Psa: the class you pick does matter

[Vertis]

I don't see any threads talking about this, but I have seen a lot of threads saying the class you pick doesn't matter outside of starting weapon and look. I want to let the PC community know about what I had discovered during beta ( screw those console guys ). The class you pick DOES matter, later on certain weapons can be equipped and these weapons have specific abilities/stats that will unlock ONLY if you are the specific class. Ex. There was a BMG that anyone could use, but had an extra bonus for Machinists. Hope this helps.

[Roark24601]

Good to know. Would be nice if that was clearly explained somewhere by weapon type and class.

[Arsenic_Touch]

A german CM said the very same thing, but people on the forum said that is incorrect and the name machinist is just the name of that synergy (requires two items with the synergy to gain the bonus) and the name just happens to coincide with the starting outfit.

Haven't seen any official word since then though.

[Vertis]

I was unable to find documentation on this on the web, so we prob won't know the specifics until retail.

[Carsfanatic]

It could have been just a alpha/beta bug but those extra bonus's worked regardless of class so maybe that's why everyone said that class was useless.

[Ralph]

I had a few weapons that worked like Synergy without having to Mod them. I don't know if they will have a good spread of weapons like that, or only specific weapon types will have that effect for specific "classes."

[Sensou]

http://forums.defiance.com/showthrea...hlight=synergy they do have good weapons like that but they don't rely on a class to work

[dirtyklingon]

devs tend to say all kinds of things ahead of launch about the game that aren't true.

better to find out for yourself or from other players than ever trust devs to be honest about anything.

trion may not be as bad for it as anet, but still, devs be devs doing dev things. turst them like you'd trust a cop or a politician and you'll be happier for it.

[Ensu]

devs tend to say all kinds of things ahead of launch about the game that aren't true.

better to find out for yourself or from other players than ever trust devs to be honest about anything.

trion may not be as bad for it as anet, but still, devs be devs doing dev things. turst them like you'd trust a cop or a politician and you'll be happier for it.

As far as I recall it wasn't a dev, but a German community manager.

[Prophet of Entropy]

didnt think synergy mattered to your starting archtype. afterall there is no "brutal" archtype but ther is a brutal synergy.