What kind of character worth playing in the current build?

[EzraNaamah]

I have played as mage, support, ranged and melee but always end up playing melee for various reasons. What kind of character type is most beneficial in the current update?

 

[Aviendha]

Any type is valid for a healthy raid balance, so if you enjoy melee more than the other classes, why not go for that again? Unless that wasn't a main reason for playing melee before.

 

[EzraNaamah]

Any type is valid for a healthy raid balance, so if you enjoy melee more than the other classes, why not go for that again? Unless that wasn't a main reason for playing melee before.

I feel that newer classes provide different niches that may be more in demand than melee which seem to be a large amount of the player base. I decided to go for a support class with spelldance as my main skillset but I might make a gun or bow character later on because those skills seem to have potential.

I was going to go for mage but the skills seemed weak despite the abundance of variety they have. Healers may only have a couple attacks but they're very strong, so I guess I would rather use those.

 

[Aviendha]

I feel that newer classes provide different niches

I get where you're coming from, however, melee also applies to this for the newer skillsets.

Rough overview:
Melee - swiftblade
Ranged - gunslinger
Mage - malediction
Healer - spelldance

Also possible to combine for new tank specs, such as spelldance/def/aura.

You can check the start of some class info in this thread, there's already some info on swiftblade builds if you want to check it out.