Sandinmygum the Stupendous wrote:
Olorinus wrote:
I was thinking of trying it because I need an mmo to love but I don't like the look of the ability/job system and none of the jobs really make me go "ooooh I want to try that"
From what I got from a friend, any Class/job can fill in any role via their abilities. That seems kind of over board. I like games with solid This is a tank class, and These are the DPS classes, and over Here are the mage-type.
You still have skill trees that determine your role. I'm playing Assassin, and while I do get some of teh same abilities as the DPS specs, my tanking tree has more defensive abilities. It's like in WoW, you can level Paladin and get abilities used by all the roles you can fill, but you aren't going to be very effective trying to preform in one role while spec'd for another.
Assassin is an Advanced Class from the base Inquisitor. At the outset, you can say "hey, Inquisitors can be melee DPS, ranged DPS, tanks, or healers!" But really, one of their Advanced Classes can be either melee DPS or tanks, and the other AC can be healers or ranged DPS. You really aren't switching your role up on the fly.
All the starting classes
do have paths you can take to playing DPS, healer or tank, but again, it's not like you are switching. You can respec by paying a fee, but you currently cannot change your AC. Really, it's not any more overboard than WoW is with regards to classes and roles.
Edited, Dec 22nd 2011 2:00am by Spoonless