My thoughs about classes balance

[sterrius]

 

You can't say that barbarian is a solid class. The class is so fragile at the start it is not even worth his AoE damage I hope it will change as I get gear otherwise I will cheat and reroll. (Playing barbarian on path of the damned second play-though)

Barbarian is not a off tank.  The HP he gets is to get out of the fight IF something starts to hit him. (Or kill the enemy if he is already half way there). 
Also he needs some DT.  He actually have HP to make DT worth the speed reduction.  (I use leather).

Try it with 2 warriors (or 1 warrior +1 paladin) to tank everything and barbarian as a DPS/Last resort tank.
Also try to get something to make him heal himself or disengage if needed.  Don´t try to make him tank.  He have the worst deflection of all classes making it too vulnerable to critical hits. (that will make your dt useless in a long fight). 

my 2handed sword barbarian only lost to my ranger because he need to wait the fighters to go first and the enemys to lock on the fighters.  Also he needs to walk, this is enough for the ranger to shoot 1 to 3 times.   Once he starts his damage is bigger than anything my other classes can do, even more with rage. 
 

 

I find it especially hilarious that the only character who DOESN't need high might is the warrior. (well, whatever you take for front line tanking really)

Tank it out with con, dex, res, never hit anything, you wet noodle, but be able to stand and never fall against anything

 

Might for a warrior is kind of interesting. I have two warriors so if one is not tanking i change for a two hand and it make a difference for them.  
Also very high lvs you maybe will try to go for some offensive talents and give your warrior some damage as they need very few accuracy buffs to hit something, even using a shield.
 
But i agree at the start of the game you want to go tank and this is kind of bad surprise for people that wanted some kind of tank hybrid. 

 

But warriors are never damage dealers in D&D too (And most other pen and paper rpgs).  If you go D&D 3.5 with a shield + Sword its very hard for a warrior to have good damage after the first levels as the talents that keep you doing damage need to be dumped for the defensive ones.   On 4.0 is even worse as the fighter need to choose from lv1 being a tank with no damage or a two handed off tank with some damage.  (No epic damage here).   Don´t played D&D 5.0 but hardly it left this mentality. 

The classes have roles and secondary roles.  Cant leave much from this rule if you got for a D&D style RPG. 
 

 

 

 

Chanter -> Also solid class.  While the summons are not very strong they can be spammed in crazy speeds giving yourself a army.   The ranged buff is the best but far from being the only good chant he have. 

 

 

Why do people keep saying this? You can only have 1 summon active at a time... you can never have an army. Well, unless you take a group of 6 Chanters. 

 

Because you can re-use the summon spell as soon your summon is dead or low life.   So you can spam skeletons for all eternity and any meeele enemy will never touch you. 

And oh i would love to see a group of 6 chanters with skeletons.  Would remember me Evil Dead!  Will even name one ASH Willians  

 

 

 

[Korgull]

While your wizard in the back is a monster that can bend iron bars because magic damage too depends on might. Intuitive or not as it may be, wizards hardly need intelligence, because pretty much all their AOE spells damage your party and are hard and as combat is always a tight clump of ppl hitting on each other, you don't need increased AOE. Low int, high might. that's a PoE wizard for you.

Yeah, except all of that int AOE bonus goes into the yellow area which doesn't hit friendlies. So with a high intelligence, you can use cone spells from behind your tanks, for example.