Character classes you hate

[T0BB0]

The class I have a problem of the concept of (which is what the OP asked) is the "Thief".

I love stealthy gameplay, whether it's solo or in a group party. I think using the idea of sneakiness and avoiding attention is a good thing from a mechanical and a roleplaying perspective. What I don't like is the word, Thief.

A Thief is someone who steals things. Breaks into people's houses and robs them. Perhaps if they have some muscle, they might perform a mugging if necessary. What a Thief doesn't do is kill someone, that's a far greater crime that will draw far more attention without the material gain that a thief aims for. If I need to gather a party together to attack some giant demonspawn, what the hell is a Thief going to do for me? I need a demon to be defeated in combat and banished, so I need holy men, magic users, brave souls to put their lives on the line to protect the rest. When I need an heirloom stolen from a noble's bedroom, I'll call a thief.

Someone who uses stealth and misdirection to attack and kill their enemies is an "Assassin", not a "Thief". "Rogue" is just a runaway or someone who's untrustworthy, and can be applied to a Wizard who has abandoned their college to study forbidden arts.

Also, as a real life engineer (albeit not in the armed forces), calling a class with a blowtorch or wrench an "Engineer" is a pet peeve. No, you're a Mechanic. If carrying an anti-tank missile launcher defined an Engineer, I'd have a much higher job satisfaction.

 

[DoPo]

Monks. Every game they are put in they nearly ruin it with their ridiculously stupid gameplay! MOP Kung fu panda monks HOW ORIGINAL! taking out that human in full plate armor with a sword and shield with a stick and a straw hat in no armor? Pffft. Warcraft has become a pixar cartoon.

FYI and everyone elses, Pandarin Monks have been around in the series since Warcraft 3 although rather obscurely.

As far as I know, the Pandaren from Warcraft 3 were just big bears that liked to drink. Any idea of them being martial arts masters did not get added till Mists of Pandaria.

Large bears with an obviously eastern themes[footnote]And we all know that would either mean "martial arts" or "samurai". OK, maybe "ninja" but that's sort of close to both of this with some stealth thrown in.[/footnote] embedded in them, who like to drink and actually were (apparently) renowned fighters who only use a stick and drunken brawling techniques.

Based on their very depiction I would have actually been surprised if anybody said there weren't any martial artists among them. I hear they get expanded background as time went on, though, it's probably even more explicit there.

 

[Shuguard]

pet classes... damn you derpy AI and terrible responses to enemy attacks.

 

[Souplex]

I despise stealthy classes.

 

[skywolfblue]

Druid - Filthy stinky hippies.

Thief - Archer type rogues or slice and dice dual sword rogues are ok, but pickpocketing and scumbaggery is boooring.

Bard - Like thief, only replace pickpocketing with dumb musical instrument.

 

[Jfswift]

Gun fighters: Now dont get me wrong. I love these guys and use them a lot.. but.. They seem kind of silly at the same time, what with their stylized shooting moves. Quit pussyfooting around and just shoot already. It's a real love-hate thing for me.

Gun class in FFX-2. That kid from Xeno Saga or the other gun fighter from Xenogears.

Paladins: I tend to play as a gritty "border of the law" kind of guy in most games. Paladins are just too rigid for me.

Feral kids: off the top of my head I can only think if Gau from FF6 but I really (am going to destroy this phone if it autocorrects one more time) dislike dirty squatter, Tarzan characters running around with little clothes.

 

[Roggen Bread]

Warriors - what's the point of playing a warrior in a fantasy game? Seems contradictory to me and I've felt they can never keep up with the fun factor the other, less dreary, classes have.

Warriors are kinda my favourite class, but I agree with you.

Actually, I completely agreeD(capital D for long passed times ) with you, before playing WoW.

I really like the image of warriors that is painted. A warrior is a being that is a complete and totally crazy berserk while being disciplined.

I give you a short run-down in case you don't know. The WoW warrior comes (at least it was like that in my time...) in 3 specs. Fury. Arms. Protection. All 3 specs have the common resource: Rage. 0 rage is empty, 100 Rage is full.

I'll start with fury. That one is just fun. You carry a weapon in each hand and just become a bloodthirsty berserker, grinding through blood and bones with every passing second. But you still have to somehow remain calm to actually hit your target and calculate your targets moves and so on.

Protection: What's to say? It's a tank. He gets hit the whole time and somehow remains calm and concentrated enough to be a fortress. Now this counts for every tank, but they have different motivations.
The paladin believes, he has to, for the light and such. The druid, well, heck, I don't know. It's just a warrior-knock-off. The death knight: He likes inflicting pain, suffering for this is a small sacrifice and in general worth it.
But the warrior is just a loyal companion. He endures this because he is one of those, who can. And yet again, he stays disciplined the whole time. If he gave in to his fury and went berserk, he would certainly die.

