Can't "click" with any class.

Has anyone else had a crap of a time trying to choose a main class? For some strange reason, none of the classes have struck me as "Yes, this is what I want to play." I've leveled nearly every class to the 20-34 range and none has really stuck out to me. Its really a strange feeling when you like the game but just can't find that class that makes you happy.

And yes I do know that you can change classes at a whim but I am the type of player who likes to have a main class. I like to focus the majority of my time on a single class although I do intend to level the rest just for convenience/cross-class skills.

Edit: Just in case someone tries to suggest a class based on my past MMO's I'll list what I played in several MMO's.

Guild Wars - Warrior
Guild Wars 2 - Mesmer
Tera Online - Berserker
Ragnarok Online - Priest (Magnus Exorcismus <3)
PSO/PSU - Hunter
PSO2 - Braver
Eden Eternal - Bard (Left before Samurai came out)

Wait until the first content patch they are releasing more jobs.

I hope they do as I can't find a job I like in this game. It's pretty demotivating as all my friends are running off completing their relic weapons but I feel homeless and detached from the world. It's not that any of the classes are bad, before someone leaps down my throat. Just of all of them I've tried I feel the same way as the OP stated. I haven't tried something and felt, yes this is what I want to do this is me. But I still hold out hope that my job does exist, and just hasn't been implemented yet.

You know, I'm kinda with you on this. I leveled monk in 1.23 because it was my highest class (at 16 lol) and used mnk to get through the whole 7th umbral era storyline, so it's at 50 now. But they made so many changes to how it works, that I haven't felt like taking the time to figure it out. (I know, I know, I should, but I have to do it the right way or I'll never be able to play it correctly.)

Since 2.0, I've leveled all the war/magic classes evenly to around 20, though archer is falling behind at 17. Like you, I just don't 'click' with any of them. They're all fun, and all have their own strong points, but none of them particularly appeal to me.

In all honesty, I'm thinking of finishing off my crafts to 50 and waiting for Musketeer :D I want my tiny Lalafell to dual wield guns and wreak unholy havoc across Eorzea. Also, it would be a perfect homage to my hero Merlwyb ^^

How I wish there was a Samurai or Ninja/Thief class. Also wish they made Paladin more Holy-esque with the healing and smiting. It just feels like a Knight class to me. =\

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Originally Posted by Eric1987

Wait until the first content patch they are releasing more jobs.

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Umm... source?

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Originally Posted by Anmida

Has anyone else had a crap of a time trying to choose a main class?

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Not really, I am in love with Warrior, and greatly enjoy Arcanist at the moment. I'm very excited to try out Summoner! Only thing I wish is they would bring out my Musketeer that they have been promising for three years now!!! It was the whole reason I wanted to play this game and starting playing in the 1.0 alpha/beta, and I am still waiting... *sighs*

About the only game I had this feeling is GW/GW2, and seeing you played those maybe the "style" of the jobs just doesn't appeal to you. For me, I'm still sticking with Monk/WHM, just like in 1.x

Rest of the classes are just for variety for me, to have some other combat style once in a while.

Yeah I am having a hard time as well picking a class, Iv been jumping all over the place with classes and none of them don't appeal to me at all. :(

I feel the same as the OP. I originally started BRD, then moved to WHM, then to MRD, now I have no idea what to do. My current goal is all classes 15(only 1 more to go 3 lvls) and finally all classes to 30 for the job, that should give me the ability to be ready for any new jobs. By that time I guess id pick one and stick with it. Game just feels so watered down compared to FFXI, but i still love it nonetheless.

The game is made so you can quickly swap jobs/classes at (almost) any given moment. I can't really imagine sticking to any of them permanently.

For me personally I love SCH as I love being a healer but I wish BRD was more of a true support class rather than a DD with support abilities. I would love to main as SCH and then make BRD my sub job. (sub as in second main not sub as in FFXI)

In general, SE please make real support classes!!

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Originally Posted by Anmida

Has anyone else had a crap of a time trying to choose a main class?

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Try something out that you don't think you'd like, and it might surprise you.

I prefer Mages, and played one for the entire beta, so I decided in order to refresh the game for myself, I'd play a Pugilist.

I'm very glad I did.

I haven't had this much fun with melee since my old TBC Rogue, back when Rogues were actually useful in that game. Plus with cross-class abilities I can bring Protect, Feint and Raise to the table so I can help everyone else out.

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Originally Posted by Waffles

For me personally I love SCH as I love being a healer but I wish BRD was more of a true support class rather than a DD with support abilities. I would love to main as SCH and then make BRD my sub job. (sub as in second main not sub as in FFXI)

In general, SE please make real support classes!!

