How did you choose your main class?

NinchiTV

Always played a high elf mage in ES games, like the whole lore about it. Figured why not make it in ESO. Little did I know how strong it was gonna be, lucky me I guess.

Karmen

Bosmer nightblade forever.

Is it the class you played the most?
Is it the class you started the game with?
Is it the class you have more fun to play ?
Is it the class you like more aesthetically?

All


and because my playstyle is totally bosmeri + nb, sneaking, rolldodging a lot, with bow, moving fast and jumping everywhere. I like everything about bosmer & Nb, culture & shadow martial art

Malkiv

I never had an actual preferred class or role in the single player games. I would just pick a race, then build around the strengths of the race to min-max the best that I could.

Then when ESO came along, I played a couple of the invitational Beta sessions, and the semi-closed beta before launch. Each time, I rolled a new class. First was Nb, then Sorc, then Dk. Something just resonated with the Dk. I chose that for launch, and played it for the first month. Game was way too buggy for the wife and I, at the time, so we unsubbed and quit.

I came back to the game May 2018, and I picked a Warden since it was new to me, and I loved it. It was the first class I made two of - one for pve and one for pvp. Still love it. But I also rediscovered my love for the Dk. Second class I made two of.

Now I have one of every class maxed out, and play them all pretty equally. I probably put more love into my Dk Tank, even if I do play him the least. Everything I farm, I farm for him.

StormeReigns

First toon since a month after launch.
Bosmer: 2H/DW Stamina Sorc (solo)
Mainly used for all Overland and Story/Quests, WBs and occasional bits of pvp.

2nd toon (week after Morrowind launch)
Argonian: 2H/Bow Stamina Warden
Mainly used for occasional group content and Overland/Story and more for pvp.

Only really use two characters - though I do have plenty of other race/classes close to being as important (mainly my argonian necro would be next - just waiting for that perfect skin, costume and mount) already set up. But, those two will forever be my main loves. The gear set up, the Motifs used when not using the Costumes - all deeply thematic to me and my cheesy playstyle. I will spend days thinking about a character and how they should look, so much so, that once I start doodling drafts of them prior to creating them I will stick with it.

Ironically, the detail, planning and themes I planned out just for the two would do wonders in the RP community - sadly though, I support and love to watch RP'ers. I hate actually being apart of it. Doesn't fit well with in my concept of my characters, and would greatly obscure my cheesy animatic comic that I been drafting up.

Tommy_The_Gun

Long time ago, back in 2014, when the game launched. I created my 1st (and main) character and picked up a class based on in-game class description.

...Right now this description does not fit at all and is very misleading lol.

VoidCommander

Chose templar because I was always good at healing in the other games I played. Made characters for the other classes, but I have never looked back. Templar was my first, and will be my last, main character.

Although, I will say that magcro dps is hard to beat for pure fun.

Dojohoda

It was fun. Mistakes were made.

Curious_Death

started as healer templar... made stamsorc... now 12 heroes : each of stam/mag so when nerfhammer hit one... i change it for another also one two gold sets is enough

TheShadowScout

GRXRG wrote: »

How did you choose your main class?

The same way I always do.
Every game I play, I have my two favorite archetypes in mind, the sneaky backstab-from-stealth assassin-type and the physically weak but strong in other areas (depending on background, that could be magic, the force, psionics, biotics, or tech wizardry) long range caster. And then I look what that particular game has in ways of mechanics to make those, usually one boy and one girl, as my "mains".
For ESO that was Leskandera the stamina Nightblade, and Kelasendar the magica Sorceror.
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...I have no idea how Kes dre-lana managed to become a character I consider a "main" too, she was supposed to be just a crafting alt... I don't generally like the "heavy armor warrior type" nor "holy magic" of most backgrounds... but... somehow she grew on me.

xenowarrior92eb17_ESO

tried dk in beta...didn't liked it cuz was brokenly op...made nb in early access and never changed since...NB4LIFE!

Michae

Nord Nightblade since that's the character I've been playing in all TES games. It's a tradition of sorts for me. I do have other characters in ESO but I do quests and get achievements almost exclusively on my main.

ultimnib16_ESO

VoidCommander wrote: »

Templar was my first, and will be my last, main character.

