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The Daily Grind: If you could mix-and-match classes and MMOs, what would they be?

by Justin Olivetti on Apr 11th 2010 8:00AM

Sometimes, a love for a MMO is soured by a disdain for the class list available. Sometimes, you can't help but to fall for a sassy class with a twinkle in its eye, but you can't stand the game it's in. When this happens, it's a tragedy of Romeo and Juliet proportions -- an attraction that is destined to be ripped apart by opposing forces.

So by casting reality to the wind, let us ask you this: if you could play a particular class in a different MMO in which it resides, what would it be? What mix-and-match combination would spark your interest? Would you take LotRO's minstrel through the lands of Azeroth? Is the thought of one of City of Heroes' superpowered combinations flying through Fallen Earth's wasteland appealing? Would EQ2's Shadowknights mix well with Age of Conan's rough-and-tumble setting? Do you dream of piloting a STO starship in EVE's universe?

Take a class from column A and a game from column B, and tell us what would appeal to you the most!

Tags: age-of-conan, city-of-heroes, classes, eq2, eve-online, everquest-2, fallen-earth, lord-of-the-rings-online, lotro, star-trek-online, sto, tdg, world-of-warcraft

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Ideal MMO
gameplay, instances, pvp ballance, tons of quests from WoW
mix fighting system from AoC and CO
Aion grafix
non-stop action from APB
FOR THE HORDE community ^_^

Star Wars (SWG) and Star Trek (STO) ships all in space blasting at each other...

*does Homer-Simpson-esque drool*

As for the ground, I'd love to see a few EQ 1 and 2 classes run around in Azeroth, namely the ShadowKnight and Necro to beef up the "evil" classes beyond warlock and deathknight.

Lore and pvp scenarios from WAR
pve system and questlines from Lotro
Faction system from Fallen Earth
Crafting system from WoW

Community from anything-but-wow :(

Like many other commentors, I really want to shop the whole cafeteria line for my meal of MMO:

From WoW:
- the large, varied, and mostly seamless world
- the terrific responsiveness of the characters in play
- the excellent freedom of movement

From Champions Online:
- the excellent character customization
- the great (fun!) powers and abilities
- the cherry-picking of powers to build your own "class"
- the character-naming system that forever eliminates the problem of finding that someone has already taken your favorite name

From LOTRO:
- the incredible attention to detail in everything
- the beautiful and engaging world; the verisimilitude; the strong sense of place
- the numerous, varied, rich and copious questlines
- Legendary items
- the care and craftsmanship that is devoted to updating and improving every part of the game all the time, not just in major expansions, but continuously through the year in small patches that add to and rework questlines and hubs throughout the whole game, including the starting areas

From Guild Wars:
- henchmen and heroes (companions that can fill out parties when players are scarce)
- the rich, varied, competitive, and opt-in PVP
- Guild houses and PVP battles in them
- the opt-out grinding

From WAR:
- keep and city sieges; PVP objectives worth fighting over
- Greenskins!
- numerous nice PVP details (example: characters in a PVP fight can't walk through each other, which makes it possible for tanks to actually hold positions, which in turn makes entire families of tactics possible that otherwise aren't)
- PVP forts that are actually forts, and that must be taken by siege, instead of "forts" that are just arbitrary indefensible walls with zillions of gaping holes in them

Bounty Hunter in Everquest.

Well that may not work so well, so how about:

Bard in WoW.

I mean come on Blizzard. Give me bards already.

~~
Bounty Hunter in WoW WITH the old Bounty-hunt system. Gank a player that's grey to you, you get put on the BH terminals. The more you do it, the more your death is worth.

My god that would be awesome on PvP servers.
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Shadowbane's Minotaurs in WoW
Global Agenda's gunplay in Fallen Earth
Any MMOs fun quotient at low levels in Global Agenda
Earth Eternal's playability in any other fantasy game

Give me Everquest 2's classes (and races), but beef up their individuality, some. As I understand it many of the classes budded off of an initial four choices, so they share many abilities between them. Classes that are too similar are redundant.

The MMO I'd want to put them in doesn't exist yet. Give me a really well thought out backstory and world that manages to pull in and immerse you, (the MMO with the best I've played so far is Final Fantasy XI, but I don't see myself ever playing it again, unfortunately) that takes itself seriously longer than ten seconds (ie, what World of Warcraft can't do), has a housing system of some sort, EQ2's crafting, and gameplay like the upcoming MMO TERA.

Crafting from SWG
Taming as in UO alt Hunter in WoW
Skill system as in DFO/UO/SWGpreNGE
realm versus realm type as in Warhammer or DaoC

errr, isn't that roughly what AC2 was? (never played it unfortunately).

Graphics as in AoC perhaps.

The Fixer class from Anarchy Online in any other game. Absolutely *loved* that class! :-)

i loved that class also, and ma or advy. i loved most of the classes from ao i just wish they would update the game world, then i wouldnt need to find a new game for them

First I would start with grabbing FFXI's job/subjob - one character system.

Then I would grab all classes from Vanguard and throw them into WoW or vice versa. THAT would be awesome. Because then I could play with tons of job/subjob combos.

I would also take the classes from LOTRO and throw them into Vanguard. That could be interesting.

I almost said EQ2, but I find those classes so cliche and boring, or maybe that's the combat in EQ2? either way, it fails yet comes so close to not.

Fixer from AO + Mesmer from Guild Wars. I would play that class until I die.

If I could play a WoW rogue in every MMO, I would do it. Alwyas. I freaking love that class. I just dont like WoW anymore, which is why I quit. PRobably ahs to do with the fact that playing the class for so many years has made it that I no longer need to think about the mechanics, everything is now down to almost muscle memory, but again, I havent enjoyed the endgame in WoW for a very long time, so as much as I love playing my Rogue, I jsut cant do it anymore.

Kinda like having a great car and nowhere to drive it.

I feel for you......... especially since the smoke bomb announcement.

My lvl 80 WoW Paladin running around in the awesome lotro world.

Fallen Earth wasteland with Aion graphics, battlegrounds & scenarios from WoW/WAR, FE factions & crafting and crazy APB action would be totally freaking awesome! :D

DAoC's theurgist in WoW (as it's what I'm playing now). A small army of short-lived, fire-and-forget pets? Sign me up! Don't know why no other game has thought to recreate it as a core mechanic.

Try some of column A, try ALLLLL of column B!

Shadowknight -> AoC sounds really good.

Galaxy class -> EVE also sounds fun

DAoC Thane -> EQ2 I'd love to do myself

and finally

I'd love to pit every Necromancer class ever made against each other in a battle royale. Or just anyone who can muck about with the undead.

All of the classes in Vanguard in ANY game with a future.

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