Board Thread:Dark Souls III/@comment-95.144.106.160-20160905110834/@comment-4511886-20160920074858

The Assassin is extremely potent, and Spook will at times allow you to skip large portions of areas, or simply get somewhere faster. The Estoc is by far one of the best weapons in the game, because it does a ton of damage at a low stamina cost and has extremely long reach.

The Knight is also a very strong choice, because it gives you an extremely forgiving setup. Take the tankiness of the Knight from Dark Souls, combine it with the damage and mobility of the Knight in Dark Souls II, and you've got yourself the Dark Souls III Knight. You pretty much never have to worry about instantly being punished when playing as the Knight, because you're still just as mobile as any other class, and you're by far the most durable one as well. Additionally, Straight Swords are easily the best weapon type in this game, because they have insane tracking and hits just as hard as anything heavier would anyway.

The other classes are alright, at best. The Pyromancer is probably the weakest class now, because FP is used by a lot of different things, whereas the cast system of Dark Souls allowed it to be used consistently. While the Sorcerer and Cleric can get away with having a decent crit weapon and a strong melee weapon, respectively, the Pyromancer really only has the Fireball and fast roll as advantages.