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Same case here.
Actually I came to the Templar through the race.
In ES games and especially in Skyrim, I was a Nord and I liked their looks, culture, lore and history.
But what class makes sense for a Nord ?
Fast eliminate Warden, Nightblade, Sorceror. As Nords are warriors that leaves Templar and Dragonknight.
But Skyrim is a land of cold and ice and that didn't resonate much with a fire breathing Dragonknight.
Also in EQ I played a paladin (even if they were generally considered as not very "efficient") and Templar sounded a bit like a Paladin.
So I choose a Nord Templar and he is my main and most developped character still today even if I discovered later that Templars are really not very good warriors in ESO.

Lysette

i have 8 nightblades, 2 sorcerers, 2 wardens, and one each of dragonknight and templar. I started out with nightblade and still love this class, even it got changed quite a lot over time and I had to adapt play style, gear and skills. My nightblades play quite differently to years ago, but they are still fun and my preferred class, followed by sorcerer and warden.

What i like with my nightblades is that I can build them so, that I can do staff and 2h both about equally well, even i min/max attributes. i just have to drink a different potion and swap bars and they do the other kind of weapon equally well to before.With other classes this is not as equally possible - or I just didn't figure out yet how to.

In former times all my characters were archers - nowadays most of them use staff and 2h, but just my nightblades do them equally well. Bows are not that much fun as they were before - who the hell came to the idea to let them auto-fire after I have fully drawn them? Before I could hold them fully drawn and shoot the arrow by invoking the poison arrow skill - was an amazing weapon with high burst damage - wonderful for a nightblade with hit and run tactics - but nowadays not much fun anymore. Now i have to tank my nightblade, whereas they should be glass canons - high burst from stealth, kill and disappear unseen again - but ZOS just messed this up completely.

InAMinute

GRXRG wrote: »

Is it the class you played the most?
Is it the class you started the game with?
Is it the class you have more fun to play ?
Is it the class you like more aesthetically?

Yep, that is a pretty good description of my main character. I rolled a Nord Warden when I started the game and she is the only level 50 character I have. I currently see no reason to switch to anything else either, although I have tried other classes non of them seem to have the right style.

huntgod_ESO

Magicka sorcerer with pets, has great utility, excellent solo class and very fun. Played it in late alpha then in early beta after reroll and have mained it ever since.

Only thing that comes close for fitting my play style is Stamina Warden, though I also find the Necro's work well for me.

Banana

I like setting fires

Eifleber

I'm playing 3 months now, I have 3 lvl50s/CP350+ characters:

- Breton Templar healer (used to be Imperial but changed her for racial passives),
- Nord DK tank (1st character) and
- Breton Warden (best looking).

Tank is easiest for dungeons - as I am in the farming gear phase - but with current specs it's a limited option for doing other content even if I use dps gear on her. My healer is the most played atm as I find tanking a bit one sided, a one trick pony while healing spell damage also carry over to damage abilities.
Levelling was most fun on bow/2h warden, though but I struggle to find a good and fun setup for her now. Also being Breton and using stamina weapons doesn't fit very well. Generally I find wardens a bit more difficult to play with their numerous delayed skills (after 3 seconds X happens .. after 6 seconds ..Y happens).

Also levelling some other characters (shared CP once you reach lvl50 definitely helps), not sure who will end up as my favourite character. In other games it also took a while and often my favourite character is only the 5th or so because in every game it's quiite different how the roles play; in WoW a holy/disc healer coudn' t do a lot of farming for example while in ESO that's perfectly viable. GW1 didn't even have skill trees and such so you could swap role, skills and even secondary profession quite easily.
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Runefang

I’ve given up on my Magden for now until they make them more appealing. So after tossing up between a few classes I’ve gone with Magcro because I continue to be a sucker for punishment.

Animal_Mother

Started a Bosmer Templar at launch that was never intended to be my main. Just wanted to jump into the game, heal, and use a bow. He started as what we would now call a hybrid, and has changed his focus many, many times. Currently, he's a magplar.

Slowly switching over to a Bosmer Stamden.

Kalik_Gold

My main is the class I started the game with. My main is not my first choice in PvP, dungeon DPS, Tanking or Healing. I do have him set up for PvP as questing doesn’t require any skill.

He is my do everything and only person I quest on. My other characters are helpers to my core gameplay.

