I've played them both a little bit. They're definitely my second/third favorite characters. I'm just so stuck on Priest right now. When I have a really painful death I'll remake as either a Warrior (still really bad at them :/), a Wizard, or a Necromancer. It's just so weird not being able to heal myself. I don't know if I'm just bad at dodging missiles or what.

Next death I'll see how far I can take a Necromancer though. As close to a Priest as I'm gonna get.

Yea I was a little more careless than I should have been.

I really didn't think I'd care if the NPE died so I was like meh but I was more angry when it died than any of my 8/8s.

I'm kinda leaning towards a melee this time, maybe knight.

TL;DR - Priests/healers dont have the advantage past early game.

I love priests. Was my first favorite class for a long time and I still think its one of the best starting classes. But truth is at a certain point in the game all healing spells become far less useful. Partially due to vitality being an amazing stat, but also due to the way the game is set up. In godlands you have a ton of gods wearing you down and heals can help you last out there much longer. But in something like WC or tomb, if you get in a bad spot, you could be dead in less than a second. No healing spell is keeping you alive.

I think the game devs could design places to make healing more useful tho. Just need the opposite of what WC/Tombs are. Need a lot of smaller unavoidable attacks that slowly wear you down over time instead of an insta kill shotgun. Solo non healer players could still do it too. Would just need to pack on the potions.

my first fav was priest, too. right after i saw the dmg output wizards have, it changed

Well, I just died. Time to try Wizard or Necromancer.
Sadly I just sold off a large chunk of my muled items to put some more defense pots into the character I just rip'd...

This post was edited by Vaeflare on Jan 18 2013 02:59pm

what i did when i started back a week ago, i rolled wizards, didnt pot them till i stashed 25 defs, then i potted all into one char, wasnt a pure NPE but was kind of NPE

Pretty uneventful update - Things are going along smoothly, but very very slowly. My plan was to stick to godlands until I found a golden bow and avoid all dungeons until I got one. Well, after another 3+ hours of straight godlands farming sadly I still have no bow. I ended the night thinking Im playing a little too safe and tried my luck at Oryx. After all, he has pretty good odds at dropping a T9+ weapon. As you can see in the pic there werent many of us in there, maybe 10 total, so I'm pretty sure even my little dinky crossbow managed to do enough for loot. I also spammed quiver and downed my last 4 mana pots to get any extra damage in that I could. No luck tho, as I returned home bagless.

Very happy that I found a T9 armor to replace my snake armor. This thing is good enough to last me until Im ready for Ocean Trench runs and then its only a matter of time before I get a coral silk armor.

I guess I really should be running sprites at this point, even without the golden bow. I'll probably start doing them next time I log in. I bet I can still max dex first thanks to our old pal Limon.

Alright, here is my 2nd attempt lol

I decided on a warrior and I put in a 3 hour session last night getting him to lvl 20 and then I decided my best bet was to go to an empty server and try to find gods in glands and isolate them so I could fight them 1 on 1 since my range sucks and I can't take any dmg yet with my crappy gear. In a big group in a glands train I just simply can't get close enough to get a hit in and I have to nexus way too much for my liking.

In this process I was able to secure some decent gear upgrades. I found a sup hp which was sweet. And a tier 7 sword and a tier 8 armor but I have yet to find a single helm while leveling or while in glands to upgrade to. So yea, I'm still wearing a t0 helm that you start out with.

Also, for some reason the gods were being very stingy with pots and I was only able to secure a single def pot for my efforts.

A warrior is very hard starting out with to pot up due to my limited speed and range. Warriors are surprisingly not very tanky ungeared and unstatted lol

This is going to be a long grind finding gear and potting this warrior up, hopefully I can remain patient.

Early game warrior is tough for sure mate. Helm helps tons. T4 has 6 more defense than what you are using so that'll be a huge upgrade. Likewise the T9 armor has an extra 5 defense. Hopefully you'll get lucky with those like I did on my attempt. Made things much easier.

Looks like you got a tough roll too. Low speed on a melee makes it impossible to dodge some of the gods patterns. Whats your starting hp?

Oh ya pretty sure I got my T4 helm out of a red demon chest. Those things are awesome for low end gear.

This post was edited by KakeWalk on Jan 19 2013 02:15pm

I'm going to record one of these starting a little later today.

Think I'll do some kind of melee class.