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This.

I originally wanted to roll Archer with the intent of becoming a Bard for Launch, because I love playing support classes, and as of the Closed Beta the Bard was in fact Support. But just before it came time to Launch SE changed that around, likely due to a majority of testers wanting to be ranged physical damage dealers. I can't blame those that want to be B.A. walking artillery pieces, but this change crushed my ambitions to level Archer.

Why not have a fork in the Archer road? We could have Bard for full support, and Ranger for DPS. Wouldn't that be nice?

I have the opposite problem. I like ALL the classes D:

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Originally Posted by Anmida

Has anyone else had a crap of a time trying to choose a main class? For some strange reason, none of the classes have struck me as "Yes, this is what I want to play." I've leveled nearly every class to the 20-34 range and none has really stuck out to me. Its really a strange feeling when you like the game but just can't find that class that makes you happy.

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Could it be because the real fun starts at level 50, not pre-50?

Hang around, get a few classes to 50 and join up some end game content. You will see.

All the battles, down to the last percent of HP, the last man/women standing, the last cast, the last second stats doesn't start until then.

jc

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Originally Posted by Waffles

For me personally I love SCH as I love being a healer but I wish BRD was more of a true support class rather than a DD with support abilities. I would love to main as SCH and then make BRD my sub job. (sub as in second main not sub as in FFXI)

In general, SE please make real support classes!!

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I, too, wish BRD was more of a support class. Its what I played in Beta and I really wanted to be the class with the awesome songs. . . and now I get a Ranger who sings. =\

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Originally Posted by Cyroselle

Try something out that you don't think you'd like, and it might surprise you.

I prefer Mages, and played one for the entire beta, so I decided in order to refresh the game for myself, I'd play a Pugilist.

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I've tried every class and I don't think there is a class I dislike. Its not that the classes are bad in anyway. Just none have really made an impression on me. I've been randomly leveling classes for the cross class skills.

I had a friend who was hating bard at early levels but was the only kind of class he enjoyed do such with it, at 50 he said the class completely changed for him and is absolutely in love with bard now. You may want to level one to 50 and see what happens

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Originally Posted by AttacKat

Could it be because the real fun starts at level 50, not pre-50?

Hang around, get a few classes to 50 and join up some end game content. You will see.

All the battles, down to the last percent of HP, the last man/women standing, the last cast, the last second stats doesn't start until then.

jc

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While I do agree with you to an extent, I don't think a class should be fun only at 50. I've never played any MMO where the fun only came at max level so I don't think its the content but rather the classes I cannot truly click with. I never said I wasn't enjoying the content and having fun cause trust me I am but I think the majority of the fun you are talking about comes from the content.

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I had a friend who was hating bard at early levels but was the only kind of class he enjoyed do such with it, at 50 he said the class completely changed for him and is absolutely in love with bard now. You may want to level one to 50 and see what happens

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With everyone mentioning BRD, it sorta makes me want to try and max it but I really wanted a Brd to be about the songs rather than the "Ranger who thinks s/he sings" we currently have.

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Originally Posted by Eric1987

Wait until the first content patch they are releasing more jobs.

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I don't think this is the issue. They've specifically avoided making the jobs varied and well-defined so that they don't have to worry about balance. I hope enough people start feeling this so that they're pushed to inject some flavor into them. The way they went about this is pretty cheap; just avoid balance issues altogether so you don't have to worry tuning things or having people pick favorites. It could just be a consequence of how quickly they had to get the game together for relaunch, but I certainly hope people take this gripe to them so they don't just sit on it. In addition to this, the abilities and stats themselves are also very stale.

One of the obvious contributing factors is that the abilities meant to define the jobs are set on timers that end up being feeling inconsequential because they're used so infrequently relative to the "core" class commands that all act very similarly. If you're DPS, you spam a three move combo with 150, 200, 250 w/e damage with your choice of a lighter debuff attack when wanted. DRG is one of the few jobs that actually has cool defining abilities, but a DRG is still more defined by the same old three move combo than it is by the rare Jump sprinkled in whenever it's available.

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Originally Posted by Anmida

With everyone mentioning BRD, it sorta makes me want to try and max it but I really wanted a Brd to be about the songs rather than the "Ranger who thinks s/he sings" we currently have.

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A LotRO or EQ bard would be pretty neat, or even the kind of bard-like-thing from Rift. However that's not what we have, regrettably.

This Game needs a samurai class =)