Ras Kalik - Stamplar

yRaven

Skull go brrr

SidraWillowsky

I went into the game blindly as a stamblade because I like the stealth archer in single-player games. I didn't realize that the class has a learning curve, so I struggled a lot at first. With a lot of work I was able to do pretty well on the class. I made a magblade after that to try vMA on and was never able to full get the hang of it. I tried taking it into vMA and struggled a lot due to the lack of "oh [snip]" heal, so I scrapped that.

I made a magden on a bit of a whim because it seemed like a good class to try vMA on with the shields and heals and has a Goldilocks moment. I took to the class immediately. I don't know exactly what it is about it, but it flows really nicely to me and the rotation is so much smoother than Magblade or Stamblade. Plus, I find it a lot of fun to play, which wasn't really the case for magblade or stamblade.

[Edit for minor profanity]

JAwtunes

I think it went... Eeny meeny miny moe

Lysette

SidraWillowsky wrote: »

I went into the game blindly as a stamblade because I like the stealth archer in single-player games. I didn't realize that the class has a learning curve, so I struggled a lot at first. With a lot of work I was able to do pretty well on the class. I made a magblade after that to try vMA on and was never able to full get the hang of it. I tried taking it into vMA and struggled a lot due to the lack of "oh sh*t" heal, so I scrapped that.

I made a magden on a bit of a whim because it seemed like a good class to try vMA on with the shields and heals and has a Goldilocks moment. I took to the class immediately. I don't know exactly what it is about it, but it flows really nicely to me and the rotation is so much smoother than Magblade or Stamblade. Plus, I find it a lot of fun to play, which wasn't really the case for magblade or stamblade.

I understand why you changed - but I think nightblade should be a high burst damage glass canon, an assassin, not a warrior type. Attacking from stealth, killing and disappearing in the shadows again - unfortunately ZOS had another idea about it.

Gilvoth

nightblade class, i only play classes that have stealth and invisibility, i have been that way since computers were a thing, like in the early 80s years ago. i allways choose invisibility and stealth as my main choice in class.
and now to answer your questions based on my answer.
Is it the class you played the most?
yes
Is it the class you started the game with?
yes
Is it the class you have more fun to play ?
yes
Is it the class you like more aesthetically?
yes
Your main switched from a class to another for any reason?
no, however, i tested all the classes and i dont like them, i only play classes that have stealth and invisibility.

Loralai_907

My absolute favorite has been DK since the dawn of time. I spent a couple years on my drunken zombie stam sorc, and now that she's a GO, I'm working on a brand new DK for Cyro and super love her already. So I either want to be in your face and live a while on my DK or I want to be a pita and stop you from doing whatever it is you thought you were going to do with your group on my stam sorc. And for PvE stuffs, its always my not meta Bosmer DK although I am branching out a bit with a healer and some other characters I have had sitting for a while now.

Danel_Vadan

Is it the class you played the most?
Right now it is.

Is it the class you started the game with?
No, but it was my second character.

Is it the class you have more fun to play ?
Yes.

Is it the class you like more aesthetically?
Yes.

Your main switched from a class to another for any reason? Nerfs, buffs?
Wanted something else and I ended up liking it more. My original main was a DK and I didn't want to be a guard, lol

oxygen_thief

alcast told me which class to take and how to build it

Bucky_13

My first character was a stamblade, picked it because I enjoy playing stealthy characters in MMOs and be able to ignore trash mobs most of the time.
It by far the class I've played the most, nothing comes even close. I also have 6 other NBs, 2 mag, 3 more stam and a pacifist NB who's essentially a hybrid NB.
I play them because I enjoy them, both in terms of their style (shadows and blood basically), and also because cloak exists. Really enjoy the fast explosive "do lots or damage in a short amount of time and try not to die"-style Don't really care if they're the best performing class or not, I will play them way better than any other class which might be technically better.

West93

started playing eso little bit before one tamriel patch.
TES III morrowind was the game I grew up playing, so by playing eso wanted to create a dunmer character, didn't care much for what class, at that time dunmer were magicka based race, so my class was supposed to be magicka.
tried magsorc leveled up to cp 160 something, but realised I didn't liked ranged class.
dislike dragonknights, because dragons = skyrim = watered down version of RPG genre game that I like.
nightblades as a stealth base class didn't appeal to me either, so rolled with a magplar and since the racial changes I switched to stamplar.