I was talking to some online friends yesterday that I hadn’t seen in a while. We were reminiscing about the various MMORPGs we’ve played over the years as well as DnD and such. Naturally, one of the things we talked about was favorite classes to play as. Personally, I always gravitated towards healers as did a couple of the others. Eventually, the topic moved on to other random things and eventually to music. When I mentioned that I play bass, others started talking about instruments they currently play or want to learn.
That’s when I noticed something: every one in the group that played healer class also played bass or wanted to learn bass. Oddly enough, the one that only played DPS played electric guitar. The tank wanted to learn guitar but played drums in high school band.
Granted, it’s a small sampling but I’d be curious to know if the kind of mentality that would cause you to gravitate towards certain roles in group RPGs would also tend to lead you towards certain roles in a band as well.
So let’s hear it: What do you typically play in an MMO/Group RPG and what instrument(s) do you play?
Yes!
I think this is hilarious and pretty spot-on.
Bassists are supporters, in general.
Bassists and teachers often find each other. Or social workers… them kinds of folk.
Lots of bass players in the non-profit world.
I was tank through TBC to WotLK and then healer in Cata. But by far reached the highest level as a tank (Prot Pally for Envy (Eu) during WotLK. ). But truth be told, we all had to have 2 characters of every role ready and be efficient enough to learn fights on all of them. But yeah, the most fun I ever had was charging face-first into big ugly monsters with green and red numbers jumping from the top of my head.
And then I played absolutely awfully holy paladin on our local “Czech” realm:
I always preferred a monk or thief type character but then I do work in a social work type environment, have a degree in acupuncture and health science and another in psychology…
I used to play a healer, but then I got an arrow to the knee got fed up with the abuse you get when playing with randos. The healer is always to blame when someone dies, never the dps guy who decided to go all glass cannon. If your team wins: Look at me and my shiny dps numbers!
Nowadays, I tend to more go towards the odd choices, weird weapon setup and such. In Monster Hunter World, I played that weird charge blade.
In Battle Field 2042, my favourite char is Dozer with the shield. I am in the top 1.2 % of melee kills in that game
