Runes of Magic US / AU

I don't think W/M is popular yet, but it definately is becoming popular very fast right now, and would soon have a lot of people playing it now that people are starting to realize its massive DPS.

I would play around with 2 new classes, Champion and Warlock, because most of the old classes that aren't used often are that way for the reason that they are not viable. Ch/R and Wl/R are currently some of the more popular dwarf combos, but Wl/M shows some promise as well. Not sure about their other combos, but Champoin is definately a very decent Tank AND DPS.

Some good out of the box combos are R/M (Really fun to play with the new elites it got), C/P, C/M, Wl/W, S/P,Wd/R.

Apparantly W/M stated as mage does top DPS. I did not try that yet.

Same I heard about Wd/D stated as mage.

Quoted from "Ananzi;575043"

W/M is good now? I always thought that it didn't work because you couldn't stat correctly. And have the elites been changed? The wiki and db don't show any changes

With the exception of maybe Beta and chapter 1, W/M has always been good. The problem was, people were focusing on DPSing with the magical spells (Like thundersword and fireball). Most of the W/M DPS comes from white attacks, and now that damage is twice what it was before. Just a case of people not exploring all avenues of a class combo

Mage/warden isn't that common.

w/d is one of the least played combo's i've ever seen...

S/M is probably one of the best underplayed combos in the game. It's got the Best AoE for scouts, and you can drop aggro.
W/M is only good once you get the 60 elite skill.
Wd/D is now one of the top tanks in our guild now. The magic build isn't plausible in game anymore.
R/Wl is a beast in damage dealing.
Not many play these combos but they all do well.

I'd really like to see a S/M in action with the new staff improvement

Quoted from "Rossbot;575403"

W/M is only good once you get the 60 elite skill.

Wrong. w/m even before the elite skill was really good. Sure, it couldnt beat a r/s in burn but it wasnt far behind at all. I was actually using w/m in tosh well before the elite skill rather than m/w because its dps (believe it or not) was much better than m/w especially on a fight that lasts longer than 20 seconds. I still believe w/m would be destroying the dps of all other classes in new instance without the elite and if you want I'll prove it. I'll try using just electric attack rather than the elite, will still destroy everything lol.

Quoted from "CammoXD;575414"

Wrong. w/m even before the elite skill was really good. Sure, it couldnt beat a r/s in burn but it wasnt far behind at all. I was actually using w/m in tosh well before the elite skill rather than m/w because its dps (believe it or not) was much better than m/w especially on a fight that lasts longer than 20 seconds. I still believe w/m would be destroying the dps of all other classes in new instance without the elite and if you want I'll prove it. I'll try using just electric attack rather than the elite, will still destroy everything lol.

Ok, I was only relaying information I heard from friends and guildies. I apologize if I offended you. I never really played one, I probably shouldn't have said anything about them xD

Quoted from "Feanwyn;575411"

I'd really like to see a S/M in action with the new staff improvement

100% agreed. Also would like to see M/S with the elites as well.

no body seems to realize that m/k 60 elite means that they can do about the same dmg as Flame if not better with the decreased channelling time for Stars of light and increased dmg on target debuff which also stacks

shhhh!! (plus ferret firing at same time and light charge's reduced gcd..may be back to pseudo-instant spam days pre ch4.) idk..we still have our main weakness, but firing flames every 0.5s while running around sound kinda fun too on m/w.

If your looking for pvp I'd definitly recommend Wl/C (50% more health from lv 15 elite skill + a ton of instant casts) or Wd/R (50% increase to movement speed, some immunes, ok pdef, and good damage)
Wd/R is also useably outside of pvp. I personally find it fun on my Druid to spam a macro that uses spellweavers, madrush, godspeed and swiched to escape artist title. I just like running circles around people lol.

But as someone previously said, alot of Wl and C combo's aren't played that much. C/r seems to be the only C I see now, and it does ok DPS while tanking, and nice dps while not tanking.

Wd/R and Wl/C are both classes w/ alot of instant cast spamable skills, Wd/R is fun cause of run speed too. Wl/C will do a lil more killing in siege probs, since it does mdmg and noone uses mdef. Noone. 250k C/R in our guild is 2shot for our M/wd, 1 for our w/m. (heh I get hit for 200k Crits by the W/M and I have 80k mdef >.<)