Best class for each race?

[~sonofzeal]

I want to go Completionist.

I also want to play each race at least once in the process.

This is a problem. I have a strong tendency towards certain races (Halflings, Dwarves) and away from others (all three Elf variants). Still, I want the variety, and I want to pick them up eventually. This is not about what the best race for each class is, but the reverse. There may be a race that makes a better Artificer than Warforged, but likely no class that's so excellent for Warforged as Artificer. What do you guys recommend as the best CLASS for each RACE?

• Dwarf
• Elf
• Half-Elf
• Drow
• Halfling
• Human
• Half-Orc
• Warforged

[marciosilva]

Are you aware that you are going to get many many different combinations and opinions on this?

Well anyway, just my 2 cents on this, since I'm no DDO expert. I am going to suggest 2 or 3 classes per race, so you can pick the ones you feel better. Since its your game. You choose.

Dwarf [Fighter, Barbarian]
Elf [Rogue, Ranger, and I would say sorc or wizzy because I have an elf sorc and I love to play with that toon]
Half-Elf [I'm not familiar with this race, but maybe Fav Soul, Monk, Ranger, Bard]
Drow [Wizzard, Sorc]
Halfling [Cleric, Rogue]
Human [Cleric, Fav Soul, Druid, Paladin, pretty hard to tell since Humans are versatile and you can improve wherever you want to aim for]
Half-Orc [Fighter, Barbarian]
Warforged [Artificer, and some players like this race for arcane casters]

Ok, don't take this list too seriously, as other people will come here and prolly make another one completly different, and maybe even troll me about my own choices here.

But you pick what makes you feel better on each case.

More important: have fun

[~Izaak]

• Dwarf: strength based rogue, battle cleric, barbarian
• Elf: pale master, AA ranger
• Half-Elf: fighter with cleric dilly
• Drow: pale master
• Halfling: wis based air stance monk, rogue
• Human: paladin
• Half-Orc: battle soul
• Warforged: sorcerer

The choices may change a lot with the enhancement pass.

[~Som]

Dwarf - Brb/Ftr
Elf - Rgr/nothing
Half-Elf - Mnk/Pal/anything
Drow - twf Pal/Rog
Halfling - Mnk/Rog
Human - Clr/Fvs/Drd/Brd/anything
Half-Orc - Brb/Ftr
Warforged - Src/Wiz/Art

[Charononus]

• Dwarf - barb or fighter but doesn't really shine compared to other races
• Elf - wizard with elven arcanum
• Half-Elf - any but especially not self healing classes for the helf dil cleric for heal scrolls
• Drow - soul stone
• Halfling - rogue
• Human - any
• Half-Orc - barb or fighter
• Warforged - arti or sorc

[~sonofzeal]

Thanks everyone!


What I'm thinking for my own personal order...... Well, I already have a Halfling Wizard finished and a Human Ranger part-way through on my completionist, so....

Dwarf - Battle Cleric
Half-Elf - Fighter
Drow - Sorcerer
Half-Orc - Barbarian
Warforged - Artificer
Elf - .....uh..... FvS? o__O

[~Testing12345]

bard-Horc
artificer-WF

cant think of anything id put drow first as ... no nothing comes to mind id take a human/WF over drow as a caster sorc/wiz anyday maybe a palemaster but id honestly prefer a human even there.

halfling-barb/monk
works as anything simply for their run animation but honestly who doesnt like a barbarian halfling with a huge axe or hammer preferable ur suppose to name it groin-punisher/kneekiller or similar but we cant have perfect name on a TR

[serthcore]

Dwarf: Fighter, paladin, Cleric
Elf: Wizard
Half-Elf: All
Drow: ...
Halfling: Ranger, fighter, rogue, bard (all twf)
Human: Cleric, Fvs, Druid, bard (all DC based casters), all.
Half orc: Fighter, Rogue, Barb, Monk, Cleric, Fvs, bard (all melee THF)
Warforged: Sorcerer, Artificer, Wizard.

[remember1]

dwarf: barbarian
elf: ranger
half-elf:
drow: wizard
halfling: rogue
human: cleric
half-orc: fighter
warforged: artificer

[Viconiax]

I want to go Completionist.

I also want to play each race at least once in the process.

This is a problem. I have a strong tendency towards certain races (Halflings, Dwarves) and away from others (all three Elf variants). Still, I want the variety, and I want to pick them up eventually. This is not about what the best race for each class is, but the reverse. There may be a race that makes a better Artificer than Warforged, but likely no class that's so excellent for Warforged as Artificer. What do you guys recommend as the best CLASS for each RACE?

• Dwarf
• Elf
• Half-Elf
• Drow
• Halfling
• Human
• Half-Orc
• Warforged

There is no "best" classes for each races, a good player can make a good build out of any classes/races and bad players....oh well.

But here is the list of races i think that would made each class a little bit easier.

Dwarf: Fighter, barbarian, monk.
Elf: Ranger (Both AA and Tempest), rogue, wizard.
Half-elf: Most classes.
Drow: Palemaster, Sorcerer, rogue, artificer.
Hafling: Rogue, Monk.
Human: Most classes.
Half-orc: Barbarian.
Warforged: Artificer, Archmage, Sorcerer.

[SirValentine]

Dwarf: Fighter
Elf: Wizard
Half-Elf: Rogue
Drow: Paladin
Halfling: Bard
Human: Cleric
Half-Orc: Barbarian
Warforged: Artificer

Though personally, I did my Dwarf as a Barbarian, and my Half-Orc as a melee Cleric. Oh, and my first Wizard life was a Warforged, though I'll do an Elf Wizard, too.