And arms: This represents complete mastery over a big-ass-2-handed weapon. Every strike has to hit. And in my personal opinion, he is the instrument, that channels the fury of his weapon.

And this kind of changed my view of the warrior. He only has his weapon. So he has to be extra-super-special good with it to keep up with the lightning-flingers.

 

[Thanatos5150]

I hate Vanguards on Mass Effect 3 multiplayer, they are terrible team players.

However I think people were mostly going for fantasy stuff here so I will say Thieves, I dont really hate them but I think they are boring to play as.

Hey, now! When I Nova!Guard, I'm a team player. I lock down one group of enemies so you three can focus on the other group. And I generally Charge->Nova my way up to you, Mister Downed Man, in order to clear the field and revive you.
Of course, I typically play Infiltrator, anyway, and it's therefore really hard to fight the instinct to "Corpsman up".

 

[verdant monkai]

Hey, now! When I Nova!Guard, I'm a team player. I lock down one group of enemies so you three can focus on the other group. And I generally Charge->Nova my way up to you, Mister Downed Man, in order to clear the field and revive you.

Yeah maybe once. The rest of the time you :-

Make the screen shake and send blue shit flying everywhere.

Steal kills by teleporting in front of the person who did all the damage and absorb their bullets.

Charge off to somewhere like a kill zone and need to be rescued.

Charge out of hack zones and escort droid zones, lengthening the time it takes.

Can never be bothered to recover objects because you are too busy flying about being a nob.

I have nothing against you individually (hell you may even be the one none scumbag vanguard out there) but the above list is just what Vanguards do. Don't try to convince me otherwise I have played many games and unlocked least 80% of the stuff, and this is how all vanguards, I had the misfortune to encounter are.
Period.

 

[The_Lost_King]

The Warrior..... i don't know it always feels like such a bland class. coming from a Lvl 36 warrior Tauren

i never found a ability that was like 'damm thats awesome'. Druids can turn into a BEAR nuff said

Yes and the bear is a watered down warrior. I never like Bear form. I always prefered cat form even though they are watered down rogues. I loved the concept of turning into a bear but the execution was boring.

My least favorite class has to warriors. The only reason I have a warrior in WoW is because they can Dual Wield TWO HANDED SWORDS. Other than that the warriors are boring. In DA:O why be a warrior when I can be an arcane warrior, flinging around spells and then charging into battle. The warrior is just so bland and boring.

Captcha: Car trouble. *sigh* I wish I had a car.

 

[General Twinkletoes]

Generally paladins/ranger. Which is odd, considering that in GW2, I keep making new characters and playing alts but the ones that stuck with me the most and I've levelled the furthest are my ranger and guardian :/

 

[Riptide1]

God do i hate Monks. Well... actually i love monks but so does everyone else and every time they are in a game they are just so stupidly overpowered, cause everyone loves to laugh at the robe wearing skinny guy that destroys the full plate battleaxe bad ass.

I don't see why everyone is so down on warriors, sure they don't have all the fancy skills or amazing abilities, but to me there are few things more fun than when your rogue is making a plan and trying to be sneaky and i just say screw it and scream "LEROY JENKINS!!!!!!!!!!!!" and bust down a door with my face.

 

[krodux]

I never liked running a magic user in D&D

 

[JaceArveduin]

OT: Dual-wielding rangers. I heard somewhere that the dual-wielding thing was implemented after Drizzt became popular, but that's not why it annoys me. It annoys me because character classes are based on archetypes. A ranger brings to mind a bow-and-arrow guy who feels at home in the woods. You know, kinda like Robin Hood. And the melee weapon he's associated with is a staff. OK, someone else? Aragorn. He wields a sword. OK, he dual-wields torches in that one-sentence scene in Fellowship, but that doesn't feel enough to base a defining class trait on.

So OK, I can't explain rationally why it bugs me so much. But it does.

I prefer the Ranger's from the Ranger's Apprentice novels myself. Generally use bow and arrow with high stealth and woodsman skills. If they have to get into close range, they've got a throwing dagger and a saxe knife.

Class I tend to not care about is... Hmm, no class in particular annoys me, but I guess that's cause I can generally get into the mood to play them.

 

[Kopikatsu]

I hate Mages of all kinds because they're always, always, ALWAYS retardedly broken and often become the only way to play the game when the difficulty ramps up. Well, I hate ranged classes in general, but Mages really take the cake.

Example: In Torchlight 2, I have a very tanky Engineer. I mean, every single point of everything went into becoming a tank. I have since learned that in NG+4, even on Casual every single enemy in the entire game can and will one shot you regardless of your build and you can only respec your last three skillpoints. Also, defense is capped REALLY low so it's pointless raising those stats anyway. So right off the bat, melee is fucked. Same thing happened in Dark Souls- Tank was unviable in playthrough 2 and completely unplayable beyond that. I fucking hate that so goddamn much.

It happens in table top RPGs, too. End-game Warriors can chop real good. End-game Wizards can slay Gods, absorb their power, and then go on to become an omnipotent Being that rules over all of everything forever.

