Thinking about the classes that I played back in vanilla, I’d say that they were pretty easy to master for PvE and PvP.
Shaman, Paladin, Druid, Priest.
I’m looking for something more difficult this time around. What’s the hardest class to master?
For PvP I think warlock has the highest skill cap.
As for PvE, I think they are all pretty straightforward. Hunter has autoshot weaving, which takes like…some skill and effort, as opposed to mages who’s entire rotation consists of one spell.
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Probably Warlock for PvP
For PvE It’s probably healing Priest. They have a bigger toolbox than any other healer. Also you have to manage your mana and plan ahead.
Druid is the highest skill ceiling in PvP by far. You essentially have to play three separate classes at once.
Warlock is probably the next one in line.
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Druid or Warlock for PvP in my opinion.
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Back in the day the few good hunters got the class nerfed so hard that the average DPS was down with the hybrids in Naxx…
Warlock and Druid, as others have said. However, I have to say that I never really appreciated the complexity of Mage PvP until I watched Nexius’ Lord of Warcraft video (and I’m sure there are better ones out there).
warlock. not pve raids though. 1 button rotation with 1 debuff to keep up is all lock is in raids.
And we’d still have new locks screw it up, at least in the early days.
“Who keeps putting up Agony?”
“Why do we still not have CoE up?”
My personal favorite was Garr add Banish assignments prior to target marks getting added. Everyone claiming they have theirs right, then three locks trying to Banish the same add on pull.
Yea but the max your dps as a hunter you need to avoid clipping shots. Hunter actually has a pretty high skill cap in both pvp and pve
Warrior has a very high skill cap, especially if you use Engineering (like you should). Druid / Lock / Hunter as well IMO.
Good lord that was a mess. So much easier once the marks were put in.
I second this, whenever I see a good druid in BGs, and it’s typically the healer, they are shifting into a multitude of forms to run the flag for us. Requires a lot of skill
hehe we just had warrior offtanks for all of em. diddnt figure that you could do it with warlocks till after we had completed mc.
5 minutes of “Ok Warlock 1 target the tank’s current target… Warlock 2… now Warlock 3…” just for 1-2 of them to still mess up the target on pull. I imagine the addition of target marks helped a lot of raid leaders avoid aneurysms.
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I was our raid leader through Vanilla and TBC…it reduced my stress level tenfold.
We got to the point where our 2 top tanks would alternate pulls, so as they were tanking the current fight the other would be marking for pulling the next group.
However our guild had a game of trying to kill me on Baron Geddon, so they’d mark me with the pink diamond and anyone that blew me up got extra DKP (when we used it) so it was harder to avoid dying there.
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hunters, shamans, warlocks, and druids all have a pretty high skill cap
I can say, however, that warriors have a lower skill cap than all of them, even with their stance mechanics; warriors don’t have so many buttons to push
shamans have alot of buttons to push, and druids have 3 distinctly different forms with very different buttons to push, as well as travel and aquatic form, and then moonkin form, at least in theory, increases their skill cap even higher
and then hunters and warlocks have a pet or demon to account for
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I want to agree with that, but if I warrior has a pocket healer then he can just 2v5 without looking back.
Warrior has a lot of very special mechanics and techniques though which you just gotta love.
Warriors are for sure very strong at 60.
Getting hit by mortal strike is the equivalent of getting hit by a speeding train.
You just gotta love it.
nearly every class is a god with heals. Its solo play that separates the men from the boys.
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Warrior is not the hardest. Not even close. For Pve Hunter gets my vote.
For pvp it is situational. No one here even mentioned rogue or at least I didn’t see it. They get a bad rap because of all the CDs. BUT, a REALLY good rogue in vanilla is a terrifying thing even without his CDs . Warlocks are hard when their is a melee beating you, but against a ranged class its not very hard, Same for a hunter.