Best Class to Use?

[czech]

I chose Rouge not knowing anything and I'm wondering what you think the best class is?

[!?!]

Probably wizard and necromancer.
Both have ranged attacks and one gets a teleport so you basically no longer have to dig through walls, the other gets flying and heat vision for free.

Then there's the bard who has the fastest farm due to a permanent damage aura but it uses melee weapons.

[czech]

Originally posted by chris:

Probably wizard and necromancer.
Both have ranged attacks and one gets a teleport so you basically no longer have to dig through walls, the other gets flying and heat vision for free.

Then there's the bard who has the fastest farm due to a permanent damage aura but it uses melee weapons.

Is the Rouge any good? I feel like most of their abilities are useless....

[!?!]

Rogues are notoriously hard to play from what I have heard.
I don't have a higher level rogue tho.

[zeith]

i got a lvl 100 rouge and i can say the number 1 upside for them is that every difficulty you can go invisible and make a hell shaft to get the best armor for that difficulty and weapons that are much higher ilvl than you my only tip if you make a rouge is to make sure your weapon has concussive(makes you shoot ranged bolts out of your sword) otherwise its gona suck.

[D#]

Mage seems to be pretty easy mode once you get a spraying wand.. they murder everything.

[HouseOfTheRat]

There isn't any best class but they all feel different to play. Rogue is one of the most complicated because you have to use many active skills, set up your fights carefully, and manage your unique class mechanic (Deep Wounds). But rogues can stealth, they can reach 100% dodge for limited amounts of time, and they deal enormous amounts of burst damage.

Most people agree that melee classes are harder to play against bosses but they can just dive in rooms full of enemies and annihilate them (or in the case of bards, relax while everything around them dies!). Players have reached the highest level and beat the highest difficulty with every class. Keeping a concussive weapon handy is a good idea if you are playing melee.

Check out this post for a brief description of every class: https://steamcommunity.com/app/697550/discussions/0/1743353164096002469/#c1743353164096020403

Also check out the class descriptions in the store page, complete with nice gifs!

[DYRT]

Best Class is Necromancer, here is why:

*Easy to recover your belongings if you died and lost your items.
*Thermal vision means no ambush if you play zoomed out and has a decent resolution.
*Flight means easy to escape, no fall damage, assasins are not able to teleport your behind while you're on air, Necromancers are not able to spawn enemies inside of you while you're flying. Mlee enemies are not able to hit you . Even ranged enemies dont have a decent attack range you can "snipe" them
*You can put more usefull rings than no fall damage or thermal vision.
*While your character crazy weak because of the level difference, Frozen skulls are still tanky and able to kill enemies. (for example im currently deepest lvl of nightmare map: My character is lvl 40 and enemies are lvl 60 and Frozen Skull is Rank 3. That means %75 reduced xp and damage)
*With necromancer you can easly skip to the end and mine for best gear.

[HouseOfTheRat]

Hey, I love Necromancer and everything you said is true buuuuut... I don't want the other classes to feel ignored! So I will add some to your points for anyone interested!

For new players or those who are thinking of getting the game: Necromancers can fly. Rogues can of course stealth (also makes you run faster) and Enchanters can turn into a wisp form that allows you to fly and makes mobs ignore you. Other classes in the game have movement skills like dashing or teleporting.

- As a Rogue or Enchanter, retrieving your items is even easier! With their class abilities, enemies won't even attack you (don't get too comfortable in boss rooms though!).

- Thermal vision is awesome and not hard to get on items - but playing a necro means you don't need special items for that.

- While it takes a lot of crafting, any class can fly with the Cosmic Armor set! Personally I would leave that for late in the game. There is also the Tabard of Air that any class can use, it allows you to sort of hover if you use it with a fast shooting weapon (including concussive weapons for melee characters). Use it with a spraying wand for some chaotic, stuck-on-the-ceiling flying!

- Rogue is the king of sneaking past hard mobs to mine for advanced materials, Enchanter as well.

[DYRT]

Didn't tried yet but paladin also looks very nice (watched it from youtube video). Well actually, every classes should be played so far i tried 2 wizard, 1 Bard and 1 Necromancer.
Necromancer's stat system also nice, only thing you need to do is giving all your stat points to vitality because after making your Undead Hearth skill Rank 5 it will also increase your resistances.

I was thinking to make a suggestion to developer. In Heroes of Hammerwatch, there is a passive bonus system when you play and level up a character it also starts to provide little bonuses to your all other characters. Its under powered little bonus system which pushes players to play every character in the game. A feature something like that would be nice.
For example killing the last boss in every difficulty can provide bonuses like this: (Rogue: 2% dodge, Necromancer: 2% Cold and Poison Resist, Mage: 2% Fire and Lightning, Warrior: 2% Max HP, Bard 2% Max Mana, etc.) So for rogue compleating Normal provides 2% dodge, Nightmare 4% dodge, Hell 6%, Inferno 10% dodge. Because inferno hardest and last difficulty it deserves double reward.

[HouseOfTheRat]

I might be biased because I love this game and have hundreds of hours in it, but for me all classes are fun to play :) What's good for everyone is that it is easy and fast to level a class to 20 to get a taste of all their abilities. Some abilities really change as you level them up too - either they get additional functionality like the Necromancer's Undead Heart does or they start getting real powerful so you can focus your gameplay around them (like 1-second teleport, or various aoe nukes).

Personally I would love roguelite elements in the game like you suggested. I am not aware of any such future plans and I don't remember if David (the developer) likes such mechanics BUT the upcoming account-bound persistent town option is just a step in that direction! Since the game will have that functionality, I think it would be easy to implement additional similar roguelite 'legacy' mechanics if both the developer and the community want it - at least technically easy; I imagine the design can get very complicated!

[gienekman]

My no.1 is cleric, you get a metric ton of armor, can use melee or ranged AND large chunk of your armor turns to damage.
Oh yeah and you can self heal from time to time.

If you want steady, reliable weapon damage, i don't think anything tops cleric. It's even better during boss fights, as they constantly spawn monsters, so your smite keeps gaining power.

[themazingness]

Cleric is amazing: your choice of ranged or melee, armor bonuses, damage bonuses based on your armor (which means you'll dig faster too), and self healing. As long as you take care of your resistances and otherwise focus on armor you are covered.

I haven't decided if it is my favorite for sure since I need to play through with other classes more, plus we will be getting skill trees. But the way things are looking I suspect Cleric will be my favorite class in this game.

[Archon]

well I don't own the game but I would imagine playing makeup would be very difficult versus a class that wasn't an inanimate object. i'm looking to get the game so maybe I'll choose the rouge/makeup class and see for myself.

[themazingness]

I'm finding a combination of Cleric/Bard to be really powerful (now that we can multi-class). I'm working on a rogue now too to see if I can improve my build even more.

[Kindred Spirit]

The rouge class is overpowdered.