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The Shaman

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Favorite Profession?

Just wondering what everone's favorite profession or combination is...

Any thoughts?

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03/27/05 12:59

shadowwraith

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Re: Favorite Profession?

I've always been a fan of the paladin-type classes, but I took a Warrior/Necromancer through the beta and really liked it. The only problem with combining melee and arcane professions is the warrior's lack of magic points. So I think next time around I'll focus more on melee with just a few supportive spells, or maybe sub ranger for ranged attack instead.

04/18/05 23:41

The Shaman

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Re: Favorite Profession?

I think I'm going to stick with the Elementalist / Monk I played... I really like nuker classes.

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04/19/05 08:51

Swamp_Fox

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Re: Favorite Profession?

i played a ranger/elementalist and really liked the sheer damage it dealt (excluding warriors, did about 20 to them). think i might change my elementalists type from fire to water when game is released

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04/22/05 05:49

The Shaman

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Re: Favorite Profession?

I think I might be switching to Elementalist / Mesmer...

So many choices and ways to spec your character!

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04/22/05 20:24

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Re: Favorite Profession?

i've really never got how to get attributes except by leveling. (played pvp 95% of the time so might be wrong on alot). but if you spend your 200points would you be out of luck on another line you wish to put attributes in. or is there a way to get alot more then 200?

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04/24/05 08:01

The Shaman

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Re: Favorite Profession?

As of Beta there wasn't anyway to get more than 200 points...

Though I'm wondering how much they'll change when the game goes live. I certainly don't hope they leave the level cap at 20!

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04/24/05 21:51

Swamp_Fox

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Re: Favorite Profession?

i'm not to concerened about the lvl cap. i actually kinda like it. since i had played eq for about 2 years and got to lvl 65 finally, and then these newbs that played it 4 months pass me adn asking me to help them gets kinda annoying (plus they dont know what they are doing most the time).
i think they should just change it where you could get skills up besides leveling. So you could max out all of the skills, and then be able to do some crazy skill combinations.

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04/25/05 06:06

shadowwraith

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Re: Favorite Profession?

You can't (or at elast couldn't) get any more than 200 points for attributes @ lvl20. But if you spent all your points and realized you wanted to put some in some other discipline, there's a "refund" point pool that builds as your experience goes up. During the last Beta weekend, at lvl8 or so, I had 24 refund points. Which means I could essentially "undo" 24 spent points, and put them in something else.

04/25/05 09:16

Swamp_Fox

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Re: Favorite Profession?

refunding points is a good idea so you cant perminatly mess up you char from begining, but somewhere i heard that if you refund points you lose some of them, like if i refunded 24 i might get back 20 ( or something to that effect). Not sure if that is true or not, heard from a unreliable irl friend.

anyone know if that was true?

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04/25/05 14:41

shadowwraith

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Re: Favorite Profession?

Perhaps in a previous BWE, but in this last one it was point-for-point.

04/25/05 16:07

Swamp_Fox

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Re: Favorite Profession?

good to hear that we dont lose points for an early game mistake. hope they dont change it. well everyone sooner or later will prolly trade in skills since ones with new expansions will prolly be better, or be better for the build.

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04/26/05 05:42

Hero_Amun_Ra

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Re: Favorite Profession?

I think ele/mes is a good combination. ele for energy burning and mass damage, and mes for energy stealing. It will have a small hp pool, but a large mp pool (ele). The only thing whats bad about this class is that u get owned BADLY by huge mobs. When you have a good tank in front of you this could be a very good class

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05/09/05 04:39

AuntieI

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Re: Favorite Profession?

I like my E/Me. Lots of energy. i use a mix of Elementalist and Mesmer skills. How do people get along without backfire to shutdown a healer?
Refund point work like this. It cost you 1 refund point for each rank you remove from an attribute. Example: You have 9 in Fire; you use 1 refund point to drop it to 8. You get back 11 attribute points to put into something else.

Every 250EXP you gain a refund point for a maximum of 24.

05/19/05 11:00

NecromancerServant

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Re: Favorite Profession?

Necro/Mesmer. Great combo, probably the best in the game,

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05/25/05 15:48

Lightleaf

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Re: Favorite Profession?

