How did you come to choose your first profession?

I picked ranger because my favorite class in Diablo II was amazon. My second and most favorite character is monk which I made because I was sick of having noobs let me die.

I checked out all the character options and finally decided that I had to have green hair.

... what you mean other people don't do it that way?

My second was a monk because people always said there weren't enough monks.

Always remember wanting a heavily armoured Ranger before i knew how the armor system worked, ditched the armor and kept the bow.

Elementalist. The statement: "They can inflict more damage in a single strike than any other profession." in the Manuscript appealed. I tend to pick casters over meleers in RPGs, and my main char in Diablo II is and was a Sorceress. Continued that trend, I figure.

First char only lasted to around level 8 though. First level 20 char was a ranger. Not sure why picked that.

I chose ranger because of the attractiveness of the female model. Seriously. But that got deleted fast after I saw my equally newbie friend's ele. Flare spamming look so cool back then, and worked so well in pre. Now my ele (no longer a flare spammer naturally) is the shit.

I read Wiki beginners guide till I was waiting for it to be delivered by mail. It said that Warrior is easiest to pick up and since I hadn't played any MMORPG before this I went with the warrior.
I still have him and every other profession in PvE only though.

My first character was an elementalist. The reason I chose her...I saw her dance and thought it funny to do. The end.

I enjoy protecting, taking care of, and aiding people. Thus, the Monk was an obvious choice. Being a support character is always a role I love to fill. ♥

I didn't want just to do damage, I wanted the HIGHEST amt. of dmg possible. So when i read "can deal the highest amt of dmg in a single strike" on the manual... the choice was easy.

Elementalist FTW!

Simple.... Game came with 4 slots, so I bought 2 copies.
Made a toon of each class on the same day and regularly rotate depending on mood to this day....

I pickup necro because. Inside of me have some evil though.

I read the manual and it said Elementalists deal high damage with magic or whatever...and thats the type of stuff I'm familiar with from other rpg's so thats what I went with. I went with Necro for my second character because I liked the idea of being able to control an army of undead. And those are still my favorite 2 professions.

Necromancer was an entirely new breed to me, so I went with that. Teamed it with monk, liked the idea of having death in one hand and life in the other.

I've always been drawn to mages in games. They tend to do the most damage out of any class, and have a variety of skills. I get bored with the same block/hit that are warriors in most games, and i've never liked archers in any game. I must admit, necros are pretty cool in GW. The ability to run two completely different offensive types in MM and SS necro gives them the variety I seek as well.

I read some forums and learned that a W/Mo was the most popular and easiest... A damage sponging tough person with huge damage and battle endurance combined with divine healing... Invincible. Nah I just thought I wouldn't have to worry about learning the game right away and decided just to enjoy it.

First time I've seen GW was my friend introduced me to it, he was using a 10Hr trial for prophecies which he got the day before from an internet cafe after he saw someone playing it. I tried it, made a warrior since I don't like fantasy class and since my friend made a ranger. We both have no idea about this game and the Warrior that I chose was just something that I'm curious to try

Domination? Had to make a class who sepecializes in that ^^

i choose a paragon because it was all about the look and it just had the right face/ hair/ body that i see myself as ( slighly older, and sexy)

Well... I kinda bought GW without checking the video card requirements so I had it stting in my room for about 6 months before I myself had worked for and saved enough money for a pimped out gaming computer with a high enough (actually more than enough) computer. Though through this time I had been roaming around forums and popping in and out of character guides people had made and started to think that an E/W could be cool.

Then I started reading into armor levels...then I thought HELL NO!

So I ended up with a W/E using conjure spells and even tried a glimmering mark build. (In PvE I even brought Lightning Strike along )

My second character though (Ranger) was chosen for one reason.

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They had bad a** capes. :P

I chose Ranger after reading the manual. I wanted something that could deal a decent amount of damage, survive pretty well and help others out. Took me a while to get used to the playing style and having a pet but I enjoyed it. Initially teamed it with a secondary ele because I thought the extra damage would be nice and unlike Former Ruling who had a logical thought process going on mine was one of "more damage!!!!". I still have screenshots of a noob me about 2 weeks in at level 18 with Fire Storm and Fireball on my skill bar. ><