Classes 2018

Skander · June 2018

Dragon knight:
-Magicka dragonknight is a pretty all rounded class. Good everything but lackes support. It's an "egocentric" class let's say (strong)
-Stamina dragonknight same as magicka but you have snare removal. (stronger)
Nightblade
-Magicka nightblade: Assassin wannabe. Pretty much useless if not in a bomb build in a group
-Stamina nightblade: hahahahahahahaahahahahahahahaahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha (and they want to buff it)
Templar:
-Magicka Templar: Strong all rounded class, best at supporting but can pack a punch (strong)
-Stamina Templar: if not running bleeds, it's pretty much a walking corpse in solo. In team is stupidly strong just as any other stamina (dawnbreaker)
Sorcerer:
-Magicka Sorcerer: So strong they must add sets that go trough shields to kill them
-Stamina Sorcerer: Trollking or die
Warden:
-Magicka Warden: Does this class even exist? Didn't they delete the class?
-Stamina Warden: See -Stamina Nightblade, but at least he can't cloak

RighteousBacon · June 2018

This post gave me a good smile. There is good humor in this game’s class balance. I don’t completely agree with the dk parts but still

ak_pvp · June 2018

I don't think I agree with any of this. Well, except stamblade:

-MagDK: Mid. Bad mobility, high defense/damage tradoff. but potentially really high damage and decent CCs, pretty good healing.
-StamDK: Low. Bad worse survivability, (costlier to block, less healing) less defense/damage trade off.

-MagNB: High. Harder to play since can't roll spam and needs setup for burst, but incredibly potent abilities like cloak/shade, merciless, incap. If not for sloads would be contender for top.
-StamNB: High. Strong basically everywhere but healing, and cloak carries them in that regard with its top tier mitigation. Again sload problem.

-Magicka Templar: Mid: Kinda weak solo with janky feeling but strong abilities, especially purge this meta, broken strong for group.
-Stamina Templar: Lower mid: Very high damage, better mobility, still extremely janky, kinda low survival and limited group support.

-Magicka Sorcerer: High: Good all around, decent survivability, decent burst, decent group support, mobility is high for mag, but kind of lower vs stam mobility.
-Stamina Sorcerer: High mid: High damage, decent survivability, very good mobility, but burst is highly weapon based. Except the current spin2win.

-Magicka Warden: Low. Magplar but worse. Higher innate tankiness.
-Stamina Warden: High. Tankiest and best self healing class in the game, StamDK on roids, high burst, high sustain, high mobility, kind of eh 1v1 I suppose. Currently my top pick for this meta.

Johngo0036 · June 2018

None of this matters as the strongest class is Sloads,

Just slot that on your stamplar of magicka warden and win.

arkansas_ESO · June 2018

"-Magicka nightblade: Assassin wannabe. Pretty much useless if not in a bomb build in a group"

this cuts deep man

Ender1310 · June 2018

What PVP content are you specifying? I use sloads and Torugs on my Magicka Nightblade and I have to say it works very well. I am able to sling spells with anyone in a straight up fight and bail with cloak if I get in to deep. So for solo/small casual group medium and large scale Pvp I think it's in a great spot. I have noticed that in organized groups you want very specific aoe (spin to win, Shalks) etc, so I am not sure where it fits I there. I put so much pressure on people with unlockable damage plus Skoria that they have a hard time pressuring me. We will see what happens when they nerfy the sloads but I am working with what is there now. Don't see how the class could be in a better spot for ranged DD.

Skander · June 2018

Ender1310 wrote: »

What PVP content are you specifying? I use sloads and Torugs on my Magicka Nightblade and I have to say it works very well. I am able to sling spells with anyone in a straight up fight and bail with cloak if I get in to deep. So for solo/small casual group medium and large scale Pvp I think it's in a great spot. I have noticed that in organized groups you want very specific aoe (spin to win, Shalks) etc, so I am not sure where it fits I there. I put so much pressure on people with unlockable damage plus Skoria that they have a hard time pressuring me. We will see what happens when they nerfy the sloads but I am working with what is there now. Don't see how the class could be in a better spot for ranged DD.

I'm not counting broken sets. I'm counting skillwise as the skill-threes.

Swimguy · June 2018

ak_pvp wrote: »

I don't think I agree with any of this. Well, except stamblade:

-MagNB: High. Harder to play since can't roll spam and needs setup for burst, but incredibly potent abilities like cloak/shade, merciless, incap. If not for sloads would be contender for top.
-StamNB: High. Strong basically everywhere but healing, and cloak carries them in that regard with its top tier mitigation. Again sload problem.

how does cloak not carry magblade and carries stamblade? magblade has a lot more options than stamblade but otherwise pretty much the same despite mag having superior 5pc sets.

Also stamblade has pretty good healing idk how ur gona say it doesnt

Vapirko · June 2018

Most of these are wrong.

_Ahala_ · June 2018

-Magicka Warden: Does this class even exist? Didn't they deleted the class?

ak_pvp · June 2018

Swimguy wrote: »

ak_pvp wrote: »

I don't think I agree with any of this. Well, except stamblade:

-MagNB: High. Harder to play since can't roll spam and needs setup for burst, but incredibly potent abilities like cloak/shade, merciless, incap. If not for sloads would be contender for top.
-StamNB: High. Strong basically everywhere but healing, and cloak carries them in that regard with its top tier mitigation. Again sload problem.

how does cloak not carry magblade and carries stamblade? magblade has a lot more options than stamblade but otherwise pretty much the same despite mag having superior 5pc sets.

