What should I play in the stress test?

[Lissa]

Actually, all classes are gear dependent in someway. The reason being is just about all gear will boost attributes in some way and attributes effect a number of things. So, saying a mage isn't gear dependent isn't exactly true. They can probably get by better than say a Warrior or other classes, but they still need gear to be at the pinnacle of play.

Probably the least gear dependant class is the Warlock since they have pets to do things for them (like being meat shields or adding a little extra damage). Play a Warlock though can be tricky as you need to learn how to let your pet sustain agro. (Which is difficult at times, even the littlest thing will cause you to grab agro from your pet. I've seen a number of times where my Warlock casts weakness, a 0 damage curse that decreases the damage a mob can do, and the mob will switch to attacking me even though my minion may have done a two to three hits against the mob in questsion and I have to stand there and take hits for a couple more hits from my minion before the mob finally peels off and goes after the minion.)