Damage class recommend

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n0alterNative

Dalayan Beginner
what class you recommend to me for start playing, you do enough damage and have some magic, but not the only use magic to do the damage that also use the weapons, thanks forearm, and race you do is very important? to enjoy playing it
 
Race doesn't matter that much, play what you think looks cool. If you want weapons and spells, then pick a hybrid. Bard, Beastlord, Ranger being the dps hybrid choices. If you want more of a tanking role with the spells and swords, then choose sk or pally.
 
Bard from that short list. You can find the racial bonuses here.
http://www.shardsofdalaya.com/archives.php?archive=1293858105&subaction=list-archive&

While they are alot more balanced than they were, there are races that make better choices for particular classes.



Human or half elf would probably result in your best bard choice. For a bard I think the wood elf bonuses are ehhh (movement speed for example. You will already be one of the fastest things in the game as a bard). The increased crit is awesome, but only functions outdoors, etc. I'd imagine the resist adjust of human or half elf alone would be super handy for a class with pulsing cc, and outweigh the other races benefits pretty handily.
 
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Well, in my opinion all three of those classes are useful. I'm not sure that I'd say any of them is particularly more useful depending on how well you play it.

Bards can sings songs which benefit groups and raids by giving buffs of various kinds (2 at a time), and are capable of dd, dot, mez, slow, and other debuffing with damage songs. They don't do a ton of damage until higher levels, and soloing they seem more suited to kiting.

Rangers get buffs like SoW, small heals, the ability to cast damage shields, and root and snare mobs which can be extremely useful for both solo kiting and crowd control in teams. They do decent damage up close (especially when whirling blade stance kicks in), and get some serious range damage as they get better and more specific arrows to choose from for a given situation.

I won't say too much about Beastlords, because I haven't played with many at a higher level, but I did duo with one on my bard from 10-55, and it seemed like he was fairly durable, did comparable damage to monk/ranger, and had a lot of useful debuffs. And of course, his pet was very useful for handling an add until we could get to it.
 
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Bards: Can solo by kiting, be prepared to run endless circles though. A good bard makes every group they join instantly better, and having a pair of them for raids is almost required (especially in later tiers). They just have that many good songs, too many to list.

Beastlords: Capable of slowing, and some debuffing (shaman and enchanter way better at it though), and decent dps with the pet. Due to heals (general, and pet), dots, and slow they are a capable solo class also. Cunning is a group nuke boost and -aggro buff. Bliss is a very nice regen (health and mana) buff. And Savagery is a great single target stat booster (but make a mage bot to summon peridots).

Ranger: Rangers are very good dps, both in melee, and after a number of aa's, with a bow. Until you get jolt, they can be an aggro magnet. (And even afterwards, you have been warned.) They do well solo, and can perform ghetto-cc (with root) in a pinch. The Predator series of buffs (mark/call) will give your whole raid an attack boost.
 
Here's how I'd look at it.

Ranger = 80 Melee/bow and 20% spells (Maybe even more like 90/10)

Beast = 50% Melee, 40% Pet, 10% Spells

Bard = 60% Songs, 40% Melee. While you'll always be meleeing when not kiting the melee is a small portion of your dps (at most 40%, while leveling probably more like 20%)

If you only want to solo, I'd say ranger. Between kiting without gear, and tanking at the high end, I'd ranger solo's the best of those three characters over the course of their existence. The other two's solo viability will take a decent hit (kiting becomes not very effective at high end 65 and a bard can't really tank without a healer, and a bst isn't that great at taking hits in comparison to a bard or ranger really.)

If you want to group, any of the three classes should be fine, but you'd have the easiest time getting a group on the bard.

as for ease of leveling, I'd say bard > bst > ranger as far as ease goes. Bard you can solo the entire way if you're not bad at ae kiting.

As for fresh 65 status.

Bards are really annoying to play as a fresh 65; your dps sucks. But you'll be awesome once you get gear and spells!

Beastlord's dps is meh, but you have nice utility in the group. Probably the least annoying thing to play as a fresh 65.

Rangers meh dps till you get archery aa's and a decent bow. But then you're solid. But it's kind of a long grind till that point.
 
I'd definately say either BST or RNG. If you go BST, my understanding is that leveling is fairly easy, and you've got a bliss/SV bot for future use....RNG and you've got a CotP bot/tracker for future use. If you go bard...idk mp3 player? Bards are yucky and people with bard alts are even more yucky AMIRITE
 
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