So, did your class choise for launch change during this beta?

Figured this could be a fun topic to talk about, now that final beta is about to end.

I'll start with my own experience a bit:

I had no previous BDO experience from asian/russian servers, and relatively little info on the classes to begin with. Knew the game was coming, but knew BnS was coming before it so figured I'd focus on BnS then figure out my BDO class choise before/during the beta for the launch. I have history in ridiculous amounts of mmorpg:s over the years starting from Dransik, so I figured choosing a class after few hours of looking into it wouldn't be an issue, boy was I wrong...

When the beta started, I was like 90% sure I'd roll either a valk or tamer, most likely valk as I had heard about tamer's endgame weaknesses and only great stories about the valk. Plus I tend to play ranged classes more often than not, so I figured a tanky melee dps would be a nice change of pace for me. I was 100% sure I'd not roll a warrior or zerker (friend was going to roll one anyway) and even ranger was pretty much a long shot (pun not intented xD) as there are very few games where I have truly enjoyed playing the classic archer class. Witch was going to be my "safety net" incase I wouldn't enjoy either valk or tamer and wanted to go with a ranged option, sorc was like a last resort pick I'd try out for fun in the last days. I tend to avoid "fotm" and overall the most popular classes whenever I can, which is another reason I never ended up playing ranger -like classes (like hunter in wow) before.

What happened? Valk's gameplay ended up being a bit should I say... clumsy for me. Dunno honestly what it was, but it just didn't feel right for me... Not as fast paced as I had thought at all really. Wasn't sure if it was the class, or the fact that I wasn't used to the controls 100% well yet after all that BnS smashing, so I gave that tamer a go next.

Tamer... now I admit I didn't play her that much, much less than my valkyrie infact, but even the early levels felt so much smoother for some reason. I was pretty convinved at this point that I'd likely roll a tamer, unless I really ended up liking that witch I had already created aswell more. Now that witch completely reminded me why I loved ranged classes in these games. No silly running to mobs, just tag half the zone with some little chain lightning spam, drop fireballs when needed, heal yourself when needed, use mana drain when needed. Keep going and eventually you get the badass meteor, blizzard and EQ spells too (re: https://www.reddit.com/r/blackdesertonline/comments/46hm8s/1_reason_why_i_decided_to_roll_a_witch/). Yeah, good bye tamer, witch is here to stay, unless that sorc really ends up surprising me...

...Then she did. Man, sorceress is one of the most entertaining classes I have played in an mmorpg for a while. Such a well built melee-ranged hybrid class with truckload of mobility combined with a solid amount of aoe and cc. No wonder she is so popular in the polls. Even the juggling of 3 different resources (4 if you count stamina, which you use for the blinks mainly) didn't feel as bad as I had originally thought. I ecpected some Mist of pandaria mistweaver -level juggling with resources (without the op meta gem =D) when I first read about the darkness shards and how you essentially have 3 spells to convert life, shards and mana around.

Now, unless all of the friends we are still convincing into starting to play with us at the launch all end up wanting to play sorc, I am 100% sure that'll be the class I am going with (I hate playing same class my friends do xD). I even have a preset ready for her for the launch which my friend made for me (she is so much better than me with the editor xD).

TL;DR? Was going to play valk, ended up going from valk to tamer, then to witch until finally landing on sorc during this beta. :D

What happened to YOUR class choise during this beta? Did your pre-beta pick remain or did you too fall in love with whole another class? :)