summoner is very similar to a necro wit curses and a variety of possible summons. you can shoot cabalist guns, but they are not all that powerful. you skills lie in your curses and summons skills. fun, and pretty easy to get the hang of. hardest part is deciding which pert of the summons tree you want to go with.
engineer is a scaled down marksman with flying bots at your side. if you prefer to use traditional guns and have flying robots all around you (which the engineer's robots tend to augments you and your party's abilities or te mobs abilities), then this is for you.
edit: it seems that many love the BM, but I have seen just as many hate it as a first char. but very fun nonetheless.
This post was edited by blind_chief on Feb 5 2008 09:52am