The Hero

barkjj · June 18

Which class makes since if you're playing through the PvE content as the Hero passing through? I'm leaning Templar for roleplaying, but I also want to play something that always has a spot in group content.

LunaFlora · June 18

all classes make sense.

Do you have more details in mind for your Hero?

Soarora · June 18

I like the interaction with Templar as the Vestige-- that's what mine is. Because Meridia shenanigans.

But you can really do any. As for group content, I don't do group content on my main... in part because of inventory space. My main holds things that none of my other characters do, like master writs.

SkaiFaith · June 18

If with Hero you refer to a figure like a "benevolent Paladin" then Templar is the only one really fitting.

Otherwise it all depends on your vision for the hero: a Skyrim one would be DragonKnight; a hunter/nature one (Witcher?) would probably be Warden, and so on...

barkjj · June 18

Interesting perspectives so far.

AScarlato · June 18

I think of course any of them works based on your RP, with the Templar being the most obvious standard hero-type. It's very easy to feel holy and heroic if you want a hero of the Aedra.

My main however is a Necromancer. RP wise his was stillborn and his mother sacrificed another child to revive him, and he has since been cursed. The sacrificed child is the Necro-healer ghost summon for my character and has followed my character since.

I feel the spirtist (as opposed to corpse-raising) aspects of the necro combine well with Soul Magic and the base game story and the concept of a soulless Vestige,and adds some nice additional trauma for my character while questing.

I like the idea of a hero who has to hide large aspects of himself while looking out for the greater good. If this setting was more realistic I'd imagine quite a few moral compromises may be needed to prevail over the challenges we face in the story.

Heydan_Seegil · June 19

I went Necromancer because I lost my soul to Molag Bal in Cold Harbour becoming the Vestige but I have completely abstained from using any of the criminal skills from the Necromancer class the entire time. I never even put a single rank into them. Necromancy is a curse. I did not ask for these dark powers and I refuse to be the blight Molag Bal tried to turn me into.

AScarlato · June 19

Heydan_Seegil wrote: »

I went Necromancer because I lost my soul to Molag Bal in Cold Harbour becoming the Vestige but I have completely abstained from using any of the criminal skills from the Necromancer class the entire time. I never even put a single rank into them. Necromancy is a curse. I did not ask for these dark powers and I refuse to be the blight Molag Bal tried to turn me into.

Love this take on the hero's path.

This prompted me to check and there are a surprising number of necro skills that are entirely upstanding and legal lol.

Gagoimaliu · June 30

Any class really works as "The Hero", but after watching A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms I turned my Dragonknight into a Dragon-Hedge-Knight, so I imagine him going from place to place, helping towns, dealing with royals, working in the background while the real heroes deal with Molag Bal shenanigans :> Really depends on what you mean by "The Hero"

From an RP perspective at least, but all the class archetypes can easily fit into the "Traveling Knight/Warrior/Rogue/Mage" idea, I would however argue that maybe Daedric Summoning Sorc doesn't *really* work because you're constantly running through major cities talking with important NPCs with a Clannfear or Twilight right next to you