Best Faction Perstige Class

[Deadeyes1]

For the benifit of the newer people to this server what do you feel is your favorite class. If you could only choose one pestige class to play in a PVP setting of a faction, what would be your favorite?

[cely]

Dwarven Defender, although I might be a bit biased.

[Shamedmonkey]

Well. If we're talking BioWare NWN, then CoT, Shifter, and PDK are terribad. And PM and RDD are ridiculously amazing.

[Shadowalker]

I have only built two of the choices here in Aetheria, so I havent the experiance needed to make an informed choice.

[mining]

Also need to remember that the 'best' class is not the easiest to build and play. Overall, this is just a way of expressing which class you feel like voting for on the day, not any true representation of what these classes are like.

[northstar_08]

Hard for me to vote here as I have really only played a few (Harper Scout, RDD and Pale Master)

I personally loved my PM until its AC was nerfed.

I am thinking on building another PM though (that takes into account the AC changes) so would have to say PM

[Tal]

Hard for me to vote here as I have really only played a few (Harper Scout, RDD and Pale Master)

I personally loved my PM until its AC was nerfed.

I am thinking on building another PM though (that takes into account the AC changes) so would have to say PM

I am a firm believer in that if you need to rebuild a toon because of a nerf then it is the nerf that is broken.

[VagaStorm]

I'm wondering, will a pure rdd ever beat a pure pm? Havent played much lately.

[Nyeleni]

Should be able to, with dragon breath.

[mining]

Hard for me to vote here as I have really only played a few (Harper Scout, RDD and Pale Master)

I personally loved my PM until its AC was nerfed.

I am thinking on building another PM though (that takes into account the AC changes) so would have to say PM

I am a firm believer in that if you need to rebuild a toon because of a nerf then it is the nerf that is broken.

I firmly disagree. Those ridiculous 2h using melee mages that abused +12 shield EMA were never balanced.

Secondly, Vaga, a 66 AB (74 for the first few turns), 78 AC monstrosity with dragon breath and IKD has better than even odds vs a PM.

[Cahaal]

With the use of Azerblood for PM's now, it would be very hard to beat them with dragon breath.

[Daral0085]

Not sure why you think that. According to wiki azer gets:

10/- Fire Resistance

So let's see, 30d10 averages 165, DC 50 reflex save. If they fail the save, then you do an average of 155 damage (assuming no EER: fire). If they make the save (and no evasion), you average 72 damage. These values are before the fire vuln, which knock them up to 196 and 92 respectively.

I think doing 196 fire damage per round would be fairly respectable.

[mining]

With the use of Azerblood for PM's now, it would be very hard to beat them with dragon breath.

Azerblood is a silly race for PMs anyway, given that they're built around being hard to hit. If they aren't hard to hit, they're KD bait. Seems lose-lose to me.