paladin, you're strong enough that you can defend yourself but also you can heal yourself/your team. other healer classes tend to be too weak to defend themselves, and strictly aggressive classes rely too much on healers for me personally to wanna play one

In typical metalhead fashion I tend to pick whatever has a dark magic aesthetic, like Necromancers and Warlocks

Thief/rogue and I'll go in hard in speech stuff if that's part of it.

Tank or Healer. Sometimes stealth

I will do a magic user every now and then but that is rare. Last time I did was Torchlight 2

I play whatever I'm in the mood for, don't really gravitate towards a specific play style. Although I do tend to like DOT/poison builds.

In MMOs I tend to have at least one high level tank or healer. I like being able to hold the group together. In TTRPGs I always pick my class last so I can fill in whatever the group needs.

Always some type of caster. Preferably with tons of CC and weird spell options, but I'll take a nuke wizard if that isn't available.

60% chance I pick mage (except in WoW, mage is boring and actual satan if we're talking classic)

40% chance I pick a sword and board fighter or warrior, it ain't much, but its honest work

in a single player RPG I'm a basic ass heavy armor tank with as much social skill as the game allows for. in an MMO I'm basically any form of utility, I like the extra thought that goes into being a tank or healer. dps tends to have a clear correct way to hit your buttons in every encounter in the entire game and the better you are at hitting your buttons exactly that way the better a dps you are. but tank and healer can have a slightly more nuanced thought process involving risk and reward and whatnot

Warlock

You playing anything cool right now pal? i always worry about you man, you and i lived pretty similarly for awhile (fathers picking fights with us and demeaning us)

It totally depends on the Genre. In diablo style games I go for the kitey shooty usually bow/crossbow class. In tab targeting games its always a heal over time class. In more TTRPG inspired games I love rogues. In party based games I love whatever class lets me stack the most buffs. Thats just the crunch though.

Overall I love druidic vibes. The class fantasy of nature fighting back is too juicy for me. There is something so wholesome about murdering corrupt priests/kings with pagan power. My go to class in just about every game is a wood elf druid.

The druid class hall in WoW Legion is a perfect representation for why I love them so much. Its just this perfect lil grove and someone wants to corrupt it. Stopping them is the simplest strongest motivation for me.