Class popularity

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Hey guys,
So its not 2005 anymore, with that said do you think classes will have the same popularity? And do you think this will in turn affect WPvP at all? For example, Warlock was considered one of the rarest classes to see and Rogues being the most common. Many people who have played 5-7 years will probably come try vanilla and notice how different the game was. And many will know how to PvP reliability. Who knows, we may even see a R14 paladin for a change! Now, im sure people will say that Warlocks were really popular and Im wrong, but im regarding actual classic and not Private Realms :slight_smile:

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I tend to remember warriors being the most popular, and druids the least popular.
Warlocks are the second best solo leveler/gatherer behind hunters, followed by frost mages.
I plan on maining a holy/disc priest, but will alt all classes.

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I bet we see so many crappy geared ret paladins that it won’t even be funny. Paladins grew to be the most popular class in wow over the expansions. I think they peaked in wrath or cata being like 14% of the population.

I imagine classic will be overpopulated with them and none of them will want to be the heal bot classic wow forces them to be so they choose to run around in bad gear until they quit the game or play a real dps class.

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I think that since people have had 14 years to perfect Vanilla on private servers, there may be more people that are capable of being comfortable on classes that we didn’t see a lot of back then.

However, i also think everyone is going to want the nostalgic feeling of playing their original character/class again, so we’ll probably initially see the same ratios as before. At least until everyone gets through their first toon, and starts making alts.

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I expect to see a lot of the “pures”. Warrior, Priest, Rogue, Mage, Warlock, Hunter.

The one I am most interested to see how it turns out is Shaman.

Druids and Paladins are probably the two that will benefit the most from all that private server time to figure them out.

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I think Mage is going to be the most popular. There’s really very little reason not to play one, they’re good at everything they do all the time and have all the convenience too.

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Minus the fact that you have to wear a dress.

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I think that classes will even more so gravitate towards to known powerful classes. Going in with as much foreknowledge as we have this time a lot of people aren’t going to be accidentally choosing classes that under perform.

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The simple answer is no.

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I have a better idea of what I want to accomplish as a player in Classic then I did 14 years ago.

First I’ll dual box a mage/hunter to level 60 for farming. Next I’ll level a warrior to play as main tank for raiding. After that I’ll fill two accounts with lvl 35 alts for transmutes.

Hand of Rag will be mine.

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From the few straw polls I’ve seen, this seems to be the trend. It’s a shame because hybrids are so much fun to play. They bring a lot to the table that doesn’t just revolve around me-me-me!

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Yeah they heal pure classes.

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And priest’s don’t?

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All healers are considered hybrids by blizzard. For some reason warriors aren’t but that’s another discussion…

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Someone posted metrics from Northdale back before the forums shifted over to the new type. It showed Warriors way out front with more than 30% Mages and rogues were almost tied for second, then Hunters, then warlocks, then priests, shaman/paladin, with druids last.

Warriors outnumbered Priests, Paladin, Shaman, and druids combined.

edit - Nost’s numbers were pretty similar too

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Oh please… Ret pally’s are fine. I bet they’ll smoke you in pvp.

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I’m sticking with shamans, as it’s the class I’m most familiar with and I don’t wanna lean any other.

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Spoken like a ret pally main.

Please do tell me how it goes when your entire raid is ret pally dps. :slight_smile:

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Not when they struggle against anything that isn’t a melee. Being strong against rogues is their only strength, since beating warriors, the weakest 1v1 class, in a 1v1, isn’t exactly a feat.

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I’d love to see that on video, would be fun to watch.