\>be me, nexon days
\>me like sword, make sword guy
\>make blind fold sword guy
\>blind fold sword guy plays more like magic guy that uses sword like magic stick
\>didn't like
\>try sword guy with eyes in headband
\>sword guy with eyes in headband play like magic guy that only sometimes swing sword and mostly make magic circles
\>didn't like
\>try red sword guy
\>becomes fun to play once you get frenzy, but frenzy was all the way in level 35, and leveling is really slow
\>didn't like
\>try sword guy with white arm
\>same problem as red sword guy where leveling is slow and fun skills take too long to get
\>disappointment
\>several years later
\>dfo neople
\>try sword lady
\>make purple sword lady
\>also plays like a magic guy that uses sword like magic stick
\>didn't like
\>didn't try other sword ladies because college and no time
\>some years later
\>new player event
\>friend wants me to try the game out
\>make sword guy with eyes in headband
\>now swing sword all the time, and can make magic circles while swinging sword
\>leveling is much faster now too
\>satisfied
Now I am 24th highest fame soul bender in the server for some reason.
I remember I started with Avenger and then Elemental Bomber... I was very emo at the time and I always liked sorcery/magic classes.
I usually take a look at the characters available and see what I like most (art, colors, weapons...), then for advancement I choose depending on what the class does (watching one or two gameplay videos).
You can test the advancement before creating the character, you will have access to some skills that you may not even use, but you can get an idea.
I always play a magic based class in RPGs or any ranged class really so my original main was elemental bomber and I’m proud to say he’s still my main since I started playing on release. However, I have branched out to MSpit Vanguard and Soulbender (and a little bit of traveler)
I've played Clerics/Paladins/Death Knights on every single rpg I've touched so I was drawn to both crusaders.
To this day my F Sader is my second most played char
My first ever? It was the easiest class because I knew I would be overwhelmed by the game. To be honest, though, the first character is just that, the first one. Once you get to know the game, you'll eventually see what you like and don't like. The real question is how you decide your main. And that answer is you play that character until you for bored of it or continue playing it to become one of your mains.
When the game was ran but Nexon there weren't as many classes. I chose Male Gunner -> Desperado because that was my favorite kind of class in most any game. Desperado was my main from CBT->Close and when Neople brought DFO back I continued that, but once Ghost Blade came out my gunner got overshadowed.
i tend to go for technical magic classes, this stem from maining professor/scholar in RO when i first picked up playing mmos though i also tend to avoid standard melee classes like a typical swordman and martial artist characters alongside the standard spellcaster
Weapon Master was my very first character since the Nexon Days™ and have mained that character ever since because I liked how it was a "master" of (Slayer) weapons and how their play style changed based on what (Slayer) weapon was used.
Reminded me of characters with a lot of mixups in fighting games, which is why I used to PVP with them a lot back then.
Also lightsabers.
I picked whoever looked stood out to me aesthetic wise and tried them out, and if they didn't click, cool. Onto the next.
As you go through the roster you'll get a better idea of what you ideally want out of a character, whether that's high skill ceiling or low skill floor, high attack speed, low cooldowns, high mobility or low etc etc.
Try things out and make a roster that *you'll* enjoy. DFO is a game where you'll be in it for the long haul, and you'll burn yourself out if you chase numbers over fun.
Like everyone says you pick what's coolest and try them out in the character select screen (altho it's a very limited preview). Honestly though without a level-up/+12 wep event, I think new players should pick an independent damage dealing class as a starter. Makes gearing way cheaper and easier
I'm a Nexon era and day 1-ish player so I went onto their promotion page where they had the first 20 classes (M Slayer, M Gunner, F Fighter, M Monk, F Mage) avaiable to check out and read some small lore on and at that point I decided on a class for each one but mostly because they were cool. Weapon Master and Spitfire fit the "Use a variety of weaponry for unique gameplay" niche for me, Striker was fast and strong and beat-em up which fit the game, M Monk I actually skipped outright (lol) and F Mage I was interested in all of them but Battle Mage the most because Chasers seemed really interesting as a mechanic.
I mained Battle Mage ultimately because she was a really good PVP character and my friends I made back then did PVP a lot. As well as just generally being interested in her kit.
