Builds that surprised you.

[Arachnia]

I started out as a Cleric with Sentinel/Warden/Inq. Went pure healing with it and it was good for both solo and dungeon healing. However, out of curiosity of the other souls and to get a better feel for the uniqueness available to me, I changed to Justicar/Shaman/Druid, weilding a 2h mace and healing my party/raid through dps. It's not the highest dps I would hope for at the moment but I am certainly pleased with the survivability & support my heal effects provide to the group. If I need to burn some mana, I can also drop a small group heal in a tight pinch to help the real healers catch up.

I have yet to try it in pvp but overall I would say this combination has been incredibly fun for me. I did not go far up in Justicar. Just enough to get certain things, then I focused enough in shaman to get the shield and crit, then druid for even more crit and whatnot. I am in love with this and may make it my main role come launch, unless the rumors are true about the beta 6 patch notes.

edit:also, the battle rez at top of justicar soul makes it sound like this combination would be very close to the support role I played in Age of Conan as a Conquerer. I did not like AoC but I loved the experience I had playing that role for my guild in raid content.

[Liandral]

I normally play mages and clerics/healers in MMO's..

I certainly have never liked rangers

This game, I found my favourite to be my Marksman/Ranger/Sin because she is simply so much fun..

My other fav at the moment is my Sham/Justicar/Druid - once I got over the initial desire to punch my fairy pet repeatedly for that nasty pink hairdo and once I had renamed it to Machismo, I was very happy..

Please Trion - reskin that pet ^.^

[Korenth]

Marksman/Riftstalker...I spent the extra day of Beta 5 just seeing how many rifts i could take down...combining the Marksman run speed boost and the riftstalker phasing/teleport forward....I was making all sorts of great time going across the country side..no mount needed!

Not to mention that I could switch roles once I got to where I was going and set the points for amore damage-dealing build.

[Belenos]

I normally play mages and clerics/healers in MMO's..

I certainly have never liked rangers

This game, I found my favourite to be my Marksman/Ranger/Sin because she is simply so much fun..

My other fav at the moment is my Sham/Justicar/Druid - once I got over the initial desire to punch my fairy pet repeatedly for that nasty pink hairdo and once I had renamed it to Machismo, I was very happy..

Please Trion - reskin that pet ^.^

Faerie makeover ftw?

[Vraesh]

I first tried a druid/shaman/justicator, but wow, is it dull. I was basically doing the same thing from levels 4-22, running at a mob and mashing one or two buttons.
Then I rolled a saboteur... fun, fun, fun.
Bard didn't look that exciting to me at first, but the more I look at their talent tree, the more I want to try one in the next beta phase.

[Valmar]

Ranger kind of surprised me...well, the ranger's first pet. I had bard as my main, and took ranger just for the hell of it and was so disappointed when I saw I had a pig. Pig turned out to be extremely hardcore, though. Getting some heals from Cadence, the damn thing just doesn't die and can easily take on 3 mobs. I just sit back and play some tunes.

That'll do pig.

[Liandral]

Faerie makeover ftw?

Yes please!!

Even tho it's my pet, I have this deep seated desire to drag it through mobs to kill it off..

And you dont want to know what my daughter renamed it while I was afk...

For the health and wellbeing of fae pets everywhere, please reskin that pet Trion!

[Valmar]

Bard didn't look that exciting to me at first, but the more I look at their talent tree, the more I want to try one in the next beta phase.

I ended up main healing as a bard doing Realm of Fae...and I can't remember the last time I had so much fun. It was so manic keeping buffs up and trying to keep the tank alive. I know bard probably can't main heal anything harder than fae, but still, a great class to play.

[Arrys]

I first tried a druid/shaman/justicator, but wow, is it dull. I was basically doing the same thing from levels 4-22, running at a mob and mashing one or two buttons.
Then I rolled a saboteur... fun, fun, fun.
Bard didn't look that exciting to me at first, but the more I look at their talent tree, the more I want to try one in the next beta phase.

bard was my big surprise although Sab is up on the testing list for me.

Rogue archetyp offers so much promise I'm about 90% certain I'll play one first. Lego Charachters pick your tree's. Love the class system.

[Azrom]

I too refuesed to play ranger because I loathe being a pet caster. I will not roll ranger but that being said, I first fell in love with assas/sab/bd and then I fell in love with nb/sab/bd. The first is sick 1 on 1 and the second is sick 1 on many. I still can't decide which to play. I personally do not see a point in being both an assasin and a nightblade as they are just way too similar low down on the trees. I am probably liking the latter build with nb a tad more than assasin but the idea of giving up perma invis on the assasin tree is a tough thought..