Hey all,

Now that I have three level 60 characters (Barb, Monk, and WD), and I'm messing around with each of them, I started asking myself why I like / dislike each character. So in the process of trying to find which character I like the most, I figured I'd ask all you what drew you to your character(s)!

For me, I picked the WD first because I've always enjoyed pet classes, and I like the dark summoner feel of the class, but I then got frustrated with how weak the WD were. Then I decided to muck around with melee classes; tried Barbarian and Monk, and liked the monk more at the time. Then I saw a ww barb and thought "... Yeah I have to try that."

What're your reasons/stories?

My first level 60 was a monk. I enjoyed the quick hits of the class, no nonsense passives, and the easy healing. Additionally, I took Wing Chun Kung Fu for a few years and I felt a bit of kindred spirit to the character due to it. Lastly, it was entertaining to play a martial artist in a video game that was not Tekken or Street Fighter. Then the IAS nerf came and I swore to play a different character out of protest (As someone thats worked closely with attorneys on cases, the real world is about finding loopholes in order to live your life better within the artificial rules of society. The extreme IAS was a loophole and I saw nothing wrong with utilizing it).

So I went to wizard because I enjoyed the artillery aspect of the class. Nothing like raining down meteors and conjuring an inexpensive hydra. But I got bored with kiting. I missed the in your face business of the monk. I discovered CM/WW/EB and here I am. Sure I archon sometimes and can get some pretty decent DPS. But I still enjoy being in their face more than anything. Maybe I'll go back to monk one day...

Started with DH. Got to infernal and instead of them melting I did.

Then went with monk as the passive said I wouldn't melt. I did well, but never got a3 down. Mostly cause I geared wrong.

Heard about this WW Barb thing and lvled a Barb to 60 ASAP with 1.05 on the horizon, and fell in love! More E kills with half the time and cleared all infernal. Barb for life!

Some parts of Khan's story has eerie parallels to mine.

Some.

Before May I had zero interest in this game at all. Period. I knew it was coming and I knew a lot of other people cared about it, but I wasn't one of them. I hate WOW with a passion because I find that it consumes peoples' lives and I take offense at a game requiring a periodic fee. My total time in playing D1 and D2 to date was and is roughly ten minutes. I knew of the Diablo games but never got into them. I'm more of a Nethack person.

My Wife played WOW for years and quit some time earlier in the year. She preordered the game with the pretense of possibly having something to play with people who she used to play WOW with, as well as SC2.

My current food-and-utilities job is pushing carts at a WalMart. Being an Enrolled Agent doesn't mean, much less earn, anything when it's not Individual tax season and you have no clients. One of my coworkers is a young guy who's currently a college Freshman. He geeks out over games, and finally came to understand that I'm pretty geeked on them as well. He asks me if I'm going to play D3, I respond that my wife preordered the game. "Oh dude we gotta play together and make a team, man!!" is his response. Another co-cartman, who is another WOW vet, is told of this and the three of us are now suddenly a group. They ask which class I'm going to play. At this point, I had no idea what the choices actually were. "Just something that helps the team." is my response, mostly because at this point I was still pretty aloof about it and I didn't figure that I'd be contending to be a group or damage leader.

So they decided that I should be a Monk.

Game launches and we're off. The three of us only manage a few sessions on sporadic nights. Otherwise I'm going solo and racing to 60. Of us three, I'm the first to make it there by a scant half hour before another does. I hit Inferno and promptly get hit right back. My pitiful 25K DPS doesn't do much of anything anymore. I can't progress past the Skeleton King fight. Then the IAS nerf hits. The nerf convinces many other players who I started playing with to quit. It also convinces me to give up the Monk, as I was primarily running solo at this point and was ineffective in doing so. So if I were to continue playing, I would pick up another class. Well, the first coworker mentioned ealrier was a Barb. The other coworker took up DH. My Wife started and quit her DH. Most other folks whom I knew were either Monks or DH. I was tired of getting swarmed and being unable to do anything about it. I was reading good things about Wizard. Nobody else I knew was playing a Wizard.

So I took up Wizard.

By now it's 103 and Archon takes me to Inferno rather quickly, but yet again my gear is in pitiful shape for handling A2. Yet again, I can't keep crowds away and I can't kill things fast enough. Yet again, I'm on the verge of being done with the game.

But wait - what's this about Critical Mass and Wicked Wind?... oh, and it's a build that many people prefer for group play? You don't say...

