Now, I have to say that the player classes are not perfectly balanced, and each one went through significant changes over the course of development and will very likely continue to evolve. You long-time MMO
players will be familiar with the "holy trinity"--mage, priest, fighter--and the same pretty much holds true here. A mix of those is pretty much all you need for any given group quest, and the poor Rogue is the one who often gets left out in the cold, to the point of general party invitations informing rogues in the vicinity sometimes that they need not apply.You see, the
rogue dishes a lot of damage in a short amount of time, but he or she can only wear leather armor at most, so he also gets a lot of pain dished back, making him the focus of the priest's attention. At the same time, his skills don't include much "aggro hold," meaning he can't keep attention away from the priest who's healing him, or the mage in the back who's also dishing a lot of damage. So he ends up complicating things a lot, and many players would rather do without the complication. The rogue can knock out an enemy, but this ability has to be used before combat has begun, and it can be resisted, and he has to creep up slowly to the mob. And the mob may be close enough to a buddy so that sapping in general will get their attentionThe other classes, like the warlock, hunter, and paladin, do all right here, because they can fill in the gaps in the trinity. The paladin is
a hybrid class, since he's a fighter with some healing, buffing, and protection abilities, and he's usually next in line to the trinity. Paladins are always welcome, since they can boost people's stats on an individual basis and cast a single aura the whole group benefits from and that doesn't expire like the buffs do. The warrior doesn't do as well as he used to, since his charge
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