Vitality
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Bondurant
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Trying to log on in, dodge server lock and login queues, rushing early levels to get ahead of the flock, and ductaping a plastic bottle on my dick. I can hold shit for days, not so much with pee.
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I understand that you can level up all the classes after the fact, but if I go for one of the melee dps/rogue like ones to start am I going to end up thinking it was a waste to start once I hit the seas and am limited without any range? I think I already know the answer to this, but have an itching to play a melee dps character for whatever reason.
Cybsled
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Then play a melee DPS char. In naval combat, people can play different roles. For instance, you can board the enemy vessel, man a cannon, or grab people off the ships if you have the lasso ability.
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This. Everyone has a part to play. I am always a fan of playing what you will have fun playing.
This. Everyone has a part to play. I am always a fan of playing what you will have fun playing.
Tuco
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Bruman
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As people have said, there's kinda two sides to it.
-In land-based PVP, I think your options will be more limited. You'll need to pick a spec with several gap closers and stuns/etc. As well as good escape options. 1v1 I think melee will end up being just fine (especially after some chat last night). In naval, you'll be limited as well to certain roles.
-On the other hand, if you pick something you don't enjoy, you'll quit after a week anyways.
So play what you enjoy, find melee DPS' strength, then pick a build suited to it and push that shit hard.
Are you going to be joining PRX? If not, you should join whatever server we land on, go the opposite faction, then we can tell Paul about how we murdered each other over and over.
Yes.
Not that I'm aware of. The forums just say that the server won't be picked until late, possibly not until right before launch.
Tuco
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Korrupt
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It's not really at that level. After 15 years of this we've all played every role possible probably. I don't have astrongpreference to go melee DPS, just an itch after playing ranged in Wildstar. Anyway, got a pretty chill work day so I'll get it figured out before launch time.
And yeah, I'm along with you in PRX.
Bruman
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Heh, that made me reflect on my MMO history (ignoring 'minor' MMOs that I only briefly played like Neocron, Vanguard, DAOC, etc):
-Melee: Everquest & P99 (monk), WoW (rogue to the 40s in vanilla)
-Healer: Everquest (only to the 30s in vanilla), WoW (only to fill a gap in the raid during Cata/WotLK, hated doing it), FFXIV (liked it quite a bit)
-Magic Ranged DPS: WoW (shadowpriest to cap at various points in WotLK, Cata, and MoP)
-Physical Ranged DPS: LOTRO (Hunter)
-Tank: never.
But yeah, no way I'm going to tank in this game.
Cybsled
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I never tanked in a MMO until SWTOR oddly enough. Then I found it a lot better than DPS because people always bitch at you for not using leet macro XYZ to maximize your DPS0rz. As a tank, you just need to manage cooldowns and position properly, which I never honestly ever had a problem in a MMO with. So when MoP came out, I switched my main to a brewmaster
Plus instant queues lol ;P
Was gonna go mainly melee with archery in the mix with lots of closers and options at range. I havent done any research into whats popular in this game but it seemed like a decent choice.
Tuco
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We are. I think what we could go pirate and be very specific about who we pillage, but it wouldn't be worth it since the server would conflate us with the rest of the pirates and we'd defend ourselves against random people we don't really want to fight.