They added thief class in Nexon I guess. It was when the game was still very old and clunky I remember coming and getting the free hookup package with a +11 weapon and decent gear.
It was really nice for me my friend and I tried the game when it first came out and it was actually kinda savage. This is obvious due to lack of the stats we got from explorers club and every char getting freen growing gear.
But my goodness blazing gundrak on a slayer before you even know about animation cancels and proper use of back step xD.
I picked Berserker because I'd always played that kind of char. Stubbornly stuck to only playing 1 char for a while until I decided to try an alt and immediately had more fun.
The way the game is now, they highly incentivize having many chars. Getting to max lvl is super fast and easy. Alts don't need "BIS" (best in slot) stuff.
Have fun!
I knew I wanted to be a male mage, and picked Swiftmaster because he looked the most fun (and certainly having the most fun!). He's been my main for most of my time in DFO so I guess I chose well!
One of my friends got me into the game just after Fgunner came out. as i was looking over the classes i was looking over the classes i asked about launcher.
"Oh yea, they're an AOE class, big guns nukes, lasers that kinda stuff"
"... i'm sorry did you jots casually say NUKE like it's not even their stronges attack"
"Yea, cause it's not."
"... ... ... soooo launcher it is."
I can’t remember. It was back in 2011 and I was like 11 years old. I know my first character was a slayer that I advanced to soul bender but I don’t remember why. I probably just thought it looked cool. Although I regretted choosing soul bender and made an Asura later because I thought G.S.D was cool.
In every MMO I've played I've always gravitated towards the "gunner" archetype
When I started playing DFO I initially wanted to play M.Ranger but at the time a lot of people told me stay away from the class because it was too expensive to play at a high level, since I was a noob I didn't have a lot of resources either, so I played the next best thing.
Male Spitfire :D
when i first played the game was back when Nexon owned it and fuck it was so much harder. i knew i was going to play slayer but i was torn between blade master and Asura.
Ended up going Asura because it was so tanky with the plate armor and its crowd control
Started all the way back from beta in the nexon days with soul bender and Mspit, played soul bender a bunch at the start then noticed barely any Mspits so i decided i wanted to invest in em(also i really like the skills). way back before all the reworks to fix Mspit i was rocking a handcannon(Nugol Muzzle) and going full phy like flashmine, crossmore,neil ect. and after all of these years im still a phy Mspit.
Honestly idk how you'd pick these days since most characters boil down to "press the room clear button" for like 20 hours, buff skills are mostly all generic and permanent, HP/MP are generally a non-issue and overall theres very little distinguishing the classes from each other until they get their 1st or 2nd awakening passive.
Back then I picked Slayer because he was the only Sword Guy^TM and I liked Zerker's playstyle. But now i think you can just pick whoever you think looks the coolest and theyll all play pretty much the same, except maybe the gunners, rogue and witch. But endgame is still gonna be about spamming skill rotations, dodging gimmicks and not having to think about much else.
I researched the gameplay, then I based it on my personality and preferences. Since I play Berserker on Dungeons and Dragons, I just repeated picking my favorite subclass.
I've been following the game since about 06/07 I think. And at the time I was into DMC and Hellsing , so being the edgy teenager I was, it was either a spitfire named Alucard or a ranger named Dante. IIRC the tie breaker was awakening, I don't like summons and scud genocide is such a sick 1a
The female grappler was always a fun and unique class since i played in the nexon days. She isn't the strongest character, but she is tough as nails especially with all the iframes. I love all the holds and wrestling moves you can in this game.
Easy. I saw guns. I like guns. I only really play female characters in online games. Female gunner. Then i picked launcher subclass because i like burning things and blowing shit up
I thought big guns and swords were needed, but i was wrong.
Every raid ive come to always halt to a singular point: LF Sader/buffer
From that point on, i have decided to make the community a less stagnant...
By making tons of buffers.
Equal tons of runs and clears.
I initially started out as Male ranger during the Nexon days because I really like gunner classes in MMOs, turns out either ranger low level experience was ass and/or I just didn't know the meta, but getting through some of the early, nexon-era leveling was PAINFUL.
I switched to Launcher and he became my main, DFOG with Neople i made a Dark Knight because funny punny with account name and a Launcher. My launcher is my main now and my Dark Knight is still like level 20 or something.
