Druid in Everquest with nuker backup healer build.  You had fast run speed, porting ability, nukes, heals, buffs, DoTs, roots, charming animals,  fearing animials, and soloing ability.

Despite the suckiness of AoC I found BearShaman interesting...

Medium armor
2 hand blunt weapons
Good damage (at least when I played)
Good heals
Buffs

EQ : Druid. Best powerlevelling class in the game pre-xpax

EQ2: Inqusitor. Best healer in the game pre-xpax

CoH: FF Defender pre-nerfs. I could effectivly deflect 95% damage on a whole team making healing unnessesary

DaoC: Infiltrator. Gotta love one shooting players on the enemys side in battlegrounds then sprinting away

Shadowbane: Thief/Mage Assassin pre-xpax. Loved playing the honorable thief then turn dishonorable when people acted like pricks. Time to rob you blind. Mage assassin later renamed had no equal in PvP. The damage spell we had could be spammed so fast people would be dead before they knew what hit them.

Hellgate London: Strike Engineer. Most underplayed build but also extremely powerful if not THE most powerful engineer build

WoW: Rogue/Warlock. Best PvP classes IMHO up until BC and a few months after

Vanguard: Psionicist. Best crowd controller and the class that were the most fun to play

Wizard101: Ice Wizard. Best defensive wizard

Diablo 2: Necromancer. Button smashing isn't my thing so a skellymancer suited me perfectly. Just sit back and let pets do all the work

And the winner is.....

The Thief from Shadowbane. I don't know if they have been nerfed since release but there was something badass about looting other peoples inventory. Since it was a notorious class most people didn't want to group with you in fear you would steal the loot. So when people would act like pricks and turn you down for a group spot you would confirm their fears by robbing them blind. Fun fun

Battle Mage in Asheron's Call

I could jump into a group of 12 Olthoi from above and drop them all with about 4 Ring spells:) Melee Defense on a Mage is a beautiful thing :):):)

Enchanter, Shaman or Ranger from EQ.

Enchanter was a class that could be challenging being weak but with powerful spells.

Shaman just had a nice round all-of-everything.

Ranger, bored me stiff to play but being my first character, and being one of the more fun melee classes it was fun to twink up.

WoW- Rogue as was done well, same for Hunter except maybe made a little too easy.

Hmm....depends on the game.

WoW = druid (resto, kitty dps, AND tanking are all awesome with this class), second place goes to destro lock

EQ2 = troubador with absolutely NO reservations

LotRO = rune-keeper (some love it, some hate it....I'm among the "love it" bunch), hunter also is good for me, but less exciting, more for quick killing while farming crafting mats :)  And my warden is too low level, as of yet, for me to tell if I like it.

I could pick favorites from other games TOO, but those are the three I have played the MOST over the past 4 years.  In older games, such as U.O. or EQ.....EQ would have to be the necromancer, and U.O....hmm....I always like being a thief and stealing things.  LOL  Diablo 2 LOD Online....sorcerer.  Neverwinter Nights....archer.

Originally posted by heocat

My bard in EQ was the best. In the beginning played him even though I had massive exp hit for playing hybred and half elf.  (they took the exp hit away later for those that say what hit) For my second the Shammy in DAOC rocked.

At least you weren't playing a troll shadowknight. Zomgxppenalty.

Those were the days, lol. Trolls should have gotten an xp BONUS for being stuck down in innothule swamp... haha. I miss 10 years ago.

Originally posted by Faelan

Tauren druid in WoW. Flower loving (add tree hugging) swiss army knife with hooves - what's not to like about it?

It's the only mmo where I've quit... several times... only to come back because I miss being a druid. That tells me the class is a winner

Sorry for following my OWN post with another post, but upon reading THIS ^^^^

I HAD TO AGREE!   My Tauren druid has brought me BACK TO WoW THREE TIMES so far.  *sigh

Note:  I'm not playing WoW right NOW, however.  I've been gone for two months playing LotRO and loving THAT game too, so.....we'll see if WoW can suck me back in a fourth time from my annual "meandering" away from home....LOL!

Originally posted by girlgeek

Originally posted by Faelan

Tauren druid in WoW. Flower loving (add tree hugging) swiss army knife with hooves - what's not to like about it?

It's the only mmo where I've quit... several times... only to come back because I miss being a druid. That tells me the class is a winner

 

Sorry for following my OWN post with another post, but upon reading THIS ^^^^

I HAD TO AGREE!   My Tauren druid has brought me BACK TO WoW THREE TIMES so far.  *sigh

Yeh WoW is the only mmorpg with the class system where EVERY class is unique feeling and fun to play. It is the only mmorpg where I picked a class and had fun with it and not having to make and ALT. Unlike most mmorpgs where I spend a month trying all the classes and then quiting because they're all boring to play and most of them are the same cause they use the dumb archetype system where they all feel like watered down two sides of the same coin type thing. Also WoW is the only mmorpg I came back because I loved my class and missed it.

SWG done the same thing for me with my TKM but that is a skill system and no class so I don't count it.

EQ- Ranger

EQ2- Bezerker

DAoC- Thane/Skald

LoTRO- Champion

bounty hunter pistoleer- swg

I always enjoy playing Tank/Melee DPS. So usually warrior/monk. I don't normally play hybrids such as paladin / dark knight but on occasion I might end up going melee hybrid.

Weaponsmith/Artisan - SWG

Pikeman/Creature Handler - SWG

Ironbreaker - War

My Red Mage in FFXI was pretty awesome. I could heal groups as well as do damage as well. Overall it was a great class to play. My Necormancer in Guild Wars is probably my 2nd favorite because he can pretty much do what any group needs.

DAoC - Skald

Having played every MMOG under the sun and just about every class, DAoC's Skald still reigns supreme for me.

Chain armor

2H or 1H / Shield

Tons of weapon styles

Tons of battlesongs (group buffs)

2 direct damage shouts

Single target mezz

Single target snare

And to top it all off, group speed song.

Mythic almost followed up in WAR with the Knight of the Blazing Sun, but they removed their group speed buff in beta.

Magus in WAR

Nothing beats that Full-Team Chaotic Rift before they nerfed the area range.

Necromancer - AoC

UO = Tamer / Bard

EQ = Shadow Knight

DAoC = Armsman and Warden

SWG = Ranger/Creaturer Handler and Bio Engineer  (yup I got royaly hosed with the NGE)

I've played many MMOs and tried many classes but the above listed ones are the ones that I miss the most and the ones that I always contemplate going back to those old school games for.   Well except for the SWG classes :(

Wizard in EQ and Druid in Vanguard.

1st - Savage DAoC (loved that game so much and savages were just so cool)

2nd - Valewalker DAoC (again)

3rd - HoX in AoC

4th - playing a Dk in wow and liking it...even though its wow :(

5th - DoK and Marauder in WAR