though I am tinkering with a Chosen, the Black Orc seems a perfect fit. Surprisingly, it doesn't seem gimp yet (which may make it less than perfect fit).

[docsavage]

Tough decision for sure. I read through all the descriptions and a few classes sounded cool, I started out with shamman and tried a few others. By the time around level 10 I was having huge second thoughts about main, but what really sold it for me was once I got a few more levels I went out and RvR'd. By far the most fun I'd had with my class yet, plus got to see how things would begin to play out with my class. I know T2 won't reflect strats at T4, but if ur just in T1 I think everyone is trying to sort things out and therefore you won't get a true feel of game play till you pass the "herd" and get out there and see what its really about. So my advice is hold strong in one till you can at least have some solid play in T2.

[Vallour]

Good gawd I'm having nothing but trouble deciding.

I tried looking at various polls to pick a class that wasn't popular but there's a fairly even spread out there.

Maybe I'm not looking in the right places but there doesn't seem to be many Marauders. That's kind of tempting.

Every class I've played so far is fun, but I really need to stop making a bunch of alts and just focus on one.

Anyone else struggling with this? How did you decide?

This is a sure sign that it's a fun game

And I am having some of that problem too. I want to play all the classes!

[Morethancaffine]

Me picks one class and den plays just dat charactur to watevur da levul caps is. If dere is nuttin ta do once me hits da cap, den me may try outs alts, but me main has always beens da charactur dat me starts wit. It jus werks out dat way. Fer me dis is almos always a tanks type charactur, sumtimes a hybrid tanks like a Thane, sumtimes a straight defensive tanks.

[Antiochene]

I'm a level 10 Black Orc and I am having a lot of second thoughts. I was a zerker in DAOC. I think I might try a caster class. I have a hard time leaving my 10 though because I have limited play time, so I want to have at least on T4 character eventually.

[Rusby]

Yes I am having this issue also :P I have my 15 Chosen, 10 Squig, 8 Shaman, 6 Black Orc, and now I've been playing Sorcerer. So far I like the class.. I was just worried about how Chosen would turn out in end game so I decided to poke around. I had 4 lvl 70's in WoW and a couple 60's, my most played class easily being my Druid.. unfortunately there's no druid class in WAR, so I tried going resto with Shaman.. I just don't think I want to be healing in yet another game. I seem to gravitate to ranged DPS. My dwarf runemaster in DAOC was lots of fun, along with my warlock, mage and shadow priest in WoW.

[Kestrel_Trebor]

I picked the class that I felt had the potential to be the best RvR soloer. (But that would still have the capability of contributing in groups -- actually I think every WAR toon has this . . .)

<fingers crossed> that I was right

I never have alt-itis, really -- I go the direction I think will satisfy me and I see it through. Really, you can't finally judge what a class will be like until late game, so giving up or getting discouraged too early is usually a mistake In DAOC I really only had three main toons -- Kestrel for about a year, then Hasil for years, then Bardif for a year+ I had some alts to help with stuff, but only played them to help out my 8-man in getting stuff done.

[Dharnyle]

I rolled a Sorceress first and didn't enjoy it too much. But that could have been due to being completely new to the game and not knowing what to do. Sorc is on the self atm but that could change soon.

Then I rolled up a Zealot and second time around the starting areas was better but I am having concerns in the T2 Scenarios as it seems that whenever I go into Phoenix Gate (I really hate the Troll one) I instantly earn a huge target over my head and die constantly. That is reminding me too much of WoW bg'ing as a Holy Priest. Everyone expects you to keep everyone alive while the other side makes it their primary mission to turn you into goo ASAP.

So then I went to a different server and rolled up a Witch Hunter. I really like my WH. I just have to giggle every time she puts her gun to the forehead of something and pulls the trigger!

Back to PT and rolled a Chaos Chosen. Still too low to come to a decision as to wether or not I like the class.

Squig Herder I've tried but only just. Not enough time spent to know...

DoK as well. This was something that I might give some more time into because of my Zealot. On my Zealot I find myself constantly on the front lines, even when I try to hang back, and that usually gets me killed pretty dang quick, so maybe a melee healer like the DoK? Seems to me the DoK can dish it out to some extent as well as do some healing... Again, haven't played my DoK enough to learn their mechanics. I dunno, but I'll give it a shot.

Thought about a Shaman... but not sure I should roll up even another character before giving the others a shot.

/sigh

I think I am lucky that I haven't rolled more Order chars.... I could easily like those too and be eternally stuck leveling up forever!

One thing I do know... No.. and I mean I have no desire whatsoever, now, or in the future, of rolling a Bright Wizard.