So I’m a dirty casual that often plays for an hour or two, and is unlikely to ever raid beyond stuff on farm status, and likely will never step foot in the later raids, or maybe any raids at all.
However, I love BGs and generally enjoy wpvp. Still have a 29 pally that is almost exalted with WSG, for example. Don’t mind dungeons, and rep grinds ought to be alright as well.
I imagine that rank 10 is a stretch but will likely be a goal at some point, but I should probably only count on grinding BG reputation rewards.
What classes/specs would be best for a player like me? Are there any classes that can still contribute during end game pvp with these constraints?
I have a pretty defensive mindset as well and enjoy objective and team play (hence my enjoyment of BGs). Favorite classes throughout wow have been prot warrior, pally, warlock, and occasionally hunter and priest.
Thanks for your feedback.
balance druid probably lol
Ret pallies needs the least raid gear cause they ain’t going to be raiding amirite or wut?
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If your focus is PvP, you can do any class.
Just learn what crafted / rep / boe epic gear to pair with your rank 10 set.
Go with paladin (healer), warlock, hunter, or priest (healer or shadow).
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I’m told casters. Mage maybe?
I don’t do Raids and have no problem with gear with the rogue. And their pvp set is insane.
I’d argue rogue, specifically human, is a pretty good choice. I believe combat swords isn’t super popular for PvP, but for PvE if you’re a combat sword you’re sitting at 305 weapon skill and 5% hit which is a great floor to have. If you’re human you’ll have 310 skill.
Rogues won’t compete with geared fury, but as far as just getting dungeon or PvP gear the bar is low.
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A lot of people are telling you to go caster since they are less gear dependent.
Tbh it can work with any class so I’ll elaborate on my former post. This is what I am doing with my warrior and have done it with multiple Arms warriors in vanilla. I can only speak to warriors but I’m sure you can do this with any class. Here’s a breakdown of what I go for:
Crafted:
- Lionheart
- Strongholds
- Arcanite Reaper (obsolete soon with AV rep)
BG Rep:
- WSG (epic bracers, epic legs)
- AV (Unstoppable Force, Don Julio’s Band, Immovable Object/Frostbite)
- AB (3 piece set - blue boots, blue belt, epic shoulders)
BoE:
Dungeons:
- Blackhand’s Breadth
- Hand of Justice
PvP Ranks:
There are other minor things you can pick up here and there from various other dungeons or reputations (such as shoulder enchants from Argent Dawn, and later, ZG), but this ought to give you the big picture. And with this gear, fully enchanted, you will be a monster.
In addition, once you are uber geared with all this stuff, if you do have the time to hop in a raid every now and then, you can give that a shot to try to upgrade your weapon for example, which is obviously the biggest upgrade possible for any warrior. You can probably follow just about the exact same gearing path with Ret.
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Lol
You will raid. Don’t kid yourself.
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What faction / server type you had in mind?
RP-PVP, Alliance. Dwarves have always been my favorite, followed by Tauren. Thought I might do Horde this time around but joined classic late and shorter queue times are more important to me than faction.
I would strongly suggest rolling on Grob as Alliance and rolling a healer. Dwarf priest / paladins are busted in both pvp and pve. Priest if you want to be a pve healer or paladin for pvp. The best part is you can just about join anyone since healers are in high demand.
This is 100% wrong for most servers. Healers are not high in demand. If you looking for dungeons it will take you forever to find a tank and about 30 healers will whisper you. Raids feel about the same the problem with healers is anyone can do it even spriest
I feel like Hunter can be competitive with just the rhok’delar bow. You can pick up a sinew from a pug pretty easy now, and guilds will probably start selling leaves soon once their hunters are done (or you can run a pug and try to snag one).
As far as weapons, this will last you to Naxx gear…crossbow of smiting from BWL would be an upgrade, but rhok will still be relevant.
Hunters don’t scale super well with gear anyways, so just stack Stam from PvP gear and you’ll be competitive.
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Warrior or hunter, but bear in mind warriors are not a good SOLO class for leveling and PvP.
Arms gears pretty well, and can acquire some pretty awesome pre-raid gear. Your BiS 2h sword, barring ludicrously low epic boss drops, comes from Scholomance.
And if you end up doing some MC, there’s multiple 2h weapons that can drop from there that’ll be upgrades.
By contrast, hunters gearing optimally to include PvP is difficult, since they compete with others on gear, as do rogues. Warriors as well, but it’s much lower.
I was talking about end game play time. Dungeons become irrelevant fast and now that people are geared they can carry and healers are alway in high demand for pvp and raids.
Druid. Spellcasters are pretty comfortable as well but you will fall behind in that front.
Gear is the harshest on physical classes I find
Anything that doesnt heavily rely on weapon damage; Warlocks, Mages, Priests, Non-Enhance Shamans, non-Feral Druids
I’ll add to that statement, as a healer myself.
For 5-man content, finding a spot as a healer can be difficult, and I find it’s easier to start my own group instead.
However, it changes somewhat dramatically the minute they need more than one healer, and especially when they want 10 for raiding. Pretty much every raid team I’ve seen recruiting, is asking for more healers, and in UBRS, where they need 2, it’s often a healer they are seeking.
So when 1 healer is needed, yeah, hard to find a spot, but then it opens up dramatically the minute they need more than one.
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