Conjurer: Can be played both as a master summoner or as a curse + dot vitality/bleed
Sorcerer: You can not go wrong.
Saboteur: Very tricky to build property but is immensely powerful if done correctly. Stack weapon and move speed, also piercing and elemental damage. Invest into auras (Night Chill and Ulzuin’s Wrath). Eschew poison and acid damage and throw-able explosives.
Elementalist: Allows very powerful lightning/physical damage builds. Lots of life drain and physical damage as well. Also has a retaliate damage based pet build.
-Worst-
Blademaster: Proc weapon skills diminish each other’s pools. Very poor aoe damage and ranged damage. Dual wielding is not compatible with Menhir’s Will. Lots of skill overlap like Shadow Strike and Blitz having conflicting damage types.
Trickster: Conflicting proc skills in terms of weapon selection and damage types. Skills have very little synergy. Has a passable Savagery + Dual Wielding + Devouring Swarm build. Also a weird automata build (Wind Devil + Blade Spirit).
Warlock: Too squishy and weak at first. Powerful at high levels.
Soldier is supposed to be the tank mastery. Even Demolitionist is a better at tanking due to Vindictive Flame.
Blademaster is a passable class as long as you are not dual-wielding. It also deals very poorly with enemies which retaliate damage, have auras or explode on death.
Liking a concept is one thing, discussing statistics is another.
I played the game over 750 hours and tried every possible combination. I know what I am talking about.
I played with a Pierce/Cold Blademaster through Ultimate without dying once. He can pretty much tank every Nemesis quite easily (and he’s offensive oriented) and kill them in under 30 secs.
Ok 5K+ guy, are you aware that weapon skill pools sum over 100% thus steal from your better proc skills like Execution? Or that Zolhan’s technique does only use your main weapon when dual-wielding?
Or can you explain me how you deal with crowds aside from a standard Shadow’s Strike (which could have been a much better skill should you have not chosen the redundant Soldier class as your second). Hmm?
Lol, just lol.
There is no best class (except cadence wicthblede with warborn set, who requared zero brain activity to play) & there is no worst class.
In economy there is this concept of opportunity cost.
Taking Soldier as your second class when you already are a Nightblade has a very high opportunity cost. The classes are too similar in the wrong way (the way they play) and too dissimilar mechanically (say in terms of damage types).
Passable does not equate to the best and Blademaster is only that: passable and only then if you build it right.
I really dont want to argue with you, everything I said/wrote wasn’t meant to offend you, imho you need much more in depth knowledge to talk about this issue.
In mean time you can browse some builds I made, specially the blademasters ones.
I think the worst class is b-mage. B stands for bullshit.
No, battlemage isn’t terribly bad, just kinda bland - don’t really excels at anything. Kinda funny how almost a year ago I went around saying that battlemage is the most powerful build in the game.
As for your post OP, I’d have to agree with JoV. Especially laughed about Trickster being among the worst classes, while it’s the most durable DW build with pretty competitive damage and much less gear dependant than spellbreaker.
P.S. Dont make me build pwnzor pure ocultist Joke aside, after soldier I really do think that highest potential in steamrolling the game has solo ocultist. And batlemage is not that bad, more or less like anything that has soldier in it.
Yes there is some not great synergy or nonbos (like no combos). You don’t have to use all of them. Or you could be a Blademaster that doesn’t dual-wield.
A Blademaster has access to blade arc. I have an 85 Two-Handed Blade Arc Blademaster and crowds are the easiest thing for it to handle.
Battlemage is mediocre. It is very hard to kill with on low health procs and Flash Freeze. Physical to elemental and aether conversion is its only trick. So it is boring to play I agree but not terribly under-powered in terms of numbers.
everyone knows that, of course it is only true if you max all of them
Or that Zolhan’s technique does only use your main weapon when dual-wielding?
nothing new here either
Or can you explain me how you deal with crowds aside from a standard Shadow’s Strike (which could have been a much better skill should you have not chosen the redundant Soldier class as your second). Hmm?
the procs take care of them, or you take Blitz over SS, or use Blade Arc
Anyone who has BM near the bottom does not know what they are talking about…
Joke aside, after soldier I really do think that highest potential in steamrolling the game has solo ocultist. And batlemage is not that bad, more or less like anything that has soldier in it.