So what's your preference?

It doesn't matter which game I pick up, I always gravitate towards magic classes as I simply have a good internal understanding of how to play them properly. I love having access to a wide variety of spells for both ranged and up close combat without running half way across the cavern to get at the bugger shooting me. Mages have a handy mind blast and an ice spell that can flash out any shadow classes that are attempting to sneak up on your party to backstab you. It's difficult to ambush my mage. Furthermore, being a mage usually grants me an eagle eye view of the battle since they need to stay detached rather than in the thick of things. This gives me a cooler head in selecting which skills I will use next.

I have to agree with the previous posters though. How come in this game all the mage armour is stylistically good for grannies like Wynn. Those dull coloured, sack like to the floor robes. UGH! The cloth can be carved to look so beautiful. That is, not everyone picks arcane warrior.

Defender type warrior: I found them to be convenient as they can walk into a TNT barrel, explode without the worry of dying, dust off their armour and get back with a sword at whichever pest put that object in their way. Since their health drops so slowly and they can survive being stunned for a while, its low pressure since you have plenty of time for a pot. My biggest gripe with them would be the epic choice of skills ranging between shield bash and le gasp... shield bash! Not to mention they run out of stamina instantly, so I can't even use those in Origins. I like having a wide variety of skills.

Last place would be the Rogue just because I'm as awful at playing this class as I'm awesome at being a mage. I don't get them at all. They can't apply the traps knowledge in battle as it takes half a battle to set one up. The stealth is useless, as even with lvl 4 you get detected almost all the time. Even if you can get past security, you leave your companions so far behind to sneak up on your target that they don't make it in time for the fight to pry you from the pile of bodies that jump atop of your rogue as soon as he loses stealth for a backstab. And speaking of sodding backstabs and other special flake rogue skills which in order to be effective require a very specific positioning of your rogue. I feel like with rogue I waste tons of combat time trying to step into the right position to get any bonuses, which is better spent just stabbing a target from any angle. My mage would already trice blast and disintegrate into molecules a pack of darkspawn while my rogue would still be sneaking around trying to find the right position to ambush them. A waste of bloody time if you ask me and those rogues are always first to die anyway in combat no matter how much I try to preserve their worthless butts.

I play a warrior or similar(aka Barbarian)class in pretty much all my first PTs,in every game.

It is mostly a habbit i have picked up while younger and playing Baldur's Gate.
The casters seemed too complicated,and well,i love wearing massive armour.
This way i can think less and kill more.Also,better protect my allies.

I don't like the mage's story, especially when my human girl would not be able to marry Alistair :_: But honestly, I just found the mage's prologue and side story boring. I don't really like the warrior class neither, so both my elven and human garls where always rogue - archers.

Mage. I like my mage wearing the hats and wearing robes. Playing as a arcane warrior is great. But the best is being able to use walking bomb. So much fun. Imagine how well it would look with the new engine if the game were to be remade?

I've only played a 1h-warrior and a mage (only got DAO a few months ago, for ps3)- I enjoyed the human noble origin story more, but preferred the mage's combat/gameplay/skill trees. Am thinking DW Rogue will be next, if/when I do another playthrough.

Dual wielding rogue is easily the most fun class to play. It aways gives me a good laugh to see Zevran take down an elite boss in 20 seconds just with backstabs alone.

Though from a RP perspective I end up going with warrior, since I prefer to play as human noble, and the family is renowed for their knights, not scoundrels. (not to mention Golems of Amgarrak is an absolute bitch to play through with an rogue warden).

I don't understand from where some of you posters got the idea that warriors can't use 💣 or poison etc. I'm currently enjoying a PT with a trap spamming DW, berserk poison and 💣 squad smooth talking warrior. 😎 Good times.

So far I'm pushing coercion myself but have companions focussing on the other crafting.   I'm actually dabbling in pick-pocketing for some reason as well.   What can I say, she's a bad girl from the dusty side of town.

I think our Brosca's might just be twins, lol.  My gal is also a DW warrior, dabbles in poisons (whatever it takes to survive right?), is bumped up in pickpocket (she'll try to pickpocket almost anyone... not that she's always good at it, but she tries.... lol), and I've bumped her in coercion but I think she's too much of a sarcastic little shit to be considered a "smooth talker" 
Have only just started with her, but already she's fun to play

In DA:O, I preffer Human Mage. Gender doesn't matter. I only preferred the human mage after DA2 came out as the hero of Fereldan and the Champion of Kirkwall are both from the Amell family. Before that, I didn't have a particular favorite.

Heh, it seems my kiddo prefers warriors. With HOOOUGE 2-handed swords. She did try a mage as well, but her other two created characters were warriors. Yesterday, kept trying to teach her to swap between cross-bow and sword in a battle, but she does not like it, she is better with the sword, apparently - and chose to keep getting more sword proficiencies instead of dedicating more points to the ranged weapons. So, in the end, she runs an all-melee group without a rogue (she kicked out Leliana and let Zevran leave when he asked) save for Morrigan.

I am curious to see what class she picks in Awakening or DA2, to see if it's the Warrior-Princess trend or what with her.