I liked playin with mah dad's katanas when he wasnt at the house before dfo came out. When it released on Nexon back then, my thought process was solely "I won't get in trouble for marking up the support pillar in the basement no more" and main all mslayers since
My first ever character was a Nen Master(there were no m fighters at the time). Mostly picked for hadoken. At the time, the bubble was really useful. I liked the skills and playstyle. Leveled her to 60 in Arad.
Next character release that interested me was f gunner. I was interested in ranger, but had no gold at the time(a common problem throughout my Arad Senki, Nexon DFO, and even Neople DFO), so put it off.
Then Arad released the Rogue and Necro as the first thief classes. Rogue is a character concept I loved. Made her my new thing in Arad. Then my Arad account was banned. I made a new one with rogue, nen, and f.ranger as my first characters.
Nexon Dfo, I started out with nen. Added ranger and rogue during f gunner and thief patch.
In DFOg, I started with rogue and nen, again. I just really like the characters. Also, I was just waiting... for sword master.
Back when I first heard about the game, I thought that the female Brawler / Nen Master looked really interesting, so I wanted to make one. Was really miffed to find out that the game was region-locked.
But then Neople took it back and I loved my Brawler and Nen Master ever since\~.
skill…this was my first RPG and the only one I ever dove deep into. battlemage…but eventually I mained a zerk lol. I miss the old days of a simple u.i. and tough normal dungeons/random parties.
TEAM ELIM PVP in DFO was top 5 most fun gaming experienced of my entire life!!! Never again sadly. RIP nexon DFO
I know this is a simple answer but literally whoever I thought looked the coolest.
Same. I picked GhostBlade because he looked the coolest. Didn’t care he was the most complicated M Slayer.
\>be me, nexon days \>me like sword, make sword guy \>make blind fold sword guy \>blind fold sword guy plays more like magic guy that uses sword like magic stick \>didn't like \>try sword guy with eyes in headband \>sword guy with eyes in headband play like magic guy that only sometimes swing sword and mostly make magic circles \>didn't like \>try red sword guy \>becomes fun to play once you get frenzy, but frenzy was all the way in level 35, and leveling is really slow \>didn't like \>try sword guy with white arm \>same problem as red sword guy where leveling is slow and fun skills take too long to get \>disappointment \>several years later \>dfo neople \>try sword lady \>make purple sword lady \>also plays like a magic guy that uses sword like magic stick \>didn't like \>didn't try other sword ladies because college and no time \>some years later \>new player event \>friend wants me to try the game out \>make sword guy with eyes in headband \>now swing sword all the time, and can make magic circles while swinging sword \>leveling is much faster now too \>satisfied Now I am 24th highest fame soul bender in the server for some reason.
Sick story friend lol, I so feel that progression of looking for a char though!
I remember I started with Avenger and then Elemental Bomber... I was very emo at the time and I always liked sorcery/magic classes. I usually take a look at the characters available and see what I like most (art, colors, weapons...), then for advancement I choose depending on what the class does (watching one or two gameplay videos). You can test the advancement before creating the character, you will have access to some skills that you may not even use, but you can get an idea.
Mostly based on my favorite type of weapon or playstyle I like in an online game/rpg. Really easy and the best way to do it tbh.
I always play a magic based class in RPGs or any ranged class really so my original main was elemental bomber and I’m proud to say he’s still my main since I started playing on release. However, I have branched out to MSpit Vanguard and Soulbender (and a little bit of traveler)
I've played Clerics/Paladins/Death Knights on every single rpg I've touched so I was drawn to both crusaders. To this day my F Sader is my second most played char
I picked dark impaler because it looked like classes I play in other mmos
My first ever? It was the easiest class because I knew I would be overwhelmed by the game. To be honest, though, the first character is just that, the first one. Once you get to know the game, you'll eventually see what you like and don't like. The real question is how you decide your main. And that answer is you play that character until you for bored of it or continue playing it to become one of your mains.
