Darkfall

Every time i remember that Darkfall has no class restrictions and you can learn any of the 500+ skills, i have to swallow an entire bottle of chill pills to get down from the excitement level ive attained.

Ive spent many hours just sitting, staring at the wall or out the bus window and dreaming about what type of player i will be and what paths i will take, here are some of my ideas:

The Horse Thief
Concentrating on the art of stealth, riding and crowd control, this concept class will be the ultimate horse thief, removing unsuspecting people from their mounts then taking their beast for a little ride to the highest bidder. "fell off the back of a cart" ill say as i exchange my newly acquired transport for a purse of sweet coin.

The 'Not So Squishy' Squishy
Roaming around in the bare essentials, a ragged old robe, perhaps a pair of decaying sandles and maybe a blunt rusted dagger at my side, i will travel the lands behind enemy lines looking lost and noobish. when a bypasser sees an easy target and comes charging, its then i raise hell and brimstone with cascade of fire from the fingertips of hell! A pure damage dealing, single target fire magic legend being his own bait. BOOM!

so, am i just crazy? or have other people been working on class concepts too?

dont forget 500+ spells on top of the 500+ skills :D

I am not working on class concepts, beta will be used for trying out different templates, but i will probably be some sort of hybrid melee/mage, mostly offensive.

Classes should really go.
One of the worst part of playing Mmo till now is that the class you choose and the skills that comes with it makes your character quite similar to the other characters of the same class.
In Darkfall if they have given 500 skills to learn and the skills are not level based but economy based and easy to learn but hard to master then surely this will open a new horizon for players to analyze and mix and match and play different types of professions.
In my dreams I will try and make a single character which will heal a bit for the party gaming activity which I like much Again it should have solid defense and cannot-be-killed-easily build with mage like spells which are lethal and good to look at so that every time I play it becomes a treat to my eyes and the others who are in vicinity. I really need the movement skills also so that I can teleport and reach the deepest corners of the map and also I need flight to make it even better. Apart from this I need to have rezz so that I can rezz my dead friends.
Oh My God it is so brutal now to think about the possibilities and I wonder how will I balance the character with so many skills to choose from and what direction will I take. I still do not know will there be individual skills to choose from or some skills will unlock other skills and what we are thrown at will be some definite patterns of skills and thus curbing the independence altogether.

I will just use the classic Knight / Pirate / Indiana Jones type of character.

Not much to think about really.

I would like to start off doing crafting and a bit of healing and save up to buy ship.

I will then do boat charters, sailing people to the 4 offshore contenants and the small islands.

The gold mine:

I'm making a really hot female avatar and will strip and cyber for gold. According to my calculations I will have a mount within the first day my own city within two weeks.

I am going to play

A typical hunter with duel swords/axes and a long ranged bow then add in Dark magic and you will have my class.

Shadow Hunter

Alfar poison maker, herbalist, corruptor, using daggers, thrown weapons or a crossbow; wand on my back to blast if I have to. 

DF-hater Forum Troll:

20 parts healing magic for regrowing hacked off limbs;

10 parts architecture, for building bridges to live under in his mom's basement;

20 parts illusion magic for detecting phony screen shots;

30 parts hammer skills, because hammers have no point;

15 parts boat-crafting, because Denial IS actually a river in Egypt, and it has a deep, strong current;

5 part dagger skills, for stabbing his eyes out when he realizes DF actually isn't VW.