Hey guys im deciding on buying this game, some say the game is awesome, some say it's trash. Well over some thought I decided ill buy it for a test and was wondering from experience what are some fun DPS classes.

Well Ill give you a quick rundown of how the classes work

There is Warrior, Cleric, Mage and Rogue

In these 4 classes are like 9 sub classes. Each doing different things.

Out of those 9 you can choose and 3 you want.

If you have ever played wow, you have 3 trees and normally put into 1 or 2.

In rift you put into 2 and then some of your points go into the 3rd.

If you pick warrior you can tank or dps, if you pick mage you can Dps and I think thats it (i havent made a mage yet) Clerics can heal and dps, and Rogues can tank and dps.

Warriors is exactly what it sounds like and is in other games, wont go into more detail. Mages can be necromancers, warlocks, fire mages and some others. Rogues can be archers, assassin or bards. Clerics are the main healers of the game and can also dps as shamans.

Hope that helped

Thank you, i'v played WoW and yeah that got very old for me over a few months of costantly dieing to BoA'd OP paladin..

This is actually mostly wrong:

You get a main class and 9 subclasses, 1 of which is useless until well into 50 (pvp class)
Mages can heal / dps.
Clerics can Heal / Tank / Dps
Rogues can Heal (support off-heals in bard), tank (better than warriors on single target), and dps
Warriors can tank / DPS.

For the highest dps, you'll be looking for the flavor of the month. Clerics seem to be in the most demand, but are an absolute CHORE to level.

You get 66 talent points overall. There are 51 points in each tree. You can have a 3rd tree with no points in it and just get the base talents (this is somewhat useful in a few melee rogue builds (getting the slow bomb in sab spec, or the side-steps cooldown in bladedancer)

This post was edited by sarevok9 on May 20 2011 07:52pm

so whats the best class/sub class as of now

So basically what your saying is, I wasnt mostly wrong.

I just left a few things out.

Sorry next time Ill just write him a book and mail it to him.

I recommend playing a trial instead of just going out and paying for it.