'A Mage's weakness is that they can only wear cloth armor and have no defense!' Well, good job giving them a fuckin' magic barrier which protects them better than an actual suit of armor with zero incomberance and can summon armies of the damned to fight for them.

 

[Kargathia]

-Monks

Before you ask, yes, MOP is the reason I'm bringing this up, but it applies to monks in most other games as well (like, for example, D&D and the computer games derived from it).

Now then; Monks. I really hate them. Your typical roleplaying monk is a guy who specializes in unarmoured, unarmed combat. The reason I hate this is that monks routinely go up against well-trained guys with weapons specifically designed for killing people, and win. Not only that, but oftentimes (especially in D&D) the monk makes a better fighter than the plate-armoured axe-wielding death machine! That's... just... so... stupid.

It tends to get a bit less stupid when you realise this archetype is based on people who have dedicated their entire life to martial arts. Being a plate-armoured axe-wielding death machine suddenly counts for a lot less if you're up against a guy who has been training 8 hours a day for the last twenty years.

OT: Paladins. Holier-than-thou self-righteous circle-jerking dipshits. Admittedly, my dislike was excarbated by WoW, where for my rogue paladins were supremely annoying: not very threatening, but you had to kill them three times over.

 

[Thanatos5150]

Hey, now! When I Nova!Guard, I'm a team player. I lock down one group of enemies so you three can focus on the other group. And I generally Charge->Nova my way up to you, Mister Downed Man, in order to clear the field and revive you.

Yeah maybe once. The rest of the time you :-

Make the screen shake and send blue shit flying everywhere.

Steal kills by teleporting in front of the person who did all the damage and absorb their bullets.

Charge off to somewhere like a kill zone and need to be rescued.

Charge out of hack zones and escort droid zones, lengthening the time it takes.

Can never be bothered to recover objects because you are too busy flying about being a nob.

I have nothing against you individually (hell you may even be the one none scumbag vanguard out there) but the above list is just what Vanguards do. Don't try to convince me otherwise I have played many games and unlocked least 80% of the stuff, and this is how all vanguards, I had the misfortune to encounter are.
Period.

Trust me, I feel your pain. When I still had Gold, I mained Infiltrators. There is nothing more annoying than an incompetent Vanguard spoiling your line of sight, or absorbing a critical shot with the charging shenanigans before zipping off into a situation they can't handle and screaming into the headset for a heal.
That's why I specifically play by myself when I go Vanguard, trying very, very hard to lock down just one zone so my buddies don't get frustrated - and I don't bite off more than I can chew.
As for hack zones... it's more "I'm useless when hiding behind cover, so I may as well keep my buddies who excel behind cover safe." than "ZOMG! Killz!"
Also: I lost my Gold sub before Escorts became a thing, so I don't have a Nova!Guard strategy for that.

Anybody who's trying to be a Nova!Guard and is carrying anything but a SMG with Utra-light Materials on it is doing it wrong.

 

[verdant monkai]

Trust me, I feel your pain. When I still had Gold, I mained Infiltrators. There is nothing more annoying than an incompetent Vanguard spoiling your line of sight, or absorbing a critical shot with the charging shenanigans before zipping off into a situation they can't handle and screaming into the headset for a heal.
That's why I specifically play by myself when I go Vanguard, trying very, very hard to lock down just one zone so my buddies don't get frustrated - and I don't bite off more than I can chew.
As for hack zones... it's more "I'm useless when hiding behind cover, so I may as well keep my buddies who excel behind cover safe." than "ZOMG! Killz!"
Also: I lost my Gold sub before Escorts became a thing, so I don't have a Nova!Guard strategy for that.

Anybody who's trying to be a Nova!Guard and is carrying anything but a SMG with Utra-light Materials on it is doing it wrong.

Fair enough bro fair enough. My apologise I thought I was talking with someone who almost exclusively did Vanguards and was bracing myself for "Your just jealous" or "Your just bad at the game".

I now feel like a bit of a hypocrite because since we last commented I unlocked a Krogan Vanguard. I couldn't help myself Krogans are my 2nd favourite Mass Effect Alien, I had to try him out. I had never used Vanguards up till then, they are really fun to play as but christ you feel like a douche, when you biotic charge into the grunt enemies with low health, then realise whoever injured him was just about to finish him off.

As for hack zones I had a geth plasma shotgun, since I had no offensive biotics other than charge. This let me stay in cover and blast enemies, so I did not feel like a nuisance then at least.

I see why people play as vanguards but they can be annoying when played by a person who just does not give a sh*t. Also I wish Bioware had made the Biotic charge not affect everyone elses screen and less of a visual disturbance, would be nice as well.

 

[Blunderboy]

Monks. I really hate them.

Wololo.

OT - Well it really varies on the game. I tend to avoid full on magic. I find it a tad boring generally.