Dungeons and Dragons Online (DDO)Top 5 Most Powerful Classes

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A well built storm singer would out perform anything in your top 5

If you're going to showcase builds, at least do it with Maetrim's builder so it's easy to see the full potential at level 32. Showcasing a level 15 or 8 with radomgen gear is underwhelming unless you're focusing on hardcore builds. And a Dragon Lord using GCS? C'mon. Dragon Roar is plenty of CC, and your GCS DC is gonna be crap. Not that you really need to CC during elite/R1 leveling -- mobs die fast enough. Put those AP into Ravager for some damage. Dark Apostate is fine for elite/R1 leveling but is lame at end game because it doesn't scale well. Sorc >>>> Wiz all day long because of spell casting speed and spell cooldowns. Imbue builds fall off in damage in high skull reaper because it's spell damage and all spell damage is nerfed even further than melee/ranged. And while Paladin is a fine class, the fact that Razorclaw Shifter handwraps or even a vanilla Rogue 20 with daggers didn't make your top 5 means you need to spend more time talking to people about what a "powerful" build is.

Sorc and Alchemist are so powerful they blew right past this list. And paladin over barbarian?

Elightenment Warlock on Cacari and White Dragonborn is my go-to. I can now run, with ~40 reaper points, reaper 5 in my group and tank reliably. Make no mistake, my range is weaker, but if it come to tanking for my group and hitting single-target DOTs, I can't recommend it enough for fun and survivability. I don't know how it would do in end-game reaper 10s, but... my 2 guildies and I don't run those, so I don't actually care.

The Necronomicannon makes any weapon insta-kill anything.

10 seconds in and I'm expecting the top 3 to be :

- Eldritch Knight Wizard
- Paladin
- Barbarian

Bottom three should be:

- Battle Cleric
- Base fighter (sword and board)
- Rogue (any flavor)

Dude, you are sleeping on the Dragonlord.
That dragons roar stun, the sunder insta kill, with a two-handed weapon.........epic.

You can kill mobs 5 or 6 at a time in mere seconds.

As a soloist, I really like arty. Plus I use the same decent equipment each life....

Your opinions and characters are so bad they make me laugh, so thanks for that.

great job! to many negative comments they must be on the forums a lot :D

Alright, I agree that paladin is a nice class to try out the game, albeit its somewhat complicated if you start getting into its nuances.
Alchemist, for heroic/epic/legendary/raid/reaper10 content is just one of the (if not the) best nuker class in the game, and well you can easily solo content with it, as it has a lot of defensive spells.
Sorcerer is hands down the strongest class in the game as you just literally nuke everything and after level 20 even faster than alchemist.
Barbarian is the SAFEST class to learn the game, as you can solo R1 (which i highly don't encourage) as a first life, fresh 28pts char after level 3.
Now it gets complicated if we are talking about the absolute most powerful classes overall or not, if we are then the list is wrong and if we are talking about most powerful classes to start playing the game, it still is wrong as honestly people would not know what to do with a wizard or sorcerer and build it very bad and have a bad experience. Barbarian - Paladin - Druid - Cleric - Dragon Lord (not in this specific order) are the best classes to learn about the game because they offer a lot of survivability even if you screw up the build.
The most powerful Classes would be Sorcerer - Alchemist - Dragon Lord - Druid - Monk (not in this order)
Also not taking in consideration multiclassing but that is not the discussion in this video.

Still good explanation but weirded me out when the list came out lol

" Exciting "??? If your idea of exciting is watching milk spoil, then this is for you! This chomo is as exciting as a flaccid tally wacker in a house of questionable and negotiable morals.

Sorc is far more powerful than the Wiz. the number of spells is irrelevant the pure nuking power of the Sorc is unmatched.
I have played hundreds of lives of both Wiz & Sorc & can confirm that Sorc is far more DPS.
IMHO it should be Sorcerer - Alchemist - Warlock - Dragon Lord - Monk

First time player and purchased the feywild pack just for your wizard build. Looks fun as hell and unique to me.

we play very differently
1- Sorc
2- Blightcaster
3- Warlock
4- Favored Soul
5- bard/stormsinger

Mh, my choices:
Fighter - Best tanks
Barbarians - Best Melee DPS
Monks - Best ranged DPS (a loooot of survivability)
Druid - A lot of ways to play casters, so I'll go with Druid because I think they are the most well-round casters
Cleric - Best healers and secondary tanks with protection domain
I will mention other 2 classes very strong on what they do but not so simple to understand or not so strong as the other i mentioned, so not in top 5...
Bard - Best buffers
Alchemists with some warlock and monk splits - best debuffers

Cold Druid? Sorc? DL should maybe at the top?

love seeing how other players make builds. you clearly really like feydark and honestly i can't blame you, it has something any character can use. personally i love feydark for the free enlarge spell. but careful, once you go enlarge spell, you can't go back 😫

Just make your dragon lord a 2 hander and you kill everything in 1 to 3 hits and you don’t need to worry about Vorp attacks at all. Also dragonlord does not need color spray it’s a waste of points just cc if needed with your dragon lord roar, it works on almost everything outside of bosses. There are so many better dragon lord builds.

I think you ought to qualify that this list is for beginning characters with low past life and reaper point counts as when you get to higher amounts of past lives and reaper points the power scaling changes dramatically and some classes that were a struggle become crazy strong and some that were super powerful just don't quite stack up anymore. I know you are doing pure build here but you should look at taking a shadar kai and splashing in some levels of bard for swashbuckler and from there you can fill the rest out with a variety of classes depending on what you like including wizard for eldritch knight, barbarian for extra hand axe crit profile dragon lord for CC, druid for wolf form, etc. I don't have a build but there are tons of options the chain attack is wild. 3-5 levels bard swashy, 1 level rogue (SDK) is a strong base for melee shenanigans

noob list

Can you make a video of how you created your Drow Pally on character creation?
If there is... can you direct me to the video?
Thank you.

You asked about the most-powerful pen&paper character(s), not only in DDO... That's a WHOLE bag of Crawlers, dude! (I've been playing since original whitebox+GreyhawkSupplemental, December 1976...) That includes a bit of everything you can imagine, including house-rules, third-party materials, and some experimental...

The top-of-the-heap after all that has to be a multi-class half-elven (human-elf) Ranger/Specialty Mage [multi-spectrum: derived from articles in DIFFERENT WORLDS magazine]/Cleric ... She "retired" at a total power that we decided was AT LEAST equal to the quasi-deities as they were defined at the time. (Have made an effort to convert the lady to 3.5 rules plus a few adaptations, and have versions scaled for a variety of "power levels"; I still bring her out occasionally to test-run published adventures I've not experienced previously.)

as an artificer :small advice do not waste points in strength just for obstacles because your iron defender has way higher strength stats available. this is also true for the Dark Rangers wolf and you can command them instead to use the levers, doors and so on.

An Dark Ranger wolf can also use rage quite early on to further increase his strength stat which deals with most known strength checks.

Curious to see who this list would work out today.

Just a heads up... Blur and Displacement, do not stack. So the fighter build shown in the beginning could recover the points from the Feydark tree.

Im shooketh. No sorc, alch, druid, or barbarian? With each passing class i kept saying to myself at least one of those is going to pop up right??

1- cold bomber Alch
2 - cold Sorc
3 - cold druid
4 - Storm Singer Bard
5 - dwarf Con base Ravenger Barb

so basically anything + feydark illusionist