Lord of the Rings Online

Hey,I am new to lotr. I have quit wow since it got really boring.Heard lotr was pretty good from a friend.  So i would like to know which class is the best dps and the most fun to play with.

One of the classics. So you'll get the classic answer - Take the class that appeals to you most, every class is fun in its own way. And for the most DPS. Champion and Hunter are the only two dps classes, ranged and melee, with obvious roles.

Meridion

Make a random char, get it to level 10, and play a monster.

you cant have both.
decide what u want most fun or most dps

I play a hunter in game and i can tell you this. Hunters are your nukers in the game. We deal alot of dps and i find them fun to play. If you want melee dps then go with a champion. For range stick with a hunter.

I'm a Champion ingame, and I still think it's lots of fun. I don't understand why you say or or, because doing DPS doesn't reduce the ingame fun.

You probably don't care, but champs and hunters are so unbelievably overpopulated it hurts. The worlds are full of wanna-be Legolas and wanna-be Aragorns. I get tells from 4 or 5 man "champ-only" or "hunter-only" groups pretty often looking desperatly for core classes (I'm playing a minstrel)... This would drive me away from playing those classes any day... Burglar is a fun class to, or captain... Lore-Masters tend to be hard in soloplay but are great group characters and guardians are classic tanks with very fun abilities...

Meridion

Originally posted by Meridion
You probably don't care, but champs and hunters are so unbelievably overpopulated it hurts. The worlds are full of wanna-be Legolas and wanna-be Aragorns. I get tells from 4 or 5 man "champ-only" or "hunter-only" groups pretty often looking desperatly for core classes (I'm playing a minstrel)... This would drive me away from playing those classes any day... Burglar is a fun class to, or captain... Lore-Masters tend to be hard in soloplay but are great group characters and guardians are classic tanks with very fun abilities...

Meridion

Well that's a bit overly harsh, don't you think?

Hunter and Champion are two of the available classes in the game and there are certainly going to be people who enjoy that style of play - regardless of how powerful they are. I, for one, play a Hunter, but that's because I've always enjoyed ranged classes... being able to draw a mob away from other aggro so you can fight it in a safer spot is just one of many reasons. In FFXI, I always look forward to being puller in a party as such.  I, by no means, model myself after Legolas. I had no idea which classes are "over-powered" when I chose it, I just chose the one I traditionally enjoy playing.

I'm sure your comments are justified in some cases - but don't generalize an entire cross-section of players over it.

Sure there are people who like to play these classes out of their own simple liking...

But, the massive overpopulation of hunters and champs, and I'm talking about two or three times more players, speaks volumes. I don't believe that there are so many genuine non-magic-ranged damage players out there.
It's like the amount of Elves in the game. There are a rough 40 to 50% elves when I wander through the lands. It correlates directly, so the largest fraction would be Elven hunters.
Why is that? Out of liking for ranged classes and Elven mythology? No, it's because "OMG I'm LEGGOLASZ LOLZ SO COOOL; DUUUUDE". Its the reason why movie spin-off games sell so well even if they are complete crap, like the Harry Potter franchise games, or the Lord of the Rings actionesque adventure games.

While I can tolerate (though I will probably never understand or accept) this, I'm also very sure a small minority of players actually chooses the Elven Hunter out of the urge to create a fitting character - and I play on an RP realm.

I myself spent a fair time of thinking about what character I wanted to make, so I created a minstrel from dale, gave him a small little backround story (not much actually) and let him be something like "your next best travelling bard".

If you ask elven hunters/champions, they either 1) have not clue about why they are actually there and where they came from or 2)are all born in the first age, have fought in numerous battles (of which they cannot remember one), travelled all lands (of which they cannot tell you the location if you ask for a specific one) and are stemming from a major hub of Elven culture. Strange things arise from this, like a 8000 year old Moriquendi Elven Hunter who was born in Imladris (?) and travelled through Gondor in his youth (?)...

So NO, I'm not requesting everyone to know Tolkien Lore perfectly. But if I go on an RP realm and I KNOW; that I have no clue about Tolkien lore, AND I have the burning urge to create an elven hunter, for manwes sake, why can't he be a young elf? Many elves had short lives, even famous ones like Maeglin or Luthien - but no, everyone has to be Glorfindel or Galadriel, Feanor or Elrond. *sigh* That's why I stopped to expect anything remotely related to believable roleplaying from Elven hunters, and I've barely met one who didn't fit in my  sooooo made-up cliches...

Meridion