I havn't played this game in years and was wondering if there was a class that is not super expensive to template and play since I will have low funds just starting out. But also one that is useful in raids/rvr. I don't like healers but I am open to pretty much everything else.

Healer, shaman, warrior and zerker are your choices if u wanna play raid and rvr with a relatively cheap template.

Kiksens wrote:Healer, shaman, warrior and zerker are your choices if u wanna play raid and rvr with a relatively cheap template.

Healer and shaman are cheap templates, zerker isn't bad if you go for a simple one, warrior isn't cheap to max everything though.
Raid wise all of the above are good (except that you won't be main tank without a template). Skald is easily the best raid class choice, but tend to have expensive templates. All of these are needed in RvR. A RM is used in RvR and is cheap to template and level, but isn't used on raids.

Warrior is cheap if you cap everything with shield & hammer. Expensive if u need allcap with 2h aswell, but imo it isn't that important.

how is that hard to cap with 2h? with 1h+shield u need to max out dex+shield skill, which u dont need with 2h hammer. so just adjust the gems properly and et voila. doable with 99% template and chepa items

So I guess spiritmaster or bd is out of the question

compmenacer wrote:So I guess spiritmaster or bd is out of the question

SM is cheap to template/level and good for solo farming / salvage if you go tailoring. You'd be able to build up money for another character. But not used in the main PvE raids or RvR

compmenacer wrote:So I guess spiritmaster or bd is out of the question

well, the question is why would u want to farm money? from my experience, leveling one toon from 1-49 and xp'ing some in DF will give u just as much money at 49 that you can build a normal, capping everything 99% template (just no items with charges) that will be more than enough to rvr with.

if rvr is your aim, just lvl a bd/sm and you will be fine. no need to participate in raids etc. imho, you'll have enough money.

Play whatever you wanna play instead of listening to people making fail 70p+ temps because of a skin. For 8v8 it is really easy making templates for more or less any class. To really compete in solo, you will need a better temp, but its mostly about having charges. (Don't need them in temp anyway)