Board Thread:Online Discussion/@comment-24500884-20140207074238/@comment-217.95.117.65-20140317151045

72.10.127.194 wrote: The thing is I think a lot of people feel constrained to race-typical classes and roles, the class that best matches your racial benefit. Who is going to use an Altmer as a Dragonknight? No one, because that makes no sense. If you're going to play an Altmer you're going to be a Templar or Sorcerer because of all the magicka benefits. It's something I'm struggling with, because I'm paying for the Imperial version, but I don't want to play as an Imperial because their benefit is with sword and shield. Nobody is going to play too far "out of the box" because they want to be able to keep up with everyone else unlike how it was in individual play. ^This

Back in my first beta on January 7th, i made a Nord Templar, full healing. Light armour (magicka regen), Dawns Wrath (for ranged attacks and debuffs), Restoring Light (healing duh) and a restoration staff. I believe i reached level 10 or 12, can not recall. I did invest in the racial skills for more armour and health regen (helps a lot too). Worked just fine, never had a situation that i could not solo or in groups.

What i tend to find, is that there are no "pure" healers in the game (restoration staff and restoring light). If there are here on the wiki, i have not seen you in 4 betas, sorry (jokes).

Yesterdays final beta, i went for a two handed offencive orc. Two handed maul, heavy armour and draconic power (protection, return damage, health + stamina regen etc). He reached a level 23, me and one other orc friend (exactly the same setup but with medium armour for stamina regen) we were able to completely clear fungral grotto just the two of us, with the exception of the level 12 gobblen king, we needed a healer, we were just not recovering enough health.

My secondary was a sword and shield, basically the two handed was a DD/Crowd Control and my one handed and shield was the tank. It works.....but damn we needed one healer.....

Short story, you can play as any race in any style. Sure, some races have boosts and one SHOULD exploit them to gain an advantage, but you are not locked.

Go make a Nord sourcerer, or an Altmer Warrior, or a sneaking Orc. If you figured out how to balance your skills and make the most of your character and you have FUN!!!, you accomplished the goal of the game, FUN! and boy is this game just insanely fun!.