Personally I will start with Berserker due its great dps and because I love the spinning sword ability.
My 1st Alt will be Artilierist because I love to have a massive ranged dps to use when I play with a team. Due its stationary nature in particular when summoning a tower is better to have other players that will distract the bosses for you.
My 2nd Alt will be Gunlancer because I love a tanky looking character that keep the agro and at the same time deal good damage.
My first is shadowhunter, I fell in love with the demon mode, the animations all look and feel so badass for their purple demon skills too.
My second will be either Berserker or Paladin. If paladin dps seems fun for solo play I might try that over berserker. But Berserker looks awesome and being slower hitting would be a fun transition from the shadowhunter for me.
My third will be Palasin likely but maybe the berserker. I want to have 1 support and while I enjoyed how bard played, the sounds are god awful and annoying as hell. I could never play that class for more than a few minutes. Paladin felt decent to play with non support skills but I would really like to experience the ones I didnt have time to unlock in the beta.
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whatching people blow stuff up on artillerist is pretty damn apealing.
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All of them.
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The best of artillerist are the flamethrower and the tripod that make your bombs to create a nuke mushroom cloud
seeing them do that nuke and flamethrower in pvp looks satisfying too but im worked about lack of mobilty/ attack speed
bard cuz im a support main
sorc cuz they got rid of summoner :c
hawkeye cuz bird
summoner & arcana whenever they release
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i will start with deathblade. i tried it on the beta and i enjoyed it a lot and heard lot of good thing about this class but in the end, i want to main lance master when it come out. havent tried it but it look so damn nice. i like fast class that have nice looking weapon/skill and well balanced
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Typically I play DPS classes, so this time I figured Id mix it up and go bard. I want to explore that style of game play, and as the bard isn't a true healer` class, this seems like a good transition. As for my alt, I’m looking into either paladin or sorceress, but haven’t decided whether I want to focus more on support or fall back to a more comfortable play style.
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Paladin (duet) + Striker (Solo) will be swapping depending on my partner playtime.
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There is a strawpoll here :
The results so far seems accurate of what I am expecting and shows that Amazon was right to put the Sorceress XD
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I actually surprised how popular sorceress class is…
Imagine if Smilegate is sticking with the original summoner class… I wonder if it will be more of less popular as sorceress
We actually have some data on what classes people played in beta (at least for EU server), which showed that summoner was the 2nd highest played class. So, technically less popular, but still very high. Although, I think the data tracks all characters, not just mains like this poll.
https://www.reddit.com/r/lostarkgame/comments/qtwznj/closed_beta_most_played_classes_and_popularity/
What stands out the most is that shadowhunter/demonic is so high in the beta, but so low in the poll (likely because people favor them as alts?). Gunlancer is surprisingly high in the poll given it’s almost complete absence in the beta.
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As for my main, I’m going with gunslinger. I typically play mobile ranged dps classes in every game and this fits the best. The weapon swap is also an interesting mechanic.
For my alts, I’m looking at paladin and shadowhunter/demonic. I like the fluidity of the classes. Although I’m now that I’m thinking about it, I wonder if I just like playing hybrid ranged classes.
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Gunlancer because jousting. Played force shielder in cabal, lancer in tera, valkyrie in bdo, etc etc etc. gotta continue the trend.
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This data is BS. It’s a Beta where people tried class and the data is made from numbers of characters created, not from hours played in these chars. I have no doubt Summoner would have been a popular class, but not as high the graph is showing.
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Yeah, I know it’s not representative which is why I literally said that it likely tracks all characters instead of mains and said that shadowhunter is high likely because it’s typically considered an alt character (in t2+ at least, but people forget that).
To add on to what you are saying, I heard a handful of people chose summoner because there weren’t other dps mage options. They were checking her out as an alternative. It is also possible that some people went to other classes instead because of a lack of mages. With sorceress as the traditional mage option, these people will likely switch back.
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I’ll also add that when a new player join a new game and see summoner as a class, what can he expect? Yup, pets, and summoning is always appealing in games. But summoner isn’t a pet class in LA (Sharpshooter is more a pet class than summoner lol) so peoples were disappointed and went for something else.
Like you said, now we have a “real” mage option and I think a lot of people are looking for that true mage experience. They should not be disappointed. After all, you can cast meteors 
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Seeing as I haven’t played the game yet, I don’t know… Maybe a Mage, or Assasin. I like the look of the Assasin.
Wish I had known about the beta… I would have played on it. Maybe it wasn’t available in Australia? I have had Lost Ark on my wishlist for a very long time… so why didn’t I know about it?
Anyways, I cant wait to find my toon…
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In the official Lost Ark youtube channel you can preview each class through a short presentation. You can check them out here: https://www.youtube.com/c/PlayLostArk/videos
If I’m not wrong there is one video presentation for each class will be released from day 1 on EU/NA
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Sharpshooter, I play the bowman in every game 
inspired by the badass Legolas from a young age 
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