Which Class would fit my playstyle?

Hey there! ^-^/

Instead of suggesting a class I'm going to explain each one how does it feel like to play them on level 65 and giving a short description. I don't think I'll talk about positioning and other information about them, just the general things. Would be too long.

Note: my own experiences with them! So it's just an opinion. Don't take it too seriously!

Archer - One of the best DPS class currently in game. Easy to use, difficult to master. Their main skills crits most of the time so it's a good DPS if you can use it. Has 2 iframes on relatively short Cooldown so you should always have 1 iframe to save your butt. :> You will have to learn tricks, such as animation cancelling with Sequential Fire, feign death to switch brooches and "find weakness" to utilise your back crit crystals you find yourself in front of the boss.

Berserker - Easy to use, hard to master. The thing is, Berserkers basically uses 2 skills (Thunder strike and Cyclone) + a few fillers. But to make the most out of it, you really have to know the bosses and how to cancel animation with blocking. Berserkers can block (although the absorb is not that high) and they have only 1 Iframe (will change in the upcoming patches). So if you mess up your iframe and something else is coming too, you're basically dead. :c

Gunner - Bit hard to use and most likely even harder to master. Currently one of the worse DPS classes (will change next patch). Although wears metal armour and has a healing robot to aid themselves, their ranged skill damage is somewhat low and out of their 2 iframes, 1 has a high cooldown so you must be careful. Locked to Castanic and High elf females only.

Ninja - Bit hard to use and somewhat easy to master. One of the greatest dps back in the days, now it has fallen behind because of the other dps class revamps. Although ninja rotation is basicly a few skills that can be even chained together, this might not be the best rotation. Ninja also have to iframe a lot because they would lose their Power stacks (will be changed in next patch). So basicly if you get hit, you'll lose a lot of power. And most bosses have attacks that can't be avoided. :\ Also quite squishy with their Cloth armour. They have 2+1+1 iframes. Although the "smoke bomb" has high CD, so does the 1000 cuts. Locked to Elins only.

Reaper - Easy to spam spacebutton, hard to master. Most players just spam the spacebutton to chain skills but Reaper is so much more potential than that. If you figure out how to do it properly (and that might take a long time) you see decent dps. Also a lot depends if "Grim strike" skill resets its cooldown or not. Their survivability is quite high with 2+1 iframes. Locked to Elins only.

Slayer - Somewhat hard to use and somewhat hard to master. People are always complaining about desync issues and animation locks and certain slayers have problems surviving because of them. The rotation can also tricky as you also have to keep some buffs on yourself if possible.

Sorcerer - Somewhat hard to use and easy to master. A squishy ranged DPS that was revamped a while ago, placing them in between the top and mid tier dps. Their survivability was nerfed when they increased the cooldown of "warp barrier". But they still have 2 other iframes to make up for it. The sorcerers have a lot of long animations so you have to know what and when you are doing, otherwise you'll be dead. Your rotation must be good to upkeep your crit factor buff, otherwise your skills won't crit and you won't deal damage.

Valkyrie - Somewhat easy to use, easy to master. Since this is the newest class, this is the most OP one (currently). They only have 2 iframes and wear only leather but they have defensive skills that can negate 3 incoming damages for a short period of time. The main source of DPS comes from a buff named "Ragnarok" which is achieved by getting 1000 points by attacking monsters. Once that is achieved, you have to use a set rotation and there's no way you can fall behind in DPS. Locked to Castanic females only.

Warrior - Hard to use, even harder to master. This was one of my hardest classes to learn. You also have one so I'll give you details about it. You have to do so much math in head before you even begin attacking, it's insane. Warriors gather "edges' by using different skills. When this edge is at 10, you'll use a skill named "Scythe" which will do damage based on the number of "edge" you had. 10 edge, most scythe damage. Various skills add different amount of edge and that is the most tricky part. You constantly have to count where you're at and how the cooldowns are going along, or you'll have timeframes when you're just standing and doing nothing. It's a fast and a high DPS class that only rewards players who can focus all the time. Their survivability is also great. Their iframe can be used multiple times and if it happens that you run out of RE to dodge, 1 backup iframe can save the day.

Aaand now for your Mystic questions. Mystics are better options for higher party damage but also a bit harder to handle. There was a time when Mystic was buffed so hard that they can even do moderate dps, it's not the case anymore. In harder dungeons you have no opportunity to high DPS and your main goal is to heal your party members and upkeep your buffs.

