After 1500 hours I have found my favourite Class.

[Berserk64]

For clarity. I have never looked anything up online. I learn by playing.
My favourite class is the Ritualist, (Necromancer/Shaman) The class is very versatile, and can adapt easily to a lot of gear that you find, making it for me a very interesting class to play.

[Faust Wither]

vitality damage for win.

[wilky]

I don't have a lot of experience with this game... "only" 400 hours which means that I haven't even come close to playing half of the classes. But generally, in the discussions and tier-lists/rankings that I've seen, a few classes seem to stand above the rest:

Shaman
Arcanist
Necromancer

Generally it seems to me that everybody's favorite classes are some combination of these three. Probably in that order. Maybe Oathkeeper a distance 4th since Dervishes and Warlords are also pretty popular.

[DirtyMick]

Mine is now the shaman/occultist. Once I started using the Rylok mark medal, converting primal strike into vitality damage, I fell in love. There's just soooo much healing going on, it's great. Devouring swarm healing, wendigo totem healing, sigil of consumption healing, healing on hit from ADctH, and the red lightning just kinda looking cool. I love this build.

[wilky]

Originally posted by Turret Syndrome:

Mine is now the shaman/occultist. Once I started using the Rylok mark medal, converting primal strike into vitality damage, I fell in love. There's just soooo much healing going on, it's great. Devouring swarm healing, wendigo totem healing, sigil of consumption healing, healing on hit from ADctH, and the red lightning just kinda looking cool. I love this build.

Yeah I see a lot of people cite Shaman/Occultist as #1 class combo (HC especially), but I don't see a lot of love for other Occultist combinations outside of Shaman. (I only have limited experience with both personally.)

[DirtyMick]

Originally posted by wilky:

Originally posted by Turret Syndrome:

Mine is now the shaman/occultist. Once I started using the Rylok mark medal, converting primal strike into vitality damage, I fell in love. There's just soooo much healing going on, it's great. Devouring swarm healing, wendigo totem healing, sigil of consumption healing, healing on hit from ADctH, and the red lightning just kinda looking cool. I love this build.

Yeah I see a lot of people cite Shaman/Occultist as #1 class combo (HC especially), but I don't see a lot of love for other Occultist combinations outside of Shaman. (I only have limited experience with both personally.)

Also when I started playing hardcore I made 2 shieldbreakers in a row (oath/demo) because I found them so fun. And then I made a commando (soldier/demo) after that lol. On softcore I had only really played demolitionist as a purifier dual wielding guns, which is just completely different style from the ones I play on hardcore. One shieldbreaker is a caster, and the other is a fire eye of reckoning build, which I might try changing up sometime now that I'm finding a lot if legendaries again. Took a while to climb back up to end game on hardcore lol. But I kinda wanna do like a vindictive flame/retaliation build with one of em once I found this one weapon that had nice mods for it.

[kekkuli]

When talking about vanilla game my fav has been and is still demo. I guess i'm alone at this since people don't like fire

[Slapstick]

Dervish is mine. Terrific acid resist reduction, dual wielding, great defensive capabilities, easy access to proc'ing devotion skills via WPS skills. I just love the look of Scorpion Sting.

[Blake]

I have similar play time but mine is definately a shield build.
I have an lvl 84 Warlord and currently on a lvl 41 Shieldbreaker doing immense fire damage with Grenado, Vires Might (creating a path of fire) and Thermite Mines (aka portable cremation units)

Both with a damn sexy shield.

[Jecto]

i made this class on accident

[planescaped]

My last character i played was pretty much a straight Occultist, as I don't even remember what side class I picked.

Ended up being by far my most powerful character though. The bleed damage just shredded everything before I could blink. The gear I had gave all my bloody pox skills like 8 levels over maximum as well as my blight and weakness moves. 1 button destroyed all resistances, then I'd stack bleed and blight. Became my "right click to win" character. :P

In general I tend to prefer a mono class, but that's probably because I've never made it to super late game before wanting to try a different build. I was having fun with a demolitionist too, but I didn't have any good demo gear, so I shelved him for later.