Through my years of mmo and rpg gaming I’ve tended to swing between the two extremes of the warrior/wizard dynamic.
Some days I just want to be a dumb tank in full armor soaking up hits and acting as a wall for squishier classes. But then there’s days where I love being a glass cannon that can kill something in 1-2 nukes but a strong breeze can kill me.
The least fun I’ve head with a class was as a healer druid in Everquest. Something so stressful about the party relying on you for heals and if you wipe it’s generally your fault. idk how people dedicate themselves to a class like that.
Why I picked up Kineticists for when my GM wants to run a pathfinder table (she actually outright banned me from “any multi-classing swashbuckler into an arcane caster” (and for the record, Sorcebuckler goes HARD), gunslingers, and eldritch knights for like three years because ‘that’s all you play’); Kineticist is straight up Saiyans meet Benders: the Class and no other setting I’ve played has something like it
NOTE, so y’all don’t think I’m at a table with a tyrant: she had a really good point. I’ve been running games w/ her since I was still in school; and in a solid half of that time, I only reliably leaned back on two or three gameplay mechanics at any given time to a point that it was getting in the way of the character work and social scenes. Branching out into other playstyles and having to bend my mind around the differences in buildcraft and how that can make radically different characters for someone who typically builds from mechanics first, it actually did my character writing wonders.
