best character typeFollow

I think it's more about the player than the class. But there's no doubt that DPS really seems to help!

I enjoy my Brigand immensely. But, it really depends on the play style. I love my ranger and fury when I'm PvP'n. My brigand for questing and harvesting. All the other toons I have have never seen the sunlight and are chained to tradeskill stations in the Guild Hall. XD

Brigand...Ratonga...nuff said

When I started playing my Fury I thought I had found the best class ever. By the time I got to level 79 with her, I was fully bored. So just for fun I started a warden, thought it might be cool to see how the other druid type measured up. And boy did it ever! The increase to Spirit of Wolf alone made it all worth it. But I also discovered the heals are better than the fury heals. On the downside the nukes are not as good. I have dabbled in other alts, I have a 50+ brigand, illusionist, a few others in the 30s range, but in my opinion none of them really compare to my warden. The best character type indeed is all a matter of personal opinion :) You mentioned shadowknight, which you may play well and really enjoy, but trust me when I say there are others that can't play them very effectively at all, me included. My best approach to finding the best character for you is what you seem to have done, try them maybe up to 25 or so, until you find the one that really seems to click. It will certainly make the playing experience much more enjoyable.

Personally I like the monk, very strong class that can easily solo. And with Feign Death, Invis and Tsunami you can pretty much go anywhere you need to go.

Honestly i think the two best classes are both the Brigand and the Monk.

Its been said many times over, the best charecter type is one that you enjoy playing.

Now your enjoyment of it may change, lead to other classes that you enjoy but it is still the same thing.

Play what you enjoy.

Despite all the stuff in the past with SK's I have ALWAYS loved playing my SK, sure it was a pain when leveling was so slow cause im primaraly a soloer and we really didnt have that much power, but I loved the whole idea of it. I wanted to get good at the class, develop skills that would over come the shortages, then they introduced tinkering and it really helped hehe

Now, they are awsome in my opinion

All classes can solo very easily. None of them is a group-only class.

My zerker can stand there in the face of the enemy without flinching and dish out 10 shades of pain
My SK can spread disease, steal health and devistate a whole group at the same time
My defiler can wave his hands, then stride into battle without getting a scratch on him

Every class is good. You will always find a player that will say it is the 'best' class.
The 'BEST' class is the one you enjoy playing at that moment

The cleric classes arent that good for soloing are they? I've never actually played one but from what i've heared they arent the best for it.

The clerics aren't bad soloers... they're just kinda s... l... o... w...

A buddy of mine played a temp and I always used to kid him that the only way he could actually kill a mob solo was to settle in and wait until it died of boredom :-)

I actually found it kinda hard leveling my Templar past level 20 (had a fae templar). It was extremely sllllloooowwww and had to use tons and tons of heals.