Fanguard Sekrit Sauce: Part 4 of 4 by Doresain

[Labyrrinth]

802 Part 4: Current Race/Class Combinations

This section deserves the biggest big disclaimer ever, so please take it to heart.

This is by no means a final, complete, definitive, or an authoritative list. Some classes here may not make it to release. Some things may change.

Some of this may already be wrong. All it is, is a list of who can be who as of the current beta build that we saw at Fanguard. Please, please, please don’t take this as gospel and be upset about anything on here, okay? I was allowed to take this info down and bring it to you and I’d hate to see it bite the Sigil team later. It’s only so you can see what they are thinking right now, nothing more. Okay?

Okay. Now, you ask how I got this? All I did was sit at the character creation station, select each race, and see what adventuring classes were tied to it; classes for other spheres didn’t appear to be all in yet. A big thanks to the guys over at CrimsonWind (http://www.crimsonwind.net/), Zen and Breltik, as they helped me take this info down. I know they got a lot of good info drops from Brad McQuaid too, so go check them out if you’re looking for more stuff from Fanguard.

I’ll just list classes by race for easy viewing, and then maybe point out a few things I’ve noticed and let you sort it out, okay?

1109 By Race

Thestran (11) - WAR, PAL, DK, BRD, RNG, ROG, CLE, BM, SOR, NEC, DRU
Varajar (5) - WAR, BER, ROG, SHA, DRU
Dwarf (7) - WAR, PAL, DK, BER, ROG, CLE, SOR
Halfling (5) - WAR, BRD, ROG, CLE, DRU
High Elf (10) - PAL, DK, BRD, RNG, ROG, CLE, BM, SOR, NEC, DRU
Vulmane (6) - WAR, DK, BER, ROG, SHA, DRU
Lesser Giant (4) - WAR, PAL, BER, SHA

Qualiathari (11) - WAR, PAL, INQ, BER, BRD, ROG, CLE, BM, DIS, SOR, PSI
Mordebi (10) - WAR, PAL, INQ, MNK, RNG, ROG, BM, DIS, DRU, PSI
Varathari (5) - WAR, BER, RNG, SHA, DRU
Dark Elf (11) - DK, INQ, BER, BRD, ROG, CLE, BM, DIS, SOR, NEC, PSI
Gnome (8) - WAR, INQ, ROG, CLE, BM, SOR, NEC, PSI
Kurashasa (9) - WAR, DK, BER, RNG, ROG, BM, SHA, SOR, NEC

Kojani (9) - WAR, DK, MNK, RNG, ROG, BM, DIS, SOR, NEC
Wood Elf (7) - INQ, BER, BRD, RNG, DIS, NEC, DRU
Raki (7) - BRD, MNK, ROG, BM, DIS, DRU, PSI
Goblin (6) - MNK, ROG, BM, SHA, SOR, NEC
Orc (6) - WAR, DK, BER, MNK, ROG, SHA
Half Elf (10) - WAR, INQ, BRD, MNK, RNG, ROG, BM, DIS, DRU, PSI


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Some Things of Note

Only three races do not have one class option from every job, and all of them are on Koja. This may mean that the design for Koja is very specialized or that it is still in flux.
One can play any class on Qualia.
Inquisitors, Monks, Disciples, and Psionicists are not available on Thestra.
Paladins and Clerics are not available on Koja.

That’s all folks, my notes are empty. One last time, remember that all this information is subject to change, especially this race/class list. Thanks again to the Silky Venom crew for giving me a place to post all this stuff, to the CrimsonWind.net guys for helping me get this race/class info, and to Sigil for throwing one hell of a party!

-Doresain Courdelion

[Deadlyne]

Haha sounds right to me. I don't think they will need to make too many changes to that list. It seems to make sense. Sure feels good to see that Vulmane can be druids though! I hope that one stays in for sure. /clap /dance :)

[Varguk]

Awswome write up full of info thanks for taking to time to enlighten us non Fanguard attendies

[Sergo]

Just read all four parts. Thanks for the extensive writeup. My favorite part was the 6-person groups. I've always felt 8 was too much.

[Ceosan]

sigh... hope they change their view on DE Ranger:confused:

[Zenthor Brellian]

Very nice 4-part write up Doresain. My first post here at SV but I have enjoyed a lot of the information you and your SV compatriots have shared with the VG:SoH community. Thanks again for the info and keep up the good work.

[Skarlath]

Welcome to Silky Venom, Zenthor! :)

Just read all four parts. Thanks for the extensive writeup. My favorite part was the 6-person groups. I've always felt 8 was too much.

Yeah, I like 6 as well. It's also nice that there are 4 generalised "roles", and so with a 6 man group you are less likely to see a particularly desirable combo arise. Those last two slots could likely be filled by most classes to keep the group as potent as possible. :)

[Eclipse]

lol a halfling can be a warrior, but Raki and Goblin can't. =P
I expect Kojan might still be in flux. Since Orcs can't be casters either.

-Eclipse

[Skarlath]

Yeah, I'm thinking that the Raki will end up having at least one protective fighter - warrior at the very least. :)

[Praxis]

what a great read. I loved it. I got one question tho.. how was the party?

[AgentJ]

As everyone else as mentioned; Thanks for the 4 page write-up. Lots of in-sight and information on the soon-to-be greatest MMO game to come! :D

[Oakenfall]

Yep, nice write up. Did anyone get an idea when Mircrosofts/sigil media blitz will begin?

[Nath'aal]

Thanks for all this great info Doresain, you did a really good job with it all. Can someone clear up which 3 races dont have at least one class available per job? I seem to be confused about some things here. Thanks.

[Durafein]

Excellent write-up!

I'm glad to see they gave me so many choices for my Dark Elf. The trouble is, now I won't know which one to pick!

[Doresain]

what a great read. I loved it. I got one question tho.. how was the party?

Beer + Soul Caliber 3 = Awesome. :)

Can someone clear up which 3 races dont have at least one class available per job?

Yeah, no prob. In the list as it stands, Orcs have no caster classes available to them and neither Raki nor Goblins have any protective fighter options. That may change, of course.

[Shuang]

Several Friends and I are planning to play vanguard when it comes out, and having heard that travel throughout the world of Vanguard will be 'meaningful' and that traveling between continents would be difficult we were planning to pick out our races/classes before hand. To this end I made a spread sheet of the race/class combinations listed in this article that I'm e-mailing them. I figured I'd post it up here in case anyone else had a similar need.

http://byte.csc.lsu.edu/~jmbattis/vanguard_race_class.html

[Skarlath]

Cool, thanks Shuang! Nicely done! :D

Nitpick alert! You spelt "Qalia" and "Kojan" wrong. :p

[Shuang]

Cool, thanks Shuang! Nicely done! :D

Nitpick alert! You spelt "Qalia" and "Kojan" wrong. :p

Thanks, fixed it up.

btw, if anyone wants to modify it or spiff it up feel free (dunno if i have to say that for it to be true?)

[Lord_Vyper]

Thanks, fixed it up.

btw, if anyone wants to modify it or spiff it up feel free (dunno if i have to say that for it to be true?)

Did a quicky readability change to it.. PM'd you the code.
Err, or not... evil character limits!
PM me your email or something then, and I'll send it to you

[Shuang]

the update is up on the site now.

[Ieranii]

Thank you for the article. This has helped me decide on possible race/class combination. I believe, as long as nothing changes between now and then, at launch I will roll up a Thestran or Qalia bloodmage.

[Razorwire]

Ahahhahahahahahaha got your class information :)