Also stamblade has pretty good healing idk how ur gona say it doesnt

Both are carried by cloak. Stamblade healing is kinda poor, no real amps, no hits, no burst heal, and they fixed cloak buffing heals.

Both have pretty equal 5pcs. Riposte is strong on the mag end, but so are bone pirate and eternal hunt.

thankyourat · June 2018

The forums always hating on magblade. it might not be great for solo PvP but it is good in alot of situations. It offers a lot of group utility and off heals while still being able to harass opponents in small group play with roots and good damage pressure, and it's kind of op 1v1 as long as you aren't fighting a mag dk. It's pretty much in the same boat as mag dk good in group play great 1v1 but kind of bad 1vX.

Skander · June 2018

Vapirko wrote: »

Most of these are wrong.

If you are playing on a group of 10 or more people, your opinion doesn't count

Ender1310 · June 2018

I revise my opinion. Sorcs. Top dawg right now. Maybe not one on one but who cares. I can also streak away if I like. Sorc is god mode atm

Stibbons · June 2018

"Magicka Templar: Strong all rounded class, best at supporting but can pack a punch (strong)"

Healbot only. No real punch. All rounded class must mean only few skills that actually are not clunky, wonky, just horrible or actually work fine

Skander · June 2018

Stibbons wrote: »

"Magicka Templar: Strong all rounded class, best at supporting but can pack a punch (strong)"

Healbot only. No real punch. All rounded class must mean only few skills that actually are not clunky, wonky, just horrible or actually work fine

You are playing it wrong

Neoauspex · June 2018

Skander wrote: »

Stibbons wrote: »

"Magicka Templar: Strong all rounded class, best at supporting but can pack a punch (strong)"

Healbot only. No real punch. All rounded class must mean only few skills that actually are not clunky, wonky, just horrible or actually work fine

You are playing it wrong

I.E. without Sloads

usmguy1234 · June 2018

Ender1310 wrote: »

I revise my opinion. Sorcs. Top dawg right now. Maybe not one on one but who cares. I can also streak away if I like. Sorc is god mode atm

Sorcs are strong against bad players.

Waffennacht · June 2018

Outta what I use:

Stam Sorc
Mag Sorc

Magden/Templar (stam or mag)

MagDK

Also correlates with my time spent on each class that I actively use (I have one of everything)

CavalryPK · June 2018

reading Stamblade.... gave me a smile.

CatchMeTrolling · June 2018

First time reading this lists and I can only agree with 2 things the rest makes me feel like we’re playing a different game. Especially the part about Magblades.

mikey_reach · June 2018

You dont even know how wrong you are about magblades.

Derra · June 2018

dks are overrated
mag nb is underrated

ak_pvp · June 2018

Derra wrote: »

dks are overrated
mag nb is underrated

Magblades are always underrated. Never knew why, they have some of the best-in-class tools in the game in shade/cloak/merciless/fear. With the sload meta I can see the issue, but otherwise an incredibly strong class.

ItsNebula · June 2018

MagNB is very powerful, it has the ability to 3-4 shot players. A good MagNB can kill people with the, Fear>Incap>Spectral Bow>Execute combo. Idk how you can say its weak lol

Skander · June 2018

ItsNebula wrote: »

MagNB is very powerful, it has the ability to 3-4 shot players. A good MagNB can kill people with the, Fear>Incap>Spectral Bow>Execute combo. Idk how you can say its weak lol

In group, it's pretty weak if it's not bombing.

thankyourat · June 2018

Skander wrote: »

ItsNebula wrote: »

MagNB is very powerful, it has the ability to 3-4 shot players. A good MagNB can kill people with the, Fear>Incap>Spectral Bow>Execute combo. Idk how you can say its weak lol

In group, it's pretty weak if it's not bombing.

It's good at duels too. Really it only struggles in 1vX

Skander · June 2018

thankyourat wrote: »

Skander wrote: »

ItsNebula wrote: »

MagNB is very powerful, it has the ability to 3-4 shot players. A good MagNB can kill people with the, Fear>Incap>Spectral Bow>Execute combo. Idk how you can say its weak lol

In group, it's pretty weak if it's not bombing.

It's good at duels too. Really it only struggles in 1vX

I don't count duels to be PvP. This game is not balanced for 1v1s
It struggles in outnumbered. Not only 1vx.

thankyourat · June 2018

Skander wrote: »

thankyourat wrote: »

Skander wrote: »

ItsNebula wrote: »

MagNB is very powerful, it has the ability to 3-4 shot players. A good MagNB can kill people with the, Fear>Incap>Spectral Bow>Execute combo. Idk how you can say its weak lol

In group, it's pretty weak if it's not bombing.

It's good at duels too. Really it only struggles in 1vX

I don't count duels to be PvP. This game is not balanced for 1v1s
It struggles in outnumbered. Not only 1vx.

But it's really good in even numbered fights. It has areas where it struggles like fighting outnumbered, but it has areas where it's strong like group vs group, and it has areas that it's kind of op in like duels. This sounds like a very good balanced class.

Swimguy · June 2018

LOL

TrinityBreaker · June 2018

Reading stam DK made me giggle. Like mag DK (but with snare removal). Give me a break.