Lastly, don't worry about which class to pick. If you fail to dodge something, you're most likely 1 hit anyways. And if it's something easier then you won't die even in Cloth armor. Pick whatever you find interesting and have fun. ^-^/

If you have any other questions, feel free to ask. :>

Testing multiple classes on lower levels will not help you at all because they are very different compared to max level classes.
Level 65 classes have more skills, more glyphs, more attack speed etc.

To cut it short, you can't go wrong with whatever you pick. But since you like to play Archer i would recommend you should pick a Archer because his DPS is pretty good in PvE and he is also very good in PvP.

Have to disagree with glacial on the valk difficulty. She is not easy to master. Getting your perfect dodges and keeping your rotation up while boss interrupts is at least medium difficulty. Valk is not a class for beginners cause you get punished harder as everyone else when you die.

Archer is top tier right now bc he is easy to play and easy to master. Also extremly save for beginners. Would recommend Archer for every beginner who doesnt know any dugeon or how the game works.

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Have to disagree with glacial on the valk difficulty. She is not easy to master. Getting your perfect dodges and keeping your rotation up while boss interrupts is at least medium difficulty. Valk is not a class for beginners cause you get punished harder as everyone else when you die.

Nice meme

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Nice meme

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Gunner - Bit hard to use and most likely even harder to master. Currently one of the worse DPS classes (will change next patch).

Warrior - Their iframe can be used multiple times and if it happens that you run out of RE to dodge, 1 backup iframe can save the day.

The gunner patch is not the next one but the on after that and it will probably come in august.

Warrior has not one backup iframe but 2. Backstab is also an iframe and in certain situations you could also use torrent of blows to block and survive attacks.

Valk not hard to master lul xd

Well i wrote she is harder to master then an archer idk whats your problem

Avalicia: What's your ping? That matters if you want to use classes more reliant on ping.

If you're new to the game always pick the mage class or the healers so you can learn all the ins and outs of the game fast.

Try to play Sorcerer, Priest and Mystic at the same time because they are somehow simillar. If you learn Sorc you'll know how to posision yourself and you'll know the boss patterns, then you can apply that to your Mystic. If you learn the Mystic you'll have no problem healing with Priest and so on.
This is like the best starter pack to understand the game really fast.

Damage wise Sorcerer is really broken at low level and you will just destroy everything. At max level you'll need a lot of gold to maintain your Sorc (Sorc is really expensive, you'll need perfect gear for max crit and tons of mana pots).
You'll farm that gold with your healers because you can do almost anything in potato gear if you know the dungeons and bosses.

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Have to disagree with glacial on the valk difficulty. She is not easy to master. Getting your perfect dodges and keeping your rotation up while boss interrupts is at least medium difficulty.

Boss interrupting attacks is not really a valid point here. That applies to any other dps classes, especially warriors, sorcerers, reapers, ninja or like any of them that have glyphs to increase DPS. Archer needs animation cancelling, having enough time to fully charge your shots, harder positioning for back crits or utilising "Find weakness" is a lot harder than simply iframing attacks - what you would do anyways.
But as I said, that was just my opinion. x) If you find Valkyrie harder to play, I understand that.

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The gunner patch is not the next one but the on after that and it will probably come in august.

Oh. That's too bad. :c

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Warrior has not one backup iframe but 2. Backstab is also an iframe and in certain situations you could also use torrent of blows to block and survive attacks.

Even better. :o I never really used backstab as an iframe, just for respositioning so I didn't even know this.

Iframing hard

Play a healer, learn and watch other classes and either stick to a healer or switch after you make some money

Lancer, always Lancer.

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Valk not hard to master lul xd

Nice meme

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Archer - Easy to use, difficult to master.

Valkyrie - Somewhat easy to use, easy to master.

You got it all wrong. Valk is difficult to master. Its a very risk-reward oriented class. Dying on valk can screw your dps hard. You have to keep track of ragnarok points and your runemarks. Then there are different ways to get bloodflower resets depending on boss attack patterns and mechanics. You must also know when to pop your ragnarok because popping it at bad time or dying after popping it is a huge dps loss. All in all, it is not a casual class. It is easy to play but difficult to master. Even essentialmana lists valk as c-tier if you want to play it as casually.

Archer is in fact easier to master than most if not all the dps classes. Kinda late reply but I can't stand people calling valk an easy class

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It was just my personal experience, I found it harder to play with Archer than Valkyrie because of their non existent rotations and additional tricks but you make valid points there. Maybe I was just playing too much with my Valkyrie lately.

valkyrie is easiest class in this game

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Warrior - Hard to use, even harder to master.

What... This is not 2013. How hard is to use 2-3 skills then press scythe button?