^ Cool story, bro. ;-)

Me and two other friends had been anticipating D3's release for a very long time and it was a given the we would get it and play together. Well I ended up getting the game a few weeks before one friend and a couple weeks for the other one. I played the game first way back last December during the beta for the game and first started with a Wizard. I really liked it but got bored with the beta so stopped playing. By the time I came back they had wiped my wizard which kind of demotivated me from going back and trying again, but I did and decided to use the monk this time.

I liked the monk enough in the beta that I decided to start with it on release of the game. I did pretty well with the game on my monk, but in 1.0.2 or so I hit a serious brick wall once I hit act 2. I would hit OHKO'd constantly. Regardless of that, I loved my monk and I love(d) the tankyness of of the class.

Up until the end of 1.0.4 my monk was all I played on pretty much but nowadays I've been playing mostly on my wizard and barbarian. I do still hold a soft spot for the monk and eagerly await some buffs to the class to make me return.

It's kind of funny though. I heard a bunch of people say that monks feel like gimped barbarians, but I think like they feel more like gimped CM WW wizards. Or at least the build I've been using does.

This does raise an interesting thought exercise. Is D3 an operational game (money, GAH, ticks, crits, procs, etc.) or is it the mythos (classes, story, personal preference to characters, etc)?

Similar to a restaurant that tries to be a bar/lounge/club or host SC2 tournaments, its difficult to be everything and adhere to an identity that can be both respected and appealing.

Always play a Mage in RPGs. I started with Wizard, but had a few sub characters at the start to level with the other friends all playing D3. Eventually ended up with three characters at Lv.60 but never really touched the DH after getting to inferno.

Really dislike the Wizard classes skills in this game, so much channelling skills and not enough actual things that make a Mage feel they are in control of their character. Teleport has both an AP cost and cool down which to me seems really stupid. It's either one or the other not both, or at least let us skip over a barrel or some obstacle that you can walk through or break through.

Meleeing in Diablo games has always been fun and gives you more feel and control of your game, which is why I've come to build my Wizard into a spectral blade meteor type. It's not as great as it could be but it is fun to farm with...

Posted by Khan at 10/27/2012 12:31 AM

This does raise an interesting thought exercise. Is D3 an operational game (money, GAH, ticks, crits, procs, etc.) or is it the mythos (classes, story, personal preference to characters, etc)?

Similar to a restaurant that tries to be a bar/lounge/club or host SC2 tournaments, its difficult to be everything and adhere to an identity that can be both respected and appealing.

This is the exact conundrum I'm having right now. I love the mythos of the WD, but I feel as though I may prefer the playstyle of (and be more successful with) another class...

Before release the monk class had the most appealing lore/design to me, so I chose to start with one. Pre-1.03 I could never get it passed Ghom, and got tired of feeling like I was forced into a particular build (which kind of still feel for the 1.05 monk class) ...so I gave up on it and started getting all five classes to 60.

Before 1.04 I decided to main my Dh solely because I always seemed to drop the best quivers. I have it up to 33 paragon, and if I can win a few auctions will have it in a fun Natalya's mf set. Though I am considering that the end point for my DH.

I really am finding Monk (again/also a due thanks @Gnawol for help with her) and Witch Doctor (though I dislike pets) my two favorites now. @Jhonka I'm also loving the thing of the deep/grave injustice combo/great thread!

My wizard, I might enjoy but it is the worst geared I have, and like @Khan I am tired of kiting (mostly why I don't stick with DH also). Slowly finding drops to make my wiz a little more of an up close character.

I hate barbarians, usually never play the big brute melee class in any game.

EDIT: Just to share: I name each character after a different bird species that I feel symbolizes that characters class lore/gameplay.

I've always played all classes in all the Diablo franchise, and always loved the challenges that casters have..mostly beeing able to nuke things hard, but can die easily.

I started w/Wizard in d3, got to inferno.. then became tired of kite fest a bit. Then dabbled with the other classes to inferno, starting with DH->Barb->Monk->WD..

After much testing around, i found it easiest to play barbarian and found it the most efficient at farming. (watching Krip also might have tipped my farming habbit a bit toward that direction)
So there it is. Been spinning ever since .. till i puke :P

I still play my Wizard from time to time, when i'm playing with my cousin & brother. CM wizards are lotta fun !

I just love the background of the barbarian and the way they play. Barb was my fist character in D2 & D3.