[Aolas]

Elf: Try a ranged focused Elf Barbarian as a departure from the usual Wizard or Ranger.
Halfling: Charisma focused Paladin with dragonmark.
Dwarf: Combat based wizard abjurer/palemaster might be interesting.

[EllisDee37]

Drow are particularly well-suited for playing a TWF paladin.

[Whitering]

Why are people so down on Drow here? They make great Sorcs, FVs, Rogues, Bards and yep, paladins (twf). You can even make a decent case for cleric, if you have 3 prior cleric lives I mean, because you might be able to actually go for a great turning based cleric that way.

Best class for Drow though? Probably a pure caster FVS.

Elf - Wizzy or Archer

Halflings, Rogues

Helf - evil something, so the Lloth mask doesn't look out of place

Orcs - Barbs

Dwarf - no idea, maybe a fighter cleric or just plain fighter.

One thing is certain you should not be a human fighter, maybe a helf one, fighters get so many feats that the free feat at level one is only really beneficial for the first 8-10 levels before being totally diluted by all the free feats you are getting.

Warforged - Arti or Wizard

[Mavnas]

Halflings make a good any class that gets positive spell power but not great heals, for example rangers, pallies, etc. This is because their dragonmarks are buffed by stuff like that. It helps if you have spare feats to toss into metamagic feats. I would argue they make better pure rangers than elves for this reason (the elves' main benefit is being able to get high-tier AA abilities without being a pure ranger).

[unbongwah]

Drow are particularly well-suited for playing a TWF paladin.

Outta curiosity, have you noticed if a drow pally w/max SR enhs from drow + SD trees actually have, well, useful SR these days?

Why are people so down on Drow here?

Historically it's because of -2 CON, most builds don't benefit from +2 DEX, INT, and CHA all at once, drow SR is useless at endgame, and drow racial weapon bonuses are merely okay. But mostly it's because other races get better / more useful bonuses. The Enhancement overhaul gave them a few new goodies (e.g., up to +2 to INT/DEX/CHA, up to +6 SR), but those pale in comparison to what some of the other races got. [Did humans really need to be more awesome?]

That said, you can make pretty much any race / class combo work well; your gear, build, and player skill are all far more important in the long run than racial bonuses (or penalties), IMHO. TWF pally w/rapiers is probably the best use for a drow's bonuses, but it's certainly not the only one.

[Havok.cry]

Outta curiosity, have you noticed if a drow pally w/max SR enhs from drow + SD trees actually have, well, useful SR these days?

Historically it's because of -2 CON, most builds don't benefit from +2 DEX, INT, and CHA all at once, drow SR is useless at endgame, and drow racial weapon bonuses are merely okay. But mostly it's because other races get better / more useful bonuses. The Enhancement overhaul gave them a few new goodies (e.g., up to +2 to INT/DEX/CHA, up to +6 SR), but those pale in comparison to what some of the other races got. [Did humans really need to be more awesome?]

That said, you can make pretty much any race / class combo work well; your gear, build, and player skill are all far more important in the long run than racial bonuses (or penalties), IMHO. TWF pally w/rapiers is probably the best use for a drow's bonuses, but it's certainly not the only one.

In addition to all that, also you only start with 28 points, so you can not customize your stats as much because of the int/dex/cha bonuses being set. You often end up with the equivalent of wasted stat points.

human: fighter/any
dwarf: druid
elf: bard
halfling: ranger/monk
half elf: any
half orc: barbarian
drow: paladin/sorc/wizard/favored soul/rogue
warforged: artificer/wizard/sorceror/druid

[mezzorco]

Given that spending AP on racial tree other than core is unadvisable, the main difference for races in U19 is Drow being able to increase int and cha from enhancements. And enhancement dragonmarks, too. So imho best classes for each race are:

Human: anything except fighters
Dwarf: tactical toon with fighter splash
H.Orc: any THF toon
Elf: ranger, either TWF scimitar or bow focused
H.Elf: worse bards and sorcerers than before, too much investment for pali dilly, so probably better go human
Halfling: high-saves/dodge rogue-monk combo
Warforged: battle engineer
Drow: DC wizard, TWF paladins

[Yaga_Nub]

Outta curiosity, have you noticed if a drow pally w/max SR enhs from drow + SD trees actually have, well, useful SR these days?

Historically it's because of -2 CON, most builds don't benefit from +2 DEX, INT, and CHA all at once, drow SR is useless at endgame, and drow racial weapon bonuses are merely okay. But mostly it's because other races get better / more useful bonuses. The Enhancement overhaul gave them a few new goodies (e.g., up to +2 to INT/DEX/CHA, up to +6 SR), but those pale in comparison to what some of the other races got. [Did humans really need to be more awesome?]

That said, you can make pretty much any race / class combo work well; your gear, build, and player skill are all far more important in the long run than racial bonuses (or penalties), IMHO. TWF pally w/rapiers is probably the best use for a drow's bonuses, but it's certainly not the only one.

Even in EE, I'm seeing my drow SR work and work enough to be very worth it.

[insanelyegotistical]

Im an odd ball sometimes when making a character because i look for a challenge..


I love halfing fighter/ranger/barbarian combination
warforged i would make trickster rog/sorcerer or bard
human isnt really an issue since there best feature is versatility
elf would be bard/wizard
half orc i would create a sorcerer
half elf...whatever
dwarf i would make bully...rog/fighter