If L2 had only one class...

If L2 was the same as it is now except that only one of the currently existing classes would be available to players, which class would you want it to be?

Hmm, I think it would have to be one of the summoners or buffers. Everything else is simply not self-sustaining enough. Prolly a summoner.

Necro?

Necro without acumen, emp and VR tbh is not all that.

BtM, CLD, lvl 35 heal.

And herbs (both emp and acumen herbs drop pretty often). Non-pet shots are a problem, though, unless we make them questable or add shop/craftshop NPCs.

Warsmith...craft shots and pots

Hmm, I think it would have to be one of the summoners or buffers. Everything else is simply not self-sustaining enough. Prolly a summoner.

I'm thinking more like Summoner or SH. A WC could do it up until low 60s in Heavy Armor. Probably same for a Prophet. Howevere, I'm thinking after that, places like VoS/FoD would be too much for even one of those.

Warsmith...craft shots and pots

Would be my choice also

Warsmith...craft shots and pots

... and equipment.

So I'd still be a Warsmith. :)

C Grade summoner > unbuffed A Grade warsmith tbh. :p

Taking the castles from NPCs with only pure summoners at hand won't be easy.

And a l2day scroll event could be made permanent, partially solving the buff problem.

And we could have armours from NPCs, solving the dwarf problem...

I don't think there's a point of 'what class' if you're going to make some classes 'indirectly available'.

Only one class, that would be SE.

If L2 had only one class... that wouldn't be L2, right?
It doesn't really make sense.
What if characters would be deleted upon death? (even in PvP)
What if every second there would be a very little chance for you character to explode in fireworks (and die) without any reason whatsoever?
What if instead of playing characters we'd play pets? Which one would you play?

Ok... If L2 had only one class... I wouldn't play it. Does it answer the question appropriately? ;)

Warlock :)

necro without deathspike.

C Grade summoner > unbuffed A Grade warsmith tbh. :p

I could try it out, I guess. So far, in self-buffed PvP, I can take out most other classes, true summoners excluded (**** Betray ...), if only because I can easily carry 2000+ GCP pots and some 100ths of QHPs pots to add on it. With two or three levels of equipment difference? No idea. After all, a summoner's summon is his equipment ...

C-grade Destroyer > Both, happy?

If L2 had only one class... that wouldn't be L2, right?
It doesn't really make sense.

The origin of the question was something like: "if we balance all the classes in L2, wouldn't they become a single class?"

Ok... If L2 had only one class... I wouldn't play it.

Even if it were a Bishop with Transfer Pain and Death Spike? ;)

If L2 was the same as it is now except that only one of the currently existing classes would be available to players, which class would you want it to be?

Summoner, esp, the Warlock, a.k.a., "The Cat Daddy", would be my pick. Send fast moving, hard hitting summons to kill things. You pick up drops, read a book, watch a DVD, email friends, knit a sweater or shop audiogon for that after-market Krell amp that you've been dying to buy while the summons play. And if everyone was a summoner, what fun PVP would be! :D

Seriously, the summoners are an all in one party, so by default they trump the proposition of only choosing one. That spells win in my book.

OL

Summoner is the only class self sufficient enough, warlock has a clear edge there also since they get better self buffs for their cats.
WC is the only other viable option, though you would have to spend a fortune in potions and BSOEs for when things get ugly.

Spellhowlers. No doubt. They are the most efficient when it comes to mana and they deal the highest, most consistent damage without buffs. You can pvp, pve, raid... everything with SHs. Tanking/ healing/ buffing is going to suck... but hey, it's not impossible.

Hey that's a good point, how would you get crystals for the cats if there were no WS's? Other than blowing junk up but that would be hard to keep up with the crystal use I think...

By that same token, how is any other class going to get SS and BSPS?

I think the question should be : if you could only play one class what would it be?

What if only dwarfs could use shots?

That would fix most pvp problems imo, lol.

Then healers would be the most expensive class to play. But we digress.

The origin of the question was something like: "if we balance all the classes in L2, wouldn't they become a single class?"

Err... no?

Even if it were a Bishop with Transfer Pain and Death Spike? ;)

Oh pweez devs! I wanna Transfer Pain and Death Spike on my Bishooooooop!

:confused:

In the case there were only Bishops and they had TP and DS, not only I wouldn't play L2, but I would take as an outrage from the world and I would spit at people in the street to make the world pay.

"- I Transfer Pain to my... my... my wolf?
Your pet is dead. You have 20 minutes to resurrect it before it decays.
- ... but... I wasn't even hit!"

Maybe to your party?

Actually, a question about which skillset for a single class can create diverse groups just by different players' different voluntary choice of how to play their toon can be still valid.

Warsmith

Warehouse Keeper.

All ur stuff r belongs to me.

In CT1, PP and wolf.

Wait...I thought L2 only had Hawkeyes already...

Warehouse Keeper.

All ur stuff r belongs to me.

i lol'd

Me too! That was great!

If L2 had but 1 class it would be an Internet based FPS game in short time.

And I think this game is still advertised as a MMORPG.
(not sure though these days..)

It is, but at the same time it's turning into an TPS (Third Person Shooter) with all the archers and necros running around.

A dwarf of either ilk as long as they were given some dual skills and improved MP rates.

Prophet with C1 wolf