My most favorite(and best) profession would HAVE to be an elementalist.

Elementalists are the only really DPS needed in PvP, and IMO, don't try to argue with that, try 4 monks 4 elementalists and see how it works, and try to get air elems mixed in with mesmer secondaries.I have seen a group of 4 monks and 4 eles win in hall of heroes.

Anyway, I like elementalists because I always loved spell casters. The sheer power of spells and the cool effects, thats my intrest.

05/28/05 17:58

Hero_Amun_Ra

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Re: Favorite Profession?

I can agree, Elementalist skills are very good. But you got to have differend classes in PvP, There are always skills to shutdown any class. Good example is backfire vs a monk. Your monk wouldnt be able to heal anymore. So its facing certain death. it think the best classes are Ele/Ran and Nec/Mes or Mes/Nec. Always have a tank in front of you. Somethink like are war/ele or a war/monk, somethink who can stand a good blow. Just have a mixed party, thats is a stays best for PvP

05/29/05 02:02

Desdemona

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Re: Favorite Profession?

I don't have a favorite job. I honestly don't believe there is one single "best" job in the game either. I find that the people who are the best at what they do are the ones who really enjoy that job and its skills and focus on creating a good skill set. There may be a few dominant combinations to defeat a single enemy type, but other enemies would prove impossible to kill.

*shrugs* I prefer caster types, but I love my warrior meat shields, too.

05/31/05 13:25

Living__god

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Re: Favorite Profession?

I prefer to use a pyro because i like to cause masszise amount of damage on those bloody annoying mobs.

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06/08/05 13:26

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Re: Favorite Profession?

There isnt really a 'best' one, but i find one of the better ones is Necro/Elementalist (fire)

I just love the way that if you max out blood magic and fire then cast the firey restoration thing you can steal quite a bit of health, and get hp for casting the spell! the only way thats been countered before for me is when i was bundled by massive evil people x.x

06/14/05 15:42

JshoOtR

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Re: Favorite Profession?

i just like the warrior/monk so i can heal myself and use enchantments.

or i also like the warrior/ranger so i can focus on melee and have a pet to back me up. (i luv my pet lil mexican)

06/21/05 13:46

Dasha

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Re: Favorite Profession?

I am always the healer in any game I play never a warrior..

But I am loving the warrior in this game.. 8)..

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06/24/05 14:50

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Re: Favorite Profession?

I am using a warrior/monk combo, but in a way that I think is different than most people. I specialized him to smiting magic only so that my guy is geared almost totally to offense. If you do missions with a healer or a healer hench, this makes life a lot better as it lets you really unload quickly on a foe and stops a lot of bosses from chain healing. Just my opinion, but this is the combo I like best so far.

06/26/05 10:10

Vardic

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Re: Favorite Profession?

Love my Warrior/Monk but I really like my Monk/Elementalist too. :P

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06/27/05 09:50

henke

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Re: Favorite Profession?

I think that mesmer / ranger is good ....

07/10/05 14:11

henke

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Re: Favorite Profession?

My favorite profession is Ranger / necro ... I just love to have all animals beside me and the necros "horde of undead" , thats what i call it ...

07/11/05 01:27

Princess

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Re: Favorite Profession?

Elementist/Mesmer.

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07/11/05 05:49

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Re: Favorite Profession?

So far for me, I really like the necro/ranger combination .. and my second favorite is elemen/mes. I have always been more into the casting then the hands on. Still get my EX but most of the time I remain safe in the back. What is everyone's take on a warrior/ranger or ranger/elementist? Just curious for when I create my new character - red

07/14/05 07:58

MePhiSToPheLeS

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Re: Favorite Profession?

N/Me all the way!
I'm specialized in Blood/Inspiration/soul reaping(only 6)

Alone, I'm not the deadlyest, but with a good group, I just
cut all casters' resources: I guess it's just funny to see them go nuts when they realize they're useless... I can also stand a warrior decently for a moment with health stealing spells so I really love this build cuz it's polyvalent.

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07/18/05 15:08

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Re: Favorite Profession?

I like W/Mo. I can take a lot of damage and like seeing that I can survive longer than others :D What I dont like is that all the casters do more damage :(

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07/19/05 02:02

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