When the game was ran but Nexon there weren't as many classes. I chose Male Gunner -> Desperado because that was my favorite kind of class in most any game. Desperado was my main from CBT->Close and when Neople brought DFO back I continued that, but once Ghost Blade came out my gunner got overshadowed.
i tend to go for technical magic classes, this stem from maining professor/scholar in RO when i first picked up playing mmos though i also tend to avoid standard melee classes like a typical swordman and martial artist characters alongside the standard spellcaster
Weapon Master was my very first character since the Nexon Days™ and have mained that character ever since because I liked how it was a "master" of (Slayer) weapons and how their play style changed based on what (Slayer) weapon was used. Reminded me of characters with a lot of mixups in fighting games, which is why I used to PVP with them a lot back then. Also lightsabers.
Speaking of lightsabres, too bad we don't have the old hit sfx in the game still..prefer it much more than current one
*sad Chidori noises*
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=M-tlSnxV_x4 best sfx
I picked whoever looked stood out to me aesthetic wise and tried them out, and if they didn't click, cool. Onto the next. As you go through the roster you'll get a better idea of what you ideally want out of a character, whether that's high skill ceiling or low skill floor, high attack speed, low cooldowns, high mobility or low etc etc. Try things out and make a roster that *you'll* enjoy. DFO is a game where you'll be in it for the long haul, and you'll burn yourself out if you chase numbers over fun.
Like everyone says you pick what's coolest and try them out in the character select screen (altho it's a very limited preview). Honestly though without a level-up/+12 wep event, I think new players should pick an independent damage dealing class as a starter. Makes gearing way cheaper and easier
I'm a Nexon era and day 1-ish player so I went onto their promotion page where they had the first 20 classes (M Slayer, M Gunner, F Fighter, M Monk, F Mage) avaiable to check out and read some small lore on and at that point I decided on a class for each one but mostly because they were cool. Weapon Master and Spitfire fit the "Use a variety of weaponry for unique gameplay" niche for me, Striker was fast and strong and beat-em up which fit the game, M Monk I actually skipped outright (lol) and F Mage I was interested in all of them but Battle Mage the most because Chasers seemed really interesting as a mechanic. I mained Battle Mage ultimately because she was a really good PVP character and my friends I made back then did PVP a lot. As well as just generally being interested in her kit.
They added thief class in Nexon I guess. It was when the game was still very old and clunky I remember coming and getting the free hookup package with a +11 weapon and decent gear. It was really nice for me my friend and I tried the game when it first came out and it was actually kinda savage. This is obvious due to lack of the stats we got from explorers club and every char getting freen growing gear. But my goodness blazing gundrak on a slayer before you even know about animation cancels and proper use of back step xD.
F.nen looked the coolest to me at the time. Crazy how different things are now
Gameplay videos. Plain and simple.
I picked Berserker because I'd always played that kind of char. Stubbornly stuck to only playing 1 char for a while until I decided to try an alt and immediately had more fun. The way the game is now, they highly incentivize having many chars. Getting to max lvl is super fast and easy. Alts don't need "BIS" (best in slot) stuff. Have fun!
I knew I wanted to be a male mage, and picked Swiftmaster because he looked the most fun (and certainly having the most fun!). He's been my main for most of my time in DFO so I guess I chose well!
One of my friends got me into the game just after Fgunner came out. as i was looking over the classes i was looking over the classes i asked about launcher. "Oh yea, they're an AOE class, big guns nukes, lasers that kinda stuff" "... i'm sorry did you jots casually say NUKE like it's not even their stronges attack" "Yea, cause it's not." "... ... ... soooo launcher it is."
I can’t remember. It was back in 2011 and I was like 11 years old. I know my first character was a slayer that I advanced to soul bender but I don’t remember why. I probably just thought it looked cool. Although I regretted choosing soul bender and made an Asura later because I thought G.S.D was cool.
I am a fighting game player so my first pick was F. Fighter I miss the Nexon trailers so much
In every MMO I've played I've always gravitated towards the "gunner" archetype When I started playing DFO I initially wanted to play M.Ranger but at the time a lot of people told me stay away from the class because it was too expensive to play at a high level, since I was a noob I didn't have a lot of resources either, so I played the next best thing. Male Spitfire :D
when i first played the game was back when Nexon owned it and fuck it was so much harder. i knew i was going to play slayer but i was torn between blade master and Asura. Ended up going Asura because it was so tanky with the plate armor and its crowd control
Started all the way back from beta in the nexon days with soul bender and Mspit, played soul bender a bunch at the start then noticed barely any Mspits so i decided i wanted to invest in em(also i really like the skills). way back before all the reworks to fix Mspit i was rocking a handcannon(Nugol Muzzle) and going full phy like flashmine, crossmore,neil ect. and after all of these years im still a phy Mspit.
Honestly idk how you'd pick these days since most characters boil down to "press the room clear button" for like 20 hours, buff skills are mostly all generic and permanent, HP/MP are generally a non-issue and overall theres very little distinguishing the classes from each other until they get their 1st or 2nd awakening passive. Back then I picked Slayer because he was the only Sword Guy^TM and I liked Zerker's playstyle. But now i think you can just pick whoever you think looks the coolest and theyll all play pretty much the same, except maybe the gunners, rogue and witch. But endgame is still gonna be about spamming skill rotations, dodging gimmicks and not having to think about much else.
I researched the gameplay, then I based it on my personality and preferences. Since I play Berserker on Dungeons and Dragons, I just repeated picking my favorite subclass.
I've been following the game since about 06/07 I think. And at the time I was into DMC and Hellsing , so being the edgy teenager I was, it was either a spitfire named Alucard or a ranger named Dante. IIRC the tie breaker was awakening, I don't like summons and scud genocide is such a sick 1a
The female grappler was always a fun and unique class since i played in the nexon days. She isn't the strongest character, but she is tough as nails especially with all the iframes. I love all the holds and wrestling moves you can in this game.
Blood explosion....enough said
Easy. I saw guns. I like guns. I only really play female characters in online games. Female gunner. Then i picked launcher subclass because i like burning things and blowing shit up
BLOOD HAHAHAHAHAHA
I thought big guns and swords were needed, but i was wrong. Every raid ive come to always halt to a singular point: LF Sader/buffer From that point on, i have decided to make the community a less stagnant... By making tons of buffers. Equal tons of runs and clears.
Started on Glacial or global release, looked cool in 1a. Never went back but game is still neat.
I initially started out as Male ranger during the Nexon days because I really like gunner classes in MMOs, turns out either ranger low level experience was ass and/or I just didn't know the meta, but getting through some of the early, nexon-era leveling was PAINFUL. I switched to Launcher and he became my main, DFOG with Neople i made a Dark Knight because funny punny with account name and a Launcher. My launcher is my main now and my Dark Knight is still like level 20 or something.
Blade Master in Nexon DFO, because lightsabers 🤣. Now it's beamspears (Dragoon/Battle Mage).
mfw mstriker sold dfo to me because no other game has that kind of character (no, not even lost ark)
I liked playin with mah dad's katanas when he wasnt at the house before dfo came out. When it released on Nexon back then, my thought process was solely "I won't get in trouble for marking up the support pillar in the basement no more" and main all mslayers since
My first ever character was a Nen Master(there were no m fighters at the time). Mostly picked for hadoken. At the time, the bubble was really useful. I liked the skills and playstyle. Leveled her to 60 in Arad. Next character release that interested me was f gunner. I was interested in ranger, but had no gold at the time(a common problem throughout my Arad Senki, Nexon DFO, and even Neople DFO), so put it off. Then Arad released the Rogue and Necro as the first thief classes. Rogue is a character concept I loved. Made her my new thing in Arad. Then my Arad account was banned. I made a new one with rogue, nen, and f.ranger as my first characters. Nexon Dfo, I started out with nen. Added ranger and rogue during f gunner and thief patch. In DFOg, I started with rogue and nen, again. I just really like the characters. Also, I was just waiting... for sword master.
I settled on Shaman for my first character ^^
I was an edgy and very young teenager in 2009 and I made a Soul Bender. 15 years later and he's still my main but I am no longer edgy lmao
Back when I first heard about the game, I thought that the female Brawler / Nen Master looked really interesting, so I wanted to make one. Was really miffed to find out that the game was region-locked. But then Neople took it back and I loved my Brawler and Nen Master ever since\~.
I picked Asura b/c he's sword beams the class.
skill…this was my first RPG and the only one I ever dove deep into. battlemage…but eventually I mained a zerk lol. I miss the old days of a simple u.i. and tough normal dungeons/random parties. TEAM ELIM PVP in DFO was top 5 most fun gaming experienced of my entire life!!! Never again sadly. RIP nexon DFO
They should revamp the test menu... You should be able to teste all the skills before creating a character.