Welcome to the game. Picking a class can be tough. Players can have strong preferences...which means they’ve done a good job creating distinct classes.

My first recommendation is to try a couple of classes early on. You get eight slots, so why not create a couple of characters as you learn the game? You might discover your third choice class is really your favorite. Just remember that in a character’s life up to level 15, they’re not going to have access to their strongest abilities, so some classes might offer just an idea of how they play.

But I’ll suggest three possible starter classes and how they play.

Magic Templar

This plays as a melee in your face magic knight with a toolbox full of heals and buffs. They’re fun, and have extremely high survivability because their core skill returns a LOT of health. Because they have such good heals, they make a good starter class. You can mess up a lot as you learn without dying over and over.

Stam Sorc

This is a really fun, really powerful class that I love for PvE. It’s a bit counterintuitive as a starter class because you might assume it’s hard to learn a sorc as a stamina character. Actually, what happens is that you only have 3-5 class skills that you use as a stam sorc, then You rely heavily on weapon skills. So there are fewer options, and that can make them easier to learn. And the skills they get are really good.

Nightblade

Stamina or magic, this is my personal favorite class. But make no mistake...it’s a challenge. Probably the hardest to learn. You get the benefit of stealth and massive dps, but at the cost of being super squishy. But what I always say (whether accurate or not, lol) is that if you learn a nightblade, you’re forced to really, really learn the game. As a decent nightblade player when I started creating other characters, I felt is as able to walk into any of them and do well. Players who are used to crutches like the templar’s heals can feel utterly thrashed if they move into